Archive | January 2009
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Video Saturday – Joe Cocker
You see, I was still convinced that Joe Cocker appeared on, and won, for several weeks, Hughie Green’s “Opportunity Knocks” despite the fact that the rest of the world seems to have no recollection of this event. So last week I borrowed Joe Cockers biography from our local library (aren’t public libraries great) and I’m [...]
“…its all these bloody forriners love…”
Exerpt from the first chapter of “The Tomato Dip”, a novel written by… …me Its the story of a plumber who buys a cafe hoping for it to turn into his gold mine, only to find that one day it does, quite literally. Set in 1968 this tranche discusses the thorny issue of immigration and [...]
View from Edinburgh Castle
Now this one I like, I wish they’d all turn out this way. Taken from three seperate photos that Jodie took on her phone while we were visiting Edinburgh at New Year this is the view standing on the drawbridge of Edinburgh Castle facing across the parade ground towards the top of High Street (The [...]
The First Record Player
We always had music playing in the house, always. From the minute he got out of bed and walked into the living room our dad had the radio playing so my very early recollections of being a young child were of music. The Dave Clark Five for instance, I hear “Bits and Pieces” and I’m [...]
Should I have intervened ?
So there I am on Sunday morning, I’d driven into Leeds to deposit both daughters and one of their friends in the centre for a day of work (for one) and a day of shopping (for t’other) and I’d also brought my camera with me for a photographic reference of Park Square – a painting [...]
My Columbian Supplier
There was a time, just a few short years ago actually, when I had regular parcels sent direct to me from my supplier in Columbia, big padded bags with Air Mail stickers and Columbian postage stamps all over them, all addressed to me personally. And because the parcels were always too bulky to go through [...]
Cornish Harbour
I confess to blagging this scene shamelessly from a book, it being more than thirty years since I last went to Cornwall, its Polperro, apparently. Gave me a chance to use my new little block of Paynes Grey watercolour
Video Saturday – The Who at Woodstock
The Who perform My Generation at Woodstock, Sat August 16th 1969, take a look at the full set list right here and then go and buy the dvd “Woodstock 1969″ or “Woodstock, three days of peace and music”, (its been re-issued several times under different names), you won’t be disappointed. There is a story that [...]
The Great Yorkshire Bike Ride
This article is written as a warning to other people in Yorkshire, you know, around Huddersfield for instance, who may at this very moment be considering the purchase of a bicycle, for if you do then this could be you… So just how good a cyclist were you, I hear people ask the question all [...]
The Wily Dwarf
One last Bruce the Dwarf story before we leave him in peace, until next time. Bruce the Dwarf and Ned would play squash every week at the same squash court, it may sound incongruous that a person of such short stature could play a competitive game against another non-dwarf-type person but this was Bruce the [...]
