Archive | February 2009
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Video Saturday – Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
It seems fitting that in a year of no economic activity and mass redundancies announced on a daily basis, we should visit 1986 and a classic song of a man, his redundant lifestyle and his wife, recorded in a time when the evil witch Thatcher and her Gestapo cabinet had just finished overseeing the death [...]
Brian et morte
I found out yesterday that Brian was dead. You know, Brian from Benidorm, Brian who shared an apartment in Benidorm with my dad, Brian who was Walter Matthau to my dads Jack Lemmon, you remember, this Brian… Anyway, he’s dead. Died two years ago actually, its not a very good grapevine around here.
Michael…2
So he could probably see that the game would soon be up for him, after the circulation failed in his legs and they were both amputated he knew that dialysis wouldn’t keep him alive for ever, he was already the longest serving patient on his dialysis ward and the failure of the CAPD method to [...]
Michael…1
This is a theme that could run and run. Where do I start with Michael ? Michael was my dads business partner when I joined the company in ’84, so he became my business partner too. I’d known Michael for a lot longer than that though for Michael’s dad had worked with my dad for [...]
Egging us on…
It was Mick Gambles fault. It was his good idea that we collect birds eggs, he came to Cookridge with his own collection and we were easily persuaded that we should have one too, and so set about catching up on his his impressive clutch of eggs of all sizes, shapes and colours arranged in [...]
Football on a cricket pitch
Its difficult to describe how to play football on a cricket pitch, but we managed to do it, year after year, school holiday after school holiday. Of course the cricketers weren’t very pleased but we used their pitch while they were at work and we were on our school holidays so although they suspected that [...]
Video Saturday – Stevie Wonder
In celebration of the fact that the Stevie Wonder album, arguably the best Stevie Wonder album, arguably the best Motown album, “Songs In The Key Of Life” has been re-released and is now on Napster for downloading (which I may do shortly even with my own money), we listen today to “Livin For The City”. [...]
A sticky situation…
…so the Ferguson Videostar home video recorder served us well for several years, its huge clunky switch levers building up some impressive finger muscles in the process. And then I left home for a new life in the North East. I bought a small flat in a small pit village using £500 borrowed from my [...]
The miracle of the video recorder
Whilst we were always the last to upgrade our consumer electronic products, the last to have a colour tv for instance, the last to have a record player in the house as another for instance, we were, for some strange reason known only to my father, the first people in the known world to have [...]
