Archive | September 2010
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Home cooking
Our mother was no Delia Smith. I mean, her food was edible when you were hungry enough but not the sort of thing you would look forward to all day while you were playing out in the woods and fields of our childhood. And of course it was all home-made, we didn’t have a freezer [...]
The Poole Family
Those who were around in the early 1970′s may remember a Sunday evening religious programme presented by a white haired old chap called Jess Yates, or “The Bishop” as he was known in showbiz circles. The Bishop played the organ and “sang your favourite hymns” in a condescending voice that left you in no doubt that he [...]
The Westbourne
Sometimes you write about something and just one word or phrase prompts another memory – and so it happened yesterday with the mention of “The Bishop” Jess Yates. But before we move onto one of his protegés tomorrow you need some background information on a pub in Otley that will become the backdrop to this [...]
Stott Hall Farm
Acrylic on box canvas, 75cm x 48cm Of course you recognise it, you’ve probably driven past it hundreds of times, I have. Stott Hall Farm sits in the middle of the East and Westbound carriageways of the M62 overlooked by Rishworth Moor, look closer, you can see the road lights just over the hill now [...]
Video Saturday – The Eagles
Journey of The Sorcerer And if you have the ever-excellent Spotify… Eagles – Do Something
Mr Hall over the road
In 1964 we moved to a new suburb right on the very edge of the city, walk to the end of our newly concreted street and you were in farmers fields – probably explains why our dog ran away so often. Our dad spent and borrowed every last penny that he had to buy a [...]
Video Saturday – The Beatles
Whats the world record for borrowing an album from someone ? I borrowed Abbey Road from someone in 1970, forty years later its still in my record collection, in the garage. This is one of my favourite sequences from one of my favourite albums, still sounds as fresh as it did in those days of [...]
What a pleasant life this is
According to the BBC I share my birthday today with two “famous” people, Anastacia and Flo Rida, and I’m sure their reaction to sharing their birthdays with me is the same as mine to sharing with them – “Who they ?” A couple of days off work is my own self appointed reward for reaching [...]
