Archive | June 2011

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Coast to Coast

In seven days time The Old Gits Cycle Club will once again set forth on a journey of discovery and sore arses and a three day mission to cycle from (almost) Edinburgh to Tynemouth using the most excellent Sustrans Coast and Castles cycle route in order to raise funds for the Sue Ryder Trustand specifically for their hospice [...]

Coast to Coast

In eight days time The Old Gits Cycle Club will once again set forth on a journey of discovery and sore arses and a three day mission to cycle from (almost) Edinburgh to Tynemouth using the most excellent Sustrans Coast and Castles cycle route in order to raise funds for the Sue Ryder Trustand specifically for their hospice [...]

Coast to Coast

In nine days time The Old Gits Cycle Club will once again set forth on a journey of discovery and sore arses and a three day mission to cycle from (almost) Edinburgh to Tynemouth using the most excellent Sustrans Coast and Castles cycle route in order to raise funds for the Sue Ryder Trust and [...]

The fundraiser starts here…

In eleven days time we shall once again take down our bicycles from the garage wall, dust them down, oil them up, and hope that our 55 year old bodies are up to another weekend of cycling to raise some cash for Wheatfields Hospice. You see, we are a group of males who really should [...]

Jack Russell

Rough Coated Jack Russell Terrier, pencil on 140lb watercolour paper, approx 30cm x 30cm Some of these drawings will be offered for sale next month, all proceeds to go to The Dogs Trust more details on this and on commissions to follow A few more examples here

Video Saturday – James Taylor

  Ah the olden days, the spirit of youth, long hair, flared jeans and a James Taylor song on the radio… “Sweet Baby James” was one of the albums that did the rounds amongst all the forms in all the years at Leeds Modern School, you brought an album in to lend to a friend [...]

Burglars, David Cameron and “getting tough”

If you are a politician, nay, even a Prime Minister, you must wake up sometimes to read the news with that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach and think “Oh bugger, why did I say that yesterday”, a situation that David Cameron probably found himself in this week. It was a good headline [...]

A bowl of broth and some fart fudge

It was a routine, thats all, they were good people, but they’d got into a routine, and you can’t break a routine, oh no. When my good wife’s family gathered together at holidays there was a routine to follow and it always ended with her Auntie June farting. Let me explain, To the North East [...]

His first portrait…

Coming to a Dogs Trust auction near you. soon…

Throwing stuff out…

My wife’s family had strange ways, with particular regard to food also. Sell by dates for instance, they mean nothing to my wife, nor did they to her mother. My wife threw out a jar of marmalade last week that still had at least two more days worth of spreading in it and that was [...]