Archive | February 2012
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Being Clothed Entirely By Bennett
Sunday afternoon in our house was usually eventful, there would always be either some second rate club turn asleep in one of our chairs, second rate club turns from outside the area using our house as a handy stop-over to sleep off a Sunday lunchtime session before their Sunday evening bookings, or the fat swimming [...]
Selling Slippers To Policemen At Night When Drunk
So one Friday night in 1977 I’m in The Woodman with a few mates and closing time comes and not being drunk enough to consider walking all the way home I decided to walk the 100 yards or so down the road to The New Inn where my father held court in the “best room” [...]
A Bloody Good Night Out, Aged 17
It seems like such a long time ago now and yet in my mind its only a very short time indeed, it seems like just a few years have passed since I left school on a Wednesday afternoon in July1974, well, when I say “left” it sounds like it was a mutual consent sort of [...]
On the easel
We’re back here again at South Lodge, this time on a 60cmx60cm box mounted canvas, it being the actual real painting this time, don’t expect it to stay looking like this for long, the trees aren’t working out at all…
Sunday Larf – Billy Connolly
Still the funniest man on earth, its official, “For what is life if you cannot laugh at someone less fortunate than yourself ?” I have experienced the five o’clock whistle of course for it was part of our job to provide the equipment that made the five o’clock whistle blow, and god help you if [...]
Video Saturday – Gerry Rafferty
Caught the end of the most excellent BBC4 Artworks – Gerry Rafferty Right Down The Line programme last night and then the slightly disappointing “Gerry Rafferty Remembered” memorial gig from a few weeks ago, groups of his friends and admirers singing his songs in a way that always makes you think “I know you mean [...]
Buying a tree…
Its true you know, you can buy ANYTHING on eBay these days. I’m looking for a tree, a proper live tree, with roots and leaves and everything to plant halfway up the garden and as the eucalyptus tree that I bought on eBay four years ago has been an outstanding success reaching twelve foot high [...]
The Drawn Record…1
Just the other week and by the miracle of this web site I re-made my acquaintance with Richard, or Burty, or “The Lad” as we came to know him in those halcyon days of the 1970s when the sun shone all day, beer was thruppence a pint, you could get served in pubs even if [...]
Inventing things in the 1960s
The 1960s brought some wonderful inventions upon us, it was a golden age of inventions and for those of us who were children through the decade, everything seemed possible, at the start of that decade space travel was for dogs and monkeys although they sadly wasted the opportunity to improve their lot and get one [...]
The Wonder Of The Age – Colour TV
We always rented a TV set when they changed to colour transmissions because if a colour TV set broke down, and they did with alarming regularity, you needed to sell the house to get it repaired, the one phrase that you didn’t want to hear when the TV repair man came around was a long [...]
