A Short Interlude
This blog will be taking a short interlude for a period not exceeding seven days whilst I spend some time tramping around sand dunes and sea shore and pub beer gardens on the Northumberland coastline, Facebook updates and picture-type things will however be posted to my facebook page, right here – facebook page, right here [...]
Video Saturday – Free
Free play the Isle of Wight festival on 30th August 1970. Paul Kossof the lead guitarist died six years later on a flight from Los Angeles to New York from heart failure as a result of years of drug addiction, which must have been a bit of a disappointment to his father David Kossof who [...]
This time last year…
Jake, laziest Golden Retriever in the world 08.04.98 – 27.05.11 RIP From 12 weeks old to just a few days before we said goodbye
Passing the test in a broken old car
I’d had twenty lessons and the company I worked for had only agreed to pay for twenty lessons and so ready or not, it was time to take my driving test. Summer of 1975, Hilton Lodge, the second most nervous man in the world – yes his name really was Hilton – had been teaching [...]
Just off the easel… Pearl Insurance
A3 size, ink and graphite The former Pearl Insurance office on South Parade, Leeds. Just bought some pure graphite pencils this weekend, none of your normal pencil rubbish, this is just graphite, thick and black and ace for smudging and getting all over your hands like a kid doing finger painting, lovely, and they weigh [...]
Sunday Larf – A pot to pish in…
Laurel and Hardy live on – I highly recommend this series of which several full length episodes exist on Youtube – search for “Still Game” and get the Scottish/English phrase book out…
Video Saturday – Manfred Mann
Ah, 1976, Manfred Mann actually playing instruments and actually singing (watch and learn kids) to a Bruce Springsteen song assisted by special effects such as turning the lights on very bright or turning them off very dim and setting three small fireworks off at the end, but mainly just playing and singing in a very [...]
Brazilian football, jumpers for goalposts, and gambling
Playing football filled in a large part of our school holiday days as kids which is rather ironic these days given that I can’t stand the game, on the other hand the game of football int he 1960s is a million light years away from the game of nancyfootball in these softer times. As a [...]
Destroying ancient history and the life and times of Major Matt Mason
Life was so much simpler back then… how many times have you heard that, how many times have I written that, well, it was probably true. Just for an example, childcare for working mothers, how much simpler was that back in the day when I wor nobbut a lad ? Much simpler is the answer, [...]
1960, growing up, space travel and all that jazz
When we were very young – sounds like the introduction to an AA Milne book – we, and specifically, I, expected to be living in a very different world by now. For starters, I didn’t expect to be living on this particular world at all, the four year old me in 1960 fully expected that [...]
