Tuesday, June 19
Friday, June 15
Saturday, June 9
happy days
Before seeing Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" in Manchester today, we also saw Cathy's relative
Julie Hesmondhalgh
That was nice, wasnt it...? I talked about Julie here ,previously........
http://everton.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-almighty-sometimes.html
http://everton.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-almighty-sometimes.html
Julie follows this blog !
Imagine....! 
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/June-7-9-2018/ https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/may/31/happy-days-review-maxine-peake-winnie-climate-chaos-beckett?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Thursday, June 7
at the movie pictures
"Avid photographers celebrate the viewfinder as a means of helping us see the world anew.
But psychology research has shown that under some conditions taking a photo of something actually makes it harder to remember.
One possible reason is that we give less attention to an experience when we know that it will be safely stored in a photograph.
But in a new paper in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Julia Soares and Benjamin Storm from the University of California show that the photo-taker’s memory will suffer whether they expect to keep the photo or not..........." The British Psychological Society
Thursday, May 31
i blame the hippy at southport station who came up to me & said he knew where I could buy some "cheap grass".......
" Despite all this, I have sympathy for the obsessive photographers........ it’s easy to feel that a memory isn’t evidence enough that something happened. It’s too dreamlike......."
"if life isnt lived through a lens, is it lived at all?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/27/life-lived-through-lens-photography-instagram-holidays
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/27/life-lived-through-lens-photography-instagram-holidays
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| Me & Chris on the road through Sheranozy (photo taken by Cathy) |
The French are so full of shit.
The two most famous things about France are "The Guillotine" and The Champs-Elysees,
. right?
Turns out, they were both stolen from the English.
The Guillotine was invented in
Halifax Yorkshire.
The Boulevards of Paris were the brain child of Louis Napoleon who was exiled in Southport in 1838.
He lived near Lord Street , and when he returned to France he remodeled the city to look like that bit of Lancashire!
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/apr/25/guardianleadersTwo further twists for me.
- I was born on Lord Street in Halifax.
- Once, when visting my Dad's birthplace in Eastern Poland my family proudly showed me the village's one & only Historical Landmark.
Sometime, you cant see history?
Friday, May 25
"You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go for a long time? " Hilary Mantel.
He then blindfolded himself.
He stood perfectly still. Arms outstretched and proceeded to offer hugs to the other grieving people of Manchester.
With a felt pen, he had written on a bit of cardboard:
"I'm a Muslim + I trust you.do you trust me enough for a hug?"
He then stood alone, blindfolded, for over an hour. He was met with hundreds of ,all positive , returns of affection.
A wonderful display of mutual trust.
An example to us all.(I wouldnt ,as a wimp, have had the balls to do that!)
Me & Cath went to look at this on Wednesday afternoon & to lay some flowers in memory of the 22 people ( the majority ,children)who were murdered.
https://www.manchester.anglican.org Cathy turned 60 this week. As well as this visit to Manchester on Wednesday, on Monday we went to Liverpool to see the newly opened John & Yoko Exhibition.http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/exhibitions/double-fantasy/
Here are a few photos of this week.
You can see all these individual images here at https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/
You may view in hi-res: download & share to your hearts content!(You may do this freely, in any manner desired, even without naming the source)
Tuesday, May 22
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