The first image (a still from a 1990 home movie) is of a conversation i was having with an old family neighbour ( he was a tad drunk himself here!)
He is , telling me a rather gruesome story about how another village local ,in the winter of 1943 got so drunk one night that he tried to stagger home in the dark but ,tripped alone and fell into a well.
After a mass search, he was found drowned the next next morning
. The Devil's Harvest perhaps....?
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| My Cousin Marak & Uncle Czesek. |
image: me in The Blue Teapot in Mytholmroyd on Wednesday. audio: live Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK; May 14, 2018.Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan.
"Pangaea" (the title of this song) refers to is hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart........
Finally.I was sad to hear that Danny Kirwan died on June 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kirwan
I saw him play live several times.He saw difficult times (eg he ended up homeless & sleeping rough on the streets of London.)
Not a good look.
Here he is in his pomp playing with Fleetwood Mac in Seattle,March 10.1972.
( In the context of this post,forgive the pun. "Oh well" )
6 comments:
Great photos! And love the video of you, your parents and uncle (including the cameo by the fly crossing the camera lens :-) This is a reminder to me to start getting my inherited videos digitized. Any tips?
Thanks Molly. All our 60's Cinefilm were transfered to VHS in the 80's .From there, I converted to digital in the early 2000's.( and then,in this case, onto YouTube.) I have a machine ION VCR 2 PC that does the trick.....though ,no doubt, quality gets diminished each transfer?
My the way, you can see a few more of my Polish Films HERE:
Nice picture of you a few years ago. But a rather sad tale you were being told at the time. Just goes to show how too much alcohol can be a hazard to your health!
Good post. You're right about the "devil's harvest." Sadly, I bet his demise was fairly common.
I've been getting some old 8mm films converted recently. Found someone to do it for me because that's way out of my skills. Unfortunately, some were already quite brittle. We have had a recent scare by honey bees swarming us thinking our home would be quite delightful for a hive. And quite a few found their way into the house! Happy to say they have moved on. It would be lovely to have fresh honey though.
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