https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Manchester11thJanuary-2018/
Lovely meal today at mowgli + visit to Manchester Art Gallery;s Waqas Khan's exhibition with our friends Don & Margaret in Manchester .
+Thanks For The Dylan!
Waqas Khan in conversation with Fareda Khan, Head of Speacial Projects, Manchester Museums and Galleries Partnership from Manchester Art Gallery on Vimeo.
this exhibition opened on Rumi's Birthday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi
The artist produces art in a trance; the art is a record of that trance: by looking at his art the trance resumes & it is shared with me/you.[The singular becomes communal ]: I like that idea.......!
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
one careful owner
We moved house just before Christmas.
The place we are renting ( for approx 6 months) is much smaller.
Some things like furniture have gone into storage.
However ,I have a load of electrical tools that Bob in Bacup is very kindly looking after for me.
If there is anything you would like to borrow/buy ,email me at zmnsnt@aol.com
and we can talk more.
you can see the full list here
The place we are renting ( for approx 6 months) is much smaller.
Some things like furniture have gone into storage.
However ,I have a load of electrical tools that Bob in Bacup is very kindly looking after for me.
If there is anything you would like to borrow/buy ,email me at zmnsnt@aol.com
and we can talk more.
you can see the full list here
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Bob (right) Ken (left) |
Saturday, January 06, 2018
'ats
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another of Brenda's Saranac Photos .Lots of fine hats & bonnets......Part of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival |
my contribution
to the first sepia saturday of 2018 is around the theme of "hats".
To see the contributions of others , visit
here
I dont own a hat. I tend to borrow from others........
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in 2008 i was a member of Grant's Stag Party in Benidorm.Most of the lads were from an Oldham rugby club .Grant was ,at the time,on St.Helens books. Mick (pictured with me) is an ex-prop forward with Oldham RLFC.We all went as members of Village People ( i was the token Polish Plumber).It was so fucking hot.....I had hold my moustache as the sweat prevented it sticking properly.......see other photos here |
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2005 in the car park of a shoppimg mall in Northampton,Massachusetts.it was Febuary & freezing...My son, Chris,pictured next to me.We were guests of my good Muslim friend Ayse who was studying in New England at the time. a grand photo i took of Chris & Ayse.https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-ff4c2/i-7Q9TK8x/O |
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at the 2015 Peterloo Massacre Memorial in Manchester.See more photos here .( i took a lot of photos of famous TV & Movie 'faces') Actually that IS my own hat...but I look a bit of a prune wearing it.(Its in a drawer, somewhere.........!) |
n.b. See more of my photos https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/
Monday, January 01, 2018
Sunday, December 24, 2017
love isn't done
love & respect at Christmas to you my visitor.
A Christmas Card sent in 1907 from Saranac Lake by my Grandfather in New York State to the family back home in Scotland.....
See other photos from my Aunty Brenda's Collection here:
Read about Saranac here:
With the Ulster Orchestra. Live at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland; May 12, 2008.
lyrics
lyrics
a lovely song about Christmas time & family love & loss .......
biblehub.com/songs/1-5.
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me & Cath went to Christmas Eve Mass in Mytholmroyd.http://www.thegoodshepherd.org.uk/ Wladyslaw Zimnoch (14th Feb 1917-26th Dec1984) |
Thursday, December 21, 2017
great vanilla journeys
I have bloody awful lower back pain today.....! Removing was the cause......I find swimming helps ( must be something to do with moving horizontally rather than vertically?) Less strain on my spine.? Looks like that canal gonna come in handy....
Sunday, December 10, 2017
moved
the view from our new living room......
We moved house this week!After 33 years in Hebden Bridge.......
email me at .zmnsnt@aol.com For new landline number:postal address;etc (although the line wont actually be connected until the 20th)
[We will contact people individually with these details eventually ,but we are running around like blue-arsed flys this week,so forgive any delays in getting in touch personally .]
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/12/09/open-for-business/
We moved house this week!After 33 years in Hebden Bridge.......
email me at .zmnsnt@aol.com For new landline number:postal address;etc (although the line wont actually be connected until the 20th)
[We will contact people individually with these details eventually ,but we are running around like blue-arsed flys this week,so forgive any delays in getting in touch personally .]
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/12/09/open-for-business/
Thursday, December 07, 2017
black teeth & a brilliant smile
Me & Cathy went to
this talk
at Halifax Central Library attending anevent given by actor/author George Costigan & author/poet AdeleStripe.
Much of the conversation was around the life of Bradford writer Andrea Dunbar.Proper Northern Chops!
Much of the conversation was around the life of Bradford writer Andrea Dunbar.Proper Northern Chops!
Friday, December 01, 2017
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
gentle cheeses meek and mild.........
Ladies & Gentlemen Martin Platt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Platt
He knew that Coronation Street was shit. He would rather sell you fucking cheese
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Manchester-German-Markets-16th-November-2017/
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
3 studio photos
The prompt for this week's sepia saturday is "studio photos"
I give you 3 of mine.
I give you 3 of mine.
My grandma Helen who died in childbirth.
My mum as a newborn orphan with nurse instead of mother.
My poor wee orphaned Mum
All were shot in Edinburgh in the early 1920s.
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Monday, November 13, 2017
Boris Johnson's Head Apon a Stick!
Me & Cath found ourself Guests of The Commoners Choir at Hebden Bridge Trades Club tonight..
Never been "guests" before! Gold Tags and no pay ( we did buy a CD & teashirt afterwards..it only seemed fair..)
I used to work with Mark Wyatt ( one of the 50 folk onstage tonight) Commoners Choir are rather brilliant.
http://www.commonerschoir.com/
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https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Commoners-choirHebden-Bridge-Trades-Club11th-Nov2017/ |
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
Piece Hall & Square Chapel Halifax
Me & Cath were in Halifax yesterday.
I had an eye-test at Specsavers.
Then we walked around The Piece Hall:Square Chapel & Central Library.
We have (another) funeral tomorrow.zimnoch.smugmug.com/Piece-Hall-Halifax30th-October-2017/i-f9rwXnq/A
On Friday we are back at the Square Chapel to see the movie "The Death of Stalin"
See my photos here:https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Piece-Hall-Halifax30th-October-2017/
visit the Piece Hall website here: The Halifax Piece Hall
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