Happy Birthday Mr Rumi

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.......!

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

Bob (right) Ken (left)

after Brexit , I hope the ladies of Halifax get their Charm Schools back.......

'ats

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........

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

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

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/

ßest Wishes for 2018

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fire-Fury-Michael-Wolff/dp/1408711400

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:

 https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-bqTqB/

Read about Saranac here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saranac_Lake,_New_York 

 This is a  sepia saturday post   

Magda Davitt (Sinead O’Connor) 

With the Ulster Orchestra. Live at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland; May 12, 2008. 
lyrics 

a lovely song about Christmas time & family love & loss .......

biblehub.com/songs/1-5. 

me & Cath went to Christmas Eve Mass  in  Mytholmroyd.http://www.thegoodshepherd.org.uk/

 Tu Spoczywa 
Wladyslaw Zimnoch 
(14th Feb 1917-26th Dec1984)

great vanilla journeys

A few random images of our move from the top of the hill to the waterside.
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....

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/

black teeth & a brilliant smile

the short reckless life of andrea dunbar  { Spectator}

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!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Costigan 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dunbar 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelle_Stripe

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Rita-Sue-Bob-too7th-December-2017/ 

Upper George Pub,Halifax.

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Upper-George-Halifax-30th-November-2017/

black friday

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/23/uk-no-earnings-growth-budget-brexit-productivity-ifs

 

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/

3 studio photos

The prompt for this week's sepia saturday is "studio photos"
 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.

 sepia-saturday-394

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/

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Commoners-choirHebden-Bridge-Trades-Club11th-Nov2017/

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