Peterloo 2018:

Me, Cath & Martin attended the Annual Peterloo Memorial in Manchester on Sunday.

.It's the 4th year we have been present.

We also took part in casting for the  Peterloo Massacre Tableaux

See all my photos here:

a great light creates deep shadows........

The post title was taken from a book I'm currently reading "The Sorrow Of Angels" by Jon Kalman Stefánsson
"We're in a leaky rowing boat with a rotten net, and we're going to catch stars".
This post was originally intended for last week's Sepia Saturday theme.(  Illusions:trick photos: big& small) But I was too late submitting, so.......I'm thinking  it can equally apply this week instead?
To see other people's contributions , visit http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2018/08/sepia-saturday-431-11-august-2018.html

I took this photo on 30 August 1997.In Howth near Dublin .It was the weekend Princess Dianne died in Paris.
 I was with Julie Boardman and her friend His Drayness (who i went to teacher training college with) Julie said "take a photo of me squashing this man" ( a sepia display of 1900's images..this one being   The Giant's Causeway in Ireland's 'Six Counties'.)
So I did!

  This week we booked seats at Manchester Royal Exchange to see  this: play in September.It's currently playing the Edinburgh Festival and stars Julie Hesmondhalgh.

Quote of the day (again from the Edinburgh Festival) .

Frankie Boyle "..has acid words for anyone who is worried about plastic in the ocean when there are refugees drowing in it..." (Independent)

(mostly) Settle

wikipedia.org/wiki/Settle,_North_Yorkshire

see all the photos in this slide show here=https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Weekend-45-august-2018/

inside the Quaker Lodge.

leave no trace

079384974936

wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_No_Trace
http://www.peterrockproject.com/ 

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/66/

For my 66th birthday, Me Cath & Chris went into Manchester.
 We had a meal at  Marble Arch on Rochdale Road (they have created a rather cool beer garden since the last time i visited) . Later, we went onto  to see Leave No Trace
at https://homemcr.org/

A story of lost tribes.

Matthew Zimnoch in Pennsylvania is
a freelance trombonist, a classically trained baritone (vocalist), composer, music director and band leader.

Today he sent me this audio for my birthday & to be included on this post.

Thank You Mr Zimnoch!
Leave No Trace Official Trailer from Maui Film Festival on Vimeo.

all your dreams are true.

n.b. more photos will be added thru the week....https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/21-28-th-July-2018/

they dont dance like carmen no more.......

we raised a glass to IP 161.142.48.88 —Malaysia: meanwhile....................

Tony T. from the Rochdale Hamam

here , at the begining of the month, I talked about plans to attend the 50th Anniversary of Carter Lane Youth Hostel in London where I used to work.(the old Choirboys School opposite St Pauls Cathedral)
Unfortunately, my son Chris was taken ill while we were in North Wales last week.I thought it best not to travel to London at the weekend.......
A coincidence.One of the blokes who organised the London event  was  Brian Charlton who worked there at the same time as me.
He now owns a Post Office near Newborough Beach in North Wales.
 He invited us down next time we travel to Wales (we do seem to be going there a lot at the moment...dont we..)

 We went for a meal at the Border Rose in Walsden on Thursday night. various tribes from Halifax,Bacup & Halifax.....
photos= https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/The-Border-Rose-19th-July-2018/

Donald Trump

"come and play with us Danny......... for ever and ever and ever............."

my father was a lighthouse keeper......

you can see my week's photos here:

[lyrics:]
I have mentioned here before that ,on my Family Tree ,I am related to the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. 

His father, Robert designed over 30 lighthouses.

 Here we are at South Stack ,Angelsey, yesterday.
"...Books may nurture the soul but lighthouses save lives.."[read more] 

Jimmy Buffett:Record Plant Sausalito, October 18, 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett

Sowerby Bridge

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the suddenness of your departure is still hard to believe......

This post's title comes from here:

and click here for all the day's other photos

We went to The Yorkshire Sculpture Park today.

Aqua~Boy ™

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/North-Wales-2nd-June-2018/

Colwyn Bay.

I'm chasing shadows in the gallows

graphic= Billy Childish

the above audio is from The Grateful Dead in 1969. Rolling Stone say it's one of their best ever gigs.

 Dream Bowl, Vallejo, California
February 22nd, 1969

 That's good enough for me ! I've been in a Dead State of Mind this past hot week . Track two is especially beautiful.
 I have been looking into my plans for travel to London for this: event in London in a couple of weeks time (the same weekend Trump comes to town!).
 Its at the youth hostel I worked in 1971-1972 in the City of London.Opposite St Paul's .Read about my mispelt  youth here:
 (I have been in touch with  Clive, in the hope of a meetup that weekend?)

overdub

Beach Boys: outtakes. 1965

Aqua~Boy ™

Billy Long-Bongo.

We went to Hebden Bridge Park today 

& took these photos of

 the shelter where Alice Lonstaff shot the bookies-runner