"steps" certainly."flowers" i think too? (In the lady's hat...?)
Thursday, September 06, 2018
oh! qu'est beau.
See here ,other contributions to this week's sepia saturday
Mine is a postcard I found at
http://www.hebdenantiques.co.uk/
"steps" certainly."flowers" i think too? (In the lady's hat...?)
"steps" certainly."flowers" i think too? (In the lady's hat...?)
Thursday, August 30, 2018
the way that you act ......
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Mother, yon lion's et Albert.............
This is a sepia saturday post.
The week's suggested themes are MUSIC : SINGERS : GRAMOPHONE : RECORDS.
I looked through my own old photos and struggled.....the best I could find was the photo below which I took of the Canadian singers Kate & Anna McGarricle when they played Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in 1975.
I got my first record player on my 6th birthday (1957):It was,even then, an antique.A big brass beast:a windup affair! You had to change the needle ever time you played a record!
Fortunately I was only given one 78 record to go with it.It was Stanley Holloway's monologue about a lad called "Albert" who goes on holiday to Blackpool with his Mum & Dad and gets eaten by a lion in the zoo.
were my mum&dad giving me a message...? (we went to Blackpool most summer holidays)
Anyway.Listening to it again now, it's still quite funny.......Northern Humour... Albert & The Lion:lyrics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Holloway
*John Lee Hooker would have been 101 on the 22nd August 2018.(6 months older than my own Dad).Rest in Peace both XX*
john lee hooker – tupelo blues from directors guild on Vimeo.I dont seem to have any other photos that relate to this week's theme.
I did find the above in Hebden Bridge's Antique shop.Not a jolly crew...but they do have an solitary instrument in view.
The photo's origin is French, I think.
They look like they have just spotted a lion......?
Monday, August 20, 2018
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:
Thursday, August 09, 2018
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) .
"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)
Sunday, August 05, 2018
(mostly) Settle
see all the photos in this slide show here=https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Weekend-45-august-2018/
inside the Quaker Lodge. |
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
leave no trace
079384974936
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/
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Thursday, July 19, 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 |
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/
Friday, July 13, 2018
Thursday, July 12, 2018
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]
"...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
Friday, July 06, 2018
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
Monday, July 02, 2018
Sunday, July 01, 2018
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.February 22nd, 1969
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?)
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