Monday, August 26, 2024
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My facebook page tonight. For more raw images of the day click here
Thanks for your email today Don ( 6 weeks in the USA!) .I will reply during the week ( too pissed atm!)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Champion Jack Dupree
I shared my 72nd Birthday today at Dean Clough Art Gallery with the ghost of Halifax's Blues legend Champion Jack Dupree.
Jack's Biography = born in New Orleons ( to a part African American and Cherokee mother & father from the Congo .) died in Germany:parent's murdered by KKK when he was 2.: he then lived in the same orphanage as Louis Armstrong : WW2 a Japanese POW for 2 years : smoking dope with Eric Clapton on Ovenden Way Halifax :earlier was a US boxing champion (hence his nickname)etc etc An amazing life.
Reading Jack's Biography above, what it doesn't tell you is that while Jack lived in Halifax his Postman was my late friend Phil Davidson who died a few months ago !
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Final Farewell Tour
We met up in Rochdale this afternoon for what I had billed as " Hydn's Last Drink" .
But it went so well that we will probably be having another ( in Manchester) in the coming weeks!
A bit like one of those aging Rock Bands who do a " Final Farewell Tour" only to reappear soon afterwards to do another one!
Anyway ,Hydn was on fine form : a pleasure to be with. He even joked that he was a bit upset about just having to buy a new freezer, knowing that he won’t get full use of it.
with Jimmy Stridgen
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Saturday, June 15, 2024
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Monday, May 27, 2024
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Jacques Brel
Me & Cath went to see Liverpool band " Dead Belgian" play the Puzzle in Sowerby Bridge on Thursday night.
Singing the songs of Jacques Brel
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Smile and the World smiles with you
Asthma & Sinus have been very ropy for me this week (.+bad headaches & poor sleep )I went to the Hebden Bridge Medical Practice this morning to get an emergency script for my Asthma .But a funny thing happened to me on the way to Boots Chemist to collect my meds .Stood in front of me while I queued ,was a bonny well dressed young lass ( probably only about 16/17) who was stood in front of a large advertising display at the counter .She was preening and admiring herself ,adjusting her hair/makeup etc etc for 2 or 3 minutes in front of what was a screen & camera that I thought attached to the Display .
it seemed unusually novel to have a camera attached to an advertisement. 'Never seen that before.I was intrigued to find out the purpose of it all.
Anyway, her preening complete, she walked away from the counter and went looking around the rest of the Chemist .So went to look at the screen myself . i got up close, Gurning , smiling ,pulling faces .Eventually , she silently she come up behind me , and snatched what was infact her mobile phone , and stormed out of the Chemist.
I apologised ( she probably thought I was going to steal it!).But she didn't say a single word to me .
Afterwords , i wondered if she might have been "live streaming" some fashion piece ? Maybe me Gurning is now all over Instagram or You Tube?
I walked in an Asthmatic but walked out a Fashion Icon !
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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Doing daft stuff ( again) This time at iglu in Hebden Bridge ---> details