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.
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..)
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?)
"the lost negatives" were only found,developed & printed this year.
Here is a bookies-runner in Hebden Bridge Park (inside the shelter under the canal bridge).1950's
This week's sepia saturday is themed around "farms"& "agriculture" "harvest"
My dad's family come from the eastern Polish city of Białystok . It is a big (rather primitive) agricultural region.
The first image (a still from a 1990 home movie) is of a conversation i was having with an old family neighbour ( he was a tad drunk himself here!)
He is , telling me a rather gruesome story about how another village local ,in the winter of 1943 got so drunk one night that he tried to stagger home in the dark but ,tripped alone and fell into a well.
After a mass search, he was found drowned the next next morning
. The Devil's Harvest perhaps....?
This second image I took (also in 1990) on the family farm.......
My Cousin Marak & Uncle Czesek.
Finally , a home movie I took in 1965. It begins & ends with a few brief shots of my Dad & Mum.Inbetween, my Uncle collecting the honey.
image: me in The Blue Teapot in Mytholmroyd on Wednesday.
audio: live Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK; May 14, 2018.Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan. "Pangaea" (the title of this song) refers to is hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land
masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke
apart........ Finally.I was sad to hear that Danny Kirwan died on June 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kirwan
I saw him play live several times.He saw difficult times (eg he ended up homeless & sleeping rough on the streets of London.)
Not a good look.
Here he is in his pomp playing with Fleetwood Mac in Seattle,March 10.1972.
( In the context of this post,forgive the pun. "Oh well"
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