Mr Corbyn refused to have dinner with Trump. but Johnson backed him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is all you need to know about the UK establishment and liberal politics in general.
Saying that , today I bought a great big greasy tub of Brylcreem . The first time in 20 years.
"The Starmer Effect"?
About 13 months ago I was canvassing for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.
During Which , In Todmorden ,I remember passing a graveyard and seeing this statue
I thought i must come back later and photograph it.
This week I did.
Veronica Fernandez Zimnoch lives in Argentina.She's a Lawyer in Buenos Aires She's my Great Grand Niece.
Her Grandad, & my Uncle, was Antonio Zimnoch (my namesake) . He was ten years younger than my Dad. They last saw each other in 1939 when my dad was conscripted into The Soviet Army ( later to desert and join the Free Polish Airforce in UK.)
After the war, my uncle married an Italian lass and moved to Argentina.
Apart from the occasional letter , they never contacted each other.Although ,oddly , they died within weeks of each other in 1984.
I still keep in touch with Veronica via facebook.
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| Antonio Zimnoch : my namesake. |
So i took this photo at a Christmas Bash at The Hebden Bridge Trades Club 5 years ago.
At the time it looked so "old and Great Depression Era" Looks fairly contemporary now.......
I guess we dress up in the clothes we really want to wear?
7.5.1971 Fillmore WestI took a nice walk up to Scouts Rock this afternoon .
Here is a photo I took of the ßénch at the top of the walk up there .
The sun was just going down.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_Rock
While in jail for public intoxication in 1965, he met a homeless man who called himself "Mr. Bojangles" to conceal his true identity from the police. Mr. Bojangles had been arrested as part of a police sweep of indigent people that was carried out following a high-profile murder.
The two men and others in the cell chatted about all manner of things, but when Mr. Bojangles told a story about his dog, the mood in the room turned heavy. Someone else in the cell asked for something to lighten the mood, and Mr. Bojangles obliged with a tap dance.
The homeless "Mr. Bojangles", who was white, had taken his pseudonym from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), the best-paid Black entertainer of his era........https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bojangles_(song)
Lots of great rare live footage (eg The Clash) of the birth of Rock Against Racism .
Heavily featured is Red Saunders it's founder.
Here is Red with Cath a couple of years ago.
in future .check this sidebar icon for previous audio played here: https://soundcloud.com/benchplayer
Drinking in Halifax today.
Big shout out to Julie who helped me this week with my old Family Photos. https://www.facebook.com/QueenOfClean
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/This-week/
I seem to have cold (again) but unlike some people, I don't make a song and dance about it. I have refused a helicopter and everytime CNN ring me up, I just 'em to "Piss Off"...........
This is a Sepia Saturday post; to see other posts , click here
https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2020/09/sepia-saturday-538-19-september-2020.html Posting colourised images onto onto "Sepia Saturday" is a bit like Dylan going electric?! "Judas" :)
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| A photo of me this week in Hebden Bridge with my Sauna/Swimming buddy Haley.A top published London author (non fiction:Asperger) and very nice lass. See all my week's photos here https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Sony-/ |
"I'm Thinking Of Ending Things" on Netflx is the 21st century "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Thinking_of_Ending_Things_(film)
I told my brother Zyg that I was uploading these:
old,but newly,coloured old family photos.
He gave his blessing."Why should I be bothered? I have nothing to hide" he said.
And they are all still on display on the slideshow in the previous post.https://everton.blogspot.com/2020/08/ive-started-colouring-100s-of-my-family.html
One bit of good news.Todmorden Pool reopens on the 9th September.Hurray! Conversely....
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/COLOURISED-IMAGES/
My Grandfather took these shots at the Lake Saranac "Winter Festival" in 1902 in upstate New York.
He lived and worked there for a couple of years with my Aunt Brenda.
(n.b.The audio at the moment is Jackson Browne)
The family rumour was that my grandfather spent some of his time in The States "Prospecting for gold". I really don't know about that! (sounds like bollocks to me!) But who knows?
Uncertainty being something of a family tradition.....
He later became a Barber in Fife:became a Tory Councillor:joined the merchant navy and is buried in Malta.He died in 1953. He saw me once when I was a baby. So anything is possible!
Nice drinks in Halifax with Phil & Ken today
at the Big Six pub in Halifax. https://whatpub.com/pubs/HAL/1017/big-six-halifax-savile-park
All Today's Photos here:
