Until I retired last month,I worked with Mark Wyatt at Calderdale Council.
Here is a clip of him singing on Sunday 1st October in Manchester with
the commoners choir
Part protest against the Tory Conference being held in the city:part a dance on the grave of those UKIP cunts.
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As Helen
mentions in the 'comments' section below , the arrangement in the picture is unusual.It is the house ,not the people who are given prominance. The group are almost incidental......
I keep searching the many widows to check if i see anybody is peeking at us outside...!
So,something of a mystery is this photograph.
I found it among my Aunt Brenda's collection after she died.gallery/n-qhJbM/
Now,it was among many family photos taken in Canada & the USA at the turn of the century.
I know that the young Brenda travelled there with my grandfather & his first wife ( she died & he remarried my grandmother about ten years later).
Now her other photos of North America are clearly labelled.But she also had two different photos of this house ( basically .one with this family group & one without).These were not labelled in any way.......
The people in it dont look like my grandfather & Brenda.Tho,so far away,I could be wrong about that......
A bit of a mystery.I cant say this looks like Canada or New York State...tho ,who knows?
The Mighty Harry Leslie Smith talks with the aide of sepia photography in the above video. It's the UK Labour Party's Annual Conference next week. The following week sees my son Christopher's birthday.
In 1924 California’s Tribune-American newspaper ran a competition for
its readers to write in with their most unusual dreams and the winning
entry was made into a short film.
This is Mrs L.L. Nicholson from
Oakland’s dream of losing her baby, rowing across San Francisco Bay,
picking up some fish, and eventually discovering her lost child in a
most unusual place and in trouble with the law. .............
the view from inside the Hebden Bridge Trades Club today
Picked tickets up this morning.....me & Cath now go see Louisville singer Joan Shelley at Hebden Bridge Trades Club on Sunday night.
(As is usually the case) I will keep adding/taking away stuff in this post over the next few days.
I will also attempt the tricky task of trying to translate the post into Kentuckyanese but I'm really not promising anything on that !
At the moment I will pop a few Joan Shelley videos below.These i may replace eventually with my photos/ video from Sunday's gig
This blog is now available in Malayasian
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(apologies & regards to TT)
As I post this ,dear beautiful Cuba is being battered by Storm Irma . So this is topical.Here is a photo I took in Habana in 1997.Two lads make a chariot/ racing car out of the top of a crate.
So.......this week's sepia saturday
"...Cute kids using common household objects to build fantasy horses, spaceships or whatever is a theme as old as photography itself..."
My Son Chris & a toy train in the Dominican Republic.....plus,things to do with a polish chicken & english ballons.......(click each for biggary)
We laugh at children 'pretending'........I sometimes wonder if it ever really goes away? Witness Trump
Gentrifying The Grimy Republic
It's a dirty job ,but someone has to do it.....
Billy Blake's "Jerusalem " where he spoke of being 'among these dark satanic mills...', was written while he sat above Beacon Hill in Halifax ..(said Ken Kersey over a pint of locally brewed lager ,looking at this view)....
Only an accountant will tell you if the £19 million spent on
the Halifax Piece Hall
was worth the money?All I can say is, I was surprised today how good it looks.
Me & Cath go next week to the opening of the new Halifax Library which is just next door to The Piece Hall.
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REST IN PEACE My longtime Blogspot buddy Andrew Keogh here is his obituary in The Guardian. he died of lung cancer aged 66, and was a barrister, blogger, writer and political activist. He was born in Leeds.An avid Leeds United.Gratful Dead & Coffee fan.....(n.b.we also had a mutual friend in Clive A.
They went to the L.S.E.in the early 70's) here is a link to "White Rabbit" to Andrew's blogspot.Go on sweetly,dear legal man......
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A bit of a dilemma for me this weekend . I keep getting pestered by google to allow this blog to be included on their AdSense programme.Because of my large(ish) number of visitors they have given me some quite generous estimates of how much i might "earn" each month. Essentially, each time you visit here,the more money Google gives me .The joy of capitalism.
So what to do? Should I take the capitalist shilling which goes against the spirit of what i do here?
On the other hand , what google would give me would more than pay for my smugmug photo album subscription each month. {n.b. never did it}
At the end of the day I doubt I will take up this offer. But ,whatever , thank you kindly for each visit you make.Long may it continue.............
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