Donald Trump

"come and play with us Danny......... for ever and ever and ever............."

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] 

Jimmy Buffett:Record Plant Sausalito, October 18, 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett

Sowerby Bridge

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the suddenness of your departure is still hard to believe......

This post's title comes from here:

and click here for all the day's other photos

We went to The Yorkshire Sculpture Park today.

Aqua~Boy ™

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/North-Wales-2nd-June-2018/

Colwyn Bay.

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.
 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?)

overdub

Beach Boys: outtakes. 1965

Aqua~Boy ™

Billy Long-Bongo.

We went to Hebden Bridge Park today 

& took these photos of

 the shelter where Alice Lonstaff shot the bookies-runner

Alice Longstaff

http://hebdenbridgeartsfestival.co.uk/event/alice-longstaff-the-lost-negatives/

https://penninehorizons.org/collections/show/3 

"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

Today we also went to this: exhibition of the photos of Claude Cahun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun  
 I read this in the literature & laughed out loud...!

Is this why Megan Markel is always smiling?

young fathers on Joolz Holland recently.

I'm chasing shadows in the gallows 

Collecting what was stolen from me ......

Me and Cath have seen them live twice.
Love them to bits.
great punk values.
we last saw them in March this year. here: are my images of the night.

This month they were banned from a festival in Germany for their opposition to Israel’s oppression of Palestine.
read about this here

the devil's harvest

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" )