May 2011
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January 2011
2 posts
News fro the Supreme Commander of Four Square Feet →
Been
I have a huge file of items to put on here when I get a bit of P & Q
March 2010
1 post
Mellow Monk's Green Tea Blog →
January 2010
1 post
Test your firework observational skills →
August 2009
3 posts
She's back
Been bush, gone native, sans de internet, cocooned. Have new screen and ready to go again.
January 2009
1 post
September 2008
7 posts
www.jacksonpollock.org →
Obama’s Speechwriter Speaks Up | Newsweek... →
August 2008
33 posts
FIRST PART OF GROWING UP IN BARNEHURST KENT
I was born in 1947 at The Russel Stonham Nursing Home Barnehurst with Nurse Latimer on hand. My mum stayed in the hospital for ten days. My brother Dave was only nine months old at that time, so I don’t know who was looking after him. He may have been in the home too, as mum breast fed us both! Every mum breastfed! No questions asked. Barnehurst was post war baby boomer central. Kids were...
THIS IS THE LAST FIREWORK POST FOR A WHILE
I am going to Blackpool in September to see World Championship Finals. Each country is a week apart so I decided to see the Chinese Entry.
That Divine Indigo May Only Last a Few Seconds.
I have been reading Will Hubbard over on This Recording.wordpress.com who admires poets and writers from The Fifties. He seems quite taken with the work of Franz Kline who often works with just black inky paint on soft paper, using a fat brush in a calligraphic and narrative way. His paintings seem like journalistic records of energetic standing up gestures. Not sitting down anyway. A lot of the...
FOUR MAD HATTERS TEA PARTY ILLUSTRATIONS
Tim Burton is here in Plymouth remaking the classic Mad Hatters Tea Party for his movie Alice in Wonderland. It has been done hundreds of times before, and an absolute stalwart of kids parties and themed sculpture parks everywhere. Here are some conventional versions. But I am speculating this one will be Gothic Cheese with Kitsch styling. Can’t wait until 2010.
JPG Magazine: Stories: Photo Essay: Trucking... →
BEYOND AWESOME amateur photographs taken by Trucker Slimeface from his cab. Eat your heart out all you professional photographers…
Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings →
Where were you at 08:08 pm on 08/08/08
NOSTALGIC JOURNEYS 1: The Woolwich Ferry
GUNKO & I WENT ON THE LAST ONE OF ...
Pictured below is a trolley bus. It ran on a route from Bexleyheath through Northumberland Heath, where we used to get on it, down to Erith and along the river to Woolwich. The journey took us along the outside wall of The Arsenal with its castellated gates. The tramlines were in the road and two antenna got power from overhead lines. The tramseats were made of wood and had glorious brass fittings...