“fame at last”

“fame at last”

“well it was a nice day for a walk”

i seem to find myself doing more walking nowadays and enjoying it funny how you can live in a town and just drive everywhere you do miss a lot, so yesterday poppy wanted to have a look around the outlet village here, “well it was a nice day for a walk” so off we set, one thing about west Swindon is it was well landscaped as you can see just a five minute walk from mine, then cross a duel carriageway and you start to see Swindon's odd history,  Swindon began as a Saxon village. The name Swindon is derived from the Saxon words swine dun meaning pig hill, it’s not surprising then really to find this

       at the end of Radcliff street, just turn about ninety degree's with the camera and take this one, after a good walk to the top of the road all the history start’s again with the old railway works now the outlet village, but first this “Ron's store’s”this hardware store seems to have always been here and worth a look in if passing, you name it he sell’s it “even fork handle’s” it may even date’s back to Saxon times and was started by someone called Ron the terrible, and so at last the old railway work’s/outlet village and a window shopping orgasm for poppy, not really my thing  lable’s but poppy loved it, all those hand bag’s and glad rag’s, you can't take it away from Mc’arthur glen they did do a good job of keeping the feeling of what the old railway work’s that closed in 1986 was all about, i do find it funny that at one point a third of the male population of Swindon worked there, i wonder if after a day loading furnaces, riveting, and welding did they all meet up after at the workingman’s club with their Gucci shoe’s and handbag’s,

   what’s left of this old work’s is well worth a look at, will put all the photo’s on my the real Swindon “my hometown” photo album,

well !

 

“one man and his van”

a nice sunny afternoon.

all the hard work’s done now on the van, so it’s a nice sunny afternoon just sat in her with a good bottle of wine,

 “watching the rest work”

this week’s little bit of gold,

think i may have to start filling the seed feeder a few more time’s a week, had this fella circling  the area over the past few day’s

 

“a buzzard” and look’s like a young one too, he’s been around all week and hovering on two site’s which i think are ideal for him. “that would make my day being walking distances of a buzzard’s nest”

summer breeze,,,,,

well look’s like this is the first blast of summer “what a cracker today’s been” everything coming on great,

  so let’s keep this taster of summer going with this all-time summer classic, it’s funny we always think all time guitarist's being Hendrix, Page, Gilmour, Clapton, and Sandy Cowan, watch this man, “Ernie Isley and enjoy”

“where’s the fun in easy”

she’s getting there, the comfortably numb is starting to take shape hard going “but where’s the fun in easy”

even poppy’s impressed by it all

this is going to be a challenge, she’s been well bodged in the past “the comfortably numb not poppy” she’s 26 years old, you cant get part’s easy anymore so look’s like it’s down to a bit of that old Billy magic.

brick’s and mortar,,,,”NOT NOW BILLY”

well what a week,  put the flat on the market and have had one round and some booked for next week, we were always told “put your money into brick’s and mortar” NO sod all that just get a good camper, this year has really taught me something “sod what we were always told” just paint up your van, go nfa, tune in and turn on,

”NOT NOW JOHN”

tit’s and bodywork,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

“that made you look” look’s like the local sparrow family have got some competition this year from this lot, a family o blue tit’s have been making a move on the feeder all weekand now on to the bodywork, time to get the comfortably numb ready for the summer,so out come’s Mr grinder, one large tin of filler, and a few tin’s of primer,   always feel primer a waste of money all you do is slap on about two tin’s then sand off about one and a half of them,

nice one Dave (part 2)

“well that did the trick then Dave” oil is now over $2.00 a barrel, think for the next raid Dave best fill the jet’s at Tesco's at least you’ll get the club card point’s, remember Dave we all need to pull our belt’s in.    

“nice one Dave”

“nice one Dave”

(now get a life)

pointless thing’s

thing’s in life Billy find’s pointless, the British government  saying “o no we must stop the civil war in Libya” (oil) boy band's, girl band’s, nick clegg, (give him a colouring book when Dave's talking) polo mint’s, russle brand, left handed kitchen thing’s (sorry poppy) the law’s that stop the freedom to wild camp, Viagra, and DIY this is what my lost week has been spent doing,

     

fitting a new water heater,

“o no paint on my hands”

“cool paintbrush photo”

“it’s ok I'm not dead”

“it’s ok I'm not dead” just been busy with those things in life you must do to earn a crust, learning new software, web stuff, etc, and standing back in ore at the new wychwood brewery website 

 so the past two week’s “well” apart from sorting the flat and getting it ready to try and sell it again, starting on the rust spot’s on the van, “think I'll just do the rest in photo’s

  

beef cobbler (Wiltshire style)

“I'm back” and by the look of it eating for six,

coat water an oasis in north Swindon, last time i was there was about forty year’s ago shame i left it that long, so last but not least and getting back to beer again “wychwood beer at that too” scarecrow , (i was feeling abit arty at the time) so make this pattern on adobe then run it through pinnacle studio to animate it, then add some Syd Barrett photo’s and a classic old Floyd track mix it all up then put it on YouTube and you get this. “enjoy”

 

  (no small fluffy animal's or children were harmed and only two bottle’s of scarecrow were drank in the making of this video)

a mystery no more,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

pulmonaria (dark vader)

or lungwort

“may the flora be with you”

“ok Dave your turn”

“ok Dave your turn”

what’s this

only seen in three other gardens, my mother’s mine, and this one in Glastonbury

“ps,,,,, bet the last garden get’s copied to a yard in Fidalgo island”

the first ice cream van of summer

20th of February and I've just heard the first ice cream van of summer,

“oi get a life Mr softy and give us a 69 with a flake”

(wonder why he drove off at 70mph looking scared)