spotted this guy at our handfasting didn't know who he was, but think he really enjoyed the day
well it was one of those day’s when all were welcome, he just got so involved in the whole thing joined in the circle too,
here he is again with our sue
again with the good lady idril (peace be upon her) love the expression on her face you can almost read her thoughts “umm pub’s open soon will it be a pint of hobgoblin or a pint of mead”
it’s just a joy to behold, a good old British summer 4/6 degree’s out in the full cloud (8 in the shade) anybody under the age of 25 might find this hard to believe but once upon a time in this green and unpleasant land we used to get sunburn.
after all the years I've been going to north Tenerife i finally did it i got on the bus and had a day out at teide, was well impressed with the landscape and the thought of what mother nature can do but that was about it, i do think they've pulled about with it abit too much non of the geology looks right as you can see from the first photo, in order to put in the cable car and access road it looks like they cut
through what was an impressive lava flow, then just ground it up and tried to make it look like a flow and to top it the ash and sedimentary rock is dumped just after it,
“see what i mean” all for the sake of a cable car that will cost you 25 euro each (call me tight but there’s more chance of me walking into a real ale pub and asking for a pint of carling) the next time i go there think I'll take a leaf out of the mountain biker boy’s who got off the bus on the east side, it looked a lot more natural and unspoilt did look like one hell of a place for a wild camp
“ahh bliss”
From the country that brought you Krombacher, Mercedes, O&K, and kraftwerk now brings you the master of the mustache, this is a work of art, bumped into this guy on honeymoon
“yes we’re back” and by god is it cold back here, it was so nice to get back to where poppy and i call our second home north Tenerife, suppose it’s only right really to go from our handfasting surround by stones put there by our ancestors, to stone’s put there by mother nature, we will always be amazed and stand in awe by her art and power.
(think the grin gives it away)
“well Billy did it” this stunning amazing woman is now and till the end of time known as poppy bagwash
“I am one lucky proud looking bloke”
but there was a load of people who helped make this day so very special,
so the only way i can sum this up is
de amapola, una mujer increíble
this turned up today in a box of stuff, I've heard of them but never seen one so this is today’s homework, what am i and what am i made from,,,,, here’s the assay mark’s (10 brownie point’s and a curio badge for the winner)
(this competition is open to all, even those bobbing up and down on the north sea)
“well it give’s sandy something to do when he’s bored”
love her or hate her she was one woman and her handbag that changed Briton and it’s politics, you could write a thousand words about about Margret Thatcher but only a few will sum her up,
“loved, loathed, but never ignored”
13,10,1925~8,4,2013 Maggie
Another meeting with the good lady Idril on Wednesday going through the finer point’s of the handfasting, sorting out the vows the quarter’s and the colour’s etc. all seems to be going along ok a lot of hard work but the kind of nice hard work you enjoy,
so if all goes to plan Beltane should be a good one this year, we choose Beltane because it’s a nice time of the year, everything is new, fresh, and springing to life (just like us pair of sad old git’s) and it’s just such a real time at Avebury, well “ho hum” back to it just thought I'd put a note up on how it’s all going.
PS,,, sorry Hamish Cliff we would love it for you to play there.
My first memories of bowie was john I’m only dancing and then being gob smacked by an album called Aladdin sane, over the years the he’s brought us his many alias’s David bowie, ziggy stardust, Halloween jack, the thin white duke, etc look’s like bowie’s back and with quite a bang, the where are we now video (also take a look at Harry hill’s remake of it) was a trip down memory lane but the stars (are out tonight) is just full on old bowie theatrics, so now the monkey’s are gone can the real David Jones stand up please, so site back and enjoy this work of art.
Ps,,, I’m getting the album tomorrow .
well big day tomorrow Mr Yorke's new solo album amok with the substitute band atom’s for peace but quite a good line up, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, REM and Beck drummer Joey Waronker, Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Brazilian percussionist Mauro Refosco, so sit back and enjoy this music with the music and art left in but the commerce taken out
i do like this just waiting for the answer to the king of limbs now.
last weekend looked like the start of better things had the van back (4 glowplugs 1 injector latter) even a good Sunday at Cheltenham, then came Wednesday set off for Gloucester got about three miles from home and the van lost power and was smoking, “silly me doing things on the cheap should have done all the injectors not just the weakest” getting back to last Sunday i did pick up a few box’s of odd’s and sods in one was a bag of very grubby looking coins
national transport tokens, still trying to make sense of these if they can still be used or not, if i can I'd be laughing there’s a couple of hundred of them in the bag i love bus and train travel.
this one speaks for it’s self a 1938 west African two shilling coin and still very collectable,
this is the mystery one, I'm 99% sure it’s silver, kings head and rex (king), lion standing over a crown, not really sure on this one so if any of you good people out there in blogland have any idea’s please get in touch.
Sunday looked like it was going to be a good day, no more snow, rain, wind, and it wasn't too cold either so poppy and i jumped in to the van for a days trading at Cheltenham, turned the key she just spun and spun and spun etc. at this point there was a niggling little job on the van i had been meaning to do but never quite got round to doing, “get the glow plugs and relay changed”
“well beat me around with a stocking full of dysentery” but look at all goody's the good people of Cheltenham missed out on
“well see anything you fancy!!!” try http://jdclearance.com/ and mail me (unashamed plug)
so all in all it was just another boring no work day “thank’s to me being a bit lazy” but not to worry let’s end this post on a sexist note it was roast pork for dinner today,
“look girly’s” these aren't aunt Bessie's or packet mix these are the real McCoy made by a 52 year old curly haired yob
“snigger snigger”
“At last the camera problem is solved” and my sanity is restored (what there was of it in the first place) there was a manufacturing fault on the finepix s4000 with the photo cell that caused orbing or halloing hence the poor results, i found all this out on Thursday with a trip to john Lewis's to try out some of the new camera’s but this time i took a memory card with me so i could test them all properly, first came the Nikon p510 “what a beasty” then the two canon’s sx50 and sx500 “good but,,,,,,” and finally the finepix sl300 “my faith has been restored in Fuji” and here’s the proof, firstly the photo that started all this
now the finepix sl300 “that's better”
this is my third finepix camera now and I'm as pleased as punch with it the zoom is quite impressive too
from this to this and still keeps most sharpness and colour
pretty good macro for the poor light as well
all in all very pleased so thank you all at John Lewis for sorting me out, “oh” and before i forget poppy only went and did it she bought the Nikon beasty, she said it was like love at first sight
“steady girl you’ll be eating yorkie bars next”
what a difference a few days make
and camera, same tractor above was with my finepix s4000 this was with poppy’s canon a2300 compact third of the price but twice the photo
“but anyway that's enough moaning for now” back to the snow (with the canon on all these photo’s)
feeding time for the old horse’s
big kid in a silly hat
even with a good covering of snow springs showing it’s on it’s way
and now the reason mother nature really invented snow for, yes kids with pieces of moulded plastic
Charlie's first time at sledging and he loved it so much so he’s probably trying to figure out how to fix lights on his sledge now.
