Exciting weekend – not just Leeds and Reading Festivals – Bethemiddleman goes live. Lots of work to be picked up from the site by HIPs providers, removal firms, signboard makers, decorators, house arrangers,DIY shops. Then there’s all those people wanting to buy, rent, house share to get extra cash in these economic times. Why twiddle [...]
Writeous Dude is moving shortly from East Dulwich to Bermondsey – lucky Bermondsey. He says it’s zone 1 and a nice little house. He’s got some work reviewing to keep the wolf from the door and he was going to the Theatre with a girl he met on his Sound and Lighting course – I [...]
The best vintage shop is in Edinburgh in the Grass Market area. It is quite large and stuffed with stuff. Every era from about 1880 onwards – top hats, hot pants, flappers dresses, ad infinitum. Piggynap, a few years ago, had a yearning for a Highwayman’s type coat and bought a ‘morning coat’ there – [...]
Traffic crawling on A1 to Bramham. Poor weather today, hope it improves for the campers. If not I could offer hot drinks/showers/clothes drying etc and make a bit for the Facelift Fund. I’m lucky ’cause I can open my bedroom window and hear a bit – maybe they could turn things up so I could [...]
Exciting times for Piggynap and Froggy – they launch this weekend. Headlines – ‘Selling/Buying/Renting – Use This Site’ – ‘Property Journalists Recommend’ – ‘Estate Agents Tremble’ – ‘What a Great Site’ – ‘Property Service Provider? Link to this site’. Yippee
It’s that time of year again when kids are dragged off to the shops for stuff for going back to school. Fond memories of frantic searches for the right size, realising your kid’s a freak too as everywhere you go there’s nothing to fit. Pens and folders, P.E.kit, only one sort of shoe/trainer will do [...]
My friend from New York has sent several photos he took on his nostalgia trip. OMG how the years have shown up – better to preserve the illusion of memory that you are the same on the outside as on the inside. Next time you see some old fart, remember they’re probably no more than 30 in [...]
Happened to catch the male pole vaulters – the Presenter said quite seriously that the French guy had drawn attention to his lack of funds by running around Parish naked carrying his pole. I wonder if all the Presenters in the Press Box fell about laughing like Disgraceful Rider? Are you ?
Have neglected sales for a few weeks but returning to it – trying to think up schemes to raise my profile. Funny who’s bought and who hasn’t – some people who went to the school and whose parents/kids etc went haven’t bought, others with no connection have. Wondering how I can get the Yorkshire Post [...]
It was nostalgia weekend … Saturday old friend, Sunday old places. Blue Streak top down, vroom vroom to Luddenden (near Halifax) where aunt and uncle kept The Lord Nelson between 1948/1955. Dating from c1663 (Branwell Bronte drank there). Granny lived in cottage behind. Old stone cottages higgledy piggledy, clinging to hillsides. Ancient bridleway, old stone walls - memories of [...]
