Trying to get to grips with bit.ly – a web address shortening site – which means you can put a link in your twittering to interesting stuff you discover on the web… clear ? Yoga bear has a look on his face which I epathise with – Piggynap supposedly showed me at lunchtime but it [...]
Nearly November, time to think about prezzie-buying. Disgraceful Rider’s family leave little wish-lists where they will be found. ‘Don’t worry’ I say. ‘Think big – anything up to a fiver’. This year Piggynap has 2 things in her ‘holding stocking’ – hope she likes them. Writeous Dude’s stocking is empty, as is Him Indoors but [...]
Booked to go with friends to Leeds Grand to see Peter Pan in December. Disgraceful Rider is related to David Bintley the Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet – he’s busy creating a new ballet as I write. Our refined facial features are very similar! I shared the same surname before marrying Him Indoors and came from [...]
Aberford’s Town Book from 1746 to c1800 is at The Borthwick, York Uni. Mostly accounts of Overseers, Constables, Surveyors, Assessors but the accounts tell a story. Those chaps were kept busy – repairs to the bridge in Main Street (old A1) – to the village stocks and pinfold (stray animals) – riding for warrants to York, Leeds, Wakefield [...]
Researching Vavasours of Hazlewood to see if I can bring them into my future tome. Fantastic notes from Katherine Longley on them which she must never have finalised to publish – 1973 so wonder if she died. She did publish some other stuff. 9 boxes of her research notes, must have been a lifetime – [...]
Writeous Dude continues to make Disgraceful Rider proud. See his article/photo on UK Tickets ‘Hairspray’ news … he needs to relax and smile more – especially with the 2 pretty girls nearby! He’s seeing so many Shows he has to write about – next Monday Little Voice. Dude and friend scribbling away on sketches, hoping to [...]
Zoom zoom in Blue Streak to sunny York… bought a gorgeous grey/purple striped sweater from Fatface – usually expensive but it was in the sale, likewise one of their bags. Now have to chuck out 2/3 old bags the new one replaces. Into Octopus – fun brolly with doll face top and wellies handle/cigarette case to use [...]
Saw an exhibition of landscapes by a reknowned but reclusive local artist recently. His work in other genres fetches up to £20k and I should suppose is really wonderful but landscapes ….. By coincidence another local artist of some modest talent was there and we spoke – so glad her opinion mirrored mine. I’m lucky [...]
When fine dark evenings come in autumn out come feral youngsters – the ones with feckless parents who can’t be bothered to find out and check now and then where their kids go after 6′ish and bedtime. Boredom leads to casting about for something – anything – so then it’s jump on walls/push them over, rip up stuff/anything, [...]
How language causes strong reactions and how it changes over time. If you’d been invited to view some tits back in the day you would have gone to the stables to look at carriage horses – also called ‘cattle’. If a coachman was queer, he wouldn’t have been strange or homosexual but somewhat drunk. Faggot probably still is a [...]
