Tuesday 30 July 2013
Sunday 28 July 2013
Friday 26 July 2013
the great picnic...
Kiln Cottage | Diptford | Devon | TQ9
Where evacuees spent time during the Second World War - resonant with the start of a piece about war: a beautiful week of reading, writing, reminiscing, sleeping and Woody Allen...
Sunday 21 July 2013
'the great warrior' begins...
THE CHARACTERS
A British Soldier - World War I
A German Soldier - World War II
A Soldier - The War in Afghanistan
The Nurse
The Mother
The Girlfriend
The Child
Saturday 20 July 2013
cartoon strip...
- 1930's
- cartoon
- orphanage
- the white house
- mansion
- capitalism
- musical
- 86 years publication
- action adventure
- adoption
- a radio show
- "Little Orphant Annie"
- by James Whitromb Riley
- 1885
- Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay,
- An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,
- An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep,
- An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an'-keep;
- An' all us other children, when the supper-things is done,
- We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun
- A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about,
- An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you
- Ef you
- Don't
- Watch
- Out!
- Wunst they wuz a little boy wouldn't say his prayers,--
- An' when he went to bed at night, away up-stairs,
- His Mammy heerd him holler, an' his Daddy heerd him bawl,
- An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wuzn't there at all!
- An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an' cubby-hole, an' press,
- An' seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an' ever'-wheres, I guess;
- But all they ever found wuz thist his pants an' roundabout:--
- An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you
- Ef you
- Don't
- Watch
- Out!
- An' one time a little girl 'ud allus laugh an' grin,
- An' make fun of ever' one, an' all her blood-an'-kin;
- An' wunst, when they was "company," an' ole folks wuz there,
- She mocked 'em an' shocked 'em, an' said she didn't care!
- An' thist as she kicked her heels, an' turn't to run an' hide,
- They wuz two great big Black Things a-standin' by her side,
- An' they snatched her through the ceilin' 'fore she knowed what she's about!
- An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you
- Ef you
- Don't
- Watch
- Out!
- An' little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze is blue,
- An' the lamp-wick sputters, an' the wind goes woo-oo!
- An' you hear the crickets quit, an' the moon is gray,
- An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew is all squenched away,--
- You better mind yer parunts, an' yer teachurs fond an' dear,
- An' churish them 'at loves you, an' dry the orphant's tear,
- An' he'p the pore an' needy ones 'at clusters all about,
- Er the Gobble-uns 'll git you
- Ef you
- Don't
- Watch
- Out!
Friday 19 July 2013
bantham beach and bigbury island
1974 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1983 | 1993 | 2000 | 2013
8 yrs | 9 yrs | 10 yrs | 11 yrs | 12 yrs | 16 yrs | 27 yrs | 34 yrs | 47!
How is it that time can have stood still for 39 years?
There was just a little bit more natural flotsam and jetsam...
But the sand dunes were there - the same.
And the sand banks materialised with the tides.
There were kids running and jumping in the deep and fast-flowing Avon - as we used to: the excitement and fear!
There were more rocks - it seemed.
The sand was as fine as remembered.
There were barb-b-q's but no sandwiches and apple pies!
There were more wet-suits.
Men carried the ice- boxes: the kids the buckets and spades (in their wet-suits).
I don't remember so many swooping seagulls but I suppose the burgers were tempting...
Then to Dartington, Totnes, Parkland et al.
Monday 1 July 2013
take a look at my tan...
THE GINGERBREAD MAN
by David Wood
The Wilde Theatre
South Hill Park Arts Centre
December 1991
Aged 25: I lost a stone in weight in that costume!
Review: 'Handsome Hunk of Biscuit' - Bracknell News
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