ALL HIS OWN WORK

An old WW2 cartoon drawn by my father Leslie Grimes for the London evening star.
It's seemed to have got topical again or are we always in a war?

Begin the day as you mean to go on

Cartoon to make myself unpopular with about half the population

RECESSION

Powerful drawing by Jacob Burck on the American depression of the thirties.
Maybe an up to date caption would be "JOBS,NOT BONUSES"

Amedeo Modigliani

Music~~~~Pasquale Catalano

BROWNS PLACE

SETTING OUT

MOTHER AND CHILD

digital C-8080 Olympus Wide Zoom

MUSIC CENTRE

Why do the old fashioned LP seem to give so much more satisfaction than CDs? Is it the size and the art work covers? the care one needs to put it on the turntable including checking the stylus for fluff?Or maybe even the sound?
Afraid most of mine in bad condition,have been to too many parties and not cleaned enough but those clicks have become part of the music and full of memories.
CDs seem without soul in comparison. As for those new fangled players that are worn round the neck with wires to the ears and a thousand tunes inside?
I have a vast collection of 78s and a wind up gramophone but that's another story.

Unusual Ladies problems

ELEGANCE

Erte.

BLOGGERING

BLOG IN A SPOT

Tired joke

Guess I'm in trouble with this one.

NOT FOR THE LADIES

F1 this weekend,a chance for the ladies to do some ironing or take the dog walkies.
I usually see the first half but sleep through the second.
Was a time when motor racing showed true grit.. as here, Brooklands,I was taken there as a child but alas remember very little go full screen

PS rather odd drawing above.All the cars appear to be floating about 8 inches above the road.

REMBRANDT 1606~1669

Catch those early etchings

OPEN ENDED

The matron swore by this stuff when I was at my prep school.

THEM NEXT DOOR

1930

Tamara Lempicka 1898~1980

MARTHA AND WILLIAM

The downfall of many a fine gentleman

Wiltshire hills

Wet and windy Wiltshire~~~~~~Wacom tablet, ten minutes ago.

Eri

Studio ~ 35mm film Olympus OM4. Scanned to computer image.

HIGH TIDE

Looking across to West Mersea from the Strood causeway,
traffic comes to a standstill at high water.
photo~ Mersea Pearl

RAY ISLAND

Lugsail dinghy on Strood channel

Todays photo~~~by Mersea Pearl http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/articles/2009/01/30/nature_trail_ray_island_feature.shtml

PONDS VANISHING CREAM FAILURE

When I were but five or six my family went out for a Sunday walk but I elected not to go.
Killing time I explored my mothers dressing table and found a bottle of Ponds vanishing cream.
Having heard the Invisible Man serial on our radiogram I liberally smeared it on all visible parts then when I heard the family approaching went and stood in the hallway to test it out.
Was most disappointed when they said "Hello Goggy"(my family nickname)and walked straight past me.

Mersea Island Essex 1941

A British Pathe film about Mersea Island on the Essex coast during WW2. James Wentworth Day was a frequent visitor to our house on the marshes there. It was a beautiful part of England then,completely unspoilt and I count myself very lucky to have spent my boyhood sailing boats and riding bicycles round the countryside.
Oddly enough James Wentworth Day hated what the government agricultural people were doing to the local farmers but this film doesn't show it.
This film is laughably old English but just look at the background! (go full screen)

MY FRIEND MEI

Growing by the minute. Kumiko says she will be coming over next September for a visit.Cant wait!

HANDYMAN

LITTLE BO PEEP

Has lost her sheep,
but at least she wont be catching E coli 157

SUNDAY SUPLEMENT

Risque but nice

Back in time with the Boswell Sisters

~~~~BE HEALTHY AND HEARTY~~~~

SAS

Rolleiflex 1960s computer imaged

THE ARTS

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Hunters in the snow

Pieter Bruegel the elder. 1525~69

FASHIONS PAST

Blog of the week.

http://hospitalnotes.blogspot.com/

Health tip for gentleladies

TWITTERING THE NIGHT AWAY

Blossom Dearie

To Yukie,Eri,Masako,Hina,Mika,Yumiko,Kumiko,Mei,Urara. Come again soon.

Advertising art

Good on drawing bicycles,bad on faces.

Yesterdays art student

Before the Turner Prize

VENUTI~LANG~ROLLINI~HANSHAW

=MUSIC

HAIR TODAY,GONE TOMORROW

35mm film.Olympus OM4

MOTORCYCLING

So much more fun without helmets or roads.

SUMMERS END

Olympus SLR E~500 Digital

PHOTOFILE

Sheerwater..Longleat Estate. Olympus C-8080

SUNDAY CORN

I have "DAISY" withdrawal symptoms.......so.

Not sure if it's Max Raabe or all those nice ladies who look as if they've all come out of the drawing room.

STUDIO

work still in progress,acrylic with too much detail to wade through!

West Mersea Harbour

Photo by Mersea Pearl

The Strood

Photo by Mersea Pearl

Doing the"E" rounds

THIS OUGHT TO MAKE ALL GRANDPAS FEEL WARM & FUZZY... A six year old goes to the hospital with her grandmother to visit her Grandpa. When they get to the hospital, she runs ahead of her Grandma and bursts into her Grandpa's room... "Grandpa, Grandpa," she says excitedly, "As soon as Grandma comes into the room, make a noise like a frog!" "What?" said her Grandpa. "Make a noise like a frog - because Grandma said that as soon as you croak, we're all going to Disneyland !!!"

PHOTOGRAPHY

A touch of the sixties

We all sang this one.

TOYS TO DIE FOR

1930 Tin Racing car

Clockwork gunboat and crew

Motorcycle and sidecar

antique tin fort and soldiers,made in Germany.