MAN MISSION

Another way Granny

See "Granny on the web" here.

THE LION...in reflective mood

Drawn by my friend Mei Hirayama.

Entered for Turner Prize.

Maurice Denis

Looking through my blog list this morning I came across a Bry Antics poem on the works of Maurice Denis. I dont know how it's come about but I've never come across his work before and know nothing about him.

Anyway a quick trip here and a good amount of Google will bring me up to speed but I still can't understand after all these years how I've missed such an important artist. Too much chasing girls when I was at art school I suppose.

READING MOTHER

PROS AND CONS

Was a time when one could dance and have a conversation at the same time.

HARDY'S WESSEX

DESKTOP

This is my current Desktop,my grandson Charlie on holiday.

Today's challenge...... Show us "YOUR CURRENT DESKTOP."

GERALDGEE'S PAD

Have just typed my address into google images in an idle moment and this came up! I remember now some people doing a survey and telling me they could give an age by looking at the joinery work on the beams. Looks a bit rough in this photo(since smartened up) taken 20 or 30 years ago. Was originally a coaching inn and had fallen into disuse and I was able to buy it for £1.000 mid sixties ! and spent the next year doing it up. Bit of a tardis,looks quite small from the road but rambles into the distance once you're inside....has eight bedrooms Oh and a ghost,anyone want to stay?

TOP GEAR

A london street scene

Pen and ink on layout paper.
did a lot of these when I was a teenager pre art school. They actually sold very well mainly to theatrical people and were exhibited in theatre foyers and later in the Rowley Galleries.
I stopped doing them when I entered Art school as they were rather lightweight and not considered serious painting.
I later felt a bit guilty about selling them when I later discovered coloured inks fade very fast!

Birthday girl

Original photo from Kumiko Hirayama

10 DOWNING STREET

The scooter days

During the early sixties we had the weekend use of this cottage in Dorset,quite a few hours drive from London by scooter, an adventure in those days as main roads were few and far between and it was mile after mile of winding lanes. Seems a different world now with motorways and traffic jams.
England is still the same size but seemed so much larger then,every town looked different but in the fifties and sixties the rot was just starting as the councils were gutting out the old buildings and building the new ghastly town shopping centres all looking exactly the same.
This sort of cottage was lived in by the local villagers.Well out of their reach now.

Geraldgee on diets

Stick to fruit....its healthy
Photo from Sophie Jones

SAFE JOURNEY

MOTORING MATTERS

Modern motors sadly lack running boards

Just think how nice it would be if in motorway jams one could get out and sit in the sunshine and maybe partake in some light refreshments(non alcoholic),or if the children get noisy during long journeys you could let them play outside.Why were these useful accessories dropped?

HOW TO BRING UP BABIES

HOW TO MAKE HEARTS

Through the lens

More Modigliani

Emailed from Japan

Mei sees the light.

LET DOWN

THE WINDOW

Photo composition 35mm Olympus OM4

The weigh to perdition

ALL IS NOT LOST....

Chorus girls

As a young man I once painted stage scenery for a living.It was a happy period in my life,the perks of the job was the pantomime season when backstage would be full of beautiful and lively chorus girls in tights and skimpy costumes hence I lived in a trance and was always in love,only too happy to pop across the road to buy their sandwiches or do up the zippers they couldnt reach.
There was a great atmosphere working backstage mainly due to the stage crew and the chorus girls. I thought most of the principle actors and actresses apart from the older character ones, a load of vain self centered twits but the atmosphere in a theatre was never to be forgotten especially due to those brilliant pretty chorus girls.

Prayer for today

THE ARTS AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

Boswell sisters

Great backing from the Dorsey brothers here.

Corn of the day

ROMANCE

Introducing PLAY~DOH to Charlie

But how do you get it out of carpets?

Beauty and style

Suntan

The Continental...

beautification

ADVENTURES ON THE OPEN ROAD

Geraldgee before the rot....Photobox

With younger brother in swanky pram and Nanny
who wasn't my real Nanny who was a stern Scottish
lady who wore a blue uniform and nurses hat.
The pram wheels were later used for a trolley,the
temporary nanny went off to get married and I partly
grew up.

NON CONTROVERSIAL CARTOON

Postscript Nov 5

Never underestimate the power of a woman November 5

Email from Japan

My friend Mei who is growing more beautiful by the minute.

In progress

Still working on my beach painting

LOUISE

Early 1960s doodle sketch.

CAREERS

Email photo from Japan

Masako's orchestra in descent.
photo by Masako's friend!

NOVEMBER 5

FROM THE OTHER SIDE

EMAIL PHOTOS FROM JAPAN

Yukie and friend Photo by Yukie

Naena Falls and Maron, Photo by Mika

SERIOUS STUFF

Filmed with feeling.

The mind boggles

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