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Most of my family.One still to come.must have been 38 or 39,the two older boys just back from Austria on a holiday swap,GeraldGee is bottom left ,.Sister Barbara showing a leg as she did for many years on becoming a ballet dancer.The rest of the brood went into films and fame and fortune....
I became a dispatch rider and enjoyed myself
slightly wickedly

Passion Thwarted...

STORM

Doodle on a Wacom tablet

Welsh hill cottage

Oils on canvas 

James Abbot McNeill Whistler

Valley

Oils........1980

An Essex landscape

                The Strood channel at low tide with Ray Island on the horizon..photo from "Mersea Wildlife"

Best YouTube ever.....

More Fairground

                                                                            Acrylic on wooden panel

State of the nation

Fairground painting

Mixed media.....yesterday.

Mighty Oaks.........WALES

Evening light.......WALES

Best Bike.........YAMAHA XT500

Of all the bikes I've owned this one gave me the most fun...Not fast.Not off road stuff for but poodling along country lanes and exploring  the west country. Nice 500cc single chuffing along in a friendly way.I sold it for thr SR road bike version but that was a mistake,not half the fun.

SPEED SUNDAY

Velocette Clubman on test.(I had one of these in halcyon days)

1920s Speedway poster drawn by my father.

From an early "Green un" (motorcycle magazine)

Moorings on the Pyefleet Channel 1948

        Playground of our youth....         Work by my brother Colin Grimes from memory.

PSYCHIC'S PAGE.

50s Fashion

trouble was seemingly cast iron corsets under if I remember right.

BLOGS.BLOGS.BLOGS.BLOGS.....

SCRAPBOOK 19.........My heroic Uncles

Who,with the exception of the youngest all volunteered to fight in World War One.Two of them never made it back.

London street scene

 An old coloured ink sketch of London  night scenes, typical of the stuff I used to do in the late 40s in my early teens.   Exhibited they surprisingly  sold rather well  and helped pave the way into art school and all that jazz.

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London Embankment  1950s................Rolleiflex 4x4

BLESS................

House ,three trees and the sea.

                                  Oil on board..............this morning.

Got there at last....!

           This mornings occupation,overpainting an old oil on board.Have had several goes at this and have now decided to give it a rest and move on and hang it somewhere.
                                                                                                           Oil on board 24"x18"  

And you thought you'd seen it all?

Dont do this at home.

In your garden.

Squatters

MARC CHAGALL

Mishap on the Pyefleet.....Squall

                                                                 Sink or swim.............memories

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                                              London Zoo ...mid sixties..     rolleiflex 4x4 medium format

SWEETER THAN SWEET...

Play it again Sam....

Learning curve

Studio portrait 1980s

Mamiya seven.....Medium format

The dew pond

                                             Oil on board...finished on Wacom tablet

TV

Two up...Two down.

                                         Oil on board.......... recent

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The scooter days 1950s

 .Getting away from it all was a weekend nr Puddletown Dorset.In those days a long trip from London down empty twisty country roads and not a motorway in sight.A dream cottage in dream countryside....Bliss.

Good morning

 Bit of a gem this one....                 

GOOD HEAVENS.....

MUSIC MEMORIES 3

This one still going strong well into the 50s.One was obliged to learn the words.The tune stuck in the mind....happy days till I was called up for National service.

PAYPAL?

Diego Sierro

Music by Queen.

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                    Scooter days....Stop by for a drink on the road to Dorset.

MUSIC MEMORIES 2 ..1950s~60s

Never a good party without this being played...

Trees

                                                              Wiltshire landscape.......oils