One for the ladies(gawd bless em)

Mums and children make the world go round

Carley and Caspar Sarah and Tilley Olympus C8080 Digital

In my mail this morning

One day she'll be doing this hungover

Know the feeling

composition

Early morning

Hilltop lane in Cornwall. 1950s Rolleiflex

Got you...

Olympus OM1 by Olympus OM4.

beach painting

Sketch painting I did a few months ago for grandson's nursery.Artisans oil paint washed on,detailed later when dry. Oil on canvas.

BBC F1 "qualifying"

Ultra trendy camera shots and added background music during filmed interviews. Why do they do it?
Come back ITV,all is forgiven.

LANDSCAPE

Wales............ 35mm Olympus OM4

Brave New World

The anti aircraft guns of London

Halfway through World war two for some reason known only to them my parents left the safety of the countryside and moved to the centre of London about a mile or so from these guns(3.7s) stationed in Hyde Park. There were many more than the two seen in this photo plus a battery of rocket launchers. This was after the blitz but German bombers still visited at night then all hell would be let loose,the noise was frightening and as children we were got up and had to sleep down in the basement not that we did as for an hour or two the deafening roar of the guns was non stop making a solid barrage. But what goes up must come down and it was in the form of shrapnel that ended up in rooftops (most houses had many leaks from broken tiles by the end of the war)or in the streets.Any schoolboy worth his salt had a vast collection of shrapnel for swapping etc so the morning after, we would be out searching the streets for more, all fears forgotten for another day.
Ten years later as part of my national service in the army I was firing these very same world war two guns down in Wales.More like boys toys then and very enjoyable! I found that if you stood close behind the gun when it fired you could see the shell going up,but you got a bloody awful headache after a while for your pains.

The Ferrari racing team.

None so daft (sometimes) as the English

this reminds me.As an art student in the 40s a group of us would stand in the middle of Victoria Station and stare at the roof. within minutes everybody in the station would be looking up.Very tame compared to the goings on now in Liverpool street station.

HELLZAPOPPIN

no apologies for showing this again

Charlie Gee in pensive mood

What did I do wrong God?

Couple of days ago caught a cold from my grandsons collection.Nose running.Nose pouring.Much sneezing. Take to my bed early.Freezing cold under two duvets . Get fan heater pointing at bed.Even colder but also sweating. Migraine added.C.O.P.D. added.Sleep comes in half hour segments.Clock stands still.More Paracetamols. Background Radio 3,4,7,five live,world service,snatches of. Bed all over the place.Dawn. Migraine takes over.Concerned faces. An angel turns up with tissues and Lemsip.The day a blurr. night with more radio and fortified Lemsip(don't try this at home children)hearing less of the radio as some sleep coming back. Clock moving forward half hourly.Sleep. Dawn.Migraine gone.lungs working.nose back to sniffle.Cant see the bedroom floor for tissues.First blissful cup of tea followed by toast and marmalade,life is for living again.
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I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE

KOOP

Refreshments equine............

or have a coke...............

Where are they now?Why did they do it?

thought I might enter this for the best album cover
ever made for the least money.

Viewer viewed

Where is thy sting ?

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

My very first mouse mat

Charlies angels..The mat that fluffed up that funny ball mouse that was the latest thing in technology. I wonder if vintage mouse mats would be worth selling on Ebay? I find if I click on their noses they get bigger! Wonder why the blonde one appears to be wearing no clothes?Perhaps none of them are? Maybe I got it all wrong about Charlies Angels.

Studio teabreak

Not one of Charlie's angels

Tango and mothering sunday

With thanks to "Gotan Project"

Mothering sunday

Tango

Summer past

Blue

Acrylic on board.............1995

Something for the weekend?

Twinkletoe music

This song is as old as me but sounds better.

The thinking man

Ladies page

Happy days

Low sun

The street where I live

Would you believe in the 60s some of these houses were sold for £450.

Last summer

Olympus.SLR E~500

bad jokes 1

No frills flying

N.H.S.

planning

Children by the window

Olympus C8080

As promised

Tokyo street decorations

A reminder that spring is on the way.

Hill and valley~~~~~Wales

Looking down the valley

Looking up the hill

UGH !

My computer got a puncture...up and running again but I'm a little poorer.

Walk in the park

genuine quote from my grandson saturday morning.

" Keep up grandad,you're stressing me out"

Welsh valley

Oil on board,cant remember when..I Love the green of Wales though oddly enough I find green one of the hardest colours to use,it can get so acid.
This painting in here by request as the sidebar ones are too small and don't enlarge. Soon,I will get ON my butt and make a separate gallery to link too.

Special K

In a Welsh valley