geraldgee

Friday, 13 March 2009

ARTS

You may have seen this one before in which case very sorry but I was a trifle ill yesterday and did no computerising.

Thursday, 12 March 2009

Chore tips for gentlemen...the easy way

Simple instructions for cleaning the glass on woodburning stoves when ordered to do so.
~1~ Root around in the garage for that sponge you used to clean the car with when it was newish.
~2~Wet the sponge in the kitchen(thats the room at the back)also grab a roll of kitchen paper.
~3~Dip the wet sponge in the ash (cold)inside the stove
~4~ wipe the glass with the ashy sponge till it smears.
~5~ Clean the muck off with kitchen roll paper the glass will quickly sparkle.
~6~However it is advisable to spread some wet ash on your face and hands,walk with stooped shoulders,sigh a lot and spend some time in the recovering position on the sofa.

MAX RAABE

Does in an old favourite

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Top Gear

ALL INSIDE HIS COMPUTER

This is a computer generated image (CGI)done by another of my brothers, Bruce Grimes,Dont ask me how it's done,all magic as far as I am concerned,but it works well enough as you can see.

All his own work.

this is a cartoon drawn by my father Leslie Grimes for the London Evening Star in a series called "ALL MY OWN WORK"during world war two. To explain the joke a little,during the war all clothes and furniture etc had to be austerity by law...hence.
This original and others were spotted hanging on the wall of the Ivy Restaurant and many thanks for the photos taken by the spotter.

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

ROMANCE

Photographs

sepia

Jubilee

Evening light

35mm... Olympus OM4 camera

fashions

POLITICS

More Max Raabe

max Raabe's diction reminds me of English film actors in the fifties playing the part of German officers in all those war films prevalent at the time.

" Vee haf vays off making you tawk"

Cookery tips for the discerning gentleman 3

If you find cooking rice difficult and the result not wholly pleasing,find some Japanese girls to show you the correct way. Some overseas travel may be necessary.I was lucky,some arrived on my doorstep.

Monday, 9 March 2009

The Pyefleet marshes

Painting and drawing by my brother Colin Grimes of the marshes that surrounded our house in Essex during the late 40s. It was a place of great solitude then,not a power boat within sight or earshot and even the road crossing the creeks to nearby Mersea Island was usually empty,so much so that we sometimes sailed a homemade land yacht on it.totally magic and never forgotten except for the odd person who didn't like mud...(never understood that)