Karen has been given a framed print from her former Boss, who has just retired.
It is rather interesting. There is an Artist called Louise Robinson on the Interweb who may have originated this. It looks to be like a woodblock (or possibly linoleum) print and I imagine the 5/30 means it is a limited edition. Mind you, I received an F grade in Art “O” Level…
Today, the Mail on Sunday gave away a David Bowie compilation, the choices being by the man himself. They are rather eclectic, I only recognised two of them.
I missed the whole Bowie thing in my teens other than his singles as I was into contemporary stuff (Floyd, ELP, Genesis, 10CC, Supertramp etc.) and I don’t recall him playing Newcastle City Hall during my time there. I subsequently developed a huge liking for Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust because we had the Albums at our Hall of Residence and I used to play them loud whilst washing the floor in the Cellar Bar on Sunday afternoons.
The paper made a big thing about Life on Mars? being the full version so I stuck it in the car player for a listen on the way back from ASDA. I have to say that if that is the long version, I’ve never heard the short version, to me it always ends with the telephone ringing and “Bowie here” if you turn it up really loud. It was interesting to find out that the haunting piano was by Rick Wakeman and Wikipedia gives a bit more background to this song which still sounds incredibly fresh to me 35 years after it was released.
We are off to see “Hello Dolly” tonight, we seem to have a lot of shows to go to at the moment. (We saw “Aspects of Love” last week.)
David is convinced it is going to be a really short show. He describes it thus…
House lights fade down.
Curtain rises, Dolly enters stage left.
Someone else enters stage right, says Hello to Dolly.
Curtain falls, applause.
Cast take two curtain calls, rush forward to take a third, curtain stays down, lights come up, we all leave.
That bit about the cast rushing forward to take the final call, he has seen it done that way twice recently (South Pacific and Aspects) so he is expecting it.
Seeing as how Dolly is a former mouthy landlady at a very well known Pub, I think it unlikely that she won’t have a speaking part…
Grandma Grey rang up a few weeks ago, rather excited by some surprising developments. She lives in sheltered housing in Ealing, a fairly modern building ran by a charity. Most of the residents are reasonably able bodied but there is a part time warden and a 24 hour panic alarm system.
Anyway, she lives on the 2nd floor in a corner flat and whilst she doesn’t have a balcony as such, there is a door which can be opened onto a meshed handrail with just enough room for a window box. There are a lot of tall trees nearby and a colony of squirrels are regularly seen leaping from tree to tree. They occasionally leap onto her balcony in order to scavenge the flowers and she has a sort of scarecrow to discourage them, a plastic Snoopy the dog toy complete with Woodstock on Snoopy’s hat. (It is a discarded happy meal toy).
Back to the story, a few weeks ago two Robins started to build a nest next to the flowerbox. Then she spotted eggs in the nest and rang me up to have a look on the Interweb to find what the gestation period was. (Either 14 days or 40 days, depending where you look). Then we got the call that they had started hatching and the Robins were feeding them. It has become a fascinating side-show to rival the Telly and she spends hours just watching them. She tried to take a photo but the window is now extremely grubby and she daren’t open the door to clean it as the nest will collapse. (She would also probably get attacked, the parents get very uppity whenever she goes near the window). To celebrate the event, she has made a drawing for David which can be seen below.
Now she is waiting for the children to flee the nest so that she can clean her window again.
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