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Filey Brigg and the view from RobinHood’s Bay
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Chicken and duck up close
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Another bus adventure
I’m on the bus, it’s full and I’m standing half way down the aisle. People get off and I relocate to just behind the driver’s cab. The bus driver says something.
‘You’re very well spoken’, he says.
‘How do you know that?’ I say, ‘I’ve never spoken to you’.
‘You were very polite when you asked the lady in the queue whether the bus went to Scalby; you said “please” and “thank you”. You must have been a company director, or somebody important’.
‘No’ I said, ‘I worked in IT’.
There then follows a 5 minute conversation interrupted only by people getting on and off the bus at each of the bus stops.
‘What did you do in IT’, ‘Which languages did you use?’; ‘Did you use COBOL?’. Interspersed among his questions were details of his IT background, though the only thing I could really make sense of were references to ‘Cisco’ (an IT company).
Eventually it’s my stop. We exchange pleasantries. I exit the bus. Is this bizarre or just another bus micro-adventure?
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Scarborough buildings
Dumped in a different part of Scarborough, I came across all these buildings I either hadn’t seen before or I was seeing from a different perspective.
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Scalby walk near Scarborough, 9.5 miles
A gentle 10 mile walk along tracks and paths was topped by a pleasant hour with a sandwich and pint at the Three Jolly Sailors at Burniston.
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HOW many legs do sheep have?
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Matlock, Derbyshire
Matlock is a charming town in Derbyshire, with a splendid park right in the centre and Matlock Town football club next to the park. The park was a hive of activity when I was there; a boating lake, putting green, crown green bowls and skateboard ramps were all in use despite the overcast, chilly day.There is an excellent Oxfam bookshop where I bought 4 second-hand books including, for a very modest £4, a very heavy (in weight) hardback called Codes and Ciphers!
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Paint factories – are they bad for your health?
We lived in a prefab next door to this paint factory for much of our childhood. Hence the breathing problems we experienced?
I can remember having ‘sun ray treatment’, with my sisters I think. There are images of this to be found on google using this search string.
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The Plaza Cinema, Southampton (part 2)
The following extract from the Boyhood Memories of George Henry Allen brings back fond memories of going to the pictures as a boy. My father was the projectionist at the Plaza and also played the organ. I used to go to the pictures on Saturday morning, and my favourite was Rocket Man.
“I would have been about twelve or thirteen when we started going to the Plaza cinema which was in Northam, for the Sunday movies. A group of us went, Bill Lee (Bones), Brian Moody (Chas) Pete Bartlett, Ted Clinton (Clinkers) and Billy Austen. It was a great old cinema, the only one in Southampton that had double seats in the back row called love seats. There was a huge organ in the pits in front of the screen and a guy played all the popular music before the films started. There were always a lot of cartoons first and the song that everyone sang along with, The “ABC” song. The words were up on the screen and a white ball bounced along the words to keep everyone in tune. These are the words to the “ABC” song which I still remember to this day:We are the boys and girls
Well known as minors of the ABC,
And every Saturday all line up to see the film we like
And shout along with glee.
We love to laugh and have a sing song
Such a happy crowd are we.
We’re all pals together
We’re minors of the ABCWe saw films like Hopalong Cassidy, Flash Gordon and Tarzan.”
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Happy Birthday….
My son’s in Germany,my daughter’s in America,my wife’s up North.It’s my birthday.
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