Thursday, August 27, 2009

thic goddyss of smalle thyngs hath brungen home whyte flewers


"rosebud"


















the salt air at brighton rusted the original buzz bike





eventually, the front wheel collapsed and, as soon as i'd replaced it, the handle bars snapped off




i'd been using it every day for a year or two while i was collecting materials for the magic beach









Tuesday, August 25, 2009

'ats wot changed 'istory

























i had a hat like this in 1981-82 ... it had an already thirty-something-year-old brass and enamel badge with the tiny two-tier slogan: BUTLIN'S/SECOND WEEK ... it went AWOL during a punch-up in the Dug-Out, a rarther grimy club that i loved in Bristol ... so, wherever you are, whoever you are ... GIVE IT BACK !


... and just in case Butlin's isn't part of your ancestral mindscape ...


Monday, August 24, 2009

a well-intentioned fairy with an outsized heart of gold ...

... generously sent some birthday cash ... but because she has forsworn the internet, she'll never know that i've wasted it on prosecco and new reading glasses