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space oddity
‘but but it’s not bowie, ooh but but but it is space’
a few years later re-share for this ‘oddity’, i am left but with the curious reflection… theres a moustache in space! a moustache just floating forever, somewhere serenely in the void!
given a choice which karaoke song should be sang in zero-g? i’d probably go with another very obvious tash… mr fahrenheit, don’t s-t-o-p me now! just coz i loved leaping round the bedroom hollering it back in 80
… prompted by listening to the astronaut chris hadfields autobio which is still on bbc iPlayer radio last night… hadfield not whigfield
all astronauts are by the nature of the job a little dull (with the exception natch of cheerfully doolally buzz aldrin)
driven, meticulous and able to thrive in the weird quasi-militiarised world of astronutting… but chris came across as fundamentally canadian, warm and decent
and he sang bowie in space!! astonishing!
sister corita
singing and screenprinting nun, sister corita kent dentistry!
aaaah – me exhibiting astonishing compliance on our trip to ditchling museum
selfie aside really enjoyed her pioneering screenprints, lush vibrant colours, intriguing caligraphy and powerful messages
plus we got to see Zoe ball crossing the road… allegedly with a pig
‘your name is a golden bell hung in my heart i would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name’
Rich P: A wicker pig.
wicked pigment of your imagination?
apple day
about to drop a large apple on the head of a small woman! …. whilst rocking: sainsburys bag sur tete, barbour jacket, pink swim shorts, green wellies combo… a damp, but eventually sunny apple day!
just like wot Rembrandt would have done… always loved this pic… in kenwood
abi: It was a great look! And all came good in the end, the sun can’t actually resist Apple day!
ha, what with soup, pie, juice and cider reckon i personally guzzled an entire orchards, nay an avalons worth o’apples, good to briefly see you guys x
jess: ❤️❤️❤️😂😂😂
I LOVE YOU xxx
rosie: You look absolutely glorious! I Love your style: )
ah yes dapper dressing midst the damp! hope all be lovely down devon way xx
julia: fwoooar!!!! look at them legs!!!
2nd esher
the mighty 2nd Esher! cubs football, the year we swept all before us, but still somehow contrived to lose the final on penalties. heartbreaking
we beat ajax something like 13 – 3, they were sea cubs, which helped, and even a lumpen defender like me managed to score a hat trick… tho that might be a cheerfully skewed recollection!
i can still name all but 2 of the team… must be 76? 77? britain, a nation in the grip of exuberant punk frenzy, but bruv and i would spend saturday mornings watching hammy the hamster and kicking a ball about the rec
ok… no danger of profoundity here… prevaricating, its soggy out there and i’m off to help at apple day… could be a galloshers squelch
happy equinox one and all xx
ali: A nice time in life
booting a ball in break time at primary school was great fun too! x
Rich P: So much hair. And what a strip.
ah so many impressive barnet bonces! at least you’ve retained a few follicles on yours… even at the time i felt the kit was a peculiar melange of colours and design… and i didn’t even become a graphic (or fashion!) designer xx
mushrooms
mongst mushrooms and flaming crosses… a somewhat autumnal tinged day of sussex roaming
once i’d moved beyond my selfie obsesh enjoyed just peacefully hanging out in the silver birch glade with those fairy toadstools… praise for maries far vaster fungii knowledge… mayfield bonfire was chips beer hoopla, natter and groovy fireworks… glad i didn’t brave the fairground whirlygig ride tho!
charlotte: Omg ….very hallucinogenic all this !! xx
Indeed very Alice through the looking glass caterpillar-esque! xx
claire: Fab photo! xx
karma
karma karma karma chameleon!
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our model wears… what? a pink star shell hawaiian shirt, rummaged from a flea market somewhere in greenwich village
a purple batwing concoction that flaps carried all the way home from kathmandu
the hat tho must be my brothers? not the sort of tifter that would ever have graced my bonce
christmas 89? oaklawn, art nouveau chaise longue, arabic brass lamp stuck over with marbles
peak gadabout for me… just back from portugal? and 2 months in a hostel in Barcelonas Plaza Real
the berlin wall is toppling… i’ll be in prague, via sheff, within the year
the past… when it’s this lurid foolish youthful can be flambuoyant beguiling
right chauffeurs garb on, rush hour trundle off to cart sis to heathrow… yes m’lady!
*tifter… tit for tat hat
may: wheres the orange cape???
Ha! Exeter uni orange curtain capers, smooching wiv jk! Xx
ant: from Rentaghost???
Claypole? I was always rather good at teleporting by holding me nose x
Rich P: I think you still owe me for the purple batwing concoction.
It was a thing of beauty! Much missed! Did ya really lug it all the way home on the trans sib? Xx
Rich P: Kept me warm during those chilly Siberian nights… x
luci: Looking fabulous! x
Yoof in gorgeous rainment x
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puddle
dank… someone has absconded with summer… and despite it being but august we have segued into the season of sogginess, these days of puddle love
the cycle path thronged with snails, i weave in and out of the occasionally unlucky molluscs… them bushes burdened with somewhat moist blackberries
tho my lurid-escent tangerine jacket looks waterproof, it has impressive sponge like properties, and the bike helmet somewhat mushroom toad super mario
of course i’ve been away doing thousands of wonderful things, but nary a picture or a tale! has to wait till i’m home and beginning to succumb to the dullness to post
dank was my word from the festie, a deeply wonderful heart warming experience, indeed, but pushing the car out of the mud on sunday night was very mid 80’s glasto!
gravity is a myth, the earth sucks
anyway struggles and difficulties around for many folk i know at the mo… is it ever thus?… hard to feel the love sometimes… courage and fortitude, love is always there
witter done! look pictures!
julia: Best… photo…ever!!
thanks! i thought it was a good un too… seaford, rain and me are deeply photogenic… you home from meanderings yet? xx
Lou: I love your posts Rich 💜
thanks love, been meaning to message ya, side tracked by the bicyclette-ing and general hurly burly, later xxxxxx
oh and somehow this one cropped up on newsfeed… ha, me posing like a good un..
Lou: lol the only evidence we were there, I enjoyed out chai/golden milk catch up – more of this!
Kathy: Love the puddle pic! Yes, autumn too soon x
kathy! gotta love a good puddle stomp.. always astonished your on here… high time we rendezvoused! xxx