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A good read GUmmy.

And now for a trip down memory lane.
In my days at GRACE BROS, I met a good number of famous people in the course of my work. Signing Sessions for Authors, B list celebs opening a new franchise, department or product, all came my way.
Percy Thrower, Geoff Love, great bloke, Larry Grayson, Margaret Powell, Sir Francis Chichester, Pat Phoenix, Dustin Gee & the other one, Rod Hull & Emu, & loads of others whose names I can’t recall. Frederick Forsythe, Lesley Thomas, Dick Frances, loads more.

I recall though, now looking back, the staff & customers were generally more interesting.
I’ll put my thinking cap on & post some on Confessions of a retired shopkeeper.

One of my colleagues had a double life while his mother was alive. Poor man was treated like a girl by his butch mother, dressing him as a girl until he went to school. Whether this helped him in his decision to secretly bat for the other side or his predilection to dress up and listen with fellow music lovers to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or something else but when the mother died he had no need to pretend anymore & went off the rails. He took to wearing gold lame catsuits & the last I heard of him was that he had gone to MILAN to work as an Au Pair to an opera singer.

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Today, I thought about that Canal Boat, and that rural Bus journey, who knows, I may through my own offering into the mix.

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Ah canal now you have pucked at me heartstrings! - as a middle aged teenager I walked the canals with young lassies - in those days they were peaceful and empty and so the charm. alongside the canal we would often find a wooded glade when time stood still and I stood to attention!

rural buses eh by gum laddie - single decked mind!

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Gotta say,gumbud,excellent choice there,re 'Hamish Macbeth'. Robert Carlyle hasn't played a bad part,nor given a bad performance,in anything he's ever done....well....that I've seen,anyway. I must admit,I've never watched,nor wanted to watch,Trainspotting. But,I can add Titanic,A Clockwork Orange,Frozen,Wolf of Wall Street and several other 'must see' films to the list of crap I have no desire to sit through. HOWEVER [saving grace coming up-pay attention at the back] that isn't because I'm antisocial,nor even that my braincell overloads...it's because I have Alexander Kent,Adam Hall,Douglas Adams,Terry Pratchett,Stephen King,Sven Hassel,Dick Francis,C S Forester-and even Spike Milligna,that well known spelling mistake-to capture my imagination...and they are but a few of the authors who adorn my shelves. On the other wall are all the books regarding physics,sciences,astronomy,etc,etc. I reckon,if I try REALLY hard,in another ten years I just MIGHT finally make it into the 1990's. [give or take a decade] Oh - and although I have a Freeview box,I have NO idea how the darned thing works,so it just sits there under the tv,silent and slightly miffed. TV just can not compete with a 12-string acoustic guitar across my knee,idly strummed as I sit playing chess on a laptop,sometimes against an opponent from forn lands,sometimes against the computer.

[shit. I really MUST try this 'socialising' thing that I keep hearing about.....]

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dunna forget the full monty laddie and whilst we are on films I would recommend Ladykillers with Tom Hanks a very humourous take on the deep south usa and the grand budapest hotel again another humourous take on past glories and kingdoms. and just to finish on guitar riffs - my son acquired dvd Legends with EC and accompanying musicians at Montreux -live 1997 - this is the original and raw EC I also have another Montreux with gary moore?? - very ear piercing!!

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Ok,you win,gumbud. The fibromyalgia's playing up today....tad uncomfy...so you can have the victory. These days,my guitars just get used for me to keep my hands mobile,if truth were told. Merely because I point-blank refuse to give in to this pain-not able any longer to 'flash' chords,or incorporate minor 7ths into a bridging sequence. Of late,since my hands became so much less able to cope with mobility and things hands are supposed to do without thought,I find playing lazy blues just lifts me,when the pain really sets in. Today is one of those days. Soddit. it's days like this I understand why people walk off high bridges or under trains. SOD the thought of waking up to this pain for another 20 years. Meh. ANYHOO....to raise the mood somewhat - 'The Ladykillers'. To me,that's an Ealing Comedy,starring Alec Guinness,Cecil Parker & Katie Johnson....I think,though I'm not sure,it was released in 1955.....so at LEAST twenty years before I was born.
[SHUDDUP!]

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That puts me in mind of the late Joe Orton, a man whose real life was madder than his writings.
One of his first plays was "Entertaining Mr SLoane", Films included "Prick up your ears"
It took me a while for the penny to drop.

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Y'see this muppet?

Y'DO???

Oh,dear. He's CERTAIN no-one can see him.

[This is Bugger-Off Cat,giving it 'zzzz' with all his might]

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he hasn't moved for 4 hrs!!

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No need for him to move,gumbud,he's safe there-he knows nobody can see him....