16-02-2018, 01:52 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
“I will return when the air has cleared”
Don’t blame you Solo, I’ll have to see Azz about getting an extractor fan in.
A grand bit of reading there folks, warms the cockles of me heart to see yis all in good form.
All I can say about opera RJ is that it takes a clever man to figure out what’s happening on the stage, good for you and delighted you enjoy it. I’m more of a murder mystery/ comedy man when I go to the plays here in Dublin.
As an apprentice many years ago I worked for a West Indian bloke called Clarence Hudson, previous to that the only other Clarence I knew was the cross eyed lion on TV. Clarence was one of the top diamond mounters in these isles, he used to have “By appointment only” and “Late of Hatton Garden” on his brass plate outside his workshop and only the creme de la creme could afford his work.
When we practiced making ring mounts in silver we would take it in to Clarence and hand it over for inspection then wait for the sermon on the mount, as we called it, but he was an excellent teacher and pointed out where you went wrong and how to avoid going wrong again.
Anyway Clarence loved the films, especially westerns, and would regularly give me half a dollar to go and see a film he thought he might like to see himself when he was free, I was to watch every frame and come back and report it all to him in his office, it was a shilling into the cinema (Only the best seats I was to sit in, usually half a crown seats but a shilling to under 16’s) and the other one and six was to spend at my own discretion, popcorn and smokes usually. More times than not he would go to see the film himself that night with his beautiful wife Sonia.
I had to hold in the laughing at the way he used to say ‘Film’, he would say “Well tell me now little Timmy, was the Flem any good?”
He eventually ended up living in Paris where I heard he died some years ago at the ripe old age of 92, a very unforgettable and kind gentleman he was too.