One of the lowlife characters from the excellent "Fourteen Letters" that I am reading at the moment. It starts off like a full-on train, then I thought it was going to get boring, having a Victorian timeframe setting, but no, it just threw a lot of connected threads into the pot, and every so often, you get those "Aaahhh" moments. I will definitely see this one through to the end.
This is now my highest posting month, and I don't think I will do it again once I've hit #August50, as you can't always think of something to write about, although in this amazing world, there should always be something that you can put down a few words about, although you do sometimes hit a mental brick wall.
We're in the middle of the Bank Holiday, and I have some very mundane shopping today and also a few basic chores to do, but the main thing is I am getting some rest while still exercising my mental faculties.
6Music is doing a feature on Trojan Records to celebrate its 50th anniversary here. The real conundrum about sixties ska, which was the music of Jamaican and Windrush Immigrants is that it was also the music taken up by racist skinheads, which was a real mystery, although it was very working-class / classless music, so maybe that was the attraction. It was also prevalent on fairgrounds as well, as I remember from my short time working on one.
So maybe we will go for Symarip's "Skinhead Moonstomp", one of the many songs on my huge Trojan Box Set collection. I don't know if you know but Slade (as Ambrose Slade and early on) were a skinhead band so I enclose a picture, with Mr Holder looking very threatening on the right.
Enjoy your Sunday, people.
This is now my highest posting month, and I don't think I will do it again once I've hit #August50, as you can't always think of something to write about, although in this amazing world, there should always be something that you can put down a few words about, although you do sometimes hit a mental brick wall.
We're in the middle of the Bank Holiday, and I have some very mundane shopping today and also a few basic chores to do, but the main thing is I am getting some rest while still exercising my mental faculties.
6Music is doing a feature on Trojan Records to celebrate its 50th anniversary here. The real conundrum about sixties ska, which was the music of Jamaican and Windrush Immigrants is that it was also the music taken up by racist skinheads, which was a real mystery, although it was very working-class / classless music, so maybe that was the attraction. It was also prevalent on fairgrounds as well, as I remember from my short time working on one.
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| Slade Looking Hard |
So maybe we will go for Symarip's "Skinhead Moonstomp", one of the many songs on my huge Trojan Box Set collection. I don't know if you know but Slade (as Ambrose Slade and early on) were a skinhead band so I enclose a picture, with Mr Holder looking very threatening on the right.
Enjoy your Sunday, people.
