Japanese Blues in London

A busker gathers a crowd as he gives it some elbow playing what I’d like to think of as Japanese Blues by the Thames in London.

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Laughing Squid presents a Ken Burn’s like documentary on the horrendous SF Coffee Wars that ravaged the city’s hipster douches. Reminded me a little of Surry Hills in Sydney.

Coffee Wars

Norman Wisdom

Norman cheered me up on Sunday afternoons when my single-mum and my brothers had been to see my stroked, hospitalised dad. An idiot who knew he was a star but liked the people he was starring for. He stopped entertaining me when I got grown up.

Looking at this picture of him, I realise that those Sunday afternoons of his open-face slapstick made him as much of a hero to me as my dad, David Bowie and all the rest of my ‘rock me to sleep’ heroes were.

New Towns - a dream that died

An ideal that, from my experience gave us Canberra via Milton Keynes.

One of those dreamy but backboned films from when people came home from wars and wanted to make the most of what was left after the bombing.