A lot of my school friends lived in Beighton so ended up there quite a lot. Good memories of going to the pictures at Crystal Peaks when it was still quite glitzy, and later a pub I can't remember the name of.
Does my nut in that as I was listening to them in my bedroom these legends were actually just down the road, messing with pottery!
I'd just use South Yorkshire for the area too, definitely. Places near Sheffield or Rotherham that don't really feel like they are.
*whispers* Catcliffe...
You're not far from where I grew up in Aughton there. It's not as interesting as Catcliffe though as there's no brick cone or regular flooding.
Muriel Spark Spark's Satire featuring Robinson, The Abbesse of Crewe & Aiding and Abetting
'Bluebell was the second cat I had undertaken to teach; I found her more amenable than the first, which had been a male.
Ping-pong with a cat is a simplified and more individualistic form of the proper game. You play it close to the ground, and you imagine the net.'
You're making it sound quite π€π°π°π, Ian but the future picture I paint with these π©πͺπ₯π¦π°πΆπ΄ π°πͺππ΄ is π£ππ¦π’π¬ π’π΄ ππͺπ·πͺπ―π¨ π§πΆπ€π¬.
Electricity meters, a vent, cables on a wall all painted blue
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The Springs of Affection Maeve Brennan
'Her eyes were green, the colour of seaweed, and in their depths he found the light that would define him and enclose him in constancy. He thought, She is my own true self, and he wanted to tell her all his troubles.'
Plumb by Field Music
Have also finally got a proper copy of this, an album I think of as being quite recent. But then I looked up the release date and instantly became a skull, a haunted skull on a lonely desert, sand whipping through my eye and nose holes and a crackly BBC soundtrack of moaning wind effects dubbed on.
Swoon by Prefab Sprout Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti
I bought most of my favourite 80s LPs for nowt from the many charity shops on the Moor in Sheffield during my golden late 90s when I was working nearby and living on Twixes, machine coffees and fishcake butties. These two belters somehow escaped my clutches - (slowed down evil voice) until now.
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would you like a bag of mini
Ginger and white tabby cat meows at you from behind a gate
Mrkgnao!
A rusted letterbox on the brown wall of an abandoned house in Tokyo. It has the word 'pos' on it as the 't' has dropped off.
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Viel SpaΓ, mate!
If like me you aren't under pressure to learn German for work or something, I'd go for it. I've really enjoyed learning German at my own pace, and ended up learning a lot about how my own language works and its history too.
Sur un jerk Γ©lectronique
Se nouent des amours ludiques
Be-bop, la vie, c'est n'importe quoiβͺ
youtu.be/EqeJUGzvnq0?...
A breviary of the funny bits in Γ la recherche du temps perdu called Proust pour rire (Proust for Laughs) by Laure Hillerin. The cover is yellow and zany.
Jimbochoices 3: PROUST POUR RIRE. Let's mdr, ptdr and even xptdr avec M. Proust.
Gustave Flaubert by Albert Thibaudet published by Gallimard. The cover features a blue and green vortex
Jimbochoices 2: Flaubert vortex
A collection of modern Irish short stories from 1978 called paddy no more. The cover is green and features Celtic crosses
Jimbochoices 1: paddy no more
Romantisches kleines Blumenhalterβͺ
Display of pink tissue paper flowers and a little red character in a little bath by the ticket gate Suidobashi station. Underneath is a sign encouraging visitors in multiple languages to take a photo with the display. In the background a geezer passes.
PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE EXHIBITS.
A pink rotary payphone of a type that used to be very common in Japan, apparantly still in working order in my local ENT clinic. There is a slot for 10 yen coins, and the message "When you hear the pips, insert another coin"
Ich glaube ich bin ein Telefon, romantisches kleines Telefon
Anita Brookner Lewis Percy
'Yet his girth was increasing; there was no mistaking his figure for that of a younger man. He had appeared twice on a television panel discussion, but despite his grasp of events had been judged too old to appeal to the young and had been replaced by a pop singer who had found Jesus.'
A lamp and an open sign just outside a very nice book shop in Jimbocho called Kitazawa.
Healing visit to JimbΕchΕ. Here is the entrance to a place I consider holy.
A sign for a coffee shop called Futaba near Keisei Εwada station. The sign is white and has a gold shield and decorative crest. Would guess it's from the 60s or early 70s. I'm having difficulty coherently translating the kanji above the word Futaba. They are coffee, wait and dream in literal translation.
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Chalkboard art of two Keisei Pandas as strawberries, and the word March in Japanese, drawn by staff at Keisei Funabashi Station.
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Glassy modernist building. In a large display case on the front is a mannequin in a dress and a flowers.
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Samuel Beckett Molly, Malone Dies, The Unnameable Everyman's Library
'What liberty! I strained my ear towards what must have been my voice still, so weak, so far, that it was like the sea, a far calm sea dying - no, none of that, no beach, no shore, the sea is enough, I've had enough of shingle, enough of sand, enough of earth, enough of sea too.'
Ah no, not yet. But we had ζ₯δΈηͺ and ζ²³ζ΄₯ζ‘ and θ±η²η are here...
