My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Kerry, Lee and the happy couple Andrea and Matt
Thank you for putting me up and putting up with me,
have a good honeymoon on Corfu

Event this Day:

22nd June 1968

The song "Here Comes Da Judge" be Buena Vistas peaks at eighty-eight in the Billboard charts

22nd June 1981

Mark David Chapman

pleads guilty of murdering John Lennon on this day and is then sentenced to life imprisonment for second degree murder (may he stay inside until he rots)

Born this Day:

22nd June 1936

Kris Kristofferson

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He wrote Me and Bobby McGee  (here sung by Kris himself) which was magnificently performed and recorded by Janis Joplin

The acting career of Kris also needs praising, I love his strong guy scenes in Convoy back in 1978 (cool)

Died this Day:

22nd June 1969

Judy Garland

always to be remembered as Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz

Thoughts:

I'm not going to get used to driving in England. It sucks. My sat nav has problems finding it's way around, if I type in that I want to travel the economically best way it sends me through roads that are just wide enough for two bicycles or on dirt tracks. The road from Ragdale to Lincoln on the A46 (a main road at least five years old, even older if you see the state of it) most of the road doesn't exist; the sat nav keeps saying "If possible do a U-turn" ever though I'm on the main highway to Lincoln. Today I drove back from Grantham, Lincolnshire to Ragdale and in the village of Eaton in Leicestershire I turned a corner and a minivan was coming from the front; I had to break hard, we were both speeding at about 20 kph and I had to back up fifty metres to let him pass it was so narrow.

As you all saw yesterday we had a small family reunion. It has been so long since I have seen my sisters; Sylvia fifteen years and Andrea twelve. Not only did I see my sisters Andrea phoned Fraser and Mama up as well so I got to talk to them also. Mama was shocked, "Who are you?" she asked until it sunk in and she realized it was me. She sounded quite fit, well in head and mind I don't know how she is otherwise. And Fraser, it was the first conversation with him that I have had since 1984 when Heike and I were on holiday in Perth, Australia. What did I have to say? After thirty years I had hardly nothing to say, I was struck dumb, all I could think of saying was reminding him to look after his health  and to go to have checkups.

I could write a book today, so much has happened the last three days. When I get home next week I'll need a holiday to wind down again. I love it!!!

We all went to the wedding of my great nephew Matthew and his lovely wife Andrea yesterday. For me and my sisters the day started off in the hotel in Grantham, "the continuous reunion" and then I went to the town centre with Andrea and Jimmy with their Ziehkind (grandson) Jerry. 

Grantham is quite an old town and sorrily it is looking its age; the town has loads of commercial property that is empty, be it industrial or retail property. It's a sad sight but when I watched the people in she main street they were the ever happy people that I remember from England. The area around the St. Wulfram Parish church seems to be the best kept in town. The church itself is more a cathedral than a church, it has a main ship that is at least twenty-five metres high and a spire that's more than forty metres high (the metres are guessed so please correct me if I've fibbed). I had a nice walk around, a cup of tea and a chat to the old ladies looking after the church. That was good, they gave me a short private tour of the church, it seems I attract old women they think I've a story to tell, they can't be interested in my body they're too old for that. Enough, enough, I'm getting silly!! 

After that we rejoined (Andrea, Jim, Jerry and I) had a pint in a pub in the market square and set off to the wedding. That was in the registry office in Grantham. Very solemn, the marriage vows are different from what I remember though. I can recall the couple to be wed saying "With this ring I thee wed" now it's not quite the same, it was nice how they pledge that they will forever love and cherish each other and it's still "till death do us part." Did I pledge that to you Heike? Unnecessary, I will do anyway. 

That'll do, I'm getting sentimental and tomorrow is another day; if I write too much today I dry up tomorrow and that's not the point of writing a blog.