My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

A photo that does not exist
I melted two photos together in 2003 aren't they young, it was Jan's twenty-fifth birthday.
 

 

Event of the Day:

29th June 1940

United States of America passes the Alien Registration Act which requires every alien to register when entering the country.

It would be interesting to know how many have registered until today? This reminds me of the space comedy MIB Men in Black staring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

Oops, I got it in the wrong hole; an alien in America is a person born outside the United States not just (as in my minds eye) a person born on another planet.

Birthday today:

29th June 1943

Roger Ruskin Spear
 

A member of the legendary group the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

I shall never forget a music lesson at school in 1968, we were told to bring records with us so that we could listen to our different tastes of music. The record I took with me was from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; it was The Canyons of Your Mind. The teacher listened to it and was quite amused until she listened to the words which go like this:

 

'Cross the mountains of your chest

I will sticker Union Jacks

To the forest of your cheek

Through the holes in your string vest

Thank you http://www.lyricsmania.com, where I found the exact text. All I could remember was: Through the strings of your string vest.

After our teacher heard that verse she stopped the lesson and went back to a normal boring lesson.

Died on this Day:

29th June 1967

Jane Mansfield

 

Britain's own MM or BB. The only thing similar was her cleavage and the peroxide blond hair. She died in a car crash at the early age of thirty-four. Much too early for anyone to die!

Thoughts:

Hey, sorry folks, I missed a day. That was the first time since I started in April; I had such a backlog of work that had to be finished. Well I managed to get the first part done, the drawings that I thought could be put together in six hours took ten; good for me I get paid by the hour.

Now I or should I say we can start our weekend. At the moment we are enjoying or lunch and after that it'll be time for a stroll. How's the weather around the world? Here it's warm but not sunny, the wind is blowing a dreamy three Beaufort; in other words "t-shirt weather".
Anyone want to join us on our walk?

Eagle High Street

The Struggler Pub
As you can see it's struggling to exist

The Post Office is still there
We used to buy sweeties here and the post master's daughter was Vallerie.
The name reminds me of the Monkee's song Valleri which was good but not as good as she.



The Primary and Infant school in Eagle where Fraser and Andrea had their first steps in formal education
(do you remember? A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Tobacco In Church Put the first letters of each word together; and what have you got? ARITHMATIC)

This was our house in Eagle
13 Thorpe Road
It hasn't changed much, the garage is new we didn't have one

So that was another small trip from my holiday
See you tomorrow xxx