My Daily Banana

My Daily Banana:

Photo of the Day:

Punk with a Mohican cut and dreamy eyes looking over the fence

Bibi Blocksberg from the east

Event of the Day:

1^st June 1967

The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’sLonely Hearts Club Band in the United States.

The album is a milestone in pop music, it’s hard to say pop music because it isn’t your everyday pop but then I can’t put it into any other category. Let’s say it is brilliant music!

Birthday of the Day:

1^st June 1926

Marilyn Monroe

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson

She was pictured in the collage on the Sgt Pepper’s album above Ringo in the fourth row. A beautiful woman who died much too early. Bernie Taupin wrote a song (Candle in the Rain)which very fittingly described her short life and the way the press reported her death, it shows how much a life is worth to the tabloid.

Died on this Day:

1^st June 1991

David Ruffin

The original voice of the Temptations. He was the lead singer of the group from 1964 to 1967 when he had to leave the group because of an acute cocaine addiction. He sang lead on the songs My Girl,I’m Losing You, I Could Never Love Another and many more soul chart busters.

Ride of the Day:

I went out on my Cannondale early, Heike was at work and I thought, when I get back we can have a quiet afternoon and a stroll to our favourite café.

Like usual when I have those simple thoughts they are bound to be blown to smithereens. I got home after a grueling thirty kilometres and Heike had arrived home from work with her plans for the afternoon, or should I say our grandchildren’s plans. The monsters wanted to come around to play. Well after a quick shower and a bellyful of bread and coffee I was ready for them.

Selfie wit Gretje

Gretje's growing,
she still has the foetal hold.
How long does that stay?

We are getting impatient,
when are we going to the park?

We went to a local playground, on the way there Martje rode the walker bike, the way home was Fentje’s turn. I knew this wouldn’t work out and I was right. Fentje was happy to let Martje ride the bike to the playground but Martje also wanted to ride back home again. Terror, I could have turned her up-side-down, inside-out and wrung her; all the way home she bawled and had to be dragged because she refused to walk. If I could have I would have carried her but she’s too heavy for me and I’m not a camel. That’s why I love having grandchildren when they get tired and niggly you give them back to their parents. Isn’t life a luxury?