My Daily Banana

Picture of the Day:

Event of the Day:

2nd July 2002

Steve Fossett is the first man to fly nonstop around the world in a balloon.

And again the Americans beat the United Kingdom; at the same time Richard Branson tried the same feet, but failed.

Birthday of the Day:

2nd July 1956

Jerry Hall

the second wife of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones from 1990 to 1999. They met in 1977 when Jagger was still married to Bianca. Jerry had four children with Jagger.

Died on this Day:

2nd July 1961

Ernest Hemingway

The poor guy committed suicide at the age of 61. His last novel The Old Man and the Sea published in 1952 won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and contributed to his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature one years later. 

The book tells a very cool story about a Cuban fisherman Santiago, who after a period of bad luck where he didn't catch a fish for eighty-four days, gets lucky and catches a mega marlin. It took him three days to reel the fish in, which he then strapped onto the side planking of his boat; while rowing back to land he was continuously attacked by sharks attracted by the fish blood. The first few Santiago managed to kill, but when he arrived back on land only the head, tail and backbone were left of the magnificent fish. He was so exhausted, that he went straight back to his hut to sleep before removing the cadaver. This cadaver moved his fellow fishermen to amazement, the marlin was five metres long and from then on Santiago was no longer seen to be the loser.

The book was filmed with Spencer Tracy playing the part of Santiago. I can't remember it, at the time when it was actual in the cinemas I wasn't into films that were mellow, I needed action. Maybe it would touch my taste of films today. Here's a trailer I found on YouTube:

The Old Man and the Sea

Thoughts:

Oops, I'm in trouble again. We just had dinner and while drying the dishes I praised the magnificent meal that Heike conjured up. I told her how appeased I was; the sauce was terrific, potatoes cooked precisely to the perfect degree of bite and the veggie fingers fried a beautiful golden brown. Oh dear, that was a little overenthusiastic; her reply was nasty. What did I do wrong? Last time I was told off because I finished the meal without even a burp. It's not easy being a man, whatever I do it's wrong; in my next life I'll come back as a dog, they are always loved.

Here are some more photos of my stroll:

Looking up the High Street just after the Stonebow

Your house is waiting for you Fraser

Top of the High Street
There's a café pub at the top:
do you remember it used to be an furniture shop?
The whole front was a window pane: I remember once when I was on the bad stuff standing there at three in the morning, looking at the reflection of the whole length of the High Street until a rozzer broke my dreams and shooed me off.

The Strait
Why that name? It's got a bend in it!

The Strait again,
the flats on the right don't fit in between the historical houses.

The Jews House
 

The beginning of Steep Hill
The barriers at the ends of Steep Hill were placed there after a wild coach ride down the hill. I tried to Google the story but it was not to be found, sorry (I should save the little stories that I pick up, then I could prove what I'm rambling on about)

I praised the guy after he reached the top of the hill, he thought I was making fun of him;
why can't people take a word for a word?

One of the many antiquarian bookshops uphill
If you go left there was the Lincoln Art College where I had many friends back in the sixties-seventies.
I saw Genesis there live in 1970, they were one of the upcoming groups at that time.

Top of Steep Hill
Why they don't close the road down for traffic I can't understand; it's not even a one way street.
I was sat in a café and watched a car and a delivery van pass each other, they used both pathways.

 

Here I end today: there's more to come.

Bye till tomorrow xxx