My Daily Banana

Plant of the Day:

On my way back from work today I stopped to see how the giant rhubarb is growing. And I must say, it is; it must have grown twenty-five centimetres in height in the past two weeks and it's covering all of the root bale (is that the right word for the base of the plant?) When I take a photo I have to go further back to get the plant in one picture. The leaves are between one and one and a half metres in diameter; they are as rough as sandpaper. I wouldn't mind pressing one of the leaves, I've had thoughts about how but I haven't come up with an answer. The paper isn't the problem it's the books needed to put pressure on the leaf, I've got hundreds but they are all on my iPad. 

I'm wondering how the plant will grow from seed; I've got a gardener to help me "Lee, did the seeds arrive? And please tell me how your getting on with the greenhouse and the plant nursery"

Event of the Day:

1st July 1874

First commercially successful typewriter from Sholes & Glidden goes on sale

Birthday of the Day:

1st July 1952

Dan Aykroyd

He played Elwood as one of the Blues Brothers together with John Belushi (RIP): the group still exists John being replaced by his younger brother James.

Died on this Day:

1st July 2004

Marlon Brando

One of the greatest actors of our time. He acted the hard man in films such as The Wild Ones, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Godfather and many more. He lived to the ripe age of eighty.

Thoughts:

Anyone got a used living room suite for us? Ours is getting old and grubby, and the seating is getting flat from all my lounging about: or could it be because of our kissing and cuddling on the sofa? No details, otherwise I'll get hung.

I'm going to carry on with my stroll through Lincoln; showing how I saw and how I see the town:

I left my car in Sincil Bank
The Lincoln City Football grounds can be seen in the background.
It seems to be killing time in Lincoln; a day before I arrived a woman was murdered in one of the houses a bit further back on the left.
Last week there was another murder just off Portland Street

 

The magnificent Cathedral towering over Lincoln
 

Portland Street
Back in 1971 I lived in the flat with the window open,
it was a one room flat, I shared the kitchen and bathroom with two others.
If we wanted hot water or the electric oven we put a shilling in the meter.
 

This was the Ritz cinema, now it's a café restaurant.
In the sixties I saw many a good film here and in the seventies a concert with the Glenn Miller Band (without Glenn, he was dead, but I think his brother was the band leader)

The High Street
Faze4 used to be Rumbelows, they sold electrical compliances (TV, radio, record-players and most important records).
I spent many a happy hour listening to LP's there.

High Street

Corn Exchange

The Cornhill Market
It's there daily

Waterside.
Woolworths used to be here

The High Bridge Café

The Glory Hole

The Stonebow
 



Bye for today

I'll see you all tomorrow







My Daily Banana

 

 

Photo of the Day:

A well-kept Friesian house, one of those built by the gentry of the nineteenth century.

Lee, the trees on the right were cropped about five years ago,
before they were the same height as the tree on the left
They have grown really well.

Event of the Day:

30th June 1997

United Kingdom transfers the sovereignty of Hong Kong to the Republic of the People of China
 

Birthday of the Day:

 

30th June 1943

Florence Ballard
 

One of the founding Supremes. To begin a group of four Florence Ballard, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Betty McGlown started as the Primettes in 1959. In 1960 Betty McGlown was replaced by Barbara Martin, the group signed onto the Motown label and renamed themselves the Supremes. Babara Martin left the group in 1962 and then there were three, as we all can remember them.

The Supremes were the biggest lady singer act until this day with ten #1 chart breakers, one of which was You Can't Hurry Love.

Died on this Day:

30th June 2001

 

Chet Atkins

Atkins produced records for Hank Snow, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Waylon Jennings and many others

 

 

Thoughts:

It's back to work today. Fresh and raring to go, my homework is up-to-date so I have no worries that anyone will crash down on me asking me for a work-piece that should have been finished. The drawings that I constructed over the weekend have been copied into the project directory and although the deadline for the return of the quotation was last Friday (or so I was told, it's always the same; the date of the deadline that I am told is never the final date, the engineers use that as a form of pressure) I have been told that the drawings will have to have changes done within the next two weeks. At least he praised my work.

My first sighting of the cathedral

Sibthorpe Street

Sibthorpe Street

How primitive?

They still use telephone poles

Abbot Street
Where we last lived together as a family

Abbot Street

The house with the white wall was ours
The front door has been changed, it's now plastic

The room behind the open window was mine.
I painted a Superman mural on one of the walls (cool)

The dark passage,
it's the way to the rear entrance

The door at the end was our outside toilet and in the white wall was a door to the coal shed

Back then it was clean and tidy here,
we used the back entrance



The dark passage,
Jerry got worried when Andrea disappeared into it

Jasmine
I can't end my blog without a flower

Bye,
see you all tomorrow xxx
 





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