The
Cathedral Boys’ Choir in 1958. Or perhaps 1957. I’m second from the top next to
the pulpit and next down from me is David McPhail. Hamish ‘Gubby’ Guthrie is sixth
down from the left. (Reproduced without permission from David McPhail’s
auto-biography, The years before my Death).
..A Fate Worse Than Death, or simply provocative and silly like Mama, Did Jesus Wear Makeup?, but there’s no discernible trend as far as I know – apart from avoiding the bleeding obvious, of course. Perhaps perversely, (or of course perversely), while I’m quite comfortable playing certain songs for years at a time, I’m not…
.. expand its floor space) can be an exercise in angst and frustration as you sift through the many variations available in every conceivable item. Should you buy this version of raspberry jam because it’s an Australian brand? Or is it just packaged here while the fruit is actually from Korea? Or is some of…
HG Wells? But surely he was a 19th century writer? What on earth could be relevant to today in his prognostications? Well, he was incredibly prolific and popular in his day and his books continue to inspire film-makers today. The War of the Worlds was probably his most famous piece of fiction but The Time…
Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. David Porter was at all the TF Much Ballrooms, he was at the Sunburys – in fact David was at everything that was going on in this town. I think that was perhaps what distinguished David from some of the other photographers of the era – he was a fan….
..projected was the be all and end all of their personalities, and never imagined there was another dimension to their lives, let alone that they might exhibit a subtly, or even radically different persona in that other dimension. The only exception was my housemaster at College, one Mr Jim (or was it John?) Pine, whom…
Liger! Liger! Burning bright! Thanks to Paul Culnane for forwarding this to me The 10ft Liger who’s still growing… He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood. But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood – as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar….