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).
..it couldn’t win under the old coach and team it wasn’t going to let anyone win. Previous captains, victims of a diverse inflictions ranging from a herniated cerebellum to trench mouth, gave their unwanted and irrelevant opinions. Books written by previous chairman’s wives that were fulsome in the praise of their husband’s genius in winning…
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.. months older than I am. I’ll have to do some work on my avuncularity. Nigella Lawson is slightly more problematic. I find her simpering to the camera lens a little disconcerting, but if I’m so dog-tired I can’t even manipulate the remote, I’ll hang in to Nigella’s show till the family arrives with the…
..“Geordie” (which the Danes renamed ‘Skotten svinger hammeren’), “The Belles of St Trinians” and ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’ were soon to delight us with their gentility and niceness. No, these were films of gritty realism, difficult subject matter and controversy. Films that made one think rather than leave the cinema with a warm fuzzy feeling. I…
Dick’s Toolbox cont. ..too expensive to make. And they were still seriously, seriously good. So when I returned this year, once again with Elizabeth, to find ‘For Rent’ signs in the window and the view inside of an overturned table and scattered newspapers on the floor; I felt desolated. The world, my world, was diminished….
..a glass of water. But after a few kilometres of uphill a rest was definitely called for so we glided in with all the grace of our combined one hundred and thirty-two years could muster. Which was limited. So there we sat outside on the sunny veranda, two OMILs (Old Men In Lycra), Doug with…