The most miserable time of the year.

[Ros]

That Mr Bowlly is a friend of the site, isn't he?

David, I almost posted that one! It was a hard choice between them.

PS 2000! Congratulations.

I'm probably a bit dim, but I don't know what that means??

2001!

Congrats!

Ros

[Nash]

Aah, I see, 2002! Well, would you believe it. It seems like only yesterday when I joined here as a nervous novice poet. At least I'm not as nervous now.

[David]

Nash..close, but this is his most romantic tune..

Snap!

Heading off for bed now, so here - inaptly - is this song by Duke.

[Pauline]

Sorry lads
but I gotta agree with David.
"The very thought of you....
Swoon.
Luuuuverly.
It has me pressing my left hand on my heart,
my right is swaying shoulder level to the music
and I'm gliding around my back kitchen
all hot and bothered.


Wish I knew how to upload/download clips

[twoleftfeet]

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[twoleftfeet]

Wish I knew how to upload/download clips

Pauline,
Do you mean
1) Post youtube clips into a thread
or
2) Save youtube clips onto your computer ?

[Nash]

As this thread is about things that make us happy, here's a picture of my dad from 1964. He died just after Christmas 1999 just a couple of days before the millenium, didn't quite make it.

Myself on scooter, Aug 1964.jpg (94.85 KiB) Viewed 6427 times

[twoleftfeet]

I'm so dumb that I was going to ask whether it was a Lambretta or a Vespa.
Then it dawned on me to pan down the image.

[Nash]

Oh yes, a Lambretta, not that I remember it. It was long gone when I appeared five years later.

Note the leopard skin seat cover. Class!

[Pauline]

Geoff, I mean how to post youtube clips into a thread.
I'm clueless.

Nash, your Da was quite a hunk in his day wasn't he.
Very cool looking.
Nice scooter too.

[twoleftfeet]

I had one made in 1966, but with the twin seats.
Almost non-existent brakes.
If you had someone on the back you were virtually riding on one wheel (unless you had a loaded panier on the front)
I got concussion once when someone drove into me from a side street (without looking)

Luckily for me someone pinched it otherwise it probably would have killed me.

[Oskar]

the RADA cockney eckcents are priceless.

And here's a few more from one of my favourite films -



btw That's a nice memory of your dad, Geoff. Mine couldn't sing either!

[twoleftfeet]

the RADA cockney eckcents are priceless.

And here's a few more from one of my favourite films -

That's a good song, too.

Dick Van Dyke takes the Coq D'Or prize, of course.
Angela Lansbury is a close second, but it must have been down to the directors/producers because she was born in Poplar.

[David]

Nasher, I love that picture of your dad. He's wearing exactly the sort of get-up that I might wear now, but he's making it look cool. Or is that just the scooter? Nah! It must be the parting and the chiselled good looks. That's what I'm missing!

[Nash]

Thanks guys, I would love to say that my dad's boyish good looks ran in the family, but unfortunately.....

I've been going through boxes and boxes of his slides from the 60s and 70s recently. It was quite unsettling when I was looking at a photo of my grandad from 1964 and it suddenly struck me that I'm the same age as that old man now!

[David]

Call me a big softy if you must. No, I insist!

[Antcliff]

Nash,
lovely photo of yer dad. Such a vibrant photo. I think I see the same eyes...

it suddenly struck me that I'm the same age as that old man now!

I know the feeling.

Back to Buddy Holly..

[Nash]

lovely photo of yer dad. Such a vibrant photo. I think I see the same eyes...

Thanks, Seth. Very observant, I did share a pair of eyes with my dad. But my nose...that was all my mother's fault!

Call me a big softy if you must. No, I insist!

Yer big softy! I'm not much of a fan of Buddy Holly but I quite like that. Do I know it by someone else? It seems familiar.

[Magpie Jane]

Nash, your dad was a very good-looking young man! (-- aren't you too? -- or just being coquettish about it?)
Anyway, it's a great picture. It has presence.

You probably know that song by someone else. This, maybe?

[Nash]

Nash, your dad was a very good-looking young man! (-- aren't you too? -- or just being coquettish about it?)

Thankyou, Jane. I think I can honestly say that I've never been accused of being coquettish before. But I think I like it...*giggle*

Can I get away with a giggle? Nah, it's just not me is it?

Anyway, no I don't think that's the version either. I think it might have been a woman singing it in the one I'm thinking of.

[Nash]

Found it, here it is........I didn't say it was good!

[Nash]

I love this song and especially this performance of this song.

[twoleftfeet]

I love this song and especially this performance of this song.

I love the song, but they're miming!

[Magpie Jane]

Ahh, that song used to be one of my favourites - a half-century or so ago - I had nearly forgotten all about it!

Pogues, anyone?

[Nash]

love the song, but they're miming!

But he does it with such class!

Pogues, anyone?

Abso-bloody-lutely. Great choice, Jane!