Dolly The Sheep

Dolly the Sheep is to get her own blue plaque, commemorating the site of her cloning...or perhaps that's 2 plaques.....

It's Life Jim, but not as we know it.....

Farewell to Mr Spock.....actor Leonard Nimoy bids farewell, bound for the Final Frontier

Live Long and Prosper

 

RIP Leonard Nimoy, AKA Mr Spock of Star Trek

Twit Twoo Two

Shabang Theatre's new owl, soon to take wing in "Let's Fly Away"...

Twit Twoo

Sneak preview of another Shabang creation, coming soon

Oscars

 

Well, I'm glad that The Theory of Almost Everything's Eddie Redmayne got an Oscar for his sheer effort in portraying Prof  Stephen Hawking. I enjoyed it nearly as much as Paddington and Shaun the Sheep

Kirklees Way 2 (Hanging Heaton to Marsden)

"The Difficult I can do today, the Impossible may take a little longer..." (Fiona's apt T-shirt slogan, Mae West quote?)

 

Kirklees Way Part 1 (Marsden to Chickenley)

After 2 years, we finally finished the Kirklees Way (July 2014) Plus it took me 6 months to do a cartoon.......

Barbara Hepworth's Tools

Trip on a 142 train to Wakefield Kirkgate to the Hepworth gallery with Marcus. I especially liked the giant geometric cardboard foot, surrounded by 50 plastic teapots..........

Binche Gilles

 

Hundred of Gilles, clad in wax masks and mediaeval costumes parade in Binche Carnival, Belgium, throwing oranges.  But what's with the sticks?? (Apparently to ward off evil)

Jon Snow, Just Say No

 

Jon Snow on the effects of extra strong skunk cannabis...new Channel 4 programme shows Mr Swingometer taking part in a scientific trial, involving a brain scan, together with Royal Correspondent Jenny Bond.....

Skunkometer

Channel 4's Jon Snow says smoking skunk is scarier than being in a war zone....Jon and Royal Correspondent Jenny Bond  take part in Home Office approved TV Science trial, Drugs Live, to be televised on March 3rd

Beware of the Hog

 

Wild Boar causes mayhem at Madrid Airport...they went the whole hog closed the   runways  after a plane had to abort landing .....

2015, Year of the Sheep

 

Yeah, Year of the Sheep I think. Stuff 50 Shades of Grey, we're off to Shaun the Sheep...

2015, Year of the Goat

 

Chinese New Year soon. But is it Year of the Goat or Year of the Sheep? Internet seems undecided...

Fade To Grey

Farewell to Steve Strange of Visage

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI

Eastern Foam

 

These ads from 1920s Travel guide to Inverness. The allure of Afghanistan helps flog pencils,  and  "Eastern Foam" beats Vaseline into a cocked hat, from what I hear.....  

 

Chimps in Kilts

Strange discoveries at Edinburgh Zoo: new chimp arrivals from Holland soon picked up "Scottish accents"....this reputedly involved asking for apples in a lower tone of grunt 

We're all down in t' coil hoil wi' t' muck splats on t' winders

Coal hole covers in Lockwood....not many about

Turning Japanese

Perfect your dance moves...see last post for Japanese grrrl band AKB48!

AKB48 Sugar Rush

 

All-girl Japanese Pop band AKB48 (renown for sickly sweet lyrics, high-pitched singing, wild dance moves and matching kitsch outfits) are causing an Olympic Pop Nightmare. Are they too embarrassing to perform at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Surely not. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7foG62jNMU

Louis Armstrong at Batley Variety Club

 

Did he think to himself "It's a Wonderful World" when he performed in Batley in 1968? Thanks to  Mr Clark, in the Guardian letters page , who explains why Louis's Desert island Disc recoding has only just been located......more stories of Batley Variety's heyday to follow! For now, see; http://www.batleyfrontier.co.uk/more/

 

 

Cave Man TV

 

Anyone been watching this? 10,000 BC, Stone Age re-enactment meets Big Brother. Someone turned up in wedges.....

Michelangelo's Muscle Men on Pumas

 

Caption Competition! What are the pumas saying? 2 muscle men riding pumas have been attributed to Michelangelo. They remind me of watching a grown up trying to ride on Minimoto. Something doesn't quite ring true.....any caption ideas?

Deeply Dippy

 

Dippy, the diplodocus in the main hall at London's Natural History Museum is to be replaced by a blue whale skeleton.  A petition to keep him  has gathered thousands of signatures.....even  "Deeply Dippy" 90s band Right Said Fred have signed up....