Random Pictures

The Weekend Waits – Heart Attack and Vine

Liar, liar with your pants on fire White spades hangin’ on the telephone wire Gamblers reevaluate along the dotted line You’ll never recognize yourself on Heartattack and Vine Doctor, lawyer, beggar, man, thief Philly Joe Remarkable looks on in disbelief If you want a taste of madness you’ll have to wait in line You’ll probably [...]

Drum Machine?

Tom Marley in Canada sends me this quite brilliant clip. Tom is brother of Harmonica Lewinsky’s drummer Martin! Cue for the drummer jokes: What do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians? a drummer! How do you tell if the stage is level? The drummer is drooling from both sides of his mouth. [...]

Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour

One of the delights of my MP3 player is listening to my downloaded podcasts of the Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour. I’ll take the dog out for a walk and get lost in a world of blues, R&B, country, gospel and jazz punctuated by Dylan’s oblique sardonic comments. The top of the show is [...]

Lewinsky – Rare Sighting! (and Sounding)

Yes folks a rare chance to see Helensburgh’s (and the Vale’s) finest Blues/R&B band a week on Saturday. Once again the gig is for children’s charity and organised by Tommy Sharkey. Tommy’s band aren’t appearing this time but there are several other bands and artists playing on the night. The Lewinskys will be the final [...]

Caption Competition

Study this picture. It is of someone who is about to be crowned president without any proper democratic electoral process, along with Hamid Karzai. Usual prize (i.e.- hee-haw) for the funniest caption.

Fitba’ Latest

I see the other club who are too good for Scottish fitba’ were dumped out of the diddy cup tonight. It’s now left to Rangers to carry the Glasgow flag into the semis against their big spending rivals!

Cassetteboy v Nick Griffin v Question Time

W.C. Foulkes?

The lookalike in Private Eye today was Lord George Fou (as) wulks and WC Fields. Can’t see it myself. It seems I anticipated their front cover with the Nick Griffin mask too. (Both Griffin mask photo and Private Eye cover courtesy of The Lakelander)

The Puzzling Place

We visitedThe Puzzling Place in Keswick on our holiday. If you’re in the area it’s a must. There’s all sorts of quirky optical illusions and rooms which appear to defy gravity. We took this photo in one of the rooms which appears to be normal but when you’re in it you realise it’s a kind [...]