Rogues Gallery

[Padfield]

Pretty quiet in Cambridgeshire this weekend, then, Jack? Idly surfing antipodean toilet facilities indeed!

I bet our government doesn't even have a national continence management strategy.

Guy

[Jack Harrison]

Guy was very rude:

...Idly surfing antipodean toilet facilities...

Cheeky blighter! I searched for “Jack Harrison” not toilets!

Mind you, it has given me an idea for a spoof (Initially I thought that Jack Harrison Park wasn't a real place but cross checking shows that it is). The user feeds his/her name into a website and the search returns a geographical feature complete with “facilities” – perhaps a Red Light District or a Gay Bar. But programming that would be beyond me. But the evil thought is fun.

Jack

[NickB]

Minus 25C Nilsia, Finland

Looking forward to warming-up back home!

[Trev Sawyer]

Warming up????...
Don't bet on it Nick

Trev

[NickB]

No - Definitely warming-up!
It was a positively balmy -10C here today!

N

[Roger Gibbons]

An extract from my school diary aged 9 (it was 1956 and we wrote with pens you had to dip into the inkwell). Note the attention to detail – the time was five to two, clearly a crucial piece of information. The wording suggests that I suffered from the delusion that that the teachers knew everything about butterflies, or that they were even remotely interested. Quite how I knew it was on its way to the midlands, I’m not sure. Maybe it had a ticket to Birmingham hanging from its antenna. I hope the breeding that I was doing well in referred to the butterflies.

My family say I haven’t changed, but I’m not sure they were being complimentary.

As Dany Lartigue, the French artist and butterfly enthusiast (he has a butterfly museum in St Tropez), now 90 years old and still razor sharp, said to me “Once you get into butterflies, you never get out”.

[Denise]

Hi Roger,

That was the day that I was born!

Denise

[Jack Harrison]

Absolutely lovely Roger.

I recall an essay I did when about the same age. The title was something like “Country Pursuits”. I wrote about walking, fishing, collecting birds’ eggs (yes, we did that in those days) and peasant shooting. My teacher was in stitches. “They might go peasant shooting in Italy but we don’t do it here”. I just didn’t get the joke. As you can imagine, I did not at the time appreciate the mickey-taking but I can laugh now more than 60 years later.

My sister – eight years younger – absolutely hated moths. I thought that she should be encouraged to take an interest. One summer’s evening when I was about 16, I caught dozens and let them go in her bedroom. I can still hear her shrieks to this day; Jennifer hasn’t forgotten. However, a few weeks later when we were out in the car, she got her revenge – I suspect with Mum’s encouragement. I was in the front passenger seat and Jen was immediately behind me. I didn’t notice until too late when she stuck some chewing gum in my hair.

Jack

[David M]

I still have all the hand written records from my locality which I jotted down assiduously whilst an early teenager in 1981 and 1982 (proud to say I was out butterflying on the day of Charles' and Diana's wedding in July 1981).

[Jack Harrison]

...the day of Charles' and Diana's wedding...

Charles who and Diana who?

Jack

[Zonda]

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF NARCISSUS, or MY LIFE IN BAD HAIRCUTS.
No1.

No.2

No.3

BIG JUMP FORWARDS
THIS SUMMER

Now if that had happened overnight, i might have died of shock.

[NickB]

You haven't changed much from the picture above the last one; who is the guy on the right?

[Zonda]

who is the guy on the right?

You know,,,, it's that day we met in the cemetery.

[Susie]

Bump.

Thought it might be an idea to bring this thread up to the top so newer members can add pics.

[MikeOxon]

"Humankind cannot bear very much reality." [Eliot]

I miss the glamorous blonde Susie - it gave an extra frisson to reading her posts.

Mike

[Susie]

Here I am. Doesn't look anything like me.

This is a more usual look, where I am watching Purple Emperors

[MikeOxon]

Thank you - you are very considerate!
Mike

[Susie]

Your turn to add a photo now, Mike.

[legless2007]

Hello everyone, this is me in butterfly mode (Compton Down this May), i'm not usually this orange, but the hair is.

Jo


140511-61 by legless2007, on Flickr

[Susie]

Great to see you, legless! You're positively glowing