tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post7576331178678685198..comments2023-08-02T10:45:41.531+01:00Comments on In the footsteps of the Fool: single fatherDave Leekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-70634256005760895972010-04-05T21:49:34.916+01:002010-04-05T21:49:34.916+01:00It would have been published in a trashy book (ouc...It would have been published in a trashy book (ouch).Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-30297128467835277012010-04-05T21:42:15.958+01:002010-04-05T21:42:15.958+01:00Well, we always did aspire to be trailer trash!
M...Well, we always did aspire to be trailer trash!<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-33114305466250347712010-04-05T21:39:27.088+01:002010-04-05T21:39:27.088+01:00I don't want to make a joke about your parents...I don't want to make a joke about your parents' passing but the first sentence of your second paragraph is a whole short story. <br /><br />Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood, methinks!Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-54999342081492525662010-04-05T20:31:47.201+01:002010-04-05T20:31:47.201+01:00Looking at Google Maps, yes, it's on Almonds L...Looking at Google Maps, yes, it's on Almonds Lane (though I don't think I ever thought of it as having a name). What a thought, that there might be a "Stevenage Dads' joke".<br /><br />My parents ended up buried way out in Norfolk, having lived in a mobile home in my sister's back garden for the previous 20 years. If they'd stayed in town my links might feel stronger, I suppose.<br /><br />But even in the last few home visits I made, back in the late 80s, no-one else ever seemed to be in town. I'd nurse a pint of Greene King in the Red Lion or the Marquis of Granby until I got bored enough to go home. Fun city!<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-16994321805358739472010-04-05T19:41:10.374+01:002010-04-05T19:41:10.374+01:00Oh, and welcome back Andy!Oh, and welcome back Andy!Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-13552539235871919272010-04-05T19:40:20.185+01:002010-04-05T19:40:20.185+01:00It's interesting that I should bring up Catwea...It's interesting that I should bring up Catweazle at the same time there is talk of opening old rail lines - as in the second series Mr C lived in one. I believe.<br /><br />I certainly did mean Almond Hill - both my parents lie there under rose bushes. There are, of course, other ghosts there too.<br /><br />I also still use the joke every time we pass a graveyard - especially Ipswich.Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-78775177563425997422010-04-05T19:35:40.561+01:002010-04-05T19:35:40.561+01:00Mike, I think you might mean Almond Hill Cemetery....Mike, I think you might mean Almond Hill Cemetery. I used to live in Vardon Road and our house (which Dave knows well) overlooked the cemetery.Coincidentally my (late) father said the same about 'overlooking the dead centre of Stevenage' .........maybe it's just something Dad's say?<br /><br />Dave, I too thought Catweazle was excellent and remember it fondly and yes you could(should)be him.....and why not?.<br /><br />Ps May be if your boiler was powered by electrickery rather than gas you would not have had the problem you did have? Having sad that, you ARE right 'Nothing works'Andy Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14131431242371886428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-55607319873010209972010-04-05T19:20:23.797+01:002010-04-05T19:20:23.797+01:00Unless you really don't want to talk about it,...Unless you really don't want to talk about it, what graveyard are we talking about, and who is in it?<br /><br />A friend's dad always used to crack, as he drove us past Pin Green cemetery, "That's the dead centre of Stevenage over there, you know".<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-30215488382533540482010-04-05T18:32:44.960+01:002010-04-05T18:32:44.960+01:00I can imagine plenty of ghosts were displaced when...I can imagine plenty of ghosts were displaced when The Longship disappeared. Perhaps they buried it at a sort of Viking burial (I finally went to Sutton Hoo the other day after 22 years). Mind you, I seem to remember there were plenty of haunted-looking types in The Longship when it was a pub. They didn't call that look "heroin chic" in those days, they were just "junkies".<br /><br />I must admit to having not read a single Rebus novel - Mrs D does that. However I have just read two novels in two days which is pretty good going for me!<br /><br />I was in Stevenage a few weeks back. I keep to the couple of houses of friends and occasionally go to the Wetherspoons pub in the High Street opposite The White Lion. Oh, and the graveyard.Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339839143636242387.post-19553445375430669072010-04-05T17:46:41.049+01:002010-04-05T17:46:41.049+01:00Well, you've beaten Spotify there, though ther...Well, you've beaten Spotify there, though there are half or dozen or so Jackie Leven albums on it which I dipped into. Not my kind of thing, though. It also confirms my feelings about Ian Rankin and music -- I always cringe a bit when Rebus reaches for the CDs...<br /><br />The last time I went back to Stevenage I more or less decided there was no reason ever to return. After 30+ years all the ghosts lying in wait have died of boredom (and whatever happened to The Longship?).<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.com