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Not at all. Those were all my every day clothes but not usually worn as such, shirt collar out of jacket and bracers on trousers. Our Riff Raff choirs had been asked to perform at a 1940s festival at Ironbridge and so it's as close as I could get to that era without making something, here is Mrs MC at the same event...also much slimmer now.

Of course I could go all Georgian on you..

And it's all my dads fault as he used to pose, note the socks and sandals a thing I would not be seen dead doing.
 
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A lady of taste. For Wilfrid not me of course.
 
Today's art effort on the Manicured Landscape theme. This is a track over Shugbourgh Estates that I Cycle along now and again. It passes a pond that is man made but now neglected...

A4 watercolour about 1 hourish....

 
VW Golf not repaired, garage are having problems with parts deliveries, fingers crossed for Thursday.

Full Suspension Mountain Bike not repaired as bike shop is short staffed with illness, not Covid I am told. As I was waiting in the shop I was looking at a Nukeproof Scout Hardtail and some young whipper snapper had the audasity to say "Perhaps an E Bike would be more suitable as you are getting on in years" Ok so I am 71 but I recon I can outride this young upstart on most singletrack trails, the cheeky little blighter.
 
I'm 20 years your junior, and I need the "e" in my trike, I can assure you!
 
I sometimes wander around in socks and sandals...your dad was a trailblazer
 
More music, this is part of our Recorder Quartet and some guests virtual recording of a folk tune. All parts arranged and recorded on our own instruments and played all alone, to a click track to keep us in time, then sent to our tech guy who strings them all together. I failed to record the Bass Recorder on this, too many fast notes so I'm on the guitars and cajon which for some reason can't be heard. Mrs MC on Soprano and Alto Recorder, not our best effort but it gives you an idea. The Concertina is played by a lady I know the piece would have probably been better if we had just recorded the Concertina.

Anyway here is a Muddy rendition of King of the Fairies. Please don't feel you have to listen to it or the rest of the pieces we have on Soundcloud.
 
good afternoon all

4.3 today

shopping, shopping and shopping today our one day a week trek round the fresh produce

Bought another box of that 'Tea and biscuits' tea, it tastes a bit as if you've dunked either a 'malted milk' biscuit or a 'rich tea' in your tea Can't find any nutritional information but it lists just black tea and natural flavourings, works ok without milk or with almond milk. Offered some to Mum but she says she'll stick to tea with real biscuits

Hope your day is treating you well

@Muddy Cyclist - a stylish duo
Stunning sky and trees again in today's painting @Muddy Cyclist , lovely

@dunelm - nice sunny palette, harbinger of spring We had a cormorant fishing down by the harbour here today too

@gennepher - an effective use of your painting skills to work with and enhance your poem, very fine

art bit - pen and ink today

 
Spiffing Georgian outfit and as always Mrs MC looks wonderful. As regards the Donne Poem, Malcolm Guite's analysis of the poem makes it much easier to understand all the nuances on second (and subsequent) reading. Socks and pool slides is a thing not sure about socks and sandals.
 
I do like the art which goes against my usual preference for watercolour.
 
Thank you.

I'm with your mum with biscuits and tea or rather for me biscuits and coffee, but sadly now just coffee.

Great pen and ink drawing, it's a lovely medium to use.
 
I notice the heir apparent, young King David, does not woffle or stutter, is word perfect with total recollection. He apparently employs his own photographer so they get the best pictures of him.
Yes, King Saul's days are numbered, its just a matter of time before the rising star dethrones him and Wilfred is reading his ladybird book on Greek myths in a less exalted setting.
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Today my father is 87 years old
When I consider his history it's almost a miracle
I'm in his 20s he was involved in an air crash that left him unable to walk for six months.
In his 50s he suffered multiple heart attacks, one so severe that had he not already been in hospital we would have lost him then.
Later he had to have surgical bypasses installed.
On his 75th Birthday he revealed that he had cancer.
Four years later it was back. With chemo he conquered it again.
Yet he does not count these as the significant incidents in his life.
As an only child he values family connections above all else. His mother (a single parent, widowed before he was born) and her sisters battled constantly, He was 16 when he joined the air force to get away from that.
He married my mother, one of four siblings and was welcomed into that family. The connections there ended only with death. The fact that all his four children are friends is treasured. That he has grandchildren and even great grandchildren is a delight. My father is in frail health. Covid has stolen away many opportunities to spend time with his family, including me, to our mutual distress. Each time i go round there he invites me in...
Its hard.
 

It is hard @SlimLizzy and very unfair.
Covid steals so much. It is unfathomable.
I feel for him and all of you.
 
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I sometimes wander around in socks and sandals...your dad was a trailblazer
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@ianpspurs , correct
Young lads about town, this way, bowl around in sliders & socks ..I try not show my age by shuddering ....often fail.

As awful as sandals & socks. ( Sorry)
But it's deemed 'Trendy'... so
Trailblazer, Indeed.
 

Thank you for the art compliment @geefull

This is an amazing pen and ink drawing.It is a good as your watercolours for drawing you into the painting...
 
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