tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post7383294479089202698..comments2024-03-28T09:37:34.133+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: IllusionYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-91662720007383229962022-03-24T17:16:39.061+00:002022-03-24T17:16:39.061+00:00I like retracing old steps. I suspect that is why ...I like retracing old steps. I suspect that is why some of my favorite pictorial books are ones showing photos taken at exact locations but many decades apart.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214319366049620074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-49621103387353639112022-03-24T17:02:48.247+00:002022-03-24T17:02:48.247+00:00You are right Kelly. The strange illusion requires...You are right Kelly. The strange illusion requires black and white.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-59798344302935386612022-03-24T17:01:26.121+00:002022-03-24T17:01:26.121+00:00At sixteen I ended up going to the local grammar s...At sixteen I ended up going to the local grammar school I should have attended in the first place. I was much happier there.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-47294010934771086462022-03-24T17:00:20.400+00:002022-03-24T17:00:20.400+00:00I was always just me but others might have said th...I was always just me but others might have said that I was inclined to hippydom.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-36423288263163186232022-03-24T16:59:33.498+00:002022-03-24T16:59:33.498+00:00The magazine was a bit stained. Coffee drips I pre...The magazine was a bit stained. Coffee drips I presume.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-75800932346761294532022-03-24T16:58:53.080+00:002022-03-24T16:58:53.080+00:00The moral of this story is that you liked mucky bo...The moral of this story is that you liked mucky books too!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-34392849867768140342022-03-24T16:58:21.113+00:002022-03-24T16:58:21.113+00:00Skunk style? I thought it was badger style. I bet ...Skunk style? I thought it was badger style. I bet you looked sooooooo cool Melinda!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-21633605150100112762022-03-24T16:57:10.200+00:002022-03-24T16:57:10.200+00:00I was very unhappy there. It was not the right lea...I was very unhappy there. It was not the right learning environment for me.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-44233294128460374102022-03-24T16:56:15.826+00:002022-03-24T16:56:15.826+00:00I have done many bad things but bad hairstyles is ...I have done many bad things but bad hairstyles is not one of them Carol!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-89527391011422703682022-03-24T16:51:55.893+00:002022-03-24T16:51:55.893+00:00Now that the optical illusion has been pointed out...Now that the optical illusion has been pointed out, it's all I can see. My eyes were first drawn to that checkerboard floor. I bet the photo wouldn't have the same impact in color. Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00859017153454691633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-17521185730859358912022-03-24T14:44:56.062+00:002022-03-24T14:44:56.062+00:00Well done to get a scholarship to your school! I w...Well done to get a scholarship to your school! I wonder if your life would have been different if you went to a local school instead. <br />It is fun to hear of your "olden days"!Ellen D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03776803182673252265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-79332471140518465812022-03-24T14:42:19.070+00:002022-03-24T14:42:19.070+00:00Were you a Punk Rocker YP? I was mad on The Strang...Were you a Punk Rocker YP? I was mad on The Stranglers back then. northsider https://www.blogger.com/profile/00716743611909673869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-42370664236699560132022-03-24T14:33:47.558+00:002022-03-24T14:33:47.558+00:00That is some very '80s hair! He DOES look a bi...That is some very '80s hair! He DOES look a bit evil, like the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. (Or Spring Bank!)<br /><br />I can't imagine being able to buy a pint at 15. I'm also cringing at the idea of a second-hand porn magazine (even softcore).Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-71546508615824999962022-03-24T14:27:41.958+00:002022-03-24T14:27:41.958+00:00Ye strolled un-sheepishly into the Seedy Bookshop,...Ye strolled un-sheepishly into the Seedy Bookshop, reached for the Girly Magazine on the Top Shelf and paid One Shilling and Sixpence.<br />A true Grammar Schoolboy looking for Vicarious Experience?<br /><br />There was a great bookshop in Glasgow, John Smith and Sons in Saint Vincent Street, now a hamburger joint.<br />Long ago I strolled into John Smith's one Saturday morning in summer, wishing to purchase the new paperback novel by John Broderick, a serious Irish writer.<br /><br />To my shock the novel's cover showed a bonny young women in her boudoir, wearing nothing on top but a lacy French brassiere, or brazier as we lads used to say.<br />The only shop assistant at the cash till was a gorgeous young lady who bore an uncanny resemblance to the model on the book's cover.<br />Everyone else must have been across the road, enjoying their morning coffee break in the Danish Food Centre.<br /><br />My determination to pay the required 35 pence for this important Irish novel necessitated further trips to John Smith's, staffed mainly by attractive girls, until I noticed a cash till manned by a man.<br />He took one look at the paperback, grinned wolfishly and said: *Ye don't see many sexy covers like this these days, do you?*<br /><br />The sad epilogue to this story is that John Broderick was a guilt-ridden alcoholic homosexual.<br />One would not have known it from the cover or content of his witty well-observed novel of Irish manners. <br /><br />Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878998597580981583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-5863447432189497642022-03-24T13:54:16.080+00:002022-03-24T13:54:16.080+00:00Weirdly, I had a friend in University in the 80...Weirdly, I had a friend in University in the 80's named Andrea with that exact same hair cut. She had the dark permed hair, cut short but fluffed up, with a skunk stripe down the middle. Her hair caused a stir wherever she went. I was more conservative with my hair back then. I wore killer vintage clothes though...Melinda from Ontariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09019426158896831594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-16168217610445060422022-03-24T13:08:28.186+00:002022-03-24T13:08:28.186+00:00I wonder if children who have to make such an effo...I wonder if children who have to make such an effort to get to school take their studies more seriously? <br />I love that picture of Mr. Simon and Andrea! They both look well pleased! Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-52162044901140027452022-03-24T12:48:37.394+00:002022-03-24T12:48:37.394+00:00For a moment, I thought you were showing us a phot...For a moment, I thought you were showing us a photo of yourself in another of your holiday jobs!Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-38833969248902769152022-03-24T11:15:12.997+00:002022-03-24T11:15:12.997+00:00My late brother Paul sometimes used to do that fro...My late brother Paul sometimes used to do that from Skirlaugh but I am pretty sure that by the autumn of 1965 it was not possible. By the way, Hymers College occupies what was once the site of Hull's Botanic Gardens.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-75451707191258102752022-03-24T10:31:40.036+00:002022-03-24T10:31:40.036+00:00Spring Bank must have been impressive in its heyda...Spring Bank must have been impressive in its heyday. It's a bit seedy now. Did you ever consider taking the Hornsea to Hull train, getting off at Botanic Gardens which was the station at the railway gates on Spring Bank? Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-4712554532937119592022-03-24T09:38:15.572+00:002022-03-24T09:38:15.572+00:00Yes. I have done that. Better than counting sheep....Yes. I have done that. Better than counting sheep.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-1291997138370264202022-03-24T09:37:34.846+00:002022-03-24T09:37:34.846+00:00I remember Sharon Powers. She was in the magazine ...I remember Sharon Powers. She was in the magazine I bought. Lovely lass.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-13357736704400267432022-03-24T09:36:41.197+00:002022-03-24T09:36:41.197+00:00I am glad you see the illusion too Bob.I am glad you see the illusion too Bob.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-6764645331170691932022-03-24T09:36:15.649+00:002022-03-24T09:36:15.649+00:00Afterwards they would play chess on the floor.Afterwards they would play chess on the floor.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-1278188323412012422022-03-24T09:35:37.503+00:002022-03-24T09:35:37.503+00:00The journey there and back added two hours to my d...The journey there and back added two hours to my day. That is a lot for a young lad.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-51769989649261939202022-03-24T09:34:38.391+00:002022-03-24T09:34:38.391+00:00Well, there was a connecting bus River but if you ...Well, there was a connecting bus River but if you just missed one you would have another twenty minutes to wait.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.com