Proceedings of the Commitee for Hopeless Love

Shall we take the previous minutes as read?
And the hours when morning brightened
To a day in the heart, out of mind, hot
With reckless words and shared heartbeats.

Our secretary sends his apologies, he's
Incapacitated by remorse and melancholia
After that joke that fell flat in the pub.
The first order of business is chemistry,

And Doctor Lezard has supplied the pills.
It's blue for warm and white for cool.
(Do let us know how you get on.)
Plans for the next event are already in hand.

And don't forget your longings and regrets,
Because you'll have the nights all to yourself.

--
Stephen Moran

Funfair poster

In Roundwood Park 25th October to 5th November 2014

Book exchange, Sudbury Hill station

Take one, leave one.

"Every morning Monday to Friday 6:30 to 10:30"

Bestco

322-324 Kilburn High Road, NW6 2QN

Uchida/Mozart

Shaman Uchida summons the genius, conducts not just the orchestra but acts as a lightning conductor bringing the sounds to earth.

When she plays the piano, every note is made to count, even the very rapid twinkling notes that abound. There is never any definition lost.

I love the way at the end when she comes back for her curtain call, the orchestra refuses to stand up as she pleads with them to share the applause, leaving it all for her and she bows to them. Then after she has received a bouquet, she asks them again and they stand up.

Cures all

Mozart: Concerto for flute and harp, K.299 - Coles, Yoshino, Menuhin

Witchy window

Flower Nest florists, 149 Greenford Road, HA1 3QN. Amsterdam has its...never mind. http://www.flowernest.com/

This is where all the messages come from

They are sent from underground, by whom we do not know.

The season of dark evenings

Fireworks display 2014 - 1st November

 

Open to the public. Tickets: adult £4, child £3. Full details link. And here is a video they made last year, which makes it look good fun.

Telegraph pole - Wood End Gardens

4 x 3 with contrail cross above

16 x 9 (1) same pole

16 x 9 (2)

Today

1.

2. Same tree

3. Another view

Wood End Lane

This morning

Piccadilly line, Sudbury Hill

Poster for "How to get away with murder"

Cashpoint raid at Post Office on Greenford Road

The shutter prised open

The door and both windows of the post office smashed

The cash machine broken into and the shop ransacked

The scene today at Greenford Road near Sudbury Hill after the post office was robbed

Poster for The Commitments

Greenford Road, Sudbury Hill

Spotted this poster for The Commitments, the musical adapted from his own novel by our old mate Roddy Doyle, in Sudbury Hill today.

The Greenwood to become a Wetherspoons

The Greenwood, Whitton Avenue West

The Greenwood pub, a large corner pub that has been derelict for some time on Whitton Avenue West, is being converted into a Wetherspoons group hostelry of some sort. A line from an old Robin Hood film will soon be the cry, "To the greenwood, men, and stuff yourselves."

Friday evening

Sudbury Hill

Trainspotting

Sudbury Hill this afternoon

September round up (photos)

Streets around Sudbury Hill and North Greenford over the past week

Listen to the man! #indyref

“When young men were injured in these wars, they didn’t look to each other and ask whether you were Scots or English; they came to each others’ aid because they were part of a common cause. And we not only won these wars together; we won the peace together. We built the health service together. We built the welfare state together. We will build the future together.

And what we have built together by sacrificing and sharing, let no narrow nationalism split asunder ever.” (From LabourList.org)

Point made with a slam of The Great Clunking Fist on the table. Magnificent.

Let's stick together #indyref

Dear Scotland,

Please don't Balkanize the island of Britain. If you do you'll be out of the EU and without a proper currency and it will be a right royal mess. We can get a Labour government for Britain next year and more devolution is on the cards.

And wouldn't your children become foreign students at English universities and have to pay the very high tuition fees rate per year for foreign students? According to HSBC these average £11,933 and range up to £38,532 for the top places, without taking into account living costs.

It would be better to try and create a sort of "Benelux" zone - actually it partly exists already - in the islands of Ireland and Britain, if only we could get Republic of Ireland to join the sterling zone! That's not at all likely, to put it mildly, but we might all end up in the Euro zone eventually, perhaps.

Wouldn't it be much better to have devolution but economic integration within Britain and Ireland, including the Republic? That would be my ideal. It's only this writer's personal opinion of course but it would be very handy for nipping back and forth to Dublin - and Scotland.

Now if Scotland increases divisions in these islands by voting Yes, it only makes life more difficult from my point of view. The difficulties that I foresee will also apply to you but you may think the benefits of independence and separate EU membership outweigh such considerations, but I hope "No, Thanks!" carries the day.

Regards, best wishes,
Harry Lemon

Hello Goodbye by The Cure

For a new Beatles tribute album (via Guardian feature)

Edgware Road

Lime?

This morning

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Bob Dylan favourites

Sweetheart Like You

Series of Dreams

Jokerman

Things Have Changed

Steve's favourites as seen at Museum of Illusions