Good Peeps
Your thoughts and prayers are still very much needed by Elise as she sits with her dad this morning.
We've witnessed so much sadness here this year, and can only hope and pray that good news and even miracles prevail from now on.
So...it's Saturday yet again?
Geeez where does the time go to?
12th November
45 years ago in 1966 on this day a bandmate asked me if his girlfriend's sister could come along to the show that night and meet me.....a kinda 'blind date'
I was very suspicious..he was a compulsive prankster and I was sure the sister would be like one of Cinderella's sisters.
But of course, I was just a babe in arms at the time,
and said OK! Sure....YES!!!
Little did I know that was the start of a long long story. The sister was Lynn (she who must be obeyed!)
Here's the group she saw that night in Sunderland:
and here she is braving the hazards of my pride and joy a few years later:
After some ups and downs (SHADDUP YOU LOT)
we married when we were 19 in 1970
So let that be a warning to you all...
Never never never say yes to a blind date!!
Congratulations Lynn and George.
ReplyDeleteLynn you have the patience of a saint.
Thinking of Elise, Elsie and Ian
xx
Well there is SOME good news NEWS,
ReplyDeleteCONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR
SAPPHIRE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
George and Lynn.
What was you first band called ?
Elise, thinking of you LOTS, praying like mad for you, Elsie and Ian. xxxxxx
Oh well done.......Congrats to you & Lynn......which one is you George?.. i say
ReplyDeleteleft to right,are you third in from four..!!!!?....
No 1in the charts on that date in 1966... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2TNYyXdZjI
My thoughts & prayers are still with Ian & family.......yep its been a sad year........
Bev? I won't let Lynn see your comment., lol.
ReplyDeleteChris....no...not Sapphire just yet. We only celebrated the Ruby one last year!
Now no saucy comments please....but that band was called The Urge, LMAO
Yes John...you got it right... that one's lil ole me!! And thank you for the reminder of the number one song. We actually played it that night.
The singer John Errington, who was dating Lynn's sister, went on to have a hit record as John Miles with 'MUSIC (was my first love) 'in 1976.
He's back here living locally after many years touring as lead guitarist with Tina Turner
Elise? Our hearts are with you, A lot of us have been through what you're going through now....and we understand the enormity of it all.
The saddest, most heartbreaking of times.
As you see, while we pray and hold you in our thoughts, we're trying all ways here to distract ourselves.
God bless you, your dad, your mom and your sister.
Nice song. One of my favorites, the version I've got is by James Last.
ReplyDeleteSorry, George, when I read the 1966, and 45 years, I quickly looked up the anniversarys list. [I miss read AGAIN] BUT it is still an anniversary of first meeting !!
ReplyDeleteStill thinking of Elise and her family and sending them all our love. xx
George we are sitting here both having a laugh. Your photo of Lynn in the van is bringing back so many memories!!! I was picked up in a very similar van many a time. Because the engine was between the two front seats, I had to stand and wait for Graeme to use the Aerostart to get engine going and because the van had no locks, the spare wheel and jack had to be chained inside!!! At first I thought he was testing me to see if I was really serious but it wasn’t long before I realised he just really didn’t have any money!!!
Congratuations to you both on your 45 years together - we’re not quite there yet but have almost 41 years under out belt and still nae money!!
George in a band called the urge I am say nothing as I am a good not a baa, baa girl!!
ReplyDeletexxx
I like the van.
ReplyDeleteBev? Please take Roger 'IN HAND'.
ReplyDeleteWould you like him wrapped in duct tape and delivered to your craft room???? It could be arranged! lol
Sheena? Oh yesssssssss, you obviously know all about vans like mine with that engine cover between the front seats LMAO
And I shared the same trials and tribulations as Graeme with mechanical faults etc.
I called out the RAC so many times they were on the verge of banning me!
A year before we married, Lynn and I used it as a camper van and toured the whole on the UK in it.
All went well (too well) till on the way back we decided to visit the Lake District, and as we climbed a hill near Ambleside the front wheel sheered off.
We were towed to a garage/farmhouse type place and spent the night in a farmyard with a caged, demented parrot for company!
I had 'nae money' either, lol, so had to have cash sent by Lynn's parents via telegram before we could have the thing repaired!!
Since we've all been reminiscing today, I though you might like to see a rare photo of the young John (Sherbert, Shergold, Sherlock) taken with his babysitter way back in the early 1950s:
WTG JOHN BOY.
So good to see that some things have never changed! ROFLMBO
3.35 message from Elise.... no change, she's still at her dad's bedside, and sends her love to you all.
ReplyDeleteBIRFDAY ALERT....Young Keiff is sssssssssixtysssssssssssomething on MONDAY
ReplyDelete(I saw you peeking in , Keith, lol)
Thanks for update George......
ReplyDeleteYep remember that record well in 1976.......amazing it only took him half an hour to write it..so it said..!!.
As we are looking back a fair time........here's me in 1973,aged just 20, at Majorca Airport....In those days my local pub used to organise a week away,for a piss up in the sun,& i think it cost us 35 quid each, off season,but weather was great,beer was cold,& the disco's were still packed out.....
In those days,a gimmick was to take pics of each person as you came off the plane,& being my first ever flight,i goes & buys the photo...!!!.
Anyone else got any old pics.......more embarrassing the better....pmsl..
Twenty four years old and already an accomplished alcoholic
ReplyDeletep.s. the room decor is crap and nowt to do with me
Congratulations, George - you're a year ahead of us, but we were mature adults when we entered into our nuptial contract - not immature kids like you and Lynn.
ReplyDeleteThat flight to Majorca reminded me of a Jimmy Tarbuck joke about the two slappers on a Liver pool bus - works well in a Liverpudlian accent:
"Where did you go for your holidays?"
"Majorca"
"Where's that?"
"Dunno, we flew there."
Do first marriage anniversaries count?
ReplyDeleteIf so it would have been my 45th next month but thankfully it isn't and as the bitch is still alive, I still have nightmares about what if there'd been no such thing as divorce.
Thankfully I have good dreams too, where I do 30 years for murdering her (and her mother).
Congratulations to you both,Ron and i met on a blind date 51 years ago,and we are both still friends with the chap that introduced us,(ive forgiven him now!)but it took a few years!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI can see I'll have to update our 'NOW & THEN' photo album.
ReplyDeleteThose photos are priceless! lol.
John looking like a Beatle coming off that Majorca flight, and Roger ... (with HAIR???) and trying to convince us that he didn't decorate that room himself.
Come off it, Rog....I'd recognize that style anywhere.....and it was good to see those swords were still hanging in your kitchen last time we chatted on webcam.
Terry, who you kidding, mate? You spent those youthful single years 'gaining maturity'?
BOLLOCKS!
We all know that it's a euphemism for 'Sowing your wild oats', LMAO.
Pauline? 51 years with Ron....and all because of a blind date?????? I bet it took more than a few years to forgive that chappie.....more like 40 yrs before you spoke to him again!
OK, here's one from the big day in 1970.
Look at Lynn's face...she's suddenly realised she might have made a BIG mistake, lol.
John Miles, the singer, is on the far right of the pic.
Please send in some of your photos of you all in those crazy hazy days and I'll add them to the album.
Poor northerners. Just when did affordable colour photography reach the NE?
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I thought George's wedding photo's would be in sepia tones and even more surprised that the glass negatives have survived this long!
OK George, if you really want some quality photos of adorable sarf London kids, here's a couple for your then and now album.
ReplyDeleteCheeky bugger....We had colour photography in Jarrow as early as 1951 (WOW!).
ReplyDeleteThis was me having a ciggie before my folks took me to be baptized in April of that year
OK You asked for it. Those photos of yours will be going into the album, you old pirate! lol