To St. Ives for the traditional pasty and trip to the Tate….
Which concludes with the traditional hot chocolate…
Old man (not) on an old bike (day two)
Blustery winds combined with hills was enough to abandon the bike. As my daily stride count had fallen well below the 20,000 average it was time for a stroll to Gwithian. On the way one admired the strange crops farmers have these days…
Compared the feeble looking blackberries when compared with their luscious Mancunian cousins…
And here we are….
That seems to have done it….
Note to self: remember to wear shorts for such excursions 😎☀️
Old man on an old bike (day one)
Exploring Cornwall on an old bike….
A test run around the lanes past the alpaca farm…
With a bonfire of fleece….
Unlike Manchester where you need to search out a hill there are plenty here which are worth the effort…
The fascinating story of Nancy Dupree
The Vinyl Factory blog listed a BBC Essential Mix by the Australian group The Avalanches. Their mix included a couple of pieces by Frank Zappa and Wild Man Fischer so I had a (brief) listen. One of the tracks was a strange piano and children singing piece about James Brown credited to Nancy Dupree…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzWAylk7G5Y
Intrigued one turned to the Interwebs to find out more….
Nancy Dupree was a music teacher in New York in the 1960s. Seeing that the children had no interest in the official bland and boring curriculum she encouraged them to start writing their own songs related to their lives while introducing them to the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone et.al…
She even persuaded the likes of B B King, Muhammad Ali and Roland Kirk to visit the school and talk to the children.
They produced enough songs to record a whole album which they called Ghetto Reality. Encountering Moses Asch she badgered him into releasing the album on his Folkways Records label.
She was eventually sacked from the teaching job, ostensibly for refusing to wear the required high heels, and was alarmed to see the school call the police to remove the children protesting about her departure.
She subsequently worked in various jobs, made recordings of her poetry, associated with the Black Panthers, wrote a play and died of leukaemia at the age of 44.
More…
The recordings are available from:
BBC reports: Desktop banking use falls, as users switch to apps
Why is anyone surprised by this? If all the banking sites are as bad as the abysmal Co-op bank‘s recent improved online banking efforts.
Responsive design? Never heard of it. There is a Next button and a Help link in there somewhere. You will find them eventually. They ask you to change your password. Insisting it needs to be at least a certain length and contain certain characters. Yes there is an upper limit to how long it can be but they are not going to tell you what that is – you will figure it out eventually.
Once you have entered your Username, Password and security code you are welcomed into their warm embrace….
…where you can play hunt the OK button. There is not much empty space available on this page so they had to hide the OK button. You will find it eventually.
With the mobile app…. Enter 6 digits and tap Log in…
Simples!