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Took this photograph on the beach , can you see what it is yet?
"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, "(Margo Channing)
Highlight of the raffle ( which slowed proceedings to a comatose level) was Chris winning a set of bathroom scales! when the ticket was read out, he stood up amid 150 elderly ladies, shouting "yes!!!!!!!!" Well it got everyone laughing!
The inside of the wall has to be "aged" in someway, apparently you can either wash it with yogurt, which will age it with all manner of bugs and plants or "paint" it with horse muck and water!....got pippa's number twos , so that lovely job can be tackled next week!!!
Below is some information on Ian Parry , another friend from 1980's Prestatyn set! Who sadly died in 1989- I was delighted to find this piece about him on google!! oh the power of the internet .
IRINA WERNING - winner of the Ian Parry Scholarship 2006
IAN PARRY SCHOLARSHIP /2006/
Ian Parry was a talented photojournalist at the beginning of his career, when he was tragically killed whilst on assignment for The Sunday Times in December 1989. As the youngest of four children from Prestatyn, north Wales, Ian was determined from an early age to pursue a serious career in newspaper photojournalism and joined the local Rhyl Journal as a trainee at the age of 16. After studying on Sheffield's NCTJ course, he moved to London to secure his dream and joined The Sunday Times as a staff photographer. On one of his first major assignment to cover the war in Romania, a job he was determined to undertake, the plane carrying him home crashed just after take off in bad weather. "He was one of the finest young photographers to have entered Fleet Street in recent years. He had a great deal of personal discipline, which he combined with flair, imagination and tremendous compassion", said Aidan Sullivan, who set up The Ian Parry Scholarship in his memory. Tributes to Ian have come from every picture editor he worked for. "He could turn his hand to anything and had great potential. We often sent him on long, difficult jobs and there was never a squeak of complaint," said Michael Young of The Times.
I suspect and would have hoped that Ian and I would have kept in touch , but I do wonder just how famous he would have become, and just how hard would his job would evolve into. Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Ian would have been in every one of the World's hot spots and you just can't help thinking what would have become of him?
oh by the way.......my soil has finally arrived!!!!!
Been planning the new garden also! cannot do anything else as the top soil has still not appeared, so spent a while at Jackson's picking various cottage garden herbaceous plants such as Euphorbia and anemomes (bottom picture). So I have quite a nice selection of plants all ready, but NO SOIL!!!