Food, wine, cider, comedy, vintage British sitcoms & films. Music Hall & Variety, pantomime. Vintage VW's. Gardening and growing our own veg. Gardener by profession and inclination. Sometimes post about my late Dad's acting career. Still post on 'X'
Rick Blackman
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I'm just packaging up Dads Last of the Summer Wine scripts to send off to be digitised for a virtual archive, the brainchild of
@andrewtsmith.bsky.social
or Drew as we know him! 26 here so only another 269 to go! Great initiative to create an accessible record of this iconic show.
Rick Blackman
Can't believe it was a year ago today we lost our beloved Irish Terrier Scrumpy. He was 14 but still known as the puppy. Miss him so much. 💔🐶
Just a few hours ago bought this, what I think must be a 1975 promo card for the record cover which has the same image. Nice genuine sigs by both Windsor Davies and Don Estelle. "I will not have gossip in this jungle!"
Yak, yak, yak! Sid James left the stage 50 years ago today.
And just like that, a few hours ago, I found Tommy Coopers holiday home in Eastbourne. Strange location to my thinking. No sea views, just a side road in the Old Town area. Not what I'd expected but a nice little green park and bowling green opposite. #SpoonJarJarSpoon @musichallsociety.bsky.social
Useful bit of rain yesterday, love the smell of petrichor! Could do with more to fill water butts. Garden seems to have perked up anyway. Asparagus rapidly running to fern stage now but will get another risotto or 2 out of them. Day off from gardening today. Going out for drinkies 🍷
Was at Herstmonceux Castle Garden Show today. Was privileged to have a Dragonfly want to stay with me for a good 3 minutes! Stunning little critters and amazing to see them up close like this.
Rick Blackman
Very novel yesterday to find a working telephone in a K6 phone box at Birling Gap near Eastbourne. My box is full of wood so I use my mobile. Note the crowns at the top. Mine is a Tudor crown which dates it to pre 1953. The other is an Elizabethan crown so is post 1953. #PhoneBox
It's all going on at Rick Acres! Soon have our 1st courgettes. Weeded asparagus beds which are at the fern stage now. Planted squashes to grow up repurposed ladder. Getting strawberries from small g'house. Newly replaced rotten wood raised beds now corrugated iron sheets looking good!
For Roy Hudd's 90th and seaside themed #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2026 a programme for 'Hudd's Here' in Scarborough (a seaside town) and an original photo for the cover! And my fav pic of me with the great man at a Dora Bryan plaque do in Brighton, also a seaside town! @musichallsociety.bsky.social
