#Melanie auld

[sgiandubh]

From California to the New York island... - The 2023 edition

I will probably quickly learn not to post exceedingly allusive things when I am running out of time and yet have to jot down the lightbulb moment, lest it's gone forever.

This morning, I mentioned in my post some images that were still freshly baked and put out for consumption on the two main Mordorian news outlets. When people started to ask in droves during my coffee & lunch breaks, I knew I had to go further, despite my deep, jaded reluctance to revisit my own musings. So now, with laundry on the way (fi-nal-ly!) and a hot cocoa by my side, let's hit the road.

This time, we're going to do it with pictures. It's easier, including for the people from Pyongyang, ahem, Mordor. And the dang simplistic context allows for it: what is there to theorize when the strings are so conspicuous?

I was writing, this morning:

This is the image the Mordorian Pravdas didn't show you:

La Niña Vaquera, feeling maybe a bit shot to the curb, when clearly the whole party vibe is where (Red Dress?) Melanie, the MPC boys band and the Blonde Brigade are. Possibly in a chit-chat with somebody who is not S., classy red plastic cup in hand. I had to re-watch the snippet at least six times in a row to find her (a very taxing job, but hey, it's for the cause). Maybe talking to the somebody whose +1 she plausibly was?

FYI, S never looked at her, never touched her, never engaged with her. Not even when she took her artillery sightseeing, while they were cheering with rapture, shot glasses in hand:

Red arrow is BBC, aka La Niña Vaquera. S is offscreen, to the left, looking at who I think is Duncan Millership (blue arrow), who also was with S at the Sasnak City event, and introduced by him as his new manager. @rosfrank confirmed this morning, in one of the comment threads:

So, rather inconclusive, eh?

With KE/Cucumber Yoga Chick out of the building with a bang, we had to somehow be led further on the Breadcrumb Trail, so serviceable *urv obliged and posted the infamous Shutters Pic I also mentioned and described. If you want to see it, park your drones in her backyard: I am not going to post it, because she arrowed it and the least thing I want is to have Ye Auld Wraith (or anyone, for that matter) on my back stat.

To make it clear: would it be for the first time in the history of mankind when a groupie checks in at the same hotel? But hey, let's be pessimistic for once and suppose she's the new Calendar Girl (based on what, I wonder). She went there, took the pic, leaked it and au revoir, les enfants. Fair's fair, for the Banana Boat Day-oh experience.

And then, we have the 'Fan Pic' who bamboozled the tired, weary masses, courtesy of the other Mordorian, CNN-style, news outlet. This I can post: I stole it from @bat-cat-reader and she never minds.

Conveniently, the woman who posted this very clear latergram does not comment. You bet she doesn't. So, I draw some arrows: let's see where they take us.

The hair is not right, as compared to Banana Boat Day-oh:

What do we say? One inch? One inch and a half longer? Three days later? I should pray for the same to happen to my waistline, but the other way round, then.

And then, also: where is...

Yeah: where's the scar, Sir?

Do you see it? I almost broke my nose and I haven't.

Irrespective of what Mordorian media reported, that is not an MPC rucksack, in the picture.

This is an MPC black rucksack:

Featuring this very peculiar fastening system:

The bag in the picture above has a different one and no visible beige reinforcements:

Maybe the MPC bag line did not exist on the surface of this planet when the pic was taken? Maybe he used a different bag (but we know he travels with those, nowadays) ? At any rate, that is not an MPC one.

And because the third time is always a charm, the Water Bottle. Also suggested (less insistently, though) as belonging to the MPC line.

This is an MPC Peaker water bottle:

With this type of bore:

The one in the picture is, again, different, IMHO, even if the image is very blurry:

I wanted to round this up with a bang and identify the damn logo, because I think it might provide very useful clues. I tried, damn I did, but was unsuccessful. I leave this to better sleuths than I.

Until further evidence, I stand on a very reserved ground concerning BBC. There is still absolutely nothing to write home about. But sure, go ahead and make up your own mind. By all means and I mean it. And sorry for the length of it, of course.

[edited for the fourth arrow]

Fuck, I forgot The Vest.

Weather forecast for yesterday, in Santa Monica, Ca.:

Why the vest on the same man who wrote in Waypoints:

Flying somewhere, perhaps?

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Christina 'Licorice' McKechnie, born on October 2nd 1945 in Edinburgh.

This is always a difficult post for, I say Happy Birthday to Licorice, but in my heart I think she is dead, she was last heard from in 1990, and the last sighting of, "Likkie’’ as she became known, was hitchhiking across the Arizona desert.

Christina ‘Licorice’ McKechnie was born in Edinburgh in 1945, there is nothing about her early life online that I can find, her story starts when she was known around the folk clubs of Auld Reekie, reciting poetry, it was around this time she left home-and was set to marry, the late great Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch. The banns had been called, (Banns were a legal requirement and were an intention of marriage, posted for people to see in their parish,) the wedding never took place, Jansch left Scotland for Morocco.

Likkie began a relationship with Robin Williamson who along Robin,Clive Palmer and Mike Heron had form The Incredible String Band, the group split for a time when Williamson and Likkie went travelling but reformed on their return as a duo with Heron. They later played on the same bill as Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, Likkie joined then as vocalist and they recorded the album, The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion.

The band went on to have success touring but had limited commercial success. They got involved with Scientology in the 60’s and it is said to have contributed to a decline in their music quality, they did however play Woodstock in 69, they were scheduled to play the first day and a fee of $4500 had been agreed, this would have been a huge sum for them back in the 60’s and you would have thought bigger things beckoned. The band didn’t appear on the film of the festival as they refused to play in the rain, their slot was taken by the fabulous Melanie (Safka) who later wrote “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” about her day. “String Band” played the next day on a mainly rock day, the world missed out and so did they.

By late 1969, they had established a communal base at Glen Row near Innerleithen, Likkie and Robin split around this time although she remained in the group till 1972. After a failed marriage to musician Brian Lambert she featured on an album with Williamson and his Merry men and an album with Woody Woodmansey’s band U-Boat. Beyond this, it's believed that she may have bounced around, living perhaps in Los Angeles, Arizona, and Sacramento.

The Diversity of Classic Rock website reports that McKechnie's sister last heard from her in 1990, when McKechnie had been recovering from surgery in Sacramento. The site is also one of many that claims McKechnie disappeared in the Arizona desert, but this has never been conclusively proved.

Time to hit the kitchen to grab a few grains of salt because Reddit has also weighed in on her disappearance, with unproven theories ranging from a Scientology connection to parsing the words of former bandmates who wish (emphasis on the present tense) her well.

Redditors also claim that McKechnie's family hired private investigators to find her, though they were unsuccessful. Others counter that she's been traced via a basic internet search to a small city in the States. The confusion is enough to make any casual sleuth hope that McKechnie just grew tired of the spotlight and is now happy in her anonymity.

I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether Likkie is dead, or if she is living way off grid somewhere on the other side of the Atlantic celebrating her 78th birthday.

[taylorswiftstylequestions]

Hi! Can you please remind me of the online jewelry stores you recommended previously? I remember Mejuri, of course, and have purchased several pieces there that I love but they don’t have when I’m looking for now and I can’t find the post you did before with your suggestions.

I want to buy a pretty engagement ring that I can wear for casual things so my real one does not get damaged or stolen. I don’t want a real diamond - lab grown is great. Or moissanite.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi! Love hearing that you’ve bought some pieces from Mej. For something finer I’ve liked Vrai, Melanie Auld, and Aurate.

Happy shopping!

[cburdelle]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: NWT Anthropologie x Melanie Auld Fortunes Charm Long Necklace Sterling Silver.

[brookston]

Holidays 12.31

Holidays

Bright Idea Day

Check the Smoke Alarms Day

Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)

Falls Festival Starts (Byron Bay; Australia)

Genf Restoration (Restoration of the Republic Geneva; Switzerland)

International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)

January 0

Leap Second Time Adjustment Day

Lightbulb Day

Make Up Your Mind Day

Namahage (Japan)

National Heroes Day (East Timor)

New Year's Eve (a.k.a. ... 

Afternoon Before New Year’s Day (Estonia)

Amateur Drinking Night

Amband

Auld Year's Night (Scotland)

Baal Fire Festival (England)

Baharu (a.k.a. Baru; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)

Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)

Brew Year's Eve

Calennig (Wales)

Ditch the Resolutions Day

Feast of Father Time

Festival of the Dead (Positivist)

Festival of Yemya (Yoruba/Santeria)

Fire and Ice New Year’s Eve Celebration (Anchorage, Alaska)

First Footing

First Night

Fravartigan (Parsi Zoroastrian)

Gamlarskvold (Iceland)

Harvest Day (Benin)

Hogmanay (Scotland)

Joya no Kane (Japan)

Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia)

Karma (African Americans, African Diaspora)

Malam Tahun

Namahge (Demon Festival; Japan)

Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night; Mexico)

Noche Vieja (Mexico)

Nochevieja or Fin de Año (Spain)

No Resolution Day

Novy God Eve (Russia)

Oíche Chinn Bliana (a.k.a. Oíche na Coda Móire or Oíche Chaille; Ireland)

Okera Matsuri (Sacred fire Rite; Kyoto, Japan)

Old Year’s Night (England)

Ōmisoka (Prepare and Welcome New Year’s God Toshigami; Japan)

Oud en Nieuw or Oudejaarsavond (Netherlands)

Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana)

Ritual for Iemanja (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Samoan Fire Dance (Samoa)

Silvester

Sint Sylvester Vooravond (a.k.a. Oudjaar; Belgium)

Stonehenge Fireball Festival (UK)

Swinging the Fireballs (Stonehaven, Scotland)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Tar Barrel Burning (Allendale, England)

The Night of Big Portion (Ireland)

Vigilia di Capodanno (a.k.a. Notte di San Silvestro; Italy)

Watch Night (Christian)

World Peace Meditation Day

Yang Yi (Uzbekistan)

Oga no Namahage (Oga City, Japan)

The Old Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)

One Voice Day

Procrastinator's Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Restoration Day (Switzerland)

Silvesterklause (Switzerland)

Solidarity Day of the World (Azerbaijan)

Universal Hour of Peace (UN) [11:30 pm]

Unlucky Day

World Healing Day

World Peace Meditation Day

You’re All Done Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Champagne Day

National Vinegar Day

Feast Days

Columba (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Sharaf (Honor; Baha’i)

Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Day; Positivist)

Hogmanay / Hug Many Day (Pastafarian)

Isabel & The Shark (Muppetism)

Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)

Look Good Until You Die Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucifer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Melania the Younger (Christian; Saint)

Seventh Day of Christmas

Sylvester I, Pope (Catholic Church)

Twelve Holy Days #6 (Virgo, the intestinal tract; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #7; Silvester (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Zoticus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day of Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (worldwide)

Premieres

Cool For Cats (BBC Musical Variety TV Show; 1956)

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (TV Special; 1972)

Divorce Court (TV Series; 1957)

Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom (Novel; 1986)

Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Novel; 1985)

Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1879)

Two Doors Down (Scottish TV Series; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Melanie, Silvester (Austria)

Donata, Silvestar, Silvija (Croatia)

Silvestr (Czech Republic)

Sylvester (Denmark)

Silvar, Silver, Silvester, Silvo (Estonia)

Silvo, Sylvester (Finland)

Colombe, Sylvestre (France)

Melanie, Silvester (Germany)

Melany (Greece)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Paolina, Silvestro (Italy)

Kalvis, Silvestrs (Latvia)

Gedgantas, Melanija, Mingailė, Silvestras (Lithuania)

Sylfest, Sylvi, Sylvia (Norway)

Korneliusz, Mariusz, Melania, Sebastian, Sylwester, Tworzysław (Poland)

Melania (Romania)

Silvester (Slovakia)

Melania, Silvestre (Spain)

Sylvester (Sweden)

Melania (Ukraine)

Malone, Melania, Melanie, Melany, Silas, Silvester, Sylvester (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 365 of 2022; 0 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 52 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Dōngyuè), Day 9 (Wu-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 7 Teveth 5783

Islamic: 7 Jumada II 1444

J Cal: 5 Fest; Fiveday [5 of 5]

Julian: 18 December 2022

Moon: 67%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Extra Day)

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz (Yew) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 11 of 90)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Festival of the Dead [Complimentary Extra Day; Month 0 of 13; Positivist]

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.31

Holidays

Bright Idea Day

Check the Smoke Alarms Day

Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)

Falls Festival Starts (Byron Bay; Australia)

Genf Restoration (Restoration of the Republic Geneva; Switzerland)

International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)

January 0

Leap Second Time Adjustment Day

Lightbulb Day

Make Up Your Mind Day

Namahage (Japan)

National Heroes Day (East Timor)

New Year's Eve (a.k.a. ... 

Afternoon Before New Year’s Day (Estonia)

Amateur Drinking Night

Amband

Auld Year's Night (Scotland)

Baal Fire Festival (England)

Baharu (a.k.a. Baru; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)

Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)

Brew Year's Eve

Calennig (Wales)

Ditch the Resolutions Day

Feast of Father Time

Festival of the Dead (Positivist)

Festival of Yemya (Yoruba/Santeria)

Fire and Ice New Year’s Eve Celebration (Anchorage, Alaska)

First Footing

First Night

Fravartigan (Parsi Zoroastrian)

Gamlarskvold (Iceland)

Harvest Day (Benin)

Hogmanay (Scotland)

Joya no Kane (Japan)

Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia)

Karma (African Americans, African Diaspora)

Malam Tahun

Namahge (Demon Festival; Japan)

Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night; Mexico)

Noche Vieja (Mexico)

Nochevieja or Fin de Año (Spain)

No Resolution Day

Novy God Eve (Russia)

Oíche Chinn Bliana (a.k.a. Oíche na Coda Móire or Oíche Chaille; Ireland)

Okera Matsuri (Sacred fire Rite; Kyoto, Japan)

Old Year’s Night (England)

Ōmisoka (Prepare and Welcome New Year’s God Toshigami; Japan)

Oud en Nieuw or Oudejaarsavond (Netherlands)

Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana)

Ritual for Iemanja (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Samoan Fire Dance (Samoa)

Silvester

Sint Sylvester Vooravond (a.k.a. Oudjaar; Belgium)

Stonehenge Fireball Festival (UK)

Swinging the Fireballs (Stonehaven, Scotland)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Tar Barrel Burning (Allendale, England)

The Night of Big Portion (Ireland)

Vigilia di Capodanno (a.k.a. Notte di San Silvestro; Italy)

Watch Night (Christian)

World Peace Meditation Day

Yang Yi (Uzbekistan)

Oga no Namahage (Oga City, Japan)

The Old Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)

One Voice Day

Procrastinator's Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Restoration Day (Switzerland)

Silvesterklause (Switzerland)

Solidarity Day of the World (Azerbaijan)

Universal Hour of Peace (UN) [11:30 pm]

Unlucky Day

World Healing Day

World Peace Meditation Day

You’re All Done Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Champagne Day

National Vinegar Day

Feast Days

Columba (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Sharaf (Honor; Baha’i)

Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Day; Positivist)

Hogmanay / Hug Many Day (Pastafarian)

Isabel & The Shark (Muppetism)

Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)

Look Good Until You Die Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucifer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Melania the Younger (Christian; Saint)

Seventh Day of Christmas

Sylvester I, Pope (Catholic Church)

Twelve Holy Days #6 (Virgo, the intestinal tract; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #7; Silvester (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Zoticus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day of Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (worldwide)

Premieres

Cool For Cats (BBC Musical Variety TV Show; 1956)

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (TV Special; 1972)

Divorce Court (TV Series; 1957)

Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom (Novel; 1986)

Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Novel; 1985)

Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1879)

Two Doors Down (Scottish TV Series; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Melanie, Silvester (Austria)

Donata, Silvestar, Silvija (Croatia)

Silvestr (Czech Republic)

Sylvester (Denmark)

Silvar, Silver, Silvester, Silvo (Estonia)

Silvo, Sylvester (Finland)

Colombe, Sylvestre (France)

Melanie, Silvester (Germany)

Melany (Greece)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Paolina, Silvestro (Italy)

Kalvis, Silvestrs (Latvia)

Gedgantas, Melanija, Mingailė, Silvestras (Lithuania)

Sylfest, Sylvi, Sylvia (Norway)

Korneliusz, Mariusz, Melania, Sebastian, Sylwester, Tworzysław (Poland)

Melania (Romania)

Silvester (Slovakia)

Melania, Silvestre (Spain)

Sylvester (Sweden)

Melania (Ukraine)

Malone, Melania, Melanie, Melany, Silas, Silvester, Sylvester (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 365 of 2022; 0 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 52 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Dōngyuè), Day 9 (Wu-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 7 Teveth 5783

Islamic: 7 Jumada II 1444

J Cal: 5 Fest; Fiveday [5 of 5]

Julian: 18 December 2022

Moon: 67%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Extra Day)

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz (Yew) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 11 of 90)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Festival of the Dead [Complimentary Extra Day; Month 0 of 13; Positivist]

[technsavi]

Melanie Auld Jewelry opens flagship store in Kitsilano

Melanie Auld Jewelry opens flagship store in Kitsilano

Article content The product: Melanie Auld Jewelry opens flagship store in Kitsilano. Article content A view inside the new Melanie Auld Jewelry boutique in Vancouver. Melanie Auld Jewelry Why we love it: Vancouver jewelry designer Melanie Auld has set up shop in Kitsilano with a flagship boutique. Located at 2077 W 4th Ave., the shop features an expanded offering of what was on offer in her…

[onetrainscifi]

Got tagged by @gohoubi to name every WIP in my fic list so. Oh boy here we go. Also feel free to ask about any of these as the titles are NOT descriptive at all

-you know :)

-we grow

-(give me a reason) to breathe

-of monsters & men

-it's our paradise and it's our war zone

-Meeting The Parents

-dance fucker dance

-come to the cabaret!

-the promised lands's a lie (and sometimes i think, so am i)

-the princess is dead (and i'm in her skin)

-don't stop dancing til the curtain call

-you have two juiceboxes and 8 months to get your shit together Joseph

-maybe i could hold you in the dark

-would it be enough if i could never give you peace?

-evolution

-last man standing always gets cold

-i would know him in death, at the end of the world

-chase the morning

-you just take a look around

-the melanie and virginia fic

-we would never break the chain

-seventeen (why can't you see it?)

-should auld aquaintance be forgot, i'll love you til the day i die

-Melanie Cavill And The Eugenics Library

-muzzle

-you look like you drink white gatorade and smell like nickels

[deanfreakingwinchesterismyhero]

Untitled #6027 by abigailloveschocolate featuring combat boots

[sneekpeekinspired]

Melanie Auld PEGASUS STUDS-$125

[outfits-of-the-days]

Sans titre #5327 par kina-ashley utilisant how to wear a jumpsuit

RED Valentino jumpsuit, €305 / Hollister Co chaussures à talon haut, €53 / UGG bucket bag, €200 / Melanie Auld teardrop ring, €86 / Kenneth Jay Lane boucles d oreilles en fausses perle, €27 / INC International Concepts beaded jewelry, €26

[loveyoutfits]

Sleep Apnea by shibusai featuring cookie tins ❤ liked on Polyvore

Band of Outsiders cream dress / Long sleeve top / L'Autre Chose leather sandals / Melanie Auld pendant necklace / 10 Bells stackable ring, $4.56 / L.G.R rectangle glasses, $260 / Urban Decay eyebrow kit / Bobbi Brown Cosmetics eyeshadow / Palette eyeshadow / Anastasia Beverly Hills tweezers brow tool / Philip Kingsley hair blow dryer, $27 / Glass food storage container / Garden Trading coffee canister / Garden Trading cookie tin, $30 / Jayson Home alabaster box / Butterfly wall art, $69 / Tibetan Pink Quartz Points 6 Crystals 24mm - 29mm x 5mm - 6mm Raw,... / Escoda Chungking Natural Bristle Cap de Llauna - BLICK art materials

[scotianostra]

Christina 'Licorice' McKechnie was born on October 2nd 1945.

This is always a  difficult post for, I want to say Happy Birthday to  Licorice, but in my heart I think she is dead, she heard from in 1990, although the last sighting if, !Likkie’’as she became known, was  hitchhiking across the Arizona desert.

Christina ‘Licorice’ McKechnie was born in Edinburgh in 1945, there is nothing about her early life online that I can find, her story starts when she was known around the folk clubs of Auld Reekie, reciting poetry, it was around this time she left home-and was set to marry, the late great Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch. The banns had been called, (Banns were a legal requirement and were an intention of marriage, posted for people to see in their parish,) the wedding never took place, Jansch left Scotland for Morocco. 

Likkie began a relationship with Robin Williamson who along Robin,Clive Palmer and Mike Heron had form The Incredible String Band, the group split for a time when Williamson and Likkie went travelling but reformed on their return as a duo with Heron. They later played on the same bill as Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, Likkie joined then as vocalist and they recorded the album, The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion.

The band went on to have success touring but had limited commercial success. They got involved with Scientology in the 60’s and it is said to have contributed to a decline in their music quality, they did however play Woodstock in 69, they were scheduled to play the first day and a fee of $4500 had been agreed, this would have been a huge sum for them back in the 60’s and you would have thought bigger things beckoned. The band didn’t appear on the film of the festival as they refused to play in the rain, their slot was taken by the fabulous Melanie (Safka) who later wrote “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” about her day. “String Band” played the next day on a mainly rock day, the world missed out and so did they.

By late 1969, they had established a communal base at Glen Row near Innerleithen, Likkie and Robin split around this time although she remained in the group till 1972. After a failed marriage to musician Brian Lambert she featured on an album with Williamson and his Merry men and an album with Woody Woodmansey’s band U-Boat.  Beyond this, it's believed that she may have bounced around, living perhaps in Los Angeles, Arizona, and Sacramento. 

The Diversity of Classic Rock website  reports that McKechnie's sister last heard from her in 1990, when McKechnie had been recovering from surgery in Sacramento. The site is also one of many that claims McKechnie disappeared in the Arizona desert, but this has never been conclusively proved.

Time to hit the kitchen to grab a few grains of salt because Reddit has also weighed in on her disappearance, with unproven theories ranging from a Scientology connection to parsing the words of former bandmates who wish (emphasis on the present tense) her well.

Redditors also claim that McKechnie's family hired private investigators to find her, though they were unsuccessful. Others counter that she's been traced via a basic internet search to a small city in the States. The confusion is enough to make any casual sleuth hope that McKechnie just grew tired of the spotlight and is now happy in her anonymity. 

I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether Likkie is dead, or if she is living way off grid somewhere on the other side of the Atlantic celebrating her 77th birthday.

[taylorswiftstylequestions]

Hello hello! I'm usually a silent lurker but I've been looking for Christmas ideas and was wondering if Mejuri is a good brand for nice-ish but not too expensive jewelry? Or if you have any other recommendations! Thank you thank you xx

Hi! I'm a longtime and very loyal Mejuri customer lol so yes I highly recommend them.

I wrote a Patreon post providing a detailed review of all the Mejuri pieces I do own if that's of interest! Post: "My Mejuri Jewelry Review"

Others in a similar category that I have shopped and like include Melanie Auld, Jenny Bird, Aurate, Catbird.

[cburdelle]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: NWT Anthropologie x Melanie Auld Fortunes Charm Long Necklace Sterling Silver.

[flashinglights0]

Melanie Auld x REVOLVE Starburst Hoop Earrings ❤ liked on Polyvore (see more tassel hoop earrings)