#York Racecourse

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I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S MORE "GOTHIC" THAN VELVETY RED CURTAINS -- WELCOME TO 1984.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on English guitarist/ musician Gary Marx of gothic rock/post-punk band THE SISTERS OF MERCY, performing live at the York Racecourse, York, UK, c. September 1984. 📸: "psychocandy65."

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/36467017@N08/3681436794.

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6th Hopes and dreams ball

6th Hopes and dreams ball

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A Royal Recycling (part 137)

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21 June 2018 | Queen Elizabeth II, Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Sir Nicholas Bacon and Prince Andrew, Duke of York arrive in the Royal procession on day 3 of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, England. (c) Joe Maher/Getty Images for Ascot Racecourse 

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British Royal Family - Mike Tindall and Sarah, Duchess of York during day two of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse, Berkshire. (Photo by David Davies) | June 19, 2024

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Queen Camilla attends Day Four of the Sky Bet Ebor Festival at York Racecourse, 24.08.2024

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York con~

Come say hi!

I'm at York con today at the York Racecourse! Selling my prints, charms, pins and stickers~ 🌟😊🌟

I'll be here until the end (5pm) and accepting cash and card!

[theretirementstory]

25/08/2024. Bonjour à tous, I can’t believe that we are hurtling towards the end of August! Where has that month gone? My son had booked his flights out to me towards the end of July and it seemed ages until he was arriving and now it’s just over a week😱. I am so excited, I am like that dog chasing it’s tail 😂.

This week saw 43 years since I passed my driving test 🙈 and I still drive as if I am on the test!

Oyez, oyez, oyez, announcement of the week! “The Trainee Solicitor” is due a name change as with effect from 23 August he has been admitted as a Solicitor. That’s one of your dreams realised now “Mr Solicitor”, it’s great news, 🥳 from a proud mum.

My grandchildren are with “The Photographer” this weekend, being a bank holiday on Monday they will be spending an extra day with him but then he goes back to work on Tuesday and Grandad will be on childminding duties. It’s been a busy week for “The Photographer” as he had a midweek journey to photograph the Scarborough AFC match at Chorley. Last weekend one of his photos was used by BBC Sport so the photos are “getting out there”. As he was leaving work on Friday evening, he was told by a police motorcyclist to wait at the junction and to his surprise heading along the road, flanked by more police motorcyclists was a Mercedes car which he was sure contained “The Queen”. Apparently she made a surprise visit to the Ebor Festival at York Racecourse on the third day (Friday). What a lovely surprise for him to tell his children.

“The Recovery Coordinator” has had “the week from hell!” Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and as her employment is running short-staffed anyway it has been a nightmare. Fortunately she only has one and a half days at work this coming week then she breaks up for her holidays. I am hoping against hope that this lovely weather we are having continues into the first week of September and that she can enjoy some relaxation in the sun.

“The Jetsetter” has been to Maidenhead, for a friends wedding. I do hope it was a fantastic day and that it was a nice break.

Now it’s back to “The Solicitor” who yesterday lunchtime went out to celebrate his fantastic news with his partner, father, brother, niece and nephew. What a celebration. I do hope there are no “thick heads” this morning.

My “Personal Shopper” has returned from holiday, he has been put to good use since he got back, not only did he do my shopping yesterday, but on Thursday he also pressure washed my patio, gates and the top of the letterbox. He then went to order my prescription from the pharmacy.

Monique celebrates her birthday today and I cannot believe that it is two years since I was sitting in her garden playing with her twin grandchildren who were only 7 months old at the time.

Anie has been down to see me, she brought figs, vine peaches and an apple. I thought she might have to do my shopping for me yesterday, however the Personal Shopper agreed to do it. I was pleased she could have a normal Saturday, visit the market and then on a balmy afternoon she was going to visit her garden.

I was up with the larks yesterday as I wanted to walk to the sunflower field down the road to take some photos for the children. We had a video call and my grandson wanted to see my house so I wandered round showing him around, his sister kept saying, I was in there, and sure enough she had been when Daddy brought her over last year. I think my grandson liked my garden if only because it had an airer like Mummy’s. He liked upstairs best, maybe because downstairs is a “work in orogress”, while I am preparing for the visitors.

I was in Paris on Monday, blimey could that driver make the car move! We were doing 160k/hr on a 130 road 🙈. We got there in good time and would have been home quicker if someone at the hospital had phoned and given the taxi office a departure time. I only needed a platelet transfusion my haemoglobin had increased a bit from the previous Friday.

I was then at Troyes on Friday where the platelets had dropped again but not as low as they had been. The haemoglobin had increased yet again but the doctor said it was probably due to one of the injections I have once a week. He said that is better than requiring a transfusion though. To try and sort out my low blood pressure, dosage of my blood pressure tablet has been reduced by half. I now feel like a new woman!

The cleaner has been again and I am going to type a list of jobs to be done weekly/monthly.

I baked a cake yesterday afternoon I don’t know why but I don’t seem to be enjoying some of these foods at the moment.

When my visitors have gone back home, I am going to sort out lots of stuff for the charity shop, decheterie (tip) and anything which could be useful to some of the refugee places.

I had a package arrive from Worcester which included a tea towel, a penguin pin for a coat or jacket and a small penguin “pebble” to keep in my pocket. The penguins have been around the city, lots of them, large and small, doing “The Waddle”.

Then I received a gift from the Îles d’Oleron which was a bag containing some salt, caramel chip biscuits, puffed rice coated in chocolate and caramel plus a lavender bag which smells divine. I have lots of these in wardrobes, drawers etc.

I read in the local newspaper that the fountain which was due to be installed in front of the Town Hall and up and running by July, had been slowed down due to the discovery of an air raid shelter! This work will now be completed during September. I guess that is when everyone is back from holidays.

I had messaged Nicolas (the gardener) to come and cut the lawn and hedges. He said he would try to come and mow on Friday but I guess he must be a busy man as he never came. As he passes my house on his way home he tends to do my jobs if he has finished jobs early and would otherwise go straight home.

I also messaged the roofer, I had phoned and left a message, sent a text message and then sent an email. With the lack of response I can only assume 🙄 that he is on holiday.

I also messaged the plumber who never responded. I don’t think he is on holiday as I have seen his van in the area. Will ring and speak to him I think next week.

Then, I had put off contacting the man to clean the outside walls of the house as I hate speaking on the phone. Anyway I sent a text, he replied saying he is on holiday but will contact me on Sunday. I guess 50% success rate isn’t too bad.

Although my life is still dictated by the hospital visits, I am happy to be dealing with other things I wanted to do. Having a walk is making me feel much better and not being out of breath or as wary, which I have to be but not to the extent that I am wrapped in cotton wool.

It’s difficult to think up songs that have meant something to me over the years. However, I just remembered this one, it’s Lady Love Me (One More Time) by George Benson which was released in 1983.

I can’t believe I haven’t had a song by this next singer, there are a few which I absolutely love but I have chosen this particular song as it reminds me of holidays, being on the night train from York to Bristol (Temple Meads) then a change onto the train to Penzance in Cornwall. It was in the days when trains had compartments (I loved those trains). It was the first time I had been to Cornwall but it was not to be the last time. My sister was coming up three years old and the only bit of the song she could (nearly) sing was “working all day, all day, all day”. The song is Matthew & Son by (as he was then) Cat Stevens and the year was 1967.

Have a good week until next week.

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INCOMING DINOSAURS, MOTÖRMASTERS, GOTHIC ROCK, UK PUNK, KRYPTONIAN LADIES, UNDERGROUND COMIX, & MORE!

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the first batch of Tumblr cover photos in my ongoing bi-monthly series of the various cover photos I've used over the past month or so. This month, featuring:

3D sketch/model of the Tyrannosaurus Rex buck from "The Lost World: Jurassic Park."

English rock and roll band MOTÖRHEAD, posing in front of the former World Trade Center, c. 1981. 📸:

Underground Comix art by American cartoonist R. Crumb, criticizing the effects of mainstream television consumption.

Spruce up your bland toilet at home with the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force"-themed Carl Brutananadilewski toilet cover and bib.

Full sleeve/cover art to the self-titled 1970 debut album by English heavy metal band BLACK SABBATH.

Guitarist Gary Marx of THE SISTERS OF MERCY,, York Racecourse, UK, c. September 1984.

Supergirl A.I. artwork by "Nho Eskape," c. 2024.

Manchester punks, UK, c. early 1980s.

Sources: https://norselandsrock.com/black-sabbath-cover, Sketchfab, ThisIsWhyImBroke, Picuki, Pinterest, HighExistence, Flickr, X, various, etc...

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Developments of the AC75 Mainsail || Sailing World

The complex mainsail systems of the second-generation AC75s tackle the challenge of power versus drag.

As complex as the AC75s will be when launched for racing at the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Challenger Series, New York YC’s American Magic trimmer Lucas Calabrese says that getting the team’s 75-foot foiler around the racecourse will demand the same fundamentals he honed in his years of Olympic 470 sailing. A mainsail is a mainsail, after all, but how trimmers manage the power in these towering high-aspect sails is exponentially more critical. The AC75 Tech Regulations, which define virtually every aspect of the AC75, are “quite restrictive” with the sails, Calabrese says. But for the second-generation twin-skinned mainsails, there is plenty of innovation yet to come.

Full Story Here…

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Did you ever post your expose on Wanda's family

Yes. Now. Isaac Hurst. Everyone else we can nearly account for but not him. We're not the only ones. Someone else was looking for information, years ago:

Now, there's a number of Hurst, Hirst, Herst but a lot of them can be accounted for. While looking around, I happened across another Hurst with a vague biography. William Hurst, an architect in Doncaster, born 1787-1844. He was the one who earlier worked on Firbeck Hall in 1820 for Henry Galley Knight, who legend has it helped Walter Scott with local information when the author wrote Ivanhoe. The sun, featured below was likely added at a later date, as the place was refurbished in Art Deco and turned into a club. Not that it matters. Buildings in Britain tend to retain their lineage from the first stone laid.

There are two remarkable things about William Hurst. At one point, he rebuilt the stand at Doncaster Racecourse, which later is immortalized in The Six Napoleons by ACD:

"You remember when the stand fell at Doncaster? Well, I was the only journalist in the stand, and my journal the only one that had no account of it, for I was too shaken to write it." Horace Harker

The other thing? Richard Birkin lived in Nottingham, born 1805-1870. It's only 49 miles away. A lace manufacturer, he later became Mayor. So was Hurst in Doncaster. The only personal thing they say about him besides being an apprentice to William Lindley, who learned under John Carr of York, was that his father was the landlord of the Salutation Inn, which I almost mixed up with the one in Nottingham, which is way cooler. The entire area has a ton of Roman history but Nottingham especially is full of caves, the biggest under Ye Old Salutation Inn.

So, we have a Hurst with a fuzzy background, who lives not far from the Birkins, a piece of architecture he worked on mentioned in a Sherlock Holmes story. Then we have the other Hurst, another fuzzy background, who's descendants would go on to be related to Arthur Conan Doyle through the Cumberbatches and embroiled in stupid nonsense with the same Birkin family. In the middle of all this, that sun symbol.

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 18th to 23rd June 1923

— Monday 18th June to Saturday 23rd June Hackwood A jolly Ascot party, only a little too grand even for Chips. Paul of S, Serge Obolensky and I were together in a sort of suite at the end of the house. We had greatest chap fun together. The ladies of the party in addition to our shining hostess ... Lady Ancaster, very sirenic and mischevious and good company and I fear very open about her liaison with Lord Londonderry¹ who is also here, Mrs Walter Burns,² a boring little marquise de Polignac.³ She is the most disgusting snob and was so ecstatic at lunching with the King the first day that I fear she will never recover. Her little fat military husband Melchior de P⁴ is very much in love with her .... Dinner is never until 9.30 and then we get little messages that Lord Curzon has been detained by work ... a treaty or two I suppose⁵ ... and that we are not to dine until ten, which is really too un-English. We motor in state in five Rolls-Royces to the racecourse every day. Our host goes up to London to the Foreign Office. In the evenings there is poker and bridge ... On Saturday morning, as I was leaving, I received a message to come to Lord Curzon’s bedroom and I found this potentate in a blue dressing gown. Lady Curzon was talking to him and they told me I must stay for the weekend as every ambassador in the world was coming ... but it wasn’t that, but the arrival of the two Italian princesses (the daughters of the King) who had just announced their arrival. I longed to remain and help but I didn’t dare to chuck Lady Lowther⁶ to whom I am promised since a month for the weekend. I left sadly rather our of favour, I fear, because of my refusal. — 1. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1878-1949), 7th Marquess of Londonderry. He was appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1919 and served as Secretary of State for Air from 1931 to 1935. He went out of favour because of his close links with, and apparent regard for, the Nazis in Germany. 2. Ruth Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck (1883-1978), great-great-granddaughter of the 3rd Duke of Portland, married in 1907 Walter Spencer Morgan Burns (1872-1929); she had been a leading society hostess in London since before the war. 3. Nina Floyd Crosby (1881-1966) of New York, married in 1917 the marquis de Polignac (vide infra). 4. Marie Charles Jean Melchior, marquis de Polignac (1880-1950), ran the Pommery champagne company (an inheritance from his mother, Louise Pommery) and was a member of the International Olympic Committee. 5. Curzon was at the time Foreign Secretary. 6. Alice Blight (1873-1939), married in 1905 Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther Bt (1858-1916), Ambassador to Constantinople from 1908 to 1913.

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20 June 2019 | Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Princess Anne, Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence in the Parade Ring on day 3 of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, England. (c) John Phillips/Getty Images for Ascot Racecourse

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Queen Camill attends Day Three of the Sky Bet Ebor Festival at York Racecourse, 23.08.2024