It needs a game!
But what to play? I must search for a sign or omen to point the way.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
The Table is Bare and Lonely
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, 5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of Italian Greyhounds and 3 cats. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 160 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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Very funny! Nice pose.
ReplyDeleteDesperation is ... etc etc
DeleteHa! Great pic!
ReplyDeleteand absolutely honest!
DeleteNow that's a sight! Crying out for the Plains Wars.
ReplyDeleteThe great plains? the Cossack steppes? the .....
DeleteA great picture indeed. Hope he sees some Prince Valiant stuff...
ReplyDeleteAsk and ye shall receive!
DeleteThis is a great atmospheric photograph, it could be straight out of Wells' Little Wars marginal illustrations ...
ReplyDelete"Where have all the buffalo gone? Long time passing ... / Where have all the forests gone? Long time ago ..."
(adapting the words of a 60s hippy beatnik peace song from our 1970s school assembly song book)
HIPPY!!!?? BEATNIK??!!!? Man, that folk song was written in 1955 (a great year by the way not that I have clear memories of bursting into the world) by the late, great Pete Seeger, folk singer & writer, historic folk song reasearcher but also a labour and human rights activist, and yes, antiwar esp unjust wars for profit ans anti beurocratic idiots (check out "kneed deep in the big muddy" - I've known officers and business managers like that!
DeleteAlthough you're probably thinking of the better known Peter, Paul and Mary folk trio version who were largely just entertainers in the folk genre.
I think you are right - it must be the Peter Paul and Mary sing we sang in school assembly and that I have in my head. I was fascinated as a schoolboy by the fact that it was relatively modern and by the fact that you can sing it in a round that would go on and on, it finished where it started ... and could go on, and on, which was surely the anti war point ...
DeleteI missed the chance to see his sister Peggy Seeger about ten years ago in a small venue about ten years ago.
Wonder what's coming over the horizon ?
ReplyDeleteIts quiet, too quiet!
DeleteGreat pic Ross :) Unusual to see your table looking so bare!
ReplyDeleteIts is a rare sight, when there is no game laid out there's usually stacks of boxes and piles of castings, spare parts and books!
DeleteLonely indeed, but so full of possibilities!
ReplyDeleteEndless really!
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