Tuesday, 29 March 2016
About this blog...
Ponderosa Days blog is an occasional and quite random recollection of my days as a student at Falmouth School of Art from the autumn of 1970 to 1973 when I 'graduated' with a Diploma in Art & Design and went off to Birmingham School of Art & Design to do a post graduate course. It owes almost everything to my pal and fellow student Allan Green (on the right in the photo of us both, winter 1970) who took most of the photos here ( the colour ones are slides of mine) and who wrote the snippets of his epic poem 'Those Ponderosa Days'. The Ponderosa (besides being the home of the Cartwrights in Bonanza) was the public bar of the Penwerris Inn. Allan and myself (and quite a few others) lived there on and off for some two years or so.
The wider context
I came across this
portrait from Dennis' site
- "Chiraa-Khoor" - Huun Huur Tu
Monday, 25 February 2013
Monday, 19 November 2012
Oh Give Me A Home (2)
Oh give me a home
where the old alkis roam
And rats through an
alcoholic haze
Where seldom is heard
an intelligible word
Oh those far off
Ponderosa days
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Melville J. Brooks
"Now just one man
supports the bar
His name is Melville
Brooks
One eye he has which
doesn’t know
which way the other
looks"
Sunday, 26 August 2012
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