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The hole in the wall
A little boy looks into a dry stone wall and imagines who might inhabit it. Poem with illustrations. A6 softback (postcard size) 24 pages.
Words and illustrations by Ann Perrin
Produced by The Dry Stone Walling Education ProjectThe Puppeteers Daughter
The poems explore the complexity of life as the daughter of marionette makers and performers. There are poems concerned with life, love and loss, also the seaside, artists, allotments and the eccentricities of life.
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- Emerging from the chaos of 2020 inevitably older but wiser?
- Telegoons – based on The Goon show – their role in my downfall!
- Creativity – lockdown – but everything is the garden is lovely!
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- Happy Easter
- The way the brain may cope with self isolation –
- A magical mother – pictures – poems – stories.
- Hands upon hands and so expressive.
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- A garden poem and love the marionettes!
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In memory of Charles Chilton who has just died.
What a lovely man, friendly and unassuming and with such a body of creative and original work behind him and an inspiration to many that followed! He was born on June 15 1917 and died on January 2nd 2013 Apparently he … Continue reading
Posted in Galleries and Art in widest sense, London out and about, Photography
Tagged 'Oh What a Lovely War', Charles Chilton, Jimmy Grafton, Journey into Space, Loving London, Marionette, Out and about in London, Photography, Riders of the Range, The Goon Show, The Goon Show Preservation Sociiety, The Goons, The Strutton Arms, The Telegoons, The very last Goon Show
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The 60th Anniversary – The Goon Show
The Goon Show – The 60th Anniversary of the first show Today I am a very minor celebrity, as one of the ‘Telegoon’ puppeteers in the 60s. Off I go to the The Strutton Arms with Alan my partner and my two sons … Continue reading
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Tagged Bert Kwouk, Charles Chilton, Dave Withall, Eccles, Film attached to blog, IAC, Jeffrey Holland, John Rapesh, Jon Glover, Les Drew, Marionette, Orpington Video and Film Makers, Out and about in London, OVFM, Peter Stanford, Phil Ladd, Photography, The Goon Show Presevation Society, The Goons, The Strutton Arms, The Telegoons
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