Bichoose

Monday 15th June 2026.

2026-06-15T20:16:39Z

I think this week i am going to try and remain in a positive mood as today is the 59th Anniversary of the Monteray Pop Festival 1967..i was 11 years old and probably did not even know that the festival was playing it'self at that time....i think i was more interested in playing football in the streets as in those days cars were minimal and watching the TV programme The Monkee's....which my father actually let me watch as he was not a big fan of American TV programmes...Bat Man was banned in our home....it was a further two years before i climbed into music heavily when i was bought a tiny red Transistor by family returning from Hong Kong from serving in the Hong Kong police force.....I used to play it when i went to bed hiding it under my pillow..BBC Radio One was just taking off across the land and that was only due to the Pirate Radio Stations playing pop music from Boats in the English Channel flooding England with Pop music at the time, and in Manchester you could just about pick them up on the airwaves...The BBC did not like it nor do i think Politicans of the day....i think they thought that constant pop music would ruin us Kids....

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth

Saturday 13th June 2026.

2026-06-13T20:18:33Z

And so the 23rd World Cup starts across the vast ocean in the America's....i think wow for all the Brit fans travelling to follow their teams, such a pocket full of dreams perhaps much needed...And did America start off the Rip-Off festival spirit....thus sadly the world has followed down the years...if they fancy a cold can of bubbles they are being charged up to £14.00 for a can of shite American/European Lager lets not mention the word beer.....
Which is why tonight i prefer to listen..to the band Traffic..singing their hit song from 1967 " Hole in my Shoe "...when English beer then was proper Beer....and mere pennies a pint for the foaming mirth.

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Tuesday 9th June 2026.

2026-06-09T19:03:05Z

In 1974...Mike Sweeny..used to banter on his morning radio show, which made one giggle and takes ones mind away from the rainy city of Manchester...In 1974 Margret Thatcher was almost unheard off, to the mass of working class or as someone i worked with at the time called us working class "The Great Unwashed " then you did not worry about opening your water, tap for water was built into your local council rates, one could afford a bar of chocolate for it was not clobbered in VAT tax, and one could turn on a light bulb and leave it on all the day and all of the night as the song goes sung by The Kinks....
The amount of increased regulations by the Govt and local councils the amount of profits by private companies,has made me think these last few days that we have very little freedom of choice left anymore...why would you build a short bycycle lane no more than 200 yards round a traffic lights across a nice green patch would not some flower beds and park benches for all rather than the few, have been a better idea and i wonder why we did not get a local vote on this idea are we living in a time of Hitlerish without being gased or wearing a star on your collar...and on Saturday D-Day 82 years ago 1944...10,330 allied troops were lost on the beaches that day am i, i wonder mad to think a waste knowing what England is today, or is it the price of a bar of chocolate i could afford in 1974 playing in my mind, or the fact in June we are having dramtic thunder storms i wonder what the weather was in 1974 and what tracks Mike sweeny was playing..must cure this grumpyness..sigh...

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Thursday 4th June 2026.

2026-06-04T20:04:23Z

Rain has fallen today in spits and spats across this small corner of Cheshire...as i washed the dishes tonight with the help of a glass of white wine or so watching the rain fall,my I-Pod played..the song by the Flower Potmen..singing " Lets Go To San Francisco which " slipped on around the kitchen...the line " where the flowers grow so very high " floated through my mind and soul, the song brought back happy memories...of 1967 where you could ride a bus for a penny as a child and if you were a football fan of Manchester Untied you could watch them play at Old Trafford for half a crown....i remember my school pals going..alas i was more interested in the girl next door....Giggle......

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take care So Goeth...X

Tuesday 2nd June 2026.

2026-06-02T18:11:36Z

The mini heat wave touching 80F...has now sunk beneath the pavement, i wonder was that because i thought will we have a Summer of 1976 once more when they almost ran out of Ice Ceam and Beer as road tarmac melted, and tranis wobbled as train tracks in England are not made to stand extreme summer heat.
So as Spring begins to sink in the gathering conker trees each year, i have this daft thought on the Summer of 76....wil once more flower over this small part of Cheshire..however sadly Peter Paul and Mary will whisper in my ear the song " Where Have All The Flowers Gone. " Though i should be grateful that the mini heat wave was over Whit Week especially Whit Friday when the brass bands march through certain towns villages in a competition for best band, and it was nice to sit in the Market Square in Hyde...and watch the bands pass me by, for some reason i always feel quite emotional over the live bands before me and i am glad that some of the younger generation have put their phones down and learnt to play trumpets etc....this year i even saw a fem marching playing the big drum in a band...i apoligise for i did giggle....
So I will still cross my fingers for a Summer of 1976...one never knows what is along the rocky road...does one...

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Whit Tuesday 26th May 2026.

2026-05-26T20:03:20Z

I have survived six days without this here machine...i have not missed the techno in wondering if this that and the other work..i have not had to badly cross my fingers and keep away from the BBC News, so easy if i am popping into the Sports results or looking at the weather forecast...I have simply wandered around the city of Cambridge in 80F and not complained about the weather as us northern folk tend too, yes i have hid under trees on park benches watching the life pass me by in a rich variety whilst eating ice cream, not sure if too much white wine in the evenings..but hey life.
But i have missed my friends i have found amongst the world of techno. So some catching up to do...

To All Whom Passed This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth....X

Saturday 16th May 2026.

2026-05-16T20:34:59Z

Today in Wembley England was F.A. Cup final day...i tried to think the last time i watched the cup final before it simply became money and is now no longer simply the F.A. Cup but possibly named after a certain faiths flying machines....Today i sat on a bus and a small boy climbed on board with his father as i was sat on the very front seat i watched the small boy pick his ticket and run up stairs, as his father passed i kindly asked how much his ticket..the reply was £1.00....and worth it was the reply...i recall spending under a £1.00 to watch the rock band Deep Purple in my youth and rocking to the song Smoke On The Water very much worth it..with a bus fare perhaps one Penny for small boys, for youths i cannot quite recall....
Today it has not stopped raining since lunch time, and as i watched the constant dribble my I-Pod fed me Whiskey In The Jar sung by Thin Lizzy, i had to look up the year...1972...i thought just how old am i with a childish Gosh...which means as darkness falls i need an Ice cream...to float down Whiskey in the Jar O...perhaps one of my fav's song from the 70's.

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth..X

Wednesday 13th May 2026.

2026-05-13T21:04:58Z

I have reached the hump day of the working week, and i blow a kiss that i no longer have to work even if Maggie Thatchers private utilities rob me until i can only afford a non heinz baked bean then so be it...at least on this 59th Anniversary the song San Francisco being released on this day in 1967..i can still sing today " wear some flowers in your hair "....it has been one of my dreams to visit the city and indeed wear some flowers in my hair....Strangely...i did have a chance as i crossed the big ole USA in 1991 of visiting the city..i had a choice either San Fran or L.A....and i picked L.A. for the simple reasons that i could afford the Youth Hostel in Santa Monica..and the flights were better across to Australia...such is life and as i sit here looking back, always better to giggle and have no regrets....and the only Trumps were what you found in your underpants....and i will never forget sat eating an ice cream in awe watching fab fems in bikini's on roller skates zooming down the path along the beach was it the females or the fact that i had not seen sunshine after a long winter at home in England the reason for the awe..

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Friday 8th May 2026.

2026-05-08T19:05:20Z

Been a good few days since i scribbled here, possibly a few to many bus rides through the cobbled streets, i think it is the small boy still dribbling inside of me whom still wishes to sit up stairs on the back seat...peep out of the window and think on those far off school days..some teachers names never leave you especially if they threw board rubbers across the class room... as Mr Badham did trying to distract us from wanting to leave the french class and play football in the summer sunshine, for some reason i seem to think or recall that all my school boy holidays in the 60/70's during the summer were super sunny weeks that sometimes never seemed to end...my mind has had a touch of adventure i found this on the window sill at the back seat of the bus...was it a young or teenage boy with wishful thinking or perhaps it was real or would a young female not staring at her phone think on this and gasp..would we have done such in our youth..if we had marker pens instead of pencils..i do recall the days when pen and ink was banned from the class room is this why..time indeed....

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Tuesday 28th April 2026.

2026-04-28T17:30:54Z

I wonder if you sat on a public bus today through the streets of Cheshire and Lancashire and happened to pick up the free Newspaper Metro.co.uk at the front of the bus in a tiny tin box and sat and read the front page or are you like myself simply take a quick glance at the horoscope page to see if you have any chance of winning the Euro Millions Lotto...then calmly put the newspaper in the nearest recycle bin...Today you might have read Mr Seyed Ali Mousavi from the Irans Embassy standing on the Embassy steps telling the 300,000 odd Iranian living in the UK...to go home and take part in " sacrificing life for the homeland " I also wonder if Seyed Ali Mousavi will also go home, or perhaps not and just hunt for suspenders in Hyde Park.
...I remember sat on New Years Eve...in 1999..watching the fire works across the skies until 4am of coarse with a few glasses of white wine thinking a new Century wow and gosh...sadly we seem to have been in wars ever since that night through the world ...i think all those power riddled folk should sit on a bus..and read the Metro Horoscope page and sigh heavily for what they have done to the world...and possibly listen to a few Bob Dylan songs and Phil Ochs also..and play " I ain't marching any more. "

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Sunday 26th April 2026.

2026-04-26T21:03:01Z

Tis now Sunday evening, St Georges day weekend has become darkness of the day, a glass or two possibly three of white wine tonight has passed me by, my kitchen is a place where one can stand at the door, and stare at the sky and play soft music and wonder where indeed life ferries one...
Tonight..LC's song Famous Blue Raincoat has given me pause for thought..as i wonder where the buxom young wench is now in life, whom introduced me to Leonard Cohen and the Famous Blue Raincoat released in 1971...the first time i heard the song i wanted to bang my head against the wall so depressing the tune sounded...but the many cobbled streets i have passed through since i was 16 the song now makes me smile...and tonight i wonder if a blue raincoat has saved Trump...from lay on the floor, i could not help but think that a telescopic shot down JFK..on that November day in 1963...even as small school boys we heard such sad vibes that changed the world....and i wonder tonight if that soul had a telescopic this April day would the world be at peace with Trump Trumped...it makes one wonder about the word God... but hey Goodnight St Georges day week....

A pub i think i once had a pint of proper bitter beer in my youth...in Hyde Cheshire....England....i stood here on St Georges Day thinking wow and gosh which i think one should in lifes rocky road....i wonder if L.C. ever sang in there....

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Saturday 25th April 2026.

2026-04-25T20:01:06Z

Sadly St Georges Day..was but a whimper through the cobbled streets i passed through on the day, perhaps tis but the bubble gum, dripped on the pavements or the fag ends pushed, squashed, on the window sills one passes that clouds ones vision,...if i glimpesed a hand full fo English flags fluttering from homes windows woz a lot....but thank goodness Trumpington is more German than anything else in this mad world...at least Hyde Town Hall thought why not on the sunny morn....and pinched a flag....to flutter for us old buggars that remenber the word England taught in our school days..

And thus perhaps St Georges Day really belonged to the Pigeons...

To All Whom Pass This way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth..X

Wednesday 22nd April 2026.

2026-04-22T20:50:57Z

Dare i say today 24th Anniversary sadly of Linda Lovelace at the age of 53 killed in a car crash....sadly she had a life full of Gobblins. And dare i say with a whisper incase the Gobblins pour scorn on myself for even thinking that tomorrow is St Georges day...Time to hang a St Georges Flag outside my shrines window to flutter amongst the cobwebs and possibly make people passing sat on buses going Tut tut....for thinking such a word as English...and an English Day...to eat a sausage roll, drink a pint of mirth, and munch a Cadburys chocolate bar...

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Monday 13th April 2026.

2026-04-13T20:35:19Z

Today is Theravada New Years day, plenty of splashing in water fountains perhaps eating a Cadbury's Creme Egg...Oooo the school boy days when one could afford such a treat....Can school boys of today afford such a treat...?..." Ikigai " Japanese reason for living, can you buy Cadbury's Creme Eggs in Japan....which makes me on this 13th day of the month... wonder why the Muslim faith washed through the world...instead of Theravada.....I also wondered today why Mr Trumpington at the age of 80 is eating all the Cadburys Creme Eggs known to man,...with all his billions in his back pocket..why is he not sat on a beach with his wife flicking Cadbury's Creme Eggs....at her breasts....rather than paddling a boat through the Strait of Hormuz, sometimes on has to scribble madness to keep ones sanity or perhaps dance around the kitchen singing the song " Lip up Fatty " released by Bad Manners in 1980 with a wonder just how many Cadbury's Creme Eggs one could buy for a pound in 1980....

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth..X

Thursday 9th April 2026.

2026-04-09T20:51:35Z

" If your going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair "...yes i know 1967...however a glass or two tonight of white wine stood in the kitchen drifting through this song on my I-pod, thinking about the world and WTF, as perhaps tis but Easter Thursday....and perhaps someone should sit Trumpington down and play him the song and perhaps some other Demigods should be sat with him....

To All Whom Pass THis Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Tuesday 7th April 2026.

2026-04-07T21:00:20Z

I am safely back home...and have brought with me, screaming and kicking a touch of Cambridge Sunshine tied in a Waitrose shopping bag to be released amongst our cobbled streets, for i do not think it likes a touch of Up North's endless rain...and thus somehow i have to try and become normal once more, to kick a few rolling pop cans thrown in the gutters,stare at the mighty hoard of shopping trollys festooned in the River Mersey i wonder just how Gerry And The Pacemakers feel about their famous river treated such...and at least for the moment must be grateful that the dancing beat of Trump and Iran..has not nuked us and Easter Eggs are still on the shelflikes and the beaming smiles of petrol stations owners knowing that the petrol in their tanks has been there long before the shouting and screaming in the Middle East and how they giggle at taking the preverbal piss out of us by the price for petrol rises. Yes life indeed Up North....

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth..X

Monday 30th March 2026.

2026-03-30T20:16:26Z

Yes tis but that time of year time to travel the long road down to Cambridge to visit family for anything Easter-ish, do hope i find some sunshine and warmth...promise myself not to look at newspaper head lines....and become a grumpy Sissy...as i glanced yesterday to see MP's have voted themselves a pay rise of over £3,000 per year...which means us great unwashed have to find around another 1.95M....in our purses.....to feed the fodders...
Which means this Easter i can at least afford...A Cadbury's Creme Egg....and some below the gutter cheap white wine....So Happy Easter All.

To All Whom Pass THis Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Sunday 29th March 2026.

2026-03-29T20:26:01Z

Tis but the last Sunday Eve of March so far we have not been nuked quite yet, i do not think i would be shocked if England was, what amazes me is all the money spent on rockets and bombs in the Middle East...and yet Charity letters pop through my letter box saying children are homeless and starving within that part of the world please send us a gift....this is not a new war, two faiths have been fighting for thousands of years and i doubt if it will ever be peaceful, they say one faith has murdered 330 Million folk down the centuries, which makes Hitler look like a penny clipper...i feel so sorry for young children in that mass of sand dreadnoughted into such faiths i wonder if they have a choice...i wonder if any say Fuck Off...thank goodness my own father did not believe in God...but liked a good pint of foaming mirth....sadly one of his favourite beers is no longer brewed in his town...Robinsons Best Bitter and Mild once brewed on Hillgate Stockport...has now moved....and sadly too, one of my special favourites when passing through Singapore, Tiger Beer..is no longer going to be brewed in Singapore..sadly the newish owners Heineken Beer are going to move the brewing to Malaya and Vietnam....Heinekin beer what an aweful tasteless spew, would not wash my socks in such a shite tasting beer....
Well lets hope April is going to be a better month perhaps we might have some warm sunshine in Stockport it badly needs a spot....and i will not have to eat Easter Eggs full of snow...As long as we do not become Nuked.

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Sunday 22nd March 2026.

2026-03-22T21:09:45Z

I have once more made it through the crazy urban streets of a crazy week, drifted through the news stand front pages Gary Glitter not a happy bunny did love his music...and Iranian new year where they eat green grass, perhaps why Iran has not nuked us yet, apparently their rockets can now reach London. But you will not see this on the front pages of newspapers....this is the Mersey Mile....in Stockport.

I actually saw one sprayer yesterday in the art of spraying at the bottom end of the mile he seemed a cheerful chappie we chated for a good few minutes, not as mad as i thought, sadly the council do not sweep the street...must be too long for them..as they busy themselves posting out next years council tax, mine has arrived, but i shall not open until after Easter do not want to choke on my Easter Egg just incase i cannot afford one next year...but maybe i should not worry if Trumpington and his friends get us nuked....must make sure we have room under the stairs to hide just incase..as thats what we were told to do if the air raid sirens are sounded in the Cold War of the 1960's..i remember one siren being on top of the local Police station now and then they used to test it, frightening us all to death...Cor Blimey..we used to once say, before the F-word became more popular than Fish And Chips....

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Friday 20th March 2026.

2026-03-20T21:12:08Z

Today the sun shone over this tiny village of Woodley Cheshire...marking the first day of Spring Equinox thus to celebrate such a Pagan day in England, i have had a taste of a sausage roll...later as i walked through a shopping precient falling from the ceiling was Procol Harum singing " Whiter Shade Of Pale " released in 1967..still a school boy, i just felt the song edge through me thinking wow life....thus as evening fell, a pause for a few glasses of white wine with a wonder where would we be today, if Muslims and Christians never walked Mother Earth...and if Queen Boudica had won her chariot race...would we even have a sausage roll.

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Sunday 15th March 2026.

2026-03-15T12:53:07Z

Rain drops fall across my window..today is St Paddy's day parade in Manchester sadly i have not made it this year....curcumstances beyond my control this weekend..and yes its but Mothers Day....supermakerts bedecked with flowers, chocolates, and pink bras, thankfully i do not have to worry about Mothers day any more..the falling rain drops are perhaps tears from children like myself where the word Mother was spelt wrong.... but hey life is..thankfully there is white wine in the fridge as i am cooking for family today, where amongst is a wonderful mother.....thus i must close now the kitchen is almost calling and i simply want to post this picture for some reason it reminds me of a mother i was sat on a bus with..whom said to her young daughter " Be grateful i gave birth to you "..funny how some words never leave your mind..they were spoken at least some 20 years ago as i came home on the bus from Stockport Post Office one afternoon as school children were pouring out of school running amoc some times one can giggle and wonder were we the same or was the 1960's full of do as your told....i think i ust try to be cheerful next week should i pass this way...and oh yes the picture....
again found on the mile of art work along the river Mersey Stockport....for some reason i think on it as a womens face

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Saturday 14th March 2026.

2026-03-14T14:51:19Z

This quote is sprayed on the Great Wall of Stockport Cheshire which i would say is about a quarter mile long, and on talking to two spray artists the other week people come to spray from miles around within there class, it is quite famous the only sadness stepping back to admire the view and sadly you step into all kinds of shit dumped along the path..anything from super market shopping baskets to even supermarket trolleys which some how become heaped in the river Mersey which flows by this monument i think the shopping trolley syndrome is a sign of coming out of puberty within stockport...youth...judgeing by the mountain of sweet wrappers floating on the breeze...there was a small newspaper pushed through our letterboxes this past week..with the heading Unstoppable Stockport...it says 11M people have passed through the town this past year...which is probably why 11M paper coffee cups are stuffed amongst the bushes....i did come here this morning to scribble some glee that the sun is in full bloom across this old Mill Town...i think i have a sort of love hate about the place....i did want to mention of a wonder are there any Northern Hippy's left....but hey life indeed...with a wonder why the older we become a sort of grumpyness pushes away old hippy thoughts....sigh...

To All Whom Pass This way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth..X

Tuesday 10th March 2026.

2026-03-10T19:35:39Z

If one believes the head lines on the newspaper stands today...about the antics of the Trumpington brigade whom if continues to throw mud pies around the world...us the baby boomers will be paying almost £10.00 for a gallon of petrol shortly, further down the front page was a warming to buy thick wool jumpers for us baby boomers will not be able to afford heating our homes next Winter unless we are CEO's on hundred thousand plus pound wages a year..i wonder what CEO.s think when they pull off there socks at night. I wonder just how many baby boomers are in a grumpy sort of mood...when one thinks we used to buy 10 pints of foaming mirth for one single pound....i recall reading a good few years ago that a famous French man writer or poet..was quoted as saying if all the pubs in England were lost..England would no longer exsist....
This was once the Three Pigeons Pub i passed in Macclesfield Cheshire the other week been long closed since 2005, perhaps it was a coaching house when first opened....sadly this is the story in most towns and cities in England now could one blame the price of a pint of ale or the internet life or the fact that the coming generations after the baby boomers could not quite take bitter ale and have grown into the sweet beers of Europe i sat last saturday in a pub in Stockport Cheshire not one English ale on tap, all Euro Sweet Sap...i think..i should turn on the BBC news am now into my third month of staying away from the BBC..perhaps i would be less grumpy if so....

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Saturday March 7th 2026.

2026-03-07T21:11:58Z

Gosh almost a week since i danced, waved my knickers in the air across this big white screen..i shall blame not so much the old panto dame that lives within me...but Gosh the three days of all out sunshine across the land clasped apon the cobbled streets i have trod..as my old French And Maths teacher used to say..." The story of your life, I Don't Know must try harder..."...funny how one can forget a day old shopping list yet 56 years ago you can recall clearly a school teachers remarks and even picture him in your mind. as you stared from the classroom window with thoughts better to play football or to think of a girl friend left behind when ones parents moved home rather than learn French....with half an eye just in case said teacher threw black board board rubbers across the class room to wake us up...So here is too the rolling of next week with half an eye on black board rubbers.

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X

Sunday 1st March 2026.

2026-03-01T19:40:18Z

I always like to scribble on the first day of each month, there are many times i fail...perhaps the afternoon sunshine today whispered biff bash bosh...lets have a scribble today....thus i have reached day 59 without turning on the BBC News, alas by word of mouth i have heard today the Trumpington is playing kiss me quick with rockets and bombs once more....i have also heard the big ole USA....does not want any football fans for the World Cup as the ICE boys will not be able to cope....due to not enough handcuffs to go around.....Thank goodness Coco Cola...is brewed in Wakefield Yorkshire...or Trumpington might Biff Bash Bosh...Coco Cola.....also....

To All Whom Pass This Way Love And Peace Take Care So Goeth...X