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Author Archives: Dave Whatt
So, what is it that those TV ads are trying to tell us?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s carefully selected colours are: valuable violet, ridiculous red, pathetic pink, gerrymandering green, terrible turquoise, bombastic brown, fuming fawn, yawping yellow and architectural azure. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Healthy meals at healthy prices – every second counts! – all … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, adjectives, advertising, brain, colours, existentialism, finance, food, humour, information, instruction, poetry, serendipity, smiling, surrealism, TV, words
Tagged advertising, arts, carefully selected colours, cold sore, colour, existential angst, expletives, fresh and wonderful, instruction, madness, observations, poetry, pork medallions, serendipity, style, surrealism, TV, TV ads, TV advertising, words, writing
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Brexit with Mayonnaise please…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s confused film stars are: Mette Bidler and Swatrick Payze. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Outside Dulltown railway station (I refuse to to call it the ‘train station’) yesterday afternoon, I noticed a gang of chubby miserable-looking people brandishing union … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, art, composition, drama, Dulltown, expletives, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, poetry, politics, seeing, style, surrealism, swearing, words, writing
Tagged ABC cheese, abstract, arts, Bette Midler, brexit, celebrities, cocoa tubes, history, madness, Neville Chamberlain, observations, Patrick Swayze, poetry, remainers, remonstrations, rostrum and mic, serendipity, spoems, style, surrealism, The Hull Surrealist League, the piece of paper, Tony Mayonnaise, traffic warden, train station, words, writing
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It’s alright, it’s just some gnomes sitting on unicorns Dave…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s wrinkled old black and white snapshot is the one of me and Sir Laurence Olivier chatting and having tea and biscuits on the set of Wuthering Heights in 1938. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is this daft enough for … Continue reading
Posted in animals, art, British film, colours, cool, Dulltown, existentialism, Film, history, humour, information, observations, photography, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, smiling, style, surrealism
Tagged 1938, aesthetic gems, alpines, art, arts, celebrities, colour, cute, discovery, film, gnomes, history, Jeff Koons, madness, photography, religion, santas, sculpture, serendipity, Sir Laurence Olivier, style, surrealism, tesco supermarket, The Three Wise Gnomes, unicorns, Wuthering Heights
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Just a few shortish items…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s heraldic term is, Bath, order of the: a British chivalric order. This link is definitely worth a look! (click) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 411. I’m sorry I’m late, but my printer said it … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, brain, composition, conversation, cool, drama, dreaming, Dulltown, existentialism, fashion, food, guitars, Hull.UK., humour, information, instruction, learning, observations, overheard, religion, seeing, serendipity, spam, style, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged air guitar, ante meridiem, banana on toast, brainwashed, cattle, conversation, dictionary word, discovery, double negatives, existential angst, fashion, gulls, heraldry, hot buttered toast, instruction, madness, Meridiem, observations, order of the bath, overheard, poetry, religion, satan, serendipity, spam, style, surrealism, words, writing
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Mail art postcard. No. 4618…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s dictionary words are: gadwall, Gadhel, Gaekwar, gadroon, gadsman, and thrum. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. The professor will be … Continue reading
Posted in art, brain, composition, drama, Grumpiness, humour, information, learning, Mail Art, postcards, puzzle, school, seeing, serendipity, style, surrealism, sweating, TV, words
Tagged advertising, art, arts, celebrities, collage, dictionary word, dictionary words, discovery, diving, don't like sport, exposed, levitating, madness, mail art postcards, Olympics, Professor Mouldie, serendipity, silly, sport, style, surrealism, TV, What's On TV, words
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A thread through the upper mandible of the bill…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s giraffe is the one getting stuck half way up the stairs on a double decker bus. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Suppose it was 1934! And suppose we lived in Britain. And suppose Google hadn’t been invented…’ It hadn’t! … Continue reading
Posted in animals, archeology, books, brain, food, giraffe, history, humour, information, instruction, learning, reading, serendipity, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged 1934, alum and saltpetre, celebrities, dictionary word, discovery, dukes and duchesses, history, hot cross buns, instruction, My Lord Duke, naphtha, obedient servant, observations, persons of rank, preserving small birds, serendipity, style, surrealism, words, writing
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Some of George and Weedon’s characters…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s unusual pencil sharpener is the one shaped like an owl hooting from an oak tree on a foggy damp night. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now, dear reader, you may have noticed that over the past couple of months … Continue reading
Posted in academia, art, books, cafe, drawing, history, humour, information, people, reading, story, style, weather, words, writing
Tagged 1892, art, arts, character names, Daisy Mutlar, drawing, George and Weedon Grossmith, green tea, history, humour, in the cafe, Lupin Pooter, Mr Hardfur Huttle, photography, style, The Diary of a Nobody, words, writing
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