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Tag Archives: transportation
What’s in the Surrealist Van this time?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s lost plectrum is the one eventually found inside an egg, one of a pack of six bought from a local supermarket. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The phone rang very early yesterday morning. ‘Hello?’ I said, as I leaned … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, arts, brain, celebrities, conversation, cool, drama, Dulltown, existentialism, food, Grumpiness, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, puzzle, serendipity, style, surrealism, words
Tagged A priest's smile, art, arts, best butter, bone china, Boris Johnson, celebrities, champagne cork, cigarette butt, conversation, David Hockney, dictionary word, discovery, gammadion, history, jackson pollock paintings, Jacob Rees-Mogg, madness, parcel from Amazon, parcels, poetry, sausages, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, The Da Vinci Code, The Hull Surrealist League, The surrealist van, Tony Mayonnaise, transportation, words
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And the knuckle will have lost its firmness…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s confused film star is Seter Pellers. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yesterday we visited Britain in the 1950s for the football, and today we shall visit the Britain of the 1930s, the year 1934 to be exact. Yes, another … Continue reading
Posted in animals, archeology, books, brain, celebrities, colours, food, history, humour, information, instruction, learning, reading, science, serendipity, style, words, writing
Tagged 1934, a slight smell, celebrities, colour, Confused film stars, dictionary word, emblem, history, instruction, ivory, lamb, logwood, London-Edinburgh, miscellaneous receipts, non-stop, persulphate or acetate of iron, Peter Sellers, serendipity, staining bone, surrealism, The Daily Express Enquire Within, the laws of croquet, transportation, words, words of wisdom, writing
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The bike turned upside down…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s lost plectrum is the one eventually found in the bottom of an old squashed euphonium case by the refuse bins at the back of the Royal Albert Hall. (click) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Synthetic…’ ‘Pardon?’ ‘Synthetic.’ ‘Well, I … Continue reading
Posted in brain, cafe, conversation, creation, drama, existentialism, history, humour, information, learning, puzzle, religion, science, smiling, thinking, words
Tagged arts, bike, bubbles, cafe, conversation, creation, flat as a fart, God, history, knock youself out, madness, man-made, praise the lord, puncture, religion, serendipity, spanners, style, surrealism, synthetic?, the bible, transportation, words
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Excuse me, can I interest you in a nice pair of…?
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: foetid, windring, quotidian, facinorous, jugate, ratiocinative, and paunchy. My heavy old dictionary says that one of these words comes from W. Shakespeare, can you guess which one it is? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Generally, … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives, drama, Dulltown, existentialism, expletives, Grumpiness, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, overheard, people, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, smiling, style, swearing, sweating, words
Tagged busses, conversation, dictionary word, discovery, expletives, facinorous, foetid, gunnels, jugate, madness, observations, overheard, paunchy, pillows, quotidian, ratiocinative, self-isolation, serendipity, steamed up windows, stolen pillows, style, surrealism, transportation, tweed hat, virus, windring, words
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Smile please!… Click!…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is another from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave: Dreyer noisily folded his newspaper as if wrapping a bird in it and said: ‘Let’s go for a walk, eh? What do you say?’ … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, brain, colours, composition, conversation, cool, Dulltown, existentialism, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, photography, reading, seeing, serendipity, smiling, style, surrealism, thinking, words, writing
Tagged 1928, anthropomorphism, art, arts, chance find, colour, composition, conversation, discovery, Dulltown Interchange, history, King Queen Knave, observations, orange, photography, serendipity, smile, Smiling, style, surrealism, sweaty handrails, transportation, viruses on buses, vladimir nabokov, words, wrapping a bird, writing
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If I had a van, I’d have one of those on it!…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: crepuscular, spodomantic, infundibular, chasmogamic, homaloidal, scolopaceous, and tipsy. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Today dear reader, I thought that we would have a peep into that big heavy (they used good quality paper back in … Continue reading
Posted in academia, adjectives, advertising, animals, archeology, cool, design, history, information, learning, puzzle, science, seeing, thinking, words
Tagged 1936, 45 degree mirror, advertising, art, arts, carefully selected adjectives, clever idea, conversation, Daylight Sign, discovery, drawing, half sheep's head, history, illusions, inventions, lower case E for 'and', reflections, serendipity, Sunlight Sign, The Wonder World Encyclopedia, transportation, weather, words
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Some song lyrics misheard over the cafe hubbub…
But first… Dulltown UK: Today’s show-off acrobat is the one going up the stairs on the bus upside down. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Old tubes, end of my love, spot is clean now!’ ‘I light my walls two by two.’ ‘No girl, I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, brain, cafe, composition, cool, drama, dreaming, food, Hull.UK., humour, information, misheard, music, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, words
Tagged arts, bupper, Chelsea, dictionary word, madness, misheard, Misheard Snatches, music, nur-thin, on the bus, poetry, punk chimes, rain brain, serendipity, sex, show-off acrobat, soapy chews, style, surrealism, transportation, words, writing
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Just a few small, but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: absterge, magister, perradius, Midgard, spondee, urial and etiolate. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Should the professor … Continue reading
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Tagged absterge, accept cookies, advertising, clean cuffs, conversation, cutting out, dictionary word, dictionary words, etiolate, expletives, fridge on the bus, late, madness, magister, Margaret Thatcher, Midgard, name change, observations, perradius, Professor Mouldie, serendipity, spondee, style, surrealism, transportation, under my own roof, urial, words, writing
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Mayonaise and toothpaste…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected colours are: tennis turquoise, billiards brown, rugby russet, triathlon taupe, cycling cyan, polo purple, and of course golf green. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was just after midnight last night, I was cleaning my teeth in … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, adjectives, animals, art, brain, celebrities, colours, composition, conversation, cool, Hull.UK., humour, information, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, style, surrealism, words
Tagged art, arts, billiards brown, carefully chosen colours, celebrities, colour, conversation, cycling cyan, golf green., madness, ne'er-do'well, poetry, polo purple, rugby russet, serendipity, style, surrealism, taxi, tennis turquoise, The Hull Surrealist League, The surrealist van, Tony Mayonnaise, toothpaste, transportation, triathlon taupe, words, writing
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Yet another lino print happening then Dave?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, only a few hours left now!): Today’s anaconda is the one stretched out and snoozing on the luggage rack on the train down to London. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, I seem to have drifted into doing another … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, animals, art, brain, composition, creation, design, drawing, humour, information, instruction, learning, lino printing, linocut tools, prints, serendipity, style, surrealism, thinking
Tagged anaconda, art, arts, compasses, cutting circles, cutting lino, Damn!, designing, drawing, expletives, instruction, lino cut printing, masking tape, pencil sketch, pope mug, serendipity, snoozing, style, surrealism, the London train, transportation
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Just a few short, but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, just three days left!): Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: ribald, amitotic, penthemimeral, spoffish, Zaporogian, nullifidian, and bamboozled. (Click?) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 435. I’m sorry I’m late, but I was having a problem … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives, brain, composition, conversation, cool, dreaming, Dulltown, Grumpiness, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, instruction, learning, music, observations, overheard, people, poetry, politics, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, smiling, spam, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged advertising, arts, BBC, children, conversation, discovery, gravitas, history, Houses of Parliament, ironing board, late, madness, Meerschaum, music, name change, observations, old shag, overheard, pavement cyclist, poetry, serendipity, spam, style, surrealism, transportation, tumble time, Velvet Undrerground, words, writing, your high horse
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No, no, this isn’t surrealism…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe (Europe, only a few days left to go!): Today’s unusual pencil sharpener is the one shaped like a porcupine – it does sharpen pencils really well, but is rather difficult to hold in the hand comfortably. … Continue reading
Posted in academia, animals, archeology, art, books, creation, design, drawing, history, humour, information, learning, reading, seeing, serendipity, style, surrealism
Tagged 1930s style, 1936, art, arts, discovery, drawing, history, illustration, not surrealism, porcupine, RMS Queen Mary, serendipity, smoking funnels, style, surrealism, The London Coliseum, Trafalgar Square London, transportation, unusual pencil sharpener, Whitehall
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So Dave, how’s that new lino print going?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel, King, Queen, Knave, which I recently finished re-reading: Franz, travelling on the bus, but without his desperately needed glasses: The speed, the airiness, the odour of autumn, the … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, art, books, brain, composition, creation, existentialism, history, humour, information, instruction, learning, lino cut printing, lino printing, prints, reading, surrealism, writing
Tagged 1928, art, arts, carbon paper, collar stud, cutting lino, drawing, Franz, history, instruction, King Queen Knave, lino cut printing, photography, shading, style, superglue, surrealism, transportation, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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Mayonnaise on the long table…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s confused film star is Jommy Lee Tones. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When I wandered into the café late yesterday afternoon (I go there late at this time of the year in the hope of avoiding all those miserable, … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, brain, cafe, celebrities, conversation, cool, Dulltown, finance, food, Hull.UK., humour, information, money, poetry, science, serendipity, surrealism, words
Tagged arts, Arts Councuil England, cafe, conversation, discovery, Harrison Ford, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, madness, poet, poetry, Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, serendipity, soap bubble, style, surreal poet, surrealism, The Hull Surrealist League, The surrealist van, Tony Mayonnaise, transportation, words
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More on that lino print idea…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is another from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I am currently re-reading (yes, I am a slow reader): He (Franz) peeped into the room as he passed. Old Enricht, clad only … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, books, cafe, composition, creation, design, drawing, humour, information, lino cut printing, lino printing, photography, physics, prints, reading, science, seeing, style, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged 1928, cheval glass, designing, drawing, ellipses, galaxy, history, ideas, King Queen Knave, lino printing, madness, notebook sketch, on the bus, parallel universes, pencil drawing, photography, preliminary drawing, serendipity, shapes, style, surrealism, three dimensional, transportation, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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