It's here now, Derek, written by Steve Bell:Phoenix wrote:I wonder if The Guardian will carry an obituary for him tomorrow. They have acknowledged his birthday for many a long year.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... e-obituary
It's here now, Derek, written by Steve Bell:Phoenix wrote:I wonder if The Guardian will carry an obituary for him tomorrow. They have acknowledged his birthday for many a long year.
Just to clarify, I never place a bet on a horse race, which in my view is a mug's game. I simply challenge myself to figure out the winner of those five, by comparing the breeding of the competitors, their current form and that of their jockeys, with a certain amount of help from The Racing Post. I am reasonably successful. However, a cautionary tale. My late younger brother was making a fair amount of money from backing his selections so I asked him if he would put money on them for me too. He agreed so I gave him I think £50 for him to bet as he saw fit. It was a failure in an overall sense, and I believe to this day that the responsibility he felt not to lose my money led him at times to rethink his selections, his original choice winning rather than the replacement that he ended up backing. When the £50 was in the bookmaker's pocket we did not repeat the experiment.Phoenix wrote:I am interested in horse racing, specifically the five English Classics
That's not good.Phoenix wrote: P.S. There wasn't an obituary for Leo in yesterday's Sunday Post!!
I think it is quite difficult, David, not to find something to buy at such a major Antiques Fair. The one massive room and that extra parallel area which houses the cafe, allow for about 300 dealers' stands. They come from all over the place, in fact I'm surprised that you couldn't find anything on Joy Jones's stall. You can't have missed her. She's a really jovial, friendly woman who comes up from Stafford bringing her broad Brummie accent with her as well as an incredible mass and spread of comics and magazines from way back. She often has quite a lot to tempt me. She wasn't at the previous two events due to having had an operation for something or other, and yesterday, given that my comic requirements are relatively few, I found nothing that I needed. There were just two issues of Bunty but I have them already. In the past I have bought piles of issues of Scorcher, Score, and Valiant from her as well as D.C.T. comics.DavidKW wrote:I was there at the Antiques event at the Macron yesterday (bank holiday) too! Didn't find anything to buy though.
Now that is a long walk, David. Wouldn't you have been better just walking to Euxton and getting a bus from there, or was it at night after the buses had stopped running? I'm guessing there's a woman in that story somewhere!DavidKW wrote:last time I was there I walked all way there from Buckshaw (long story as to why)
Wow! Personal service, eh? I can't top that. The next Antiques Fair at the Macron is on Sunday 8 September, Phil. It would be good to meet there but I assume that by then I will be settled in a new place in Hayle. I certainly hope so, and we can always PM each other anyway.philcom55 wrote:Joy rang to say she'd be at the Stafford Boot Sale a couple of weekends ago, but unfortunately I couldn't make it.
While I was wandering round Chorley last Sunday I walked part way up Chapel Street in the general direction of the railway station. It looked as if it was undergoing some serious refurbishment. I'm surprised it was open.DavidKW wrote:then took train to Chorley for some well earned real ales with money saved!
Leo did sign his pages for Odhams, quite prominently, and his name was on his books and on his Baby Basil strip in The Guardian. Any lack of fame is down to the way the public and media in the UK regard comics (or rather disregard them). As Leo left mainstream comics in the mid-1970s, it's only older readers and journalists who would have seen his Beano/Wham/Smash work so that might account for it too.dishes wrote: I wonder if his name would be more famous if he'd been allowed to sign his pages.