Report No.7 ... I just popped out to see old Mr Elgin (I told you he was losing his marbles). His artificial leg has developed housemaids knee so he can't get out much, but he's still determinded to organise the Basingstoke Residents Association St. Valentines Disco.
Mr Elgin, bless!, wants to have live music and showed me a list of artists he likes. He was so cut up when I broke the news to him about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. My wireless hasn't been working for a while he sobbed.
I suddenly noticed he had today's copy of "Variety" propping up the leg of the coffee table. I excitedly pulled it out, and ignoring the upset cups and the tea dripping on Scruffy the cat, we started thumbing through the pages looking for live bands.
What about those new lads, "The Coaches", said Mr Elgin. No I said, they're on tour. The "White Lions"? Too middle of the road. "The Cars"? Mostly into garage these days. Hey!, what about "Titanic", they should go down well! No, I cry every time I hear 'Abide with me'. "The Prodigals"? Maybe, I hear they're making a come-back ...
We went on like this into the wee small hours of tea-time when Meals-on-Wheels arrived to sponge Mr Elgin down, change his bag and give him his dinner. He offered to share it with me but they only had one straw.
As I put on my cycle clips at Mr Elgin's front gate I felt confident that the BRAS St Valentines Disco would be a rip-roaring success.
More later ...
Kev and you...that should be fun reading...big hugs...
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2008-01-15 @ 17:37