Ray's Photos

[Rayge]

Part Two, later on in the decade, still in London


Framed, Reticulate


Contemplation
Regent's Canal (I think)


Framed, Singular


New Do


Mind the Pollox


Party Piece


Author

tomorrow, lord knows. If I don't get any editing done in the day, I won't be back until Monday. I just don't know. Exciting, isn't it?

[Minnie the Minx]

Absolutely fantastic. Just wonderful.
Some of these pictures didn't open - said not available?

[Rayge]

Absolutely fantastic. Just wonderful.
Some of these pictures didn't open - said not available?

Problems with photobucket, I think. They were coming and going as I put them up – all showing for me now.

[Rayge]

OK, I got it done. Part one chunters on with the stuff from around the turn of the Eighties. I'm in Essex, for the (second) wedding of Clive's older brother John, who was born before World War II. Nine years older than Clive, he left school at 16 or 17 and advanced in the publishing world, being the golden boy of the family. Then, as Clive got a first and started a doctorate, he grew oddly envious of his little brother's success academically. He chucked in his job, and followed Clive's path exactly, same university, same degree course, similar academic career to follow, without ever quite achieving the same heights. Which is why he was getting married in Essex – Wivenhoe, to be exact; like Clive, he was doing a second degree at the University of Essex.
Anyway


The Best Man


Getting Ready
Clive and Keith


The Blushing Groom


Three Stupid Monkeys


Masts



Sunset Over the Colne


Tea Cosy Beanie

On Monday, back to London, then off again. It's all go

[Rayge]

Part Two
Meanwhile, is sunning itself in Brighton around the middle of the decade


Undercarriage


Danglers


Blue View


Golden Gull


Formal


Walls Have Ices

On Monday, sunset frolics of a greater magnitude

[Rayge]

In Part one today, a rather splendid sequence of a single Brighton sunset- a wintry one, presumably, as it's setting over the sea - taken from the Palace Pier, and one more tacked on for luck


Theme


Variation


The Gold Road


Soar I


Soar II


Fall


Half-time
View from my season-ticket seat at the Spurs, which dates this to 1984 or later

Tomorrow, the last of this archive. In Cardiff and Bournemouth, of all places

[Rayge]

Part Two
Back around the turn of the eighties, we're back with the druggy fools


Double Denim


History Teacher


er...


Just an Old Dog, Never Let You Down...
...don't you bleeding believe it


Hunkered


Five Go in the Snow


Hello There

Tomorrow in this spot - OMG its February

[Rayge]

In part one today, the end of an archive file, and in part two the beginning of February this year...
It's the Welsh crew again, but different venues: a road trip from Cardiff, where Mark and Jane are newly domiciled, to the Mouth of the mighty Bourne


Setting Out


The New Guy
First sighting of Bananamon


Snuggle


Moody
All kinds of vectors as we all meet up in Bournemouth, whither Phil (it is his home town) and Sarah decamped after returning from a year tefling in Greece


Musical Differences
This looks so much like an ageing indie band on the verge of a breakup


Bleeding Gulls
A goose prepares to reassert territorial rights


Diffident Glide

Tomorrow, back to the other archive I've been plundering

[Rayge]

Part Two
February 1918 starts as unpromisingly as January ended: not getting about much, trying to make the best of it photographically when I do ...


Town Barton
A farmhouse actually in the village, home to the Munday family, dairy farmers: it's their cows that occasionally add to the gaiety of the fields behind my home


Enviable Shed
West Sandford


Fizz
I've tweaked this one a bit


Downhill Racer


Fuck Da Police
This was the entrance to the field where Two Tree Island is located. Someone bought it over Xmas and their first, and so far only, act was to put an electric fence around it


Who Stole the Beach?
Sgt Scrap is on the case


Blue Water

It continues tomorrow

[the masked man]

Wonderful photos again. I'm in awe.

[Rayge]

Part One today, and it's the first week of February in Sandford


Crack Allure


Swirl
Duck trails in the duckweed


Thos. Telford Not Involved


Deck


Platform


Twilight Time


One from the Attic

The month continues to unfurl tomorrow

[Rayge]

Part Two

Start by whipping back to John's wedding in Wivenhoe, and the return to London thereafter, for a couple that got out of sequence

Icarus
That black blob near the sun is deffo a bird


A Crash on the Symbols

...then back to Aberystwyth for a couple


Familiars


Hippy Spoor

...and back to Raygeworld

The Ghost in the Machine


Restless Rainbows

Tomorrow, OMG it's the family

[Tom Waits For No One]

Fizz

Calling 4AD.

The next Cocteaus comp has its sleeve!

[Rayge]

Part one is a family celebration – I suspect my mother's 60th in January 1982. Please think kindly of me. A picture of Brighton at the end as an eyeball-cleanser.
Part Two is still in the beginning of February, and things are starting to look up. A bit.


Presented


Little Black Book


Ciss Takes an Interest


Sisters
Hatchet-face Hilda and Mad Glad check out the family album


Japery


Serenity
Better tomorrow

[Rayge]

Part Two


Morning Light


I Dream of Botany


Glyph


Reversed


Sheep Life


Awaiting Instruction


Snowdrop Wood


Frost Flowers
Cold Frame lives up to its billing

More frolics tomorrow

[Rayge]

Ooh I've come over all unpredictable: Last night I discovered the answer to the puzzle of why the archive photos
skip about like sweet but confusing little lambikins. I had a setting I didn't even know I could change wrongly set
on my iphoto files. Reordering everything means some would be missed out, and one or two of them actually
worth looking at, so that's what I'm doing today.


Poppy Field
Kent, I think


Begonia


Repose
Vernon Terrace, Brighton


Cafe
Brighton


Curlicues and Chevrons
Don't know where


Sibs
Bill and younger sister Jo, Brighton


Sunset Toke
Ed's flat, Ladbroke Grove


Flash
Street newsagent just off the Strand

[Rayge]

Part Two
following on, and some more from that trip to north Yorks coast: apologies for poor quality of some of these.
I was using rubbish film that couldn't cope with the light conditions.


Dogs
Provenance of this is lost, I'm afraid


Across the Bay
Robin Hood's Bay to be precise


Ouch
More mediaeval carving, source unknown


Southern Aspect
The North York Moors tumbling seaward


Harbour
Whitby


Resort
Scarborough


Team Bozo
Bill and Phil ready for action in the park

And here's one from John's wedding

Colne

and a double portrait of Billy and Biggles to finish


Dragon's Tongue

Tomorrow, back in sequence here, and the return of February.

[Rayge]

Part one, first week of February this year, cold but bright and inviting out


Bathroom Window


Flame On


The Big House


Cloister Gate


Clusters


Full colour

[Rayge]

Part Two
Swirling about around 1982


...And Relax
Brighton


Au Parisien
Cricklewood


Nutty Boys Jamboree
Cricklewood


Up and Away
Between Heathrow and Thessalonika. March 1982 this one, although no other pics of the holiday
have been scanned, so who knows about the sequencing


Envy
Brighton


Watching


Watched
Hove, actually

both sequences continue tomorrow

[Rayge]

In part one, the February tapes, we have the return of Our Hero. In part two, Brighton and the Isle of Wight


Stand-off
That bowl above his right ear is full of catfood.
On the other end of the lead, a half-hitch around a sturdy table leg.
On the other end of that reproachful look, me.


Condensation
The steamy warmth of Ashton's coffee Lounge keeps the cold bright day away


Demure


Tangled Up in Red



Fetch
Shobrooke Park lake


The Haunted Boathouse

Further frolics from Shobrooke and points west tomorrow