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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 11:39 4 Jul 2025
'GAZE'
( Updated version ) -
Gaze out of the windscreen
At all your favourite movie scenes
Things you see in cherished dreams
Scan the horizon
With your crazy sense of timing
Once captured forever binding
See a mountain top begin climbing
Reach the apex then start sliding
Look out across the ocean
See the world from afar in motion
All the things to which you aspire
Live the dream fly higher and higher
Yet everything will come at a price
Swept up in the heat then cold as ice
Step down from this backlit stage
Then ruefully turn another page
For each and every giant leap
You delve further and further into the deep
Bond Street window shopping
Scanning a skeletal reflection
You're the glossy digital print
In another fashion collection
Leaving absolutely nothing to chance
A style guro could not have made you more enhanced
Jump on to this restaurant table
And dance baby dance
( It took seven or eight minutes to write the initial draft and then another half an hour changing odd words here and there - still quite raw though ). [Post edited 4 Jul 12:06]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 12:53 1 Jul 2025
Continuing with 'GAZE' in breakneck key strokes...
Bond Street window shopping
Scanning your reflection
You're the glossy digital print
From the latest collection
Leaving absolutely nothing
To chance
A style guro
Could not have made you
More enhanced
Jump out of the liquid crystal
And dance baby dance |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 20:08 30 Jun 2025
'GAZE'
This is a first rough draft with many flaws.
Gaze out of the windscreen
At all your favourite movie scenes
And things you see in cherished dreams
Scan the horizon
With your crazy sense of timing
Once captured forever binding
See a hilltop begin climbing
Reach the apex start sliding
Look out across the ocean
See the world from afar in motion
All the things to which you aspire
Live the dream fly higher and higher
Yet everything will come at a price
Swept up in the heat
Then cold as ice
Step down from the stage
And turn another page
For each giant leap
You delve into the deep
( Apologies, wrote this straight off just now - it's about wanting then achieving stardom ). |
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Reply | Colchester United F.C - latest accounts
at 19:35 30 Jun 2025
So Lightwell have made a statement of sorts.
Having said that, it doesn't really.explain anything.
If this has been going on for 6 months there must have been a circa price tag on the package that was making up the deal a long time back in negotiations.
It is my assumption that the original price tag was deemed far too excessive for what was on offer by Tim Foley's legal and financial advisors.
This is pure guess work on my part and l doubt anyone on either side of the deal will enlighten us on the figures involved.
Perhaps Lightwell were millions short on the ticket price
Who knows?
But if they were millions short then any other prospective buyer may also be well short on valuation and that could pose a mighty problem as time moves forward. [Post edited 30 Jun 19:36]
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Reply | Colchester United F.C - latest accounts
at 16:22 30 Jun 2025
Looks like Hot Lizard lives on for a while then.
So, who really is Tim Foley?
Who are Lightwell Sports Group?
Who is / was behind them ( if anyone )?
Negotiations have been going on for many months now so something must have happened, that as yet, has not been fully explained ( and may never be ).
Some folk seem quite unconcerned that this deal has fallen through.
I'm very concerned for the future of the club.
How about Tim Foley and Lightwell Sports Group ( or whoever the xxxx they are ) issue their own statement explaining their take on matters?
Maybe they will.
As l mentioned some months ago - the Colchester United accounts are flashing a red warning light. [Post edited 30 Jun 16:23]
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Reply | Advanced Talks with US Consortium
at 11:36 30 Jun 2025
I did wonder if the Ipswich Town association had been arranged by the current owner or with the prospective new owners....either way, l suppose Colchester United is back in the shop window with some kind of price tag. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 10:42 30 Jun 2025
Continuing with 'This OBSESSION'
Word was
You were back in town
I summoned up
All my courage and called round
We sat in your garden
You smoked
While we watched
The tracks of shooting stars
As they darted around
In the night skies
Surely this was a sign
And it occured to me once more
That all the most beautiful wonders
I always seemed to share them
With you
Rainbows
Waterfalls
Moonlight
And birdsong
So a new phase developed
And just like it's predecessor
Fraught with tension
Seeped in drama
At any given moment
You were prone to
Vitriolic outbursts
Was it the drink talking?
That knew no bounds
( TBC ). |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 23:06 29 Jun 2025
I had to make a tv viewing decision about an hour or so ago...it was The Prodigy v Olivia Rodrigo from Glastonbury tonight and to my surprise l went with the 22 year old songstress from California.
It's her incredible songwriting craft that won me over.
Great to see Rodrigo bring Robert Smith on stage.for two Cure numbers.
Is Rodrigo the best female artist in the world currently?
On the evidence of this performance she possibly is! [Post edited 29 Jun 23:07]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 22:05 28 Jun 2025
Main Stage, Glastonbury now....Rachel Keen ( Raye )....this is an amazing performance by a brilliant songwriter!
This young lady is a very special talent! |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 20:17 28 Jun 2025
For friends in Scotland!
Enjoy Glastonbury.
Thanks for following.
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 09:11 28 Jun 2025
Carrying on with this....
Her calls from payphones at dawn
They sustained me somehow
I wrote about her
And if nothing else
It offered me
Some kind of therapy
She introduced me
To an underworld
She was living wild
Living on the edge some might say
But no
She was living way over the edge
And eventually
She would pay the price
With her life
Dying alone on Christmas Eve
Of an overdose
In a guest house
I spoke to her landlady
She put up a barrier
Which in the circumstances
Was understandable
But gradually she softened
'I hadn't seen her for a couple of days
and went round the back to look through the window.
She looked like she was sleeping, slumped over a small table by the side of the bed, her arms outstretched, l called an ambulance'
( TBC ). |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 18:02 25 Jun 2025
Still knee deep in collage work here and also clearing the way for building work which resumes tomorrow - hence no further additions to 'This Obsession' since Saturday.
This should enable the new followers to 'Tigers' to catch up a little.
Above all else, hoping for peaceful solutions to the many trouble spots in the Middle East and never forgetting the Russia / Ukraine situation.
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 17:21 21 Jun 2025
Continuation of 'THIS OBSESSION'
( Warning -.gets a little dark ).
Next thing l knew
You had flown to Spain
Staring at the ceiling
And the walls
The streetlights haunt me
Everything haunts me
I take a late night drive
Had my life really come to this?
And so to the twilight underworld
A land that would become
The Killing Fields
Escaping to an alternative universe
Needing to convince myself
That it would ease the pain
How was l going to explain that to you?
Or to anyone?
Eventually it was much easier
Explaining it to an audience of millions
On live television
Than it was ever going to be
Explaining it to you
That is - if l ever got the chance
Months passed
I was able to programme my mind
Into believing that l was in a relationship with someone else
A heroin addict
Working on the streets of Ipswich no less
To fund her habits
And yet
For her desperate lifestyle
She offered something
A soft kiss on the cheek
The squeeze of a hand
As l let her back into the night
She became my salvation
( TBC ). |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 14:33 21 Jun 2025
Very sad news that Babyshambles lead guitarist Patrick Walden died yesterday at just 46 years of age.
Patrick was very highly rated and gave Babyshambles a unique sound with his style of playing. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 17:38 20 Jun 2025
It's art and collage season here in Colchester Central as l continue to illustrate my written works for eventual ( hopefully ) publication...not much has changed in my mode of working since l was an art student.
The background music today was from a fairly obscure American band - circa 1968, l was playing the original vinyl recording of the self titled album by The 31st of February from Florida.
It's a gem!
And before that l was going through a selection of albums including The Association, The American Breed and an old favourite -.Barry Ryan ( R.I.P. ).
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 18:42 19 Jun 2025
On arriving back in the reception area l noticed that we had made a mess on the carpet and all l could do was ask for cleaning products and put in a shift on my hands and knees.
My partner in crime seemed more interested in ordering drinks for the room and had acquired several bottles - one of which was Port.
I think l once drank Port on Christmas Day in 1970 at my family's home in Romford. Never since, and l was not going to sample any of this.
When l was satisfied that l had made a decent job of cleaning the cow dung from the reception carpet l made my way to the room.
When entering the room l noticed that virtually the entire bottle of Port had been knocked onto the floor and stained the beige carpet.
I went back to reception and asked if l could return to the cleaner's cupboard as l would need some powerful stain remover as my wife ( not really ) had spilt the contents of one of the bottles.
This was even more challenging than my previous cleaning task but l was determined to remove the red stains.
Thinking about it now, some 21 years later, our UK Tour was packed with similar incidents...it's just that certain people can be prone to accidents ( pretty much on a daily basis ).
As it happens l quite like cleaning and still keep my home in reasonable order ( l think ).
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 18:19 19 Jun 2025
'THIS OBSESSION' still has a little way to run, and ( I ) will be entering a challenging landscape. Try and stick with it if you are able.
The reference to Port being spilt on a beige carpet in the hotel room was preceded by a walk we took shortly before.
We were staying at a remote hotel tucked away in The Lake District.
We go outside and it is pitch black. No streetlights and no moonlight ( not even with this certain young lady )....it becomes obvious that we have entered an area inhabited by cattle and one bumps into us ( or perhaps we bumped into him ).
We were startled and the creature let out an unfriendly grunt.
We were stepping in cow dung by the scent in the air and attempted to find the lights to the hotel in the distance.
We got back to the hotel and should have checked our footwear before doing so.
( TBC ). |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 10:02 19 Jun 2025
'THIS OBSESSION' - Cont.
During these times
You were prone
To book last - minute flights
To far away places
With twinkling lights
But l never saw them
Only picture postcards
Your manic sense of adventure
Knowing no bounds
Needing to be somewhere else
Or were you.running from yourself?
You were CHALLENGING
You were DIFFICULT
You were IMPOSSIBLE
But l couldn't let go
You were RADIANT
From sunrise
Light shone BRIGHTER
Caught up in your slipstream
A virtual floating
Taking in the sunset
Those long August nights
In your bedroom
All consuming
I was ENGULFED
Our UK Tour
We took in the sights
The South Bank
A boarding house in Yarmouth
The Bull Ring
Leamington Spa
The Tyne
The mountains and the lakes
You ordered Port to our room
Stained the carpet
That cheap hotel on the A12
When we were almost home
But it didn't matter
We were starring in a film
Our film
And l didn't want it to end |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:19 17 Jun 2025
Some television viewing data that may be of interest.
Between 12.30 and 13.00 on weekdays approx 2 million viewers will be watching Bargain Hunt on BBC 1.
During the same time slot around half a million will be tuned in to Loose Women on ITV.
I don't watch either.
ITV are currently planning further cut backs.
It's not surprising that main stream media is in decline....what l find interesting is how the production companies are under growing pressure to attract audience with content.
On the news front GB News is growing its audience, and gaining viewers from BBC and Sky News.
On a local front the Colchester Gazette is not doing itself any favours with a series of spelling errors in headlines and in the opening paragraphs.
The comments section's pick up on this virtually every day. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 18:22 17 Jun 2025
Doing the artwork / collage page layouts for 'Urban Werewolf'....a mixture of my own photography and that of commissioned works. Then l cut it all up into vertical strips etc and put little kid's stickers all over it....but, l think it looks ok.
The backdrop music for this three hour shift was provided by Hard - Fi and Leftfield.
Some of the collage work includes ripped up clothing and fabric pieces that l kept in a draw for over 20 years.
PS. Colchester United takeover. Quite a bit to get through on this by the sound of things.
Looks likely some of the transactions may run into July and they appear fairly complex. |
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