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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 09:49 26 Jul 2025
Not wishing to be alarmist but there has been a further serious incident in Colchester overnight.
Museum Street taped off.
Unrelated to the body found 48 hours previously in the vicinity.
The death on Thursday appears to be suicide.
We are living through very dark times. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 18:50 25 Jul 2025
I have been asked about some of the images in the latest edition of 'Monster'.
The car crash image with female hanging from passenger door window was shot in my house with car parts and a 'live' model.
The image that appears to be shot in Ukraine was created using a projector and the same model who appears in the remains of a blue Ford Mondeo.
The lighting was created by using multiple strobes and theatre lights.
It was experimental and l had no idea if it would work but the effect we get is pure luck.
No retouching. No special software used.
We also projected moving footage onto the buckled car door.
Thanks to all the new folk for visiting 'Tigers'. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:44 24 Jul 2025
Continuation of conversation with television Production Assistant.
Sparkfilms TV
'Have you done Garden Rescue?'
KA
'No, but my friend has'.
Sparkfilms TV
'Did they say anything about it?'
KA
'Yeah, she said it is a pile of xxxx and some people hate the results and have their new gardens replaced'.
Sparkfilms TV
'I can't watch more than 15 seconds of that xxxx'.
KA
'You do well to last 15 seconds, it's longer than l could manage'
Sparkfilms TV
'What about Bargain Hunt?:
KA
'Sadly yes, four or five times'
Sparkfilms TV
'And?'
KA
'Excruciating' |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 20:59 24 Jul 2025
May 2025
Colchester
Extract from a conversation with a Production Assistant on a BBC property programme.
Sparkfilms TV
'Surely these couples don't walk around holding hands in real life'.
KA
'It would be most unusual'
Sparkfilms TV
'So it's all part of the brief then'
KA
'Yes, totally....l have to tell them a few times but they get it after a while'.
Sparkfilms TV
'So you brief them on saying xxxxxxx wow endlessly too"'
KA
'Some of them are so xxxxxxx stupid they say it anyway....but if not l have to prompt them and sometimes we have to shoot the scene again to get enough wows in'
Sparkfilms TV
'xxxx me, what a drag'
KA
'You're telling me' |
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Reply | Advanced Talks with US Consortium
at 18:05 24 Jul 2025
Have heard what happened re. the takeover.
So who pulled the plug on a deal that was virtually over the line?
U.S. or U.K.? |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 14:46 24 Jul 2025
Extract from a telephone conversation.
40 minutes ago.
NYC
xxxx dude - we can see why you call it 'Monster'.
Colchester Central, UK
Yeah.
NYC
Some of it is xxxxxxx hardcore but the centre spread is in complete contrast.
Colchester Central, UK
Yeah
NYC
Do you have a co - writer on this?
Colchester Central, UK
No
NYC
Do you participate in the consumption of serious narcotics?
Colchester Central, UK
No
NYC
We xxxxxxx love the look of this baby.
Colchester Central, UK
Good.
NYC
We were thinking about stickers to warn people of certain content.
Colchester Central, UK
Yeah, well l could write that.
NYC
Wire it over dude and we'll get this xxxxxx out to the cats downtown.
Colchester Central, UK
I'm on it. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 12:52 24 Jul 2025
Serious incident in Colchester - and this is unrelated to the body in Castle Park. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 22:27 23 Jul 2025
Colchester Art School 1971.
It's an evening class for life drawing.
The model has failed to turn up.
The lecturer has failed to turn up.
A fashion lecturer from St Martin's has come into the studio and offered to model for us with her clothes on.
She does a series of quick poses.
Arms folded.
Arms in the air.
Just fab movements.
I still have those drawings.
She saw them.
Liked. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:57 23 Jul 2025
1963.
We lived in the back room ( the dining room ).
My father would sit in one corner.
My mother opposite.
I would be laying on the sofa by the wall next to the kitchen.
Now l don't quite know why, but l was recalling how my father would make these monster cheese sandwiches only yesterday on a dog walk.
There was real bread in the sixties that would be cut with a knife from a loaf.
My father would cut two doorsteps, butter them and then cut a massive wedge off the cheese.
He would put it on a plate and sit back down and l used to watch him trying to open his mouth wide enough to eat the thing.
This was a struggle for him.
Once he had managed to bite a portion off he would chew it for an age.
It used to take him about 20 minutes to eat one of these things.
He was a good cook.
Better than my mother, and as things turned out, probably better than myself.
My mother was good at crosswords.
My father spoke fluent French, German and Spanish.
I was into the 'Spot the Difference' pictures in the newspapers....
And l used to draw pictures.
Sketched my mother reading the paper.
Still have those drawings. [Post edited 24 Jul 10:59]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:27 23 Jul 2025
1963.
Margaret Road, Colchester
My mother has her first and last driving lesson.
It last's around 20 seconds.
My father is the instructor.
I open the double gates
My father puts the Vauxhall Wyvern into reverse gear and my mother does the rest.
Then - whoosh - backwards across the road, up on the path, through another pair of double gates ( that were closed ) and into No.5.
My dad did blame himself for this an hour or so later.
So, no more driving lessons for my mother but she still managed to crash the Wyvern by grabbing the steering wheel on a bend in Birch on a Sunday afternoon drive in the country.
The car ended up on it's side in a ditch.
No seat belts in those days so a few bumps on the head. |
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Reply | Brian Owen
at 18:14 23 Jul 2025
I had many conversations with Brian over the years.
He had an amazing memory and was always interesting and informative.
He used to take an interest in Graphic Warehouse when we were involved with the club and in later years l would often see him in Tesco at The Hythe.
We always spoke and one particular story relating to the great Lua Lua was an absolute epic.
I recall Brian playing at Layer Road for Colchester United against Cambridge United in a 5 nil victory - l think he scored twice that night.
A serious knee injury curtailed his career.
I even saw him playing for the superb Watford side at Vicarage Road in the mid to late sixties when l was just a kid.
My great pleasure to have known Brian. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 09:21 23 Jul 2025
SUNDAY, 18th October, 1970
KINGS HEAD
MARKET PLACE, ROMFORD
BLACK SABBATH!
Unforgettable.
A lifetime experience that l cherish.
R.I.P. Ozzy
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 16:37 22 Jul 2025
Issue Two of 'Monster' is ( hopefully ) airborne now.
We have a few sample copies put by for folk in the UK.
Some content may be deemed controversial.
All writing, collage artwork, casting, photography, room set design and lighting by Sparkfilms TV.
Anyone who may have a copy of the first issue is more than welcome to sell it on eBay or any such platform. Have a burger and coffee on Sparkfilms TV. There may even be enough left for a dessert.
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:25 21 Jul 2025
This might help with the getaway driver incident. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 20:58 21 Jul 2025
I was once in a car with someone else's wife who had a talent as a getaway driver when her husband threatened to kill us both.
It was effectively her ex-husband who had left his wife for his PA.
Anyway, we were just getting into her Range Rover in Muswell Hill when a car came speeding towards us with it's lights flashing.
She said 'Oh xxxx - it's xxxxx!
We sped off down Grand Avenue. I didn't get a chance to put the seat belt on as we were rocking and rolling all over the place.
He must have done a three point turn in the road and the xxxx was on our tail blasting the horn.
We went up on the path on several occasions and nearly took out an entire bus queue in the process.
After about a mile or so she managed to lose him.
It was a mighty impressive example of driving on fear, impulse and adrenalin.
We were on our way to see Pulp at Wembley.
I thought the least l could do was pay for the parking and check her car over
By a miracle it was untouched.
I was never able to return to her house and imagine xxxxx put.my belongings on a bonfire.
Shame that. We had all kinds of fun and she was an Arsenal season ticket holder and loved to talk football ( and other topics ).
Just remembered that l managed to entice the getaway driver to visit Layer Road a few weeks previously for a match against Bournemouth ( her place of birth ) but the match was postponed and we were able to sample the delights of Robert's Wine Bar in Crouch Street.
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 18:30 19 Jul 2025
August 2004
Brick Lane cafe
I'm sitting at a table by the window.
Louise is opposite.
I ask her -
'What is the most exhilarating thing you have ever done?'
She replied -
'When l was 19 l did a ten minute wing walk across Southend sea front naked at 2am'.
I was thinking about that yesterday.
I've seen a few wing walkers at air shows but that is in daylight.
There can't be many people who have ever done this in the dark and nude.
( Perhaps just goggles and ear plugs ...chocs away...The Kursaal Flyer! ). [Post edited 19 Jul 19:53]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 19:09 18 Jul 2025
August 1967.
When Louise was seven she ran away from home.
Joined a circus.
Found a bale of hay in the Big Top and fell asleep.
Dreamt she was a trapeze artist and lion tamer.
After about an hour she woke up ran back home. [Post edited 19 Jul 6:53]
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Reply | Advanced Talks with US Consortium
at 13:18 18 Jul 2025
I think there is an option ( 24 month window? ) for Drewitt - Barlow to purchase the ground and land that Maldon & Tiptree F.C. are currently occupying.
It appears there may be another possible buyer for Colchester United ( not U.S.A. ). |
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Reply | Advanced Talks with US Consortium
at 12:00 18 Jul 2025
It appears that there are two 'Lightwell Development' companies filed in the United States.
Unsurprisingly, by their title, they do similar work.
Thanks to what arrived by email yesterday l think l have been able to follow 5 years of property redevelopment projects undertaken by the Tim Foley who was heading up a consortium with a view to acquiring Colchester United F.C.
I have established the properties, locations, spend and quite a bit more.
Foley 'purchased' four properties in Portsmouth, Virginia for a combined price of around 15 million dollars.
This is reported in the press in Portsmouth, VA and there is a wealth of supporting material to verify the acquisitions.
It may well be that Mr Foley is supported or backed by other individuals who may be part of Lightwell Sports Group.
I'm not too sure what Lightwell Sports Group may or may not be as it appears to be a start up with no financial trading as such.
I apologise in advance if l have misinterpreted anything l reference to above.
I suppose for people such as myself it's none of my business who buys Colchester United from the current owner but l can't help taking an interest.
Sending peaceful vibes from downtown Colchester. [Post edited 18 Jul 12:02]
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