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Three cheers for Wally Broscene!
Cup Final Saturday having come around again reminds me of strawberries and cream at the LWT television outside broadcasts at the old Wembley Stadium that we did all through the Eighties. Location caterers being one of the unsung heroes of location production, getting on site before the main crew call and being ready with a hot breakfast for all, even if it was Boxing Day at West Ham football ground. I remember several by name: Broscene was always a favourite, Lewis & Clark had their fans too. It can’t have been easy, cooking by gas and before the days of ubiquitous microwave cookers.
Wally Broscene pulled the stops out for the FA Cup Final, in particular he featured strawberries and cream on his menu. I used to hold off buying strawberries until after then so it was a bigger treat. Of course it was a WOSCMB and we worked through meal breaks but carrying coffee (or strawberries and cream) for crew mates never did anyone’s prospects any harm.
A brief break in the heavy rain of this “January Cyclonic Westerly” weather gave me the opportunity to plant a mixed pack of 101 bulbs in my garden in Keswick. Very much the on-yer-knees style of gardening. The specialist bulb trowel is essential to insert the bulbs at the recommended depth of 10-15 cm, both for proper development and to avoid the predations of the Lake District fauna. The tulips (top photo) will be Tulipa von Eijk, red.
Sports walk along the Thames Path upstream from Hammersmith Bridge to buy fresh bread from the bakery in Barnes, both pleasures I discovered during the lockdowns. Disappointingly, the heavy rain didn’t turn up as forecast, so not as “interesting” as it could have been: as a cross-county runner I enjoyed the feel of rain falling my shoulders whilst running. The bread’s good though.
- The freedom of the cross-country runner - Lake District National Park
- London Corporate Challenge: Battersea Park
Wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Active 2023 to all my Friends and Followers
Christmas-tide once more, it seems to have come round very quickly this year. I am happy to have been out and about for much of 2022, trying to share on here what I am lucky enough to see. Below are links to some highlights from a full year-planner.
If you have been reading and liking my photography and this blog in 2022, thank you.
- My First Off-Road Pass
- Crosby Ravensworth adventure ride
- Three Alpine cols: Cayolle (2327 m.), Champs (2074 m.), Allos (2240 m.)
- GBMCC AGM weekend 2022
- MTB: Le Baou Rond (282 m.) - Col des Escourtines (213 m.) - Parc National des Calanques
- Hiking the Cols de Granon (2404 m.), des Cibières (2525 m.) and de l’Oule (2546 m.)
- Balcary Bay to Rascarrel Bay
- Barolo D.O.C. hills
- One man went to mow...
- Trimming & shaping
- The complete OAP
