Well done, Leeds, good win in the end. Sorry the following is only a little bit about sport. (But no politics or religion)
I suppose every game of rugby or football should be able to decide how it wishes to honour our late Queen. No Association football today by the powers on high. York City game postponed and am tempted to go on Sunday to watch York City Knights RL against Workington Town RL (My wife's late Uncle played for York as did my brother-in-law) or even Bradford Bulls RL v Widnes knights RL
As it is I just love live sport and failing that just to go out and do something. My wife and I actually went to Saltaire this morning, to Salts Mill and saw a free exhibition, I think entitled 'LIFE ', a retrospective of photographs (largely 1970's and 80's) by Bradford born 'artist' Ian Beesley. This included photographs of Bradford Bulls, Bantams (Bradford City) Bradford mills of yesteryear, coal mines, Sewage works, People and Pubs of Bradford. This artist is much acclaimed, all black and white photos, gritty, funny. I think people's faces always look much more characterful in black and white. I'd recommend it if you get chance (Wed - Sun until end of October) I came away much impressed and also grateful I had been fortunate not to have had to work in a mill or a sewage works. Some modern-day sportspeople don't know how lucky they are, doing something they love should not be regarded as work. There's always a however
Having some time left we hopped over to Harrogate, well Harlow Carr and the RHS Gardens. Fantastic. Strangely enough we met another photographer with a sports connection to whom we talked for nearly an hour. He'd suffered a brain injury when he and another sports coach had a clash of heads, it has affected some of his short-term memory. He had to stop work as a sports coach and is now a mature student, he's just finished his first year for his PHD and although I couldn't quite get the title of his thesis it's basically about how photography can help people recover from some brain injuries. We spoke a little about photography, being colour blind (me) his camera, and plans for his own exhibition and PHD. He's now planning to go to Salt's Mill for Ian Beesley's exhibition with his wife. She works at a local University, and they have a few-weeks-old premature baby in York hospital (born after lots of fertility treatment). Baby been in in incubator there some weeks and they are only allowed to visit every other day as its heart rate increases too much. This young man for all his difficulties and knock-backs was very positive and a bit of an inspiration. Puts things in perspective Well done. Good luck
I suppose every game of rugby or football should be able to decide how it wishes to honour our late Queen. No Association football today by the powers on high. York City game postponed and am tempted to go on Sunday to watch York City Knights RL against Workington Town RL (My wife's late Uncle played for York as did my brother-in-law) or even Bradford Bulls RL v Widnes knights RL
As it is I just love live sport and failing that just to go out and do something. My wife and I actually went to Saltaire this morning, to Salts Mill and saw a free exhibition, I think entitled 'LIFE ', a retrospective of photographs (largely 1970's and 80's) by Bradford born 'artist' Ian Beesley. This included photographs of Bradford Bulls, Bantams (Bradford City) Bradford mills of yesteryear, coal mines, Sewage works, People and Pubs of Bradford. This artist is much acclaimed, all black and white photos, gritty, funny. I think people's faces always look much more characterful in black and white. I'd recommend it if you get chance (Wed - Sun until end of October) I came away much impressed and also grateful I had been fortunate not to have had to work in a mill or a sewage works. Some modern-day sportspeople don't know how lucky they are, doing something they love should not be regarded as work. There's always a however
Having some time left we hopped over to Harrogate, well Harlow Carr and the RHS Gardens. Fantastic. Strangely enough we met another photographer with a sports connection to whom we talked for nearly an hour. He'd suffered a brain injury when he and another sports coach had a clash of heads, it has affected some of his short-term memory. He had to stop work as a sports coach and is now a mature student, he's just finished his first year for his PHD and although I couldn't quite get the title of his thesis it's basically about how photography can help people recover from some brain injuries. We spoke a little about photography, being colour blind (me) his camera, and plans for his own exhibition and PHD. He's now planning to go to Salt's Mill for Ian Beesley's exhibition with his wife. She works at a local University, and they have a few-weeks-old premature baby in York hospital (born after lots of fertility treatment). Baby been in in incubator there some weeks and they are only allowed to visit every other day as its heart rate increases too much. This young man for all his difficulties and knock-backs was very positive and a bit of an inspiration. Puts things in perspective Well done. Good luck
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