Email from Richard Jones in UK yesterday:

Hi Lloyd – spotted this Gem on ebay -I’d love to own and restore it, but far to many other projects and 9 month old baby. I don’t think I could give it the time it needs.

It claims true “convoy” pedigree. This is when the young of UK abandoned their ordinary lives for life on the road going from music festivals to raves in a trail of hedonistic freedom !

Unfortunately the capitalist Thatcher government didn’t like free radicals. Castle Moreton Rave drew tens if not hundreds of thousands and the authorities feared loss of control.

The Convoy was smashed by the iron fist of the iron lady. The Battle of the Beanfield at stonehenge saw the police smash up buses and trucks, travellers and horses. These were peoples homes and lives violently destroyed. Not to mention beautiful rare vintage buses !

Anyway – this one survived

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1954-Thames-Lambourne-horsebox-diesel-/120766098039?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D2295974440331323489

Tis a mighty nice truck.

Hope all is well.

Cheers

Rich

Above left, some kind of small shark I guess. Lots of small teeth.
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Window in my office. Various birds on left. On right, from top down: raccoon. big bobcat, small bobcat, fox. I use industrial strength hydrogen peroxide to bleach bones white. Never use Clorox; it eats away the bones.

Jerry Lieber (at right, in photo), of the ’50s songwriting team Lieber and Stoller, died Monday in Los Angeles at age 78. It’s unbelievable, looking back, at the number of great songs these guys wrote: Hound Dog, Kansas City, Yakety Yak, Searchin’, Poison Ivy, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Chapel of Love, Leader of the Pack, Jailhouse Rock,  Love Potion No. 9, There Goes My Baby, Ruby Baby, Loving You, Stand By Me, On Broadway, and on and on. One of my favorites is the little-known Loop-de-Loop Mambo, which was playing on the radio in LA (DJ Dick “Huggie Boy” Hugg) at 4 AM one morning in the early ’50s on my first trip to LA in my roommate’s Ford convertible — have loved LA ever since. Lieber wrote the lyrics, Stoller the music. They wrote Hound Dog for Big Mama Willie May Thornton, and hated Elvis’ interpretation. even though it became a mega-hit..

“Jerry was an idea machine,” Stoller says in their 2009 memoir Hound Dog. “For every situation, Jerry had 20 ideas. As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. When Jerry sang, he sounded black, so that gave us an advantage . . . His verbal vocabulary was all over the place – black, Jewish, theatrical, comical. He would paint pictures with words.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/source-songwriter-jerry-leiber-dies-at-78-20110822

“My most recent project: a small tool tote (for engraving tools) for my wife. Walnut sides; mahogany handle; pine bottom. No power tools used in construction. No measurements (i.e. numbers) used in the design or layout. In other words, I made it just the way an artisan would have designed and built it for the centuries up until the last one. And I enjoyed every minute of it!…”

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