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In a strange twist of events l found myself in conversation with a young lady who had attended Layer Road for a match against Hull City in our first season in The Championship. The 5-1 encounter.
We were attending a promo evening for a band called The Datsuns in North London in 2008.
During the evening she explained that she had been present at a party that made the national news due to the tragic death of someone by the name of Mark Blanco.
The incident occurred in December 2006.
This incident will be shown on Channel 4 on Monday night at 22.00 in an hour long documentary and several people known to me have made contributions.
It may be of interest to some.
I am very much hoping that the police will reinvestigate the death of Mark Blanco as a result of what will be included in the content.
I know that what l was told by this young lady 15 years ago has been instrumental in the making of this documentary.
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Very interesting scanning PJ Files McCann.
Although the PJ had doubts that an abduction took place my gut feeling from reading initial key statements is that it probably did.
The media circus which was to explode on a global level appears to evolved from the multiple contacts that the McCann's and their associates had and l haven't traced anything pre-planned.
Having said that, many of the statements refer to the lack of care and protection to three young children left alone for varying time portals and it is quite incredible to learn that Madeleine had 'issues' relating to waking up at night and wandering around.
The British establishment do appear to have given the McCann's support on a level that has never been before or since - a PR supershow and possibly removing incriminating details from data systems. | | | |
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Very interesting scanning PJ Files McCann.
Although the PJ had doubts that an abduction took place my gut feeling from reading initial key statements is that it probably did.
The media circus which was to explode on a global level appears to evolved from the multiple contacts that the McCann's and their associates had and l haven't traced anything pre-planned.
Having said that, many of the statements refer to the lack of care and protection to three young children left alone for varying time portals and it is quite incredible to learn that Madeleine had 'issues' relating to waking up at night and wandering around.
The British establishment do appear to have given the McCann's support on a level that has never been before or since - a PR supershow and possibly removing incriminating details from data systems. |
I spent a few hours reading through the interviews taken by British police here in the UK of 'The Tapas Seven' in 2008.
This was an intensive and extensive interviewing technique and quite an insight into many issues that the public may not have been aware of.
The fact that the McCann twins didn't wake up through the night of the disappearance when there was hours of shouting and screaming in close proximity - not to mention Kate McCann smashing doors and wardrobes is difficult to comprehend - all this with rooms full of people.
Members of the Tapas Seven and even Kate McCann seemed to be of the opinion that the twins had been 'drugged'.
As for the behaviour of the McCann couple who were utterly distraught - one line in a statement stood out - 'No one could have acted that'.
It's only when reading through police files that l can formulate a rational opinion of what may have happened.
Interestingly, Maddie was not covered up when she was put to bed and even the surface of the bed doesn't suggest that it had been slept on and no ruffles of movement are visible.
There are still so many unusual aspects to the circumstances of the immediate surroundings in the apartment.
The Jane Tanner sighting does appear to be authentic and this only became apparent some years after her interview in the UK.
I think all of the Tapas Seven were truthful with their statements both in Portugal and the UK. | | | |
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I spent a few hours reading through the interviews taken by British police here in the UK of 'The Tapas Seven' in 2008.
This was an intensive and extensive interviewing technique and quite an insight into many issues that the public may not have been aware of.
The fact that the McCann twins didn't wake up through the night of the disappearance when there was hours of shouting and screaming in close proximity - not to mention Kate McCann smashing doors and wardrobes is difficult to comprehend - all this with rooms full of people.
Members of the Tapas Seven and even Kate McCann seemed to be of the opinion that the twins had been 'drugged'.
As for the behaviour of the McCann couple who were utterly distraught - one line in a statement stood out - 'No one could have acted that'.
It's only when reading through police files that l can formulate a rational opinion of what may have happened.
Interestingly, Maddie was not covered up when she was put to bed and even the surface of the bed doesn't suggest that it had been slept on and no ruffles of movement are visible.
There are still so many unusual aspects to the circumstances of the immediate surroundings in the apartment.
The Jane Tanner sighting does appear to be authentic and this only became apparent some years after her interview in the UK.
I think all of the Tapas Seven were truthful with their statements both in Portugal and the UK. |
Just to confirm the individual who was seen by Jane Tanner and was known as 'Tannerman' was Julian Totman carrying his two year old daughter and he made himself known to Portuguese police as soon as he became aware of the drawing that was actually commissioned by the McCann's. This information was not shared with British police for four years!
Mr and Mrs Totman heard nothing back from the police in Portugal for year's after their communication.
This was reported in the British press at the time but l wasn't aware.
Children being carried at night back from a crèche etc was a fairly common sight it seems.
Sorry to burden anyone with this kind of information but l like to tie up any loose ends ( and there are plenty on the conveyer belt ). | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 21:40 - Jun 18 with 5160 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Just been on a surreal dog walk ...didn't realise that Channel 4 News was beamed live tonight from Firstsite in Colchester.
I tend to look into the large windows around the back of the gallery to scan the latest exhibits and there was Daisy Cooper and Co. in The Green Room with plenty of 'riders'...possibly milkshakes for Richard Tice of Reform UK.
The Channel 4 lighting looked fab!
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 18:29 - Jun 27 with 4977 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Have been in discussion with a journalist today from a national newspaper who is interested in the names on a phone hacking list and how certain segments may have originated.
Much of this relates to 2005 / 2006.
Another element we discussed was Suffolk Police being 'bugged' at Martlesham Heath HQ in December 2006 during the investigations relating to The Suffolk Serial Murders.
We have two particular organisations of interest. | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 22:34 - Jun 28 with 4939 views | SparkfilmsTV |
I'VE SEEN YOU
I've seen you
Treading stardust
Arms raised
Theatrical
Magical
Elegant
Invincible
Weaving shapes
Making patterns
Moving particles and atoms
I sensed the power
You once felt
Across lay lines
On sacred lands
Barefoot
Connected
Reflected in ancient meadows
Glistening in a glade
You were clinging
To the wheel of fortune
Sometimes spinning
Uncontrollably
Should your grip
Have been loosened
Then it was likely
You would have been flung
By the wayside
Discarded
Then...
Helter
Skelter
On a one way journey
Unable to defy gravity
I saw you today
Sitting on a park bench
Transfixed
By the pigeons
Your pose
Once theatrical
Magical
But now
Downcast
Invisible
Your fourteen year journey
Relayed
In a two hundred word sentence
And you never looked up
Not once
Let's walk to the supermarket
Just talk
And l will listen
But l can't help you
Or play any part in a rescue
On a mercy mission
Not from this
Let's walk to a sunlit meadow
I will talk
And you will glisten.....again
Momentarily.... you will glisten
As the last petal falls
Softly to the ground
But l can't l help you
Or play any part in a rescue
On a mercy mission
As much as l'd like to
( Wrote this tonight at 22.00 - it's a combination of a conversation today in the Castle Park and watching PJ Harvey at Glastonbury ).
STOP PRESS - have made a few amends to this piece which serves me right for completing the first version too quickly. The 'Wheel of fortune' aspect gave it a bit more substance perhaps, and a few positive responses.
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Note re. previous post 'I'VE SEEN YOU'.
This seems to have created a bit of interest in other circles.
It's very rarely that l make any changes / additions to content with this kind of stuff.
As l revisit the conversation in Castle Park, Colchester l am considering adding some of the sensitive elements of that to the piece.
I have 'borrowed' a scene ( glistening / meadow etc ) from something l wrote for an air stewardess on a Laker Airlines flight many years ago....and having presented it to her at touch down at Gatwick Airport, and adding my phone number to the piece was amazed when she phoned my old landline in Colchester ( was 0206 78604 - remember them? ) about a week later.
As a result of a commute to Crawley to see her while she was grounded l wrote a very long poetic landscape that featured her journey from Northumberland, to Gatwick and backwards and forwards to Los Angeles....on a very frequent rota.
I never kept a copy of it so l am trying to remember parts to keep it alive in some way - so some of the imagery may have a rebirth ( of sorts ).
The young lady in question turned out to be quite a story as things unfolded.....😊😊.
And so did her parents and family members!
The piece l wrote for Julie C was called 'SKYQUEEN' and the opening lines included 'Glistening on a September Sunday'......'Listening to wheels hit the runway'?? ( something that that ) so after about 45 years l don't appear to have moved forward too much.....just remembered phone bills from 1978....think we used to communicate by a thing known as 'telex' too.....much more affordable, and a fixture of hotels in California....😳😳
A little more on the 'SKYQUEEN'.....l am trying to recall the duration of the flight from Los Angeles LAX to Gatwick which l think was around 6 hours across America, an hour's refuel on the Eastern seaboard and another six hours across the Atlantic etc.....so for around 13 hours l found myself watching this 'SKYQUEEN' individual who performed the safety and in-flight procedures in virtual dance like moves....and served meals, snacks and drinks in the most delightful manner.
I was unable to take my eyes off her ...this must be a regular occurrence for some but to write poetics on an aircraft and present them to the person of interest may be extreme. I suppose if there is a lesson to be learned it is to express one's thoughts and make communication should you feel inclined. 😊😊
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Sorry for adding to the 'SKYQUEEN' subject but it was the beginning of my writing journey - which somehow continues all these years on.
I was none too keen on poetry at school ....l have walked past North County Primary and St Helena this morning....going over most of the content l write - well, l'm not sure if it is poetry really and l would have given up with it many years ago had some people not have read it, and surprisingly to me, shown quite an interest in my random thoughts patterns.
In real terms, the only audience any of us has is ourselves ....if you create something that you are satisfied with on a personal level then l suppose it allows for delivering that to fellow humans in the hope that they may gain something from it.
A form of giving.
I eventually ( in 1999 ) decided to put the work to the test by putting out my first book.....the first recorded sale was at Waterstone's in Notting Hill. The poetry buyer actually phoned me at home to say she had sold a copy of 'THE EROTIC CAFE'....the purchaser was a member of ALL SAINTS....believe me, getting Waterstone's to put a poetry book on the shelves in '99 was quite a task....as the days and weeks unfolded the book was being ordered in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham....in fact all over the country.
After Waterstone's it appeared in Borders, Books etc, Blackwell's, Ottakars....l am grateful to all of the bookshops who supported my early work which on reflection was a bit patchy and still is ...
So, had it not have been for my 13 hour fixation on an air stewardess on a flight in 1978 quite a few people around the globe could have had some respite from my perhaps all too quickly written works. [Post edited 1 Jul 2024 13:39]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 18:33 - Jul 1 with 4683 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Writing....
I wonder if every life experience - however futile or seemingly insignificant it may seem at the time is recorded in some infinite memory bank in our systems....this is something l sometimes consider.
Using parts of 'SKYQUEEN' from 1978 has reminded me vividly of an answer machine in a house share in Crawley.
Memory triggers memory...acting like a prompt and taking you back to an experience that you would doubt could ever be recorded or revisited.
When human life is entering its final phase some form of electrical charge appears to stimulate the brain into a freeze flood of static and moving visions and images from the past. On occasion, as in my Mother's final days the system kicks back in to keep one alive for a few more hours or days and the individual is able to relate this experience to family or hospital staff.
I suppose the more vivid each experience in life is the deeper it is etched into our systems and that preserves it somehow.
I have used little cameos from 'SKYQUEEN' imagery over the years which may have come to the surface through suppressed memory? Not sure.
A few lines l wrote in 1999 could have been related to Julie C....observations from September '78.
'Shake your hair
Let it fall on your shoulders
Making you look
Lovelier than ever'
etc - this was the first time l saw 'SKYQUEEN' with her hair down as in flight the style was hair up ...
Our memory is a precious gift ...it is what we are to ourselves....each of our stories and life journeys are unique. | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 15:57 - Jul 2 with 4653 views | SparkfilmsTV |
LAST DANCE IN A FUNERAL PARLOUR - Part One
( Draft spin off from 'I've seen you' - written in the past hour ).
Your deepest darkest secrets
Locked away
In the labyrinths
Of your crazed mind
Month after month
And year after year
Hidden from mankind
And womankind
Hidden ...from the world
You are a death cult
Unto yourself
Ripping at your soul
But no one else
Lured
By motorway bridges
Cliff faces
Ravines
And railway lines
Such is your mind
Balconies
Ledges
Tower blocks
And pylons
Free falling through time
This could be
Your last dance
In a funeral parlour
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 21:26 - Jul 2 with 4634 views | SparkfilmsTV |
LAST DANCE IN A FUNERAL PARLOUR - Part Two
( Draft )
Then suddenly
Some spark of light
Lasered
From a distant sun
Penetrates the inner soul
Not only lowers the draw bridge
But destroys it
In an instant
The purple army marches in
Light bulb moment or what?
All the defence mechanisms
That you controlled from the inside
Shattered
Gone
Burnt out tanks
Line the horizon
Acrid smoke rising
You slump to the ground
Wailing
Writhing
Silent screams
They are always the loudest
Sound booms reverb
Down every corridor
Where you were sectioned
Care workers run for cover
In the slipstream
Your fake lover
Blade to his wrist
Is there one last twist?
The last dance in the funeral parlour
( The second part was written at break neck speed this afternoon....it's about a deep secret that was revealed to me from the conversation - 'I've seen you' ....piece ).
I send some pieces to contacts in the media and music industry by email and on occasion they are forwarded to a wider audience and it is interesting to receive feedback.
I realise email is not the chosen mode of communication for the masses these days but on occasion it travels the oceans.
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 15:36 - Jul 4 with 4528 views | SparkfilmsTV |
I took my dog
To see the ducks
On the boating lake
In Castle Park
An hour ago
There were none
To be seen
My dog said
'Where are all the ducks?'
I told him
they must have gone
to vote
He said
'Who will they vote for?'
I told him
they would mostly
vote Green
and a few
might vote
Reform UK
When we were returning home
we saw about fifty ducks
walking in single file
on Riverside Estate
They had photo ID's
around their necks
and several appeared
to have passports
in their beaks
When we got back
Joe Biden was on TV
My dog said
'Why does Joe keep saying Pause?'
I said he is reading off the telepromt
My dog said
'But Pause has got the brackets
either side and it means
they indicate Mute'
I said, that's right and Joe
has been briefed
on numerous occasions
but he still has difficulty with it.
( This is not a poetic piece as such, just a reflection of events on polling day....😊😊 ). [Post edited 4 Jul 2024 16:03]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 21:41 - Jul 7 with 4294 views | SparkfilmsTV |
It's been a difficult day.
I attended the funeral of Mr Peter Sakal today.
Peter was the owner of GFM in Colchester and we go back a long way.
In 1981 we met an extraordinary individual by the name of Robert Maxwell who owned BPCC and this paved the way for some interesting and innovative print projects that would eventually lead to the birth and development of UK Holidays in The Sun which has now been in existence for over 30 years.
For anyone who knew Peter l will add several cameo's from our association over the years in the next few days.
Peter was working for a holiday company in Wolverhampton called Holimarine in 1990, they would become shirt sponsors to Colchester United in our first season in The GM Vauxhall Conference when Ian Atkins captained the side and we finished runner's up to Barnet. [Post edited 7 Jul 2024 21:47]
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The birth of Peter Sakal's GFM company was at the premises of Graphic Warehouse in Manor Road, Colchester around 1991.
This was the year when Colchester United clinched the GM Vauxhall Conference title together with winning the F.A.Trophy at Wembley.
We travelled many miles to away matches in a pulsating season. Peter and l were very involved with the club and produced the souvenir brochure that celebrated an unforgettable season, with Peter getting The Sun newspaper on board to sponsor the shirts for the Wembley appearance.
I think this was a payment of around £50,000, which was quite significant over thirty years ago.
As for my part, Graphic Warehouse were by this time associates of owner Jonathan Crisp and sponsors of the club.
The Sun's involvement was instrumental in the birth of GFM. Before Peter got this deal together he created the concept for the company while on a Government start up scheme that just about financed a basic computer set up and a few extras.
Peter didn't have a decent car at this time so when he arranged meetings with holiday parks around the UK l had to accompany him in a car that l purchased from Nick Mason of Pink Floyd to give people like the owners of Warners Holidays the impression that we were already established and had a fleet of high performance vehicles ( l hadn't considered this at the time but it was mentioned at yesterday's funeral ).
A few years later Peter asked me to give him a lift to Lancaster Garages on Ipswich Road in Colchester.
It was a Saturday morning in the summer months and we arrived there dressed in scruffy and casual attire. This was a trait that l have continued for most of my life but Peter would become much better dressed over the following years.
I can remember the salesman looking over at us with an expression of distain but he soon perked up when Peter just pointed at a red Ferrari with a price tag which in today's terms would be around £450,000 and said 'I'll have that'.
It took around an hour to get the money transferred and do the paper work before we formed a two car convoy along Ipswich Road with Peter struggling to drive the super high powered vehicle.
We went back to my house in Margaret Road in Colchester and had a few trial runs around the block in the Ferrari.
Both Peter and l were none too skilled in driving the thing but it did get easier. [Post edited 8 Jul 2024 6:09]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 09:37 - Jul 8 with 4258 views | Witham |
Holidays in the Sun at Manor Road gave me some extra income doing evening and weekend shifts when I needed it.
I think I may have been at the Grammar with Peter Sakal - it's a name that's not that common in Colchester. | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 11:28 - Jul 8 with 4249 views | SparkfilmsTV |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 09:37 - Jul 8 by Witham |
Holidays in the Sun at Manor Road gave me some extra income doing evening and weekend shifts when I needed it.
I think I may have been at the Grammar with Peter Sakal - it's a name that's not that common in Colchester. |
Hello Witham,
Peter went to The Gilberd and l believe his brother Richard went to The Colchester Royal Grammar School.
I am pleased you came into the Graphic Warehouse / UK Holiday's in The Sun HQ in Manor Road...hundreds of people passed through our doors and we had several massive parties there.
The Warehouse apartments now occupy some of the area that we took over in the late eighties through to the mid nineties.
I made the mistake back then of buying up too many properties in Manor Road just before the crash around '92.
With hindsight Graphic Warehouse should have consolidated but my own life travelled in unusual directions following it's demise that were live enriching on reflection. | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 23:22 - Jul 8 with 4181 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Peter Sakal - 1982
I remember visiting Peter at his home in Priory Street on a Saturday morning.
I had my 11 month old daughter Rachel in a buggy.
We were downstairs in an open plan area.
Peter's parents were there. I took Rachel out of her buggy and she stood up with my assistance ...she then took her first steps, not just one or two, she walked the entire length of the room which was about 25 feet.
I told everyone present that she hadn't walked a single step until that moment.
I just reminded her of that tonight.
Peter Sakal - The UK Holidays in the Sun business pitch. ( '91? ).
Peter had been working away on this for many months. He had produced a blueprint which was effectively concentrating on out of season short term stays across the country in holiday parks.... part of my involvement was designing an eight page pull out to appear in The Sun which l had mounted on four sheets of poly board.
We didn't know if The Sun would bite on the idea and were prepared to re-brand the concept and pitch it to The Daily Mirror or the Daily Mail.
Peter arranged for us to meet the editor of The Sun, Kelvin McKenzie at News International in Wapping.
We travelled up from Colchester North Station to Liverpool Street and got a cab over to Wapping.
Peter had a briefcase with the document and l was carrying a large art bag with the designs.
The news floor was massive with The Sun, News of the World, Sunday Times and an enormous work force, many of whom watched us as we made our way up the steps to the glass box / watchtower where Mr McKenzie held court.
We started to go through things with Peter flicking through the pages while l flung the visuals around. Kelvin was concentrating and after a few minutes he said 'excuse me while l make a call'.
So he gets on the phone and says 'I've got two guys up here from Chelmsford ( funny that, we didn't wish to correct him at that moment ) and l want £250,000 out of budget to put this idea they have bought in on TV.
That was the beginning of UK Holidays in the Sun.😊😊
About 20 minutes later we departed the building.
Kelvin McKenzie kept the visuals l had produced, and l thought he just wanted them for a record of how we might approach the TV commercial.
Not so. The Sun's production company scanned the visuals and they appeared on television screens a little later on in proceedings.
As Peter and l were walking back to a tube station he said 'Did that really happen?'. I said 'Yeah', but at that moment we couldn't have envisaged the magnitude of what would follow.
( TBC ).
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 22:48 - Jul 10 with 4079 views | SparkfilmsTV |
If anyone has followed this thread all the way through they will be aware of some extraordinary coincidences ( ??? ), with birthdays with people who have been part of my life's journey.
Here is another, Peter Sakal - birthday March 20.
His first wife Deborah, March 20 also!
I remember Peter telling me that just after they first met.
An honour to have been their best man all those year's ago.
Peter would have loved the moment tonight when Watkins scored that sensational goal.
Sending best wishes to everyone who has followed this long thread.
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 10:16 - Jul 12 with 4054 views | SparkfilmsTV |
FALLEN
( Written this morning - observations and associations ).
You look like
You've seen a ghost
Sit down
Take a deep breath
Take another
Reach for that glass by your side
And sip slowly
The lines around your eyes
Etched a little deeper
The frown on your brow
Involuntary distortion
But it is ...
Unmistakeably you
Gaze out of the window
Where the caravan stood
Where you feigned it
And faked it
The seagulls.....silent now
A figure crawling slowly
By the kerbside
You recognise
As yourself
You are.....
Dazed
Confused
A pixelated mirage
Some cardboard cityscape
Rising above
Dropping below
Deep underground
Take your place
On the pastel paving
Flick the crushed lager cans
From your pathway
To the abyss
And blow the cigarette butts
From that gaze
All the trials and tribulations
Remnants and reminders
Come back to haunt you
Shrieks in the subway
Screams in the precinct
It looks like
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 18:20 - Jul 12 with 4028 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Had a visit today from a young lady who owns a digital media company in the area who has been following this thread.
She is not a football fan as such but a friend mentioned 'Tigers at Layer Road' to her.
It's reassuring to think that people take time out of their busy lives to read anything l or anyone else contributes to this forum.
I hadn't intended to keep the thread running for so long but when several hundred views are often captured in other time zones through the night it is reassuring that folk are ( hopefully ) finding something of interest to consume.
STOP PRESS - The Feeling playing in Castle Park
, Colchester tomorrow evening ( one of my favourite bands ). [Post edited 14 Jul 2024 14:53]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 11:19 - Jul 15 with 3968 views | SparkfilmsTV |
'BUSINESS PLAN - 1994'
Take two partners
One, a small time criminal
The other -
Recently made redundant
From a national newspaper
Take a vision
To make a million pounds each
Within two years
Take a business plan
But not the type you could
Discuss with your bank manager
Expanding on a six month trial period
With a casual labour force
Who have no objection
To working unsociable hours
Very much suited
To invisible members of society
As we make our approach
Through the shopping precinct
The Town Hall is striking 11pm
Most of the revellers are smashed
And where we are going
The night shift will be stoned
We tap in the security code
On the freshly tagged black gate
Then down the alley way
Under the gaze
Of the recently installed CCTV
Up the metal stairwell
To the newly fitted
Reinforced door
A single push on the buzzer
And then we step in
The air is thick with cannabis
Past the kitchenette
A twenty something female
Is flicking through a magazine
On a recycled dark grey sofa
Into the open plan area
Where back to back pedestal tables
House brick phones and computers
Five staff clamour to answer
The in-calls from the 16 Motorola's
The scene represents the largest example
Of it's kind in the UK....
( TBC )..... this is set in a premises in central Colchester and is a true representation. [Post edited 15 Jul 2024 11:26]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 22:11 - Jul 16 with 3925 views | SparkfilmsTV |
'BUSINESS PLAN - 1994' - Cont.
In this town centre setting
First floor office accommodation
Of some 1,200 square feet
Consisting of
A front office
Open planned area
( With kitchenette )
WC's - recently refurbished
By the current tenants
Including an extensive overhaul
Of electrics with multiple
Power points
Office furniture supplied by
The British Army
Together with computer system
Surplus to the requirements
Of British Telecom
Two sofa's
( Rescued from a skip )
A safe
( Believed to have been stolen )
Though, empty on arrival
We are invited into the office
There are the remains of takeaways
Cigarette butts
Overflowing ashtrays
And an array of maps
Adorn the walls
This is the nerve centre
Of operations
And we are mighty impressed
We are offered illegal substances,
Coffee, wine, lager, spirits
The kind of rider
You get backstage
On your first tour
And your last
If you are lucky
It's the maps that take our interest
Every city, town, village and hamlet
East of Leytonstone
West of Cambridge
And South of Norwich
But the maps get upstaged
This was the biggest stick
Of dynamite
Anyone could possibly imagine
A database of 7,304 clients
Courtesy of pirate software
Stolen from British Telecom
Or if not stolen as such
Taken after a considered shortfall
In a redundancy package
We scanned the area
Of most interest
Namely CO1
This is 1994
And the world
Is at our fingertips
The ambition of
Two million pounds
Had been fully realised
With another million on top
For good measure
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 22:11 - Jul 26 with 3832 views | SparkfilmsTV |
It's now time to put the last two years of written work into book production.
After experimenting with several different print and design techniques l have decided that every new written work will be produced as a collage.
The first one 'Liquid Honey' is currently on view at Firstsite in Colchester and there will be around 47 others that will form part of a book of approximately 72 pages.
I have no idea if this project will take off or be commercially viable. The collages include coloured strips of acetate and kid's stickers with the poetics printed onto a yellow paper with torn edges and multiple images in the background.
Each page has the potential to be reproduced as a poster or submitted to on line poetry magazines around the world in PDF form.
While attending the funeral of Colchester musician Grahame Andrew today l saw the best photo books that l have ever seen produced by Snapfish that he and his wife have compiled over recent years.
For anyone familiar with print the inner pages were on a super gloss 200 GSM stock and the colours were vibrant and deeply saturated - an incredible effect.
Grahame was always kind and generous to us all and looking through his photo books today was akin to some kind of telepathic message.
Attending three funerals in less than two weeks has been exhausting but in a strange way exhilarating because each individual produced so much through either innovative business ideas or music that lives on and can be shared and experienced by future generations.
R.I.P.
Peter Sakal
Grahame Andrew
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It's now time to put the last two years of written work into book production.
After experimenting with several different print and design techniques l have decided that every new written work will be produced as a collage.
The first one 'Liquid Honey' is currently on view at Firstsite in Colchester and there will be around 47 others that will form part of a book of approximately 72 pages.
I have no idea if this project will take off or be commercially viable. The collages include coloured strips of acetate and kid's stickers with the poetics printed onto a yellow paper with torn edges and multiple images in the background.
Each page has the potential to be reproduced as a poster or submitted to on line poetry magazines around the world in PDF form.
While attending the funeral of Colchester musician Grahame Andrew today l saw the best photo books that l have ever seen produced by Snapfish that he and his wife have compiled over recent years.
For anyone familiar with print the inner pages were on a super gloss 200 GSM stock and the colours were vibrant and deeply saturated - an incredible effect.
Grahame was always kind and generous to us all and looking through his photo books today was akin to some kind of telepathic message.
Attending three funerals in less than two weeks has been exhausting but in a strange way exhilarating because each individual produced so much through either innovative business ideas or music that lives on and can be shared and experienced by future generations.
R.I.P.
Peter Sakal
Grahame Andrew
Louise Stratton |
I had no idea Peter Sakal had passed! Got to know him through this forum, and of course following the U’s - a lovely man! [Post edited 28 Jul 2024 12:30]
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