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BB2105 : BOOTboys
GROUNDhog
Days
Monday
1st - Thursday 4th February
2021
| It
is 6 a.m..
I
know that because the alarm
has just gone off.
Dumberber
dumberdber derderder derderder
dum- I
got you Babe.
Sonny
and Cher.
Just
like yesterday.
Yes
folks, it's Groundhog Day.
Again.
That's
if it is still Tuesday?
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This
week's BOOTboys
event was rather Groundhoggish as, in structure,
it was like BB2104 and BB2103. And
BB2102. Also BB2101. Plus it
partly took place on Groundhog day.
There
was one significant difference. Once
he saw the categories, Tony decided that
it was to be a competition and that he was going
to win. That meant that, in order
to prevent any accusation of bias, I would
have to appoint an independent adjudicator.
I chose Jenny M, a regular BB reader
who had gone to the trouble of playing most
of the 40+ songs linked to last week's report.
The fact that she chose The
Crane Truck Song
as
her favourite confirmed her suitability
for this important role.
The
submissions were anonimousised (or should
it be anonimated) and forwarded to Jenny
for her verdict.
The
categories (and this week's associated music) were:
Here
are the competitors'
submissions. You might have to expand
your screen to see many of them properly.
Tony
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A
Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use
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B
Old
object put to a new
and different
use
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C
Something
Interesting
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For
the life of me I couldn't think of anything
that would fulfil this week's challenge
to find some discontinued signs and a piece
of machinery put to other use. Anyway, whilst
lying in bed wide awake very early on Monday
morning, I shut my eyes and did a virtual
tour of our old town in my head starting
in Kirkland and working my way through to
the Duke of Cumberland at the very far end.
Immediately images started to appear and
my excitement grew as more and more historical
signs and notices began to leap in front
of my eyes. (This just goes to show what
a sad and miserable existence I'm currently
leading!!)
'K
Cycle Works' will bring back memories to
all of us of a certain age who were living
in the area around the late fifties and
possibly early sixties. As the name implies
it was a superb mecca for all sorts of pushbikes
with sturmey-archer and derailleur gears
owned by a chap called Les Hill. My mam
bought me a new bike from there when I passed
my eleven plus.
'Motors
for Hire' is at the entrance to the old
H. J. Croft Highgate showroom and garage
(now a cafe) who I joined in 1965 as Assistant
to the Company Secretary. In those days
the motor trade was rammed with colourful
characters with cash bulging out of tattered
scruffy coats and jackets and who were little
more (and no better) than modern day horse
traders! They really opened a young
lads eyes and I'll treasure those memories
forever.
The
third picture is my total disappointment.
I have entered it as "Something Interesting"
but it is the story that is interesting.
The pic is of a crappy old horsebox
badly painted in an attempt to make it into
a mobile home. It does arguably fit the
category B criteria but is not the one that
was to bring me glory. The one to which
I refer was no longer there! The vehicle
in question was originally a Group 4 prisoner
transportation van containing about 8 cells
which some local chap had bought and was
also converting into a motor home (God knows
why) and had it parked on my Cricket Club
car park on a long term basis. You will
all be acquainted with the 'Kontiki' brand
of motor home but this bloke had had it
re-painted with a new logo which I thought
was absolutely brilliant he named it................
The 'Ex Kon Tiki' !!!!
Stan
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A
Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use
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B
Old
object put to a new
and different
use
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C
Something
Interesting
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A:
Could have left the shotgun at home
B:
Unusual seat for lunch [Good
job he wasn't talking about Joan as the
object! Ed.]
C:
Should have gone to Specsavers - couldn't
read the small print
Great
day to be out, super views everywhere.
Mike
T
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A
Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use
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B
Old
object put to a new
and different
use
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C
Something
Interesting
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A:
Possibly not its original position but it
might have been
B:
Outdoor heating? Farmers are always
resourceful.
C:
Unknown Contraption
Don
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A
Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use
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B
Old
object put to a new
and different
use
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C
Something
Interesting
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A:
Gatepost at what is no longer St Mark's Children's Home
B:
Even more amazing how resourceful farmers
can be.
C:
A cart from the Natland
Treacle Mines
Mike
B
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A
Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use
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B
Old
object put to a new
and different
use
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C
Something
Interesting
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A:
This sign is irrelevant: M&S car park
is still free.....
B:
Reading a book about History of Railways
at the moment and there's a long passage
about the uses made of carriages after they
were no longer need by the railway. Here's
one in North Levens used by a farm.
C:
Within throwing distance from home: the
mole-plough laying the ULTRA fast fibre
Robin
From
the house this morning.
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A
Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use
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B
Old
object put to a new
and different
use
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C
Something
Interesting
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A.
This out-of-date sign would prohibit most
vehicles to Greenfoot car park if anyone
took any notice - which they don’t, including
numerous Motorhomes. Metric tonnes and the
low weight suggest it is probably from the
early 70s.
B.
Last year’s Flowerpot Festival poster at
Ash Field above a trailer ban where the
truck driver can’t see it.
C.
Langcliffe Village Green Regulations must
have been written after a particularly good
lunch; they say: Nobody must do what this
notice says you can’t … unless you can.
Stephen
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A
Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use
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B
Old
object put to a new
and different
use
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C
Something
Interesting
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A:
Who
said Grange was behind the times?
B: Grange-over-Sands
Modern Art Gallery
C:
Fassey Merguson tractor
Martin
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A
Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use
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B
Old
object put to a new
and different
use
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C
Something
Interesting
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C:
Cairn at Gaitbarrow [Where?
I had to look it up! Ed.]
And
the Winners are:
Jenny
was judging blind. I don't mean she
had her eyes shut and pin in her hand. I
mean that she was given no information as
to who had submitted which entry. Here
is her verdict:
In
my judgement, after many hours of changing
my mind, the winners are:
Category
A; Object
still in its original position
but no longer in use:
Stephen's
European Union sign
Category
B ; Old
object put to a new and different
use:
Mike T's radiator
Category
C; Something
Interesting:
Tony's
sob story about the missing
prisoner transportation
van Ex Kon Tiki
Well
done everyone. Jenny M.
Of
course, there are no prizes other than the
glory. Thank you Jenny for your help.
Don,
Thursday 3rd February 2021
Groundhog
Day
It
really was Groundhog Day this week- only
once and that was on Tuesday. The
event takes places at the strangely named
Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil's task
is to predict how long winter will last.
Click on the picture to see the verdict.
Of
course, you want to know about Groundhog
Day Songs.
That
by the Kiboomers explains the concept succinctly
for three year olds.
There
are several other songs concerning Groundhogs.
One dates from 1963 by a Bluegrass
group called The Dillards which is a term
we used to use for someone being a bit of
an idiot. I never realised there was
a group with that name. Nor an American
department store chain.
There
is a rather different Groundhog song by
the Thundamentals to which you might not
want your three year old to listen!
Down
in the BOOTboys
HOGbar:
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Stan
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Terry
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Don
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Mike
T
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Tony
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Martin
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John
PL
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Robin
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Stephen
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Mike
B
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