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New avatar for me again....wearing my timelady outfit. I've got a book called retro graphics cookbook...was trying out one of the styles. ;)

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I see that I have changed my avatar since I started this topic - now it is a quick sketch of an anglo which I did as a logo for the Arran Concertina Event. I don't consider myself able to draw at all and was amazed to turn out something which I consider reproducible!

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Its a picture of me taken by fidjit ;) at melodeons and more.

 

Will be when you update. :rolleyes:

 

Oh! You have.

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New avatar for me, taken from the pub sign at the front of "The Jolly Sailor" pub in Poole, Dorset, England.

 

(That's England, UK... just off the coast of Europe, not England, New... quite a long way off the coast of Europe.) :P

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A family friend, knowing my interest in concertinas (but not, I think, being entirely clear on what they look like) gave me this fellow. My iffy photography skills and avatar size have conspired to make him not very clear--it's a carved wooden figure in medieval garb playing a melodeon-like instrument (anachronistic and not something I actually play, but it'll do).

 

jdms

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I've just changed my avatar too, after several years of Mr Tomato Head. avatar.gif

 

The new one is a scan of a tile we bought in a tile shop in Sidmouth. We have a second matching tile of a frog playing fiddle. So this frog's for me, the other one's for my partner Anne.

 

Chris

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A family friend, knowing my interest in concertinas (but not, I think, being entirely clear on what they look like) gave me this fellow. My iffy photography skills and avatar size have conspired to make him not very clear--it's a carved wooden figure in medieval garb playing a melodeon-like instrument (anachronistic and not something I actually play, but it'll do).

 

jdms

I can't see but I bet it's a portative organ. A keyboard, a tiny set of upright organ pipes in the middle and the other hand working the bellows behind them? Completely period for your mediaeval fellow.

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A family friend, knowing my interest in concertinas (but not, I think, being entirely clear on what they look like) gave me this fellow. My iffy photography skills and avatar size have conspired to make him not very clear--it's a carved wooden figure in medieval garb playing a melodeon-like instrument (anachronistic and not something I actually play, but it'll do).

 

jdms

I can't see but I bet it's a portative organ. A keyboard, a tiny set of upright organ pipes in the middle and the other hand working the bellows behind them? Completely period for your mediaeval fellow.

 

That would make sense, but no--it's definitely accordion-shaped. It may even be meant as a PA, but the carving is, erm, impressionistic enough that I have enough leeway to declare it a melodeon.

 

jdms

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On the other hand, it's just possible that the Shadoks and their mortal enemies the Gibis made it on to English television too. Even more unlikely that this was in 1973 and vanishingly implausable that the series of 5 minute gems was narrated by Robert Robinson and has stayed in my memory ever since. But stranger things have happened ...

 

Chris

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On the other hand, it's just possible that the Shadoks and their mortal enemies the Gibis made it on to English television too. Even more unlikely that this was in 1973 and vanishingly implausable that the series of 5 minute gems was narrated by Robert Robinson and has stayed in my memory ever since. But stranger things have happened ...

 

Chris

 

Incredible. So you may know.

I also discovered that there is a wikipedia page in english : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Shadoks

 

On the other hand I'm pretty sure that mornington crescent NEVER showed up on french TV.

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