I've been threatening you all for a while with the unlikely discovery of my two long-lost "Silly Birding Magazines" I wrote many many years ago . I had more or less given up on the whole thing, but this afternoon I found one of them .. or rather, I found the "original" typed paged and some drawings etc. Here's the stunning front cover ..... spot the "Letraset" ... it was all we had ! It's a sort-of much younger me, between the time when my hair was down to my waist and having hardly any hair at all. That narrows it down quite a bit. ..and here's a " hijacked cartoon" where I nicked the picture from some magazine or whatever and made my own caption to go with it ... .... and I hijacked this photo from somewhere and wrote it up as a "Mystery Bird Competition" .... all very BB-ish.... or Not BB-ish. So ... that's a bit of a "taster" .... there's quite a bit more to "entertain" you ..and now I've found that, I might .. just might .. be able to find the other one. These were all painstakingly typed on my little portable typewriter ... the same one on which I typed my university thesis sitting in the front room of Tan y coed Isaf listening to Roy Harper and The incredible String Band. There was none of this " buying" of such things in those days .... getting somebody to write it for you. Oh no. Anyhow, now I've found the "proofs" of this one, I'm going to print out a few copies to entertain my friends ... so the print run is a maximum of 2. I doubt if they'll sell out. Especially as they're free. ..and now .... here IS The Incredible String Band "doing" two remarkable songs .. "The Half-Remarkable Question" and " Painting Box" on the Julie Felix Show in about 1698 .... But the real ½-remarkable ? is ...where's the other 1 ?
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