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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 12:44 9 Mar 2025
Sit down Darling and l will make you a nice cup of tea and you can have three digestive biscuits to dip in.
Thank you love.....make it the whole packet I'm xxxxxx.
Now, how did it go with the Doctor?
He said there is nothing wrong with me.
You did see the doctor Michael, it wasn't one of those white bears you were talking to?
No it was a Doctor.
You did go to East Hill Surgery Michael didn't you?
Yes.
Who exactly said there is nothing wrong with you?
A man dressed as an Easter Bunny - and he was wearing football boots
An Easter Bunny? In xxxxxxx football boots?
Yes Love. [Post edited 9 Mar 12:45]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 08:50 9 Mar 2025
Doctor - I'm seeing things
What kind of things?
Well, l don't know where to start, you will think l am mad
Fire away, l can't help you unless you spill it out
I was in Tesco Hythe Car Park yesterday
Yes
And l saw something
Saw what?
A polar bear pushing a shopping trolley
Yes
And I've come in here and your receptionist says take a seat....
Yes
And l sit next to a little polar bear in a buggy by the window
Yes
And it offers me a monster munch
He bit you?
No
What is a monster munch?
Like a crisp
I see
Can you help me Doctor?
No....you are fine |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 15:02 7 Mar 2025
Let's hope the gaffa don't see that man.
Too late Bro....
Why that?
A billion views today.
What you do if can't play football?
I dunno man.....probably Deliveroo.
Could we be influencers?
Who we gonna influence?
Polar Bears?
Na man, they well sorted....don't need us.
What about rapping?
Yo dude....I'm liking your thinking.
I hope we don't have to play the Polar's pre season.
Me too man, make us look like xxxxs.
Yo....l will have to fall off the escalator again and sit that out Bro.
Yeah, me too. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 14:40 7 Mar 2025
Hey Bro
Yo
You seen that video on YouTube of dem like blow up Polar Bears playing our game?
Wha' you say Big Man?
What l say Bro...our days as Premiership strikers are numbered.
Why that?
'Cause the dude can head a ball into the net from 30 yards out man an' the keeper he see nothing...'an 'e can shoot from 50 yards out 'an the ball it swerves like a mother...
Show me
Look....
Well l can't do that.
Me neither Bro. [Post edited 7 Mar 15:15]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 14:01 7 Mar 2025
Mia Darling, l was thinking about some music for your Birthday party....
Yes Mummy, that would be great.
Who do you really like Darling?
Well actually Mummy l would like a live band to play outside the summer house in the garden.
A live band?
Yes Mummy....Pablo and The Polar Bears have a new single coming out on my birthday and their record label wants to stream the release live.
Stream? Live? What does that mean Darling?
Oh, don't worry Mummy - Pablo's management company will take care of that.
They have a management company?
Yes Mummy and there is a support act booked too!
A support act to Inflatable Polar Bears?
Yes Mummy.
What, like other inflatables?
No Mummy, like Charli XCX. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 13:33 7 Mar 2025
Mummy, I've finished the list of invitations to my birthday party.
Oh, well done Mia, let me take a look through....there are several names l don't recognise Darling ...who is Cornelius?
Oh, he is a friend of Pablo's.
And who is Archibald?
He is a full back.
Does he live in St Helena Road?
No, he lives in a shed in Irvine Road.
A shed?
Yes Mummy, and he sleeps for 8 months of the year.
And who is Edward?
Edward is a goalkeeper.
Oh, l think l know his Mummy.
Edward hasn't got a Mummy, he came in a cardboard box.
Well, we had better get some extra jelly in for him then....
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 13:17 6 Mar 2025
A heart felt thank you to those of you following the adventures of Pablo The Inflatable Polar Bear - he just evolved from a dog walk a few days before Christmas here in Colchester.
He was standing in a garden gently rocking from side to side and his image was the beginning of the concept for The Yuletide Football League which confused, amused and entertained some folk.
I thought - if an image like that can stop me in my tracks it might be worth developing his character and create a series of ideas to share.
Hence little Mia who is five years old probing her parents and making peanut butter sandwiches for Pablo and his team mates.
xx |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 08:07 6 Mar 2025
Sean.
Yes.
What happened to that loaf of bread we bought in Tesco last night?
I'm not sure babe.
Do you think it could have fallen out of the carrier bag somehow?
Maybe.
Sean.
Yes, Babe
Have you had the munchies in the night?
Not that l recall.
Only the peanut butter jar is empty again.
Not me Babe, but there was a group of Polar Bears sitting in the garden when l let Samson out this morning.
Polar Bears? Have you been on the mushrooms again? |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 07:45 6 Mar 2025
Daddy
Yes Darling
Were you in the scouts?
No, Darling, why do you ask?
Because Mr Francis said there should be scouts watching Pablo.
Oh, l think he means scouts from a football club.
Scouts from a football club?
Yes, they are different from the boy scouts, they are supposed to be on the look out for talented footballers.
Well, they should be watching Pablo because he is talented.
Yes, Honey.....have you been sneaking out in the middle of the night watching the training sessions?
Yes. Everyone in my class sneaks out and we go over The Rec at 2am to watch the Inflatable Polar Bears first team squad practice and take them snacks.
Well, next time you go wake me up and l will come too. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 16:11 5 Mar 2025
Mummy, mummy l did a drawing today on the white board and everyone in the class was copying it in their little sketchbooks.
Oh Mia, that's wonderful.
Miss Cooper took a picture of it and it's on her Instagram and X!
What did you draw Honey?
I did a drawing of an inflatable Polar Bear in Colchester United colours and Danny Cowley shaking hands with him.
Who is Danny Cowley?
Oh Mummy, you're so out of touch - he is the Manager of Colchester United and he's the best! |
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Reply | M&T makeover
at 14:16 5 Mar 2025
With the Maldon & Tiptree stadium and land still effectively under the ownership of Robbie Cowling ( ?? ) with a two year option for it to be sold to the new owners of M&T l wondered if this might pave the way for something more dramatic further along the line?
I was mistaken in thinking that the stadium and land may have been transferred to the new owners....ie, the complete ownership of, not just some form of rental agreement.
Is the Maldon & Tiptree project a trial run at something more expansive?
I am looking at Colchester United or Southend United in this regard.
With no railway link the M&T project could run into a cul de sac. [Post edited 5 Mar 15:46]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 07:30 5 Mar 2025
Drury Road, Colchester breakfast conversation extract.
Daddy.
Yes Sweetheart.
When will it be Christmas?
Not for a while Darling, but it will be your birthday in three weeks.
I want it to be Christmas first.
Why is that?
I want to see the inflatable Polar Bears playing football on Old Heath Rec.
Leave it with me honey, l have an idea.
Oh, Daddy, Daddy can you take me to see them training?
Well they don't come out until 2am and you are usually fast asleep.
I don't want to go to sleep ever again, l want to see the Polar Bears in their tracksuits and football boots. |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 17:52 4 Mar 2025
Further note to 'Cathedral'
I have used three words from 'Glorious' by Andreas Johnson....for some followers who have trekked through 'Tigers' you may recall the birthday links with people l am connected to or have referenced in the thread.
Andreas Johnson - born 22nd March.
The words l used from his epic song are 'Checking me out'....which l imagine will have been replicated several times over.
I have had contact today from Transglobal Underground....not from Natacha Atlas as such but her birthday just happens to be March 20th.
I was in conversation with an actress last week who is currently on stage in the West End.
We discussed the birthday thing....her birthday is March 20th and an unusually high number of the cast in the show have birthdays in March.
She has noticed this around the world where she has sung and acted.
I have to admit though that a couple of other people l am discussing projects with have birthdays in other months of the year. [Post edited 4 Mar 21:18]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 17:00 4 Mar 2025
I've added some parts to Cathedral - so this is draft three....part of the idea stems from an experience around 2004....and the stakes were high...but l took the plunge....and it was certainly a challenge..... |
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:06 3 Mar 2025
CONVERSATION IN DRURY ROAD, COLCHESTER , MARCH 3rd, 2025, 19.24.
Mummy, are there tigers at Layer Road?
No darling, l don't think so.
But Daddy said he was reading about Tigers at Layer Road.
Oh that old chestnut....l don't think they are real Tigers.
Well, what are they then?
I'm not sure, Daddy said something about Polar Bears.
Are there Polar Bears in Layer Road?
I think they are inflatables.
Inflatable Polar Bears in Layer Road ...what are they doing there?
Go to sleep darling I'll get Daddy to explain in the morning.
Mummy
Yes
Do inflatable Polar Bears eat chestnuts?
I'm not sure sweetheart, night, night.
Night, night Mummy. [Post edited 3 Mar 21:43]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 16:40 3 Mar 2025
Note to construction of Cathedral.
I had a few words to work with....l emailed them to myself ....then a couple of lines....then a few more....it's like a little kit....there is a general theme / subject / mood - but it's not dissimilar to throwing an omelette together....hence when l join up the bits....it may still look like it's been thrown together....which it has....
It's something of a sketch....and occasionally it might go on to be more expansive.
I am interested in how lyrics and poetics are written....some very quickly....l like to discuss the process with folk who are doing similar....
I had some interesting conversations with JimBob of Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine about our modes of writing a while ago.
Lines used to come so quickly to him that he had to change seats in his car so his wife could drive while he wrote song lyrics in South London.
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 08:11 3 Mar 2025
Here is the first written draft for Cathedral - actually as l have amended spacing etc it the second draft.
CATHEDRAL
Your world
Offered excitement
Enticing
But frightening
Some seventh sense
Hovering
Checking me out
Remote messaging
A telepathic spy
Infiltrates my mind
I was waiting in the wings
Biding my time
Turning it over
In my mind's eye
'Cause you're
Always burning
Around every turning
Tracking this yearning
Above me
Below me
Around and inside
Entwined
Like an iron claw
Ripping my intestines
Spilling me out
On the floor
Visually enhanced
Severed in sunlight
The blood and the gore
Do l take a giant leap?
Should l step into the ring?
For fear of being snowblind
Can l do this thing?
You threw down
The gauntlet
Teased and taunted
Your magnetism haunted
Weaved patterns
In the haze
And l sense you
Approaching
Moving ever closer
As you step into this dream
And l will
Sample the product
Evaluate the stakes
With your hair
Flayed out across the bed
It was black
You dyed it red
Tears flowed
From eyes of blue
This is a dream
But it's unmistakeably
YOU
Yes, it's you
Breathing
Soft as night
Distant voices
Taxi lights
Cast as
Compass and needle
My substance
And Cathedral
While l am....
Just putty in your fingers
As your trademark scent
Lingers and lingers ... [Post edited 5 Mar 15:55]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 07:46 2 Mar 2025
My day began by checking out the lyrics to Pink Pony Club by Kayleigh Rose Amstutz ( stage name Chappell Roan ).
That's her reveal. It's just the most fantastic pop song and very much her own creation and persona.
Not bad for a young lady who became a singer virtually by accident.
The Mid West and Los Angeles locations in the song's lyrics - simple as they are, just say so much about her journey and path in life.
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 22:22 1 Mar 2025
Sorry, unintentional duplication of post, signalling problems in CO1.
Should add that the early Danny Dyer appearances on film were Directed by Andrea Arnold ( Red Road, Fish Tank, etc ). [Post edited 2 Mar 19:00]
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Reply | Tigers at Layer Road
at 22:19 1 Mar 2025
I'm not a fan of music awards, especially when they are on ITV, but l just had to watch The Last Dinner Party performing 'Nothing Matters' on The Brit Awards tonight.
It has a hot lyric that cannot be replicated on mainstream TV ( yawn ), and is a totally different treatment than originally envisaged when the song was first written - and all the better for it.
I also had to check out the Charli XCX video on Youtube that l had heard about .....and yeah, 57 million views and counting. Slick work!
I have seen the aftermath of The Brit Awards when the cleaners have come in the morning after.....that was in '05, l can't believe it can be that chaotic these days!
A glimpse of Danny Dyer tonight. I take no interest in his acting career but still possess the first film shorts he ever made on VHS tapes in South London and they are powerful, non commercial dark British film that is almost too challenging to view. |
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