Sorry can't give any info, help or advice mate, but that is a stunning piece. I'm gonna have a look though and see if I can get any info for it....I'm genuinely interested.
Thanks Snaggey mate. I've scoured t'internet and can't find a thing on it. I can't make out the signature either, although the plant drawing looks very 'pot' like. My son has had it on his wall for a while now, but it's had us curious over the years what it's origins are.
The signature is a bit confusing. At first I thought it was along the lines of T...... + T....., hence the TNT (T "n T). But the more I look, it looks like the first name begins with a Y, not a T. The second name is definately a T....looks a bit like Tony? The logo is definately a bit canabissy....
Yeah, I'm pretty much with you on the signature/ monogram type thing. I'm not sure we'll ever get to the bottom of it. It's just such a nice thing and very well made. I might take it down to The Fans Museum or try to contact Rob Mason (SAFC historian) but I don't know any contact details, so I'll have to do some more digging.
i decided to put my foot down when these things started to take off...so of course, my son has his set, my grandson has his set and my partner has hers set...all occasionally just answer some random statement made by one of us without the supposed 'ok google' or whatever it is to start them listening. bro in law has every light in his house and garden linked up and most other electrical stuff in fact, talk about lazy ffs.. 'alexa, switch on garden lights'!!
actually, talking about home automation etc... when did we all become so damn lazy. was it the onset of radio remotes that 'saved' us from walking a couple of yards to change tv channels as i honestly think that was the very start of it all. these days 'work' consists of sitting in a comfy seat with a headset on that you can do from home, making meals is becoming rarer as many home delivery companies fight for your custom, sit in your chair and order food so all you need do is walk to the door and back, how long before said fast food companies offer to walk in and put the food on your lap already opened i wonder.
I've thought that for a while. '' for an extra £1.50, upgrade and leave the door unlocked and your driver will come in and put your food on your lap to save you raising your lazy arse off the chair at all ''
The one that I don't get is the kettle you can operate from your phone. Bloody clever how it puts the water in ! Then you still have to get up and go and make the cuppa anyway.
Having a few cold ones in Donny before this gig later on Buzzin for the Proclaimers, haven't seen them for about 10 years.
Definitely not worth another thread but...why don't teams swap ends when they win the toss in the footy? I'd turn them round everytime tbh.
Durham is coming off drive on talkSPORT, still working for the show, still travelling the country and world watching football and they're going on likes he's dead. Talks over the top of people, has a very big mouth and he's opinion is final. Darren Bent going from strength to strength aswell, coming off the Bootroom for more prime time.
That new space telescope has found some star or something thats 35 billion light years away - and they reckon it was formed just 250million years after the big bang. Do I believe them? Is there any point in them telling me? The distances and the scales are incomprehensible, how can they tell from a piece of light? I wish someone like that Brian Cox chap would do a program to explain the ''how'' rather than tell us the conclusions.
Good Read this Sunderland AFC 1961/62 ___________________________________________________ please log in to view this image On 25th April 1961 George Herd signed for Sunderland after the Sunderland chairman travelled to Glasgow and met the Board of Clyde. He signed for £40,000 much to the chagrin of NUFC who had thought that he was their man. In July of the same year Alan Brown signed the colourful character that was Brian Clough from Middlesbrough, for the same fee as Herd. Clough would score 29 league goals, including 4 hat tricks - he was quite simply a goal scoring machine. Sunderland had 2 consecutive gutting end of seasons when all set for promotion they would miss out agonisingly. The season started badly when 3 defeats from the first 4 games sent shock waves through the club, but the club's burgeoning youth system would now come to the fore. A run of 9 games without defeat set Sunderland up for a good season, and by the time December came around, Swansea Town were put to the sword 7-2, with both Clough and Fogarty notching hat-tricks. A 6-1 victory against Bristol Rovers in the January was eventually followed by just 2 defeats in the last 16 games. The last game of that sequence saw us just miss out. Sunderland travelled to the Vetch Field, knowing that a win would see them up and it all looked good when Brian Clough put Sunderland ahead, but Swansea equalised and despite frantic efforts the scored remained 1-1. Leyton Orient were promoted along with Liverpool. At Roker Park, Sunderland were almost invincible, gaining 37 out of a maximum 42 points. Under the 2 points for a win system only 1975/76 is comparable.
Takes me back that Clocky, eight years old and standing on a bit of wood fixed to a couple of bits of rope hanging from the fence in the paddock so that I could watch the game, or in the winter passed over heads to sit on the straw pitchside, happy days
