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Thread #145932 Message #3377729
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
17-Jul-12 - 11:40 AM
Thread Name: Review: Grumpy British Folkies part 273
Subject: RE: Review: Grumpy British Folkies part 273
Reminds me a bit of my first geography book when I was seven.
The first chapter was about about little Bombo, he was a pygmy in the Belgian Congo.. Apart from the risk of crocodiles Bombo had it pretty cool. Running round spearing things, living in a hut, and runinng round with no keks.
Little Tooktu, the Eskimo - you couldn't really identify with....the blubber diet, the igloo, the Mum who looked suspiciously similar to the Dad and the Grandad. The presence of fish everywhere.
Then every year we got the British trades Alphabet catalogue. you could write off to Australia for a bit of sheep's wool. Cadbury's sent a book shaped like a coffee bean.
No wonder we English find it so easy to empathise with cultures other than our own.
I must check Froots back issues to see if Little Bombo pursued a career in music. If he did, I'll check the same people who organised your tour. Perhaps Little Bombo and i could do a gig in his hut, and run around together with no keks on -spearing things.