BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please

Subject: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:07 PM

After looking at the down east Bob photo I had a look at some of the other Mudcat photos and there was Liz the Squeak. So imagine my disappointment when Liz's drum was no where to be seen! A prime opportunity to bring tourism to Dorset by flashing its biggest asset at the webpage and Liz didn't take it. Shame on you Liz the economy of Cerne Abbas may well never recover

Roger

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:14 PM

Sorry darling, haven't actually got a photo of it on digicam yet, never fear, we will arrange this!!

LTS

If you want to see the thing in action and can get to Harrow for October 28th, PM me.......

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:43 PM

No Fear ......I have seen one of those scary Giant things on Micca's page!!

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:50 PM

Well how about next time I go to Sheffield to play with their giants, I bring it with me and we meet up in the Red Deer or something.......!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 04:06 PM

OK sounds fun
I've heard of the Red Deer.......never been though
I'll do some research!

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 04:10 PM

Last time I was there, the Timothy Taylors' landlord was to die for!!!! took 5 mins to settle, whereas in London, it looks like a glass of piddle.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Morticia
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 08:14 PM

Roger, you can't mean you want me to poke my digital camera in her ear????????For a start I'll never find it under all that hair ......and even if I do I may never come out!!

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: JulieF
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 09:26 AM

Red Deer - just off West Street. Does a usually massive singaround session - I think on the third Thursday of the Month ( but I could be wrong about that)

Julie

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 01:27 PM

Thanks. someone at work overheard me mention the pub and explained where it was. And No its not her Ear Drum.......just wait for the picture
Roger

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 05:32 PM

OOOOOOh, even I'm getting excited now, and I've lived with it for 10 years.......!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 05:22 PM

I gave one to Pene, it may get posted, it may not. If not, PM me your private address and I'll send you the set...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 04:13 AM

The anticipation is killing me
Just been to the photos page and it wasn't there
...oh wait a minute it says one more item downloading.......seconds more of tension and then there it is
Wonderful - did you paint it yourself Liz its very good
roger

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 08:53 AM

Regretably, no, someone else painted it, but he was well primed with my likes and dislikes. The quote is 'So now mid (might) none of us forget, the pattern that our forefathers set', from a poem by William Barnes, and done in dialect from Dorset, where the Cerne Giant also resides, as I used to. The wyvern is the emblem of Wessex, which included Dorset, dragons support the Dorset crest, and the white roses are because I hate red roses.

LTS - did you spot the green men behind it?

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 08:55 AM

Thanks Pene, for putting it up....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Micca
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 10:58 AM

and here is a blue clicky Click here

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Mbo
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 11:07 AM

Speaking of penes, isn't the nekkid dude with the rampant one, supposed to be The Dadga?

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Alice
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 11:46 AM

Great, LTS, now we need sound to go with the picture. Can you play the drum and send Mudcat a recording? Is there already one somewhere here and I missed it?

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 05:12 PM

Re the nekkid dude - no-one quite knows who he is, but he bears more than a passing resemblance to a statue of Hercules that was found in the ruins of a roman building hard by.... there are also rumours that he used to carry a cloak over the other arm, geophys. surveys have been carried out, and it is apparent that there was something there once, that has been allowed to turf over. It is said that in the victorian age, there was a belly button, touching the tip of his willy, that was allowed to become part of it, but this is unproven.

I do play it, it is deep and sort of chocolatey in texture, but there are no recordings, as it is used exclusively on processions. If you want to hear it, go to Hastings at May Day or Harrow on 28th October....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: pictures of Liz the squeaks drum please
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 06:20 PM

Wonderful picture of it, LtS. Thank you...beautiful paintings and I like the symbology.

katwhowillattendoutofbody:-)justtohearit!