Ray Schaufeld's blog

Christmas tinsel overhead I go for free food and questionprobes To the Minted Methodist Church. The to the scrag end of Denise Moulds Social worker ukulele group Where no one knows the trad tune 'four strong winds' I grab instrument tuning key of irony Singing turning to the main crowd in the bigger room 'we all love Denise'. I walk to the bus stop bussses all spent, homeward went so on ward to my peace shop in New Bridge Street Yankee folkie...

spotted a fe in night trance kitty farouk the big cat ben the prancing pug Ben my nephew ben dimond 'ben the 2 of us ...michael jackson had a pet friendly RAT but my nephew ben is a good dog ha the every spotted mandybird whizzes and flitters a cheery phoenix peacock NAYNA WHERE IZZY NAYNA FROM RED LEICESTER VIA THE PUNJAB JUDITH SCHAUFELD HAD A MIXED RACE FRIEND izzy from england brown girl english mum moroccan dad judy also had an artist...

Cultural studies this was widely taught in universities and colleges. it came and went Why it is what we bring to the book it is what we read into art i love cultural studies when i was a student i had never heard of the words cultural studies i called it 'reading round the subject' i was good at it it is not a lazy study it is what we put into to it xxray schaufeld early example of cultural studies is an the book Division street Chicago. w...

Metal Box Perivale Bang clang the shutters the works leaver do of Reg Sweeney a dapper old rogue Reg has drunk in the Hop Bine the Century the football place here we are drinking lads and lasses BOTTOMS UP burby hic heigh ho raise your glasses to lynette revelle with her short skits and shoes me dancing spirit in the sky at Minys youth Club some time back Norman Greenbaum Harrow on the Hill near Northwick Park Hospital the machiners are drinking...

trance night maybelline factory metal doors slam down HARD UPON THE box OF nayna RED LEICESTER nayna the lass in dead cenre gujerati mother from Leicester Eric Clapton hears and senses the mood and rhythm of Nayna LALALALAL nAYNA SHOW ALL YOU HAVE GIVE US LEICESTER CREAM CHEESE SHOW US YOU KNOW YOU CAN DO CANDO CANCANSLOWHAND cLAPTON THERE THERE NO FLEAS PULEASE PUSS GOOD CATCAT nEXT STOP LALA gRUNWICKS AND ARTHUR SCARGILL (INDUSTRIAL ACTION...

trance do you remember when the eyemake up compacts Maybelline the factory at the Industrial Estate Wembley Park Bottom line money 50 per hour or 55p for 'going on the machines' Santos the forelady make very rude moves with her hose when she washed the floor I was surprized that Indiands could be as rude as us Old Margaret (Wilkinson the Family Rality TV do you remember when and that music ha ha ha the Family Gary Karen Tom Timmy etc yaya...

morning early morning the bus yes here is the bus there are serveral of us on this cheerful chirpy morning bus cheers driver cheers bus builders Here's to US the co-op is almost open her's the cashier and the shop assistant they go in first because they are working I am a loyal customer in I go and I have a lovely hot drink and a croissant Down the beach I go One lady and a dog ahead of me DAWN good place and on my way back to an old factory...

barbican guest house 235 east citadel road plymouth drakes drum band the drum dreaming yada yada... im a barbie i wear my lippie guys and dolls and us lot yay plymouth fishy neptuna squad we went to southlands notherly southerly yada blow the winds of Change pete seeger ewan mcoll kirsty peggy music politics she's an angry man gotta truck on with the mowing mule train chain and faith hope charity pie in the sky when we can But good Politica is a...

nighttime i listen to the beats on the radio 6 tv trance falls into place ta tatate tatate tatate ta tatatate tatate taataa repeat repeat and the words not always quite the same they seem the same but listen close and smallchange changes change changing upstairs in my bed i beat out trance with right han and keft hand (i am righthanded) I beat out the beats of trance and my words come up likea printout of my mind upon the beating drum the...

Memoies from 56 years back mother driving feeding ponies lumps of sugar from my right hand car cartel mattels barbie cindy tressy turn the lock hair comes up and down sue had plaits and siobhain and malchi macsweeney are cousins of the vegan Scottish haggis mkar First poet of scotland fergusson edwin morgan TELLY j ohn logiee Baird Helnsburgh museum I am not there I am nowhere near I am in a house there is a piano and Mrs Anne Faires my mothers...