Alan Skeoch

Month: March 2018

  • High up on a Swiss Mountain at the SUMMER PASTURE

    KEVIN took these pictures a few years ago when he and Gabriela had the super energy required to reach the SWISS SUMMER PASTURE.

  • Who says Dogs cannot smile

    This is our old coonhound Tara…GRINNING…SO  GLAD  TO SEE US

  • DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

    WE did not belong to a fraternity at U. of T. but we went to this fondly remembered fraternity party one night.  Eric, Marjorie and I.  No pocket money for beer.  just enough for one cigar as you can  see.  Then we hit a bonanza in the dark.

    “A half bottle of red wine, here…”
    “Take a  swig.”
    “finish it off before the owner comes back”
    “What are these lumps?”
    “CIGARETTE BUTTS?  CIGAR BUTTS!!
    The bottle had been used as an ashtray.  We did  not notice until we got some distance down in the bottle.

  • OCT, 7, 1989…FREEDOM CAME AND NEAR DEATH: ANDREW IN SOUTH PACIFIC

    FREEDOM AND NEAR DEATH:  ANDREW IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC,
    BEGAN OCT. 7, 1989
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    Parents have to let go at some point.  If they don’t want to let go then their kids will take off anyway.  That is our experience.
    About the time the Berlin Wall came down, both Andrew and  Kevin took off. Left the nest to explore the wider world.  I think it was October 7, 1989…the Berlin Wall  came down a  month later…both boys just took off in different directions.  We didn’t know why their rite of passage occurred on the same day but it did.

  • Lower Wooton Farm…Marjorie and Nancy plucking chickens

    LOWER WOOTON FARM, HEREFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1965
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    LOWER WOOTON FARM is  a designated  historic  property near Almely, Herefordshire, England.    When I first visited the farms back in 1960 the farm was just a name…no directions, no real  address.  But Grandma  and Granddad Freeman talked  about the place  regularly back in Canada and since I was
    working in Ireland the chance to find  Lower Wooden Farm presented  itself.  I was travelling blind. Flew to London when Irish job was over then took a train from London to Hereford and then stood on the platform, a confused and obviously lost 22 year old Canadian.

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