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Bored of her affluent and privileged lifestyle, heiress Polly Dean decides to start living and working in the working-class London district of Battersea. 1968.

“And all the while Graham slept on, Dreaming of a world where he could do just what he wanted to…”

Morning Scamps.

RIP Sly. There’s most definitely A Riot Goin’ On in LA.

Toodle Pip.

Which famous (and scandalous) Irish author lived at 10 Carlyle Square? Sean Connery, Judy Garland, Robert Mitchum, Brando…In fact The Glitterati and Literati of the 60s and 70s all attended parties there. Clue. ALL her books were banned in Holy Ireland!

How the world might have been different if Nick Drake was a dog owner rather than a dope smoker.

Uhtred, the son of a nobleman, is captured and raised by Danes. Once he grows up, he has to choose whom he will protect, the land where he grew up or the people who raised him as their own. 2015-2022.

“I know you I care too I see through All of the pictures that you keep on the wall All of the people that will come to the ball…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

Sacco & Vanzetti (Italian: Sacco e Vanzetti) is a 1971 historical legal drama film, based on the trial of Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, whose guilty verdict and execution was considered a politically-motivated miscarriage of justice.

“Well, I sleep on the floor Of a room, I just can't afford For a job that I just don't want 'Cause I was born with a fork, not a spoon And things fall through Life is too expensive Ah, don't get defensive Or what do you want, blood..?”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

When at school, The Deputy Head Teacher advised to read this book and gave me the copy that was on the Housecraft Department bookshelf. It was a real eye opener...and had a real influence on my world view. Thank you Miss Ellis.

Rocky Balboa (Stallone) faces stiff competition from Clubber Lang (Mr. T), a powerful new contender, and turns to his old adversary Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) to help him train.1982.

“Beneath the old iron bridges, across the Victorian parks And all the frightened people running home before dark Past the Saturday morning cinema that lies crumbling to the ground And the piss-stinking shopping centre in the new side of town…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

Students at New York's famous High School for the Performing Arts pour their hearts and souls into their training to become stars in their chosen field in this TV series adaptation of a 1980 motion picture of the same title. 1982.

“Blown in the winds of mischance He would stay but that's not his way What escape for her, she swims in the dark In too deep but still waves…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

The other 14 Countries all voted in favour.

Well, do something about it. More hollow words.

The film depicts the descent of Christiane Felscherinow from a bored and depressed 13-year-old in 1970s West Berlin to a 14-year-old heroin addict. The film is based on the 1978 non-fiction book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo(We Children from Zoo Station.) 1981.

“Heading down with the light, the dust in your way She was angrier than, than her water shell male Life to this love to me, heading me down to me Thunder bird shale seems to be all and it's rosy, it's a beautiful day…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

A little bit of Gilbert and George for Wednesday…

‘Mon The Hoops! In Fabulous Downtown Plumstead too!

Amid World War I, Dr. Yuri Zhivago, a physicist and poet, tries to fight his inner demons when he is attracted to a woman despite being married to the love of his life. 1966.

“All the nights that never happened and the days that don't exist At the Information-Action Ratio The only time that we stop laughing is to breathe or steal a kiss I can get you on the list for all the clubs, I can lift you up another semitone…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

Jerusalem - Palestinian Bakery & Coffee House (@jerusaleminderry) Great spot.

These two are supposed to be Socialists…they roll their eyes when a colleague calls out genocide.

When a young woman who is living in the woods with her struggling-musician husband and her very young daughter discovers that she has terminal cancer, she begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left, hoping to leave something precious for her daughter. 1973.

“I'm society's destructor I'm a petrol bomb constructor I'm the people's debt collector I'm a cosmic light conductor…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip…Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent ya! Heh heh heh heh heh!

After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen. 1985.