echoscout
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Sounds like you had a good time at the market Jack. Big Rose lookin good!Bit of a trip down Memory Lane Jer!Such an interesting area, though I think it was better when we lived there, rather than the name-dropping author, a decade later, when gentrification had well and truly set in. It brought back some happy memories though, and I enjoyed reading what is really just a stretched stream-of-consciousness article. I'll try and photocopy it for you
The Beast unleashed!
Hope everyone is having a good dayI was hoping to get a nap, but not sure I'll get a chance now, before I eat. The market was fun, as usual. Tool Man's main pre-occupation today has been a new tattoo, which he is thinking of having, a winged wheel from a pocket watch he has. He knows a young tattooist, Kenny, who I don't have a lot of time for, being as he is covered head-to-toe in every gang tattoo imaginable, and dresses like a prison thug, whereas he is in reality a posing, soft, posh boy. Tool Man, being Tool Man, had decided he wanted this tattoo on the back of his neck, and had discussed the tattoo with Kenny, who has inked a lot of his previous tattoos, before. Having no sense of direction, or knowledge of the streets of Leeds, he didn't actually know where Kenny did his tattooing, except that it was somewhere near the market. I guessed where it was, and took Tool Man there, but the shop hadn't opened yet, so I suggested Tool Man go to ask Barber Brian if he had Kenny's phone number.
I went off to buy some Eccles Cakes, and Tool Man went to see Brian. He obtained the number, and spoke to Kenny on the phone, and an hour later, quite excited, he went off to see Kenny at the shop. He returned later saying, somewhat forlornly, that Kenny, who has facial tattoos that might get him killed in some places, was no longer doing neck tattoos. I have suggested that we go into the shop, and seriously menace him on the issue!
The market is certainly full of colourful characters, and I managed to finally get a snap of this harmless nut-case, though only from behind unfortunately. He dresses up either as a late 20th century ferry captain, or a 1960's airline pilot, and has wandered around like that for years. He was the Captain today!
Tool Man has taken a somewhat irrational position with regards to his recent health problems, and his diet has actually got worse! "Well, if I'm going to die, I'm going to die happy!" Nobody has actually mentioned dying, but he is shovelling fried Spam sandwiches down his neck, like he's in his final days!I was feeling peckish, but couldn't really decide what I fancied, so I wandered around for a bit, and got a Tunisian pizza from a stall in the market. It wasn't much like an Italian pizza, but it was freshly-baked, and very tasty, as well as being extremely spicy!
Tool Man returned from his foray to see Kenny clutching a large Bearclaw, (known as an Elephant's Foot), and proceeded to get cream all over everything, including my bag, and his nose. I left him half an hour, before handing him a Kleenex, and telling him about the latter!
Thank you Dwight!
Beautiful Lamb!
There was a time when I'd always meet up for a few pints, but nobody I know takes the day off work anymore, everything gets pushed to the weekend 
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