Friday, September 28, 2007
What Happened to Hank
'It's excellent being naked up on the Great Shepherd of Etive,' says Hank Wangford. I'd been wondering what happened to the great Hank, a man who, like Keith Richards, was turned on to country music by Gram Parsons. He is, it transpires, now the founder member of the Nude Mountaineering Society, having been 'drawn into the joys of trouserless peaking by the great George Mallory.' The attractions of naked mountain-climbing do not immediately strike me, but I am delighted they strike Hank, who is also Sam Hutt and, apparently, Boeing Duveen.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
trouserless peaking - how's that done then? surely....oh, never mind.
ReplyDeleteHank Wangford Band, I saw them once. North Finchley, but can't remember the name of the pub. Very entertaining.
An empty bottle, a broken heart...
ReplyDeleteGood to see he's putting the wang back into Wangford.
ReplyDeleteTrouserless mountaineering sounds painful indeed. New meaning to "get your rocks off."
ReplyDeleteOk do I get a prize? I went to the desert and saw the place the body was burned. The rangers won't tell you where it is, you have to find it. People do find it then they do that thing with paint and coins to say they have been and seen and remember.
ReplyDeleteYou're into Gram, wifey? Truly you are a wonder.
ReplyDeletemmm and I have seen the movie. I knew we had something in common.
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