tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6163366133604455803.post1419052712851431720..comments2024-03-26T17:13:11.588+00:00Comments on Lucy Melford: Gus Honeybun and The Artful BodgerLucy Melfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03124557363335770051noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6163366133604455803.post-75969789914012985192015-03-09T21:31:31.545+00:002015-03-09T21:31:31.545+00:00Thank you, Alice. I will see if I can find 1 New S...Thank you, Alice. I will see if I can find 1 New Street in Plymouth - it might well be in the Barbican quayside area, if there is that Mayflower Pilgrims connection. If possible, I'll take a ground-level photo for you. <br /><br />LucyLucy Melfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09049627653901928427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6163366133604455803.post-62161525992398454802015-03-09T21:22:12.682+00:002015-03-09T21:22:12.682+00:00I experienced Gus Honeybun just this once. Subsequ...I experienced Gus Honeybun just this once. Subsequent Cornish holidays were in tents, and latterly static caravans, and there was no TV. Well, I brought one along one year (1973 or 1974) and tried to run it off a car battery, but by then Gus Honeybun wasn't my viewing priority! (It was the BBC'S dramatisation of Jean-Paul Sartre's 'The Road to Freedom'.<br /><br />LucyLucy Melfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09049627653901928427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6163366133604455803.post-82773007080743290012015-03-09T13:22:36.541+00:002015-03-09T13:22:36.541+00:00Even though I was brought up in Canada, I do know ...Even though I was brought up in Canada, I do know what a Hillman Imp is. I bought one in 1968 or 69. It was one of my first cars. I drove the crap out of it at that age, cruising way too fast on the 4-lane highways of Canada and the United States. It was a wonder it lasted as long as it did for me.<br />I was on a long trip to the East Coast of Canada and the water pump went. It was such a remoteAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849034290148109707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6163366133604455803.post-88119844017578975522015-03-09T12:08:12.404+00:002015-03-09T12:08:12.404+00:00Oh I remember Gus Honeybun. When I was at Seconda...Oh I remember Gus Honeybun. When I was at Secondary Mod School we got out headmaster's name read out - "Two bunny hops, please, for Richard Graham, who's 4 today." The following morning it was the talk of the school, but the headmaster remained silent. Perhaps Confucius, he say that small boys in short trousers run faster than old teachers in long ones!Angie Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08882779021382371603noreply@blogger.com