The Pickled Egg Library

[NewcastleFalcon]

Anything by Giles!

Giles did a few cartoons featuring a Series One Landrover, reg LRT 140, and a post on the Series One forum indicated that the Giles archive had been presented to Kent University who host the British Cartoon Archive. Haven't had much of a delve as yet but the link to the site is here

https://www.cartoons.ac.uk/



Regards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

I love the accuracy of his work. You can easily recognise makes and models (and, on most cases, versions) of cars, and so on. You may also have seen some of his cartoons with a Land Rover towing a very large caravan. Carl Giles actually designed and built that caravan, and towed it around the UK with an early Land Rover. The only problem he had was on the first outing. He had not allowed for the weight of his work, and the wheels collapsed! A friend was able to source wheels of the same main dimensions, but designed for lorry usage. They were up to the job, and the caravan was loved and used.

Photo of caravan;

http://s93.photobucket.com/user/spellca ... 0.jpg.html

The silvery bit was a drop down section, with a small studio in there, so he could draw while he was on holiday.

Cartoon of caravan;

http://s93.photobucket.com/user/spellca ... 5.jpg.html

Here is said Land Rover;

http://www.lrsoc.com/forum/forum_files/Giles5.JPG

[Hell Razor5543]

Here is an excerpt from "The Ladybird Book of The Shed"

Roland is spending Easter in the shed, sorting his screws.

While his wife and children visit his mother, Roland is separating his screws into flathead, Philips, PoziDriv, countersunk, double countersunk, bulge head, round head, clutch head, button head, pan head, hex head, flange head, fillister head and miscellaneous. There are also boxes for washers, hooks, pins, and a bag of fluff.

"It needed doing" says Roland.

Something that makes them funnier is that all of the images were already in the Ladybird archives, and have just been re-purposed for these books (no alterations, just a different storyline). I can remember some of them from my childhood days.

[bobins]

Here is an excert from "The Ladybird Book of The Shed"

Roland is spending Easter in the shed, sorting his screws.

While his wife and children visit his mother, Roland is separating his screws into flathead, Philips, PoziDriv, countersunk, double countersunk, bulge head, round head, clutch head, button head, pan head, hex head, flange head, fillister head and miscellaneous. There are also boxes for washers, hooks, pins, and a bag of fluff.

Well he's not doing a very good job of it, is he ? They need to be sub-sorted to brass, zinc, stainless, black japanned........ Bloody amateurs

[Hell Razor5543]

[CitroJim]

Well he's not doing a very good job of it, is he ? They need to be sub-sorted to brass, zinc, stainless, black japanned........ Bloody amateurs

Quite right too

[Hell Razor5543]

Another Ladybird Book excerpt, this time from "Boxing Day"

"In this sewage plant, everybody has been busy preparing for the Boxing Day rush.

The sluices have been cleared, extra pumps installed, and all leave cancelled. They hope the equipment will be able to cope.

On the 27th, the exhausted and shell-shocked staff will head home to celebrate a belated Christmas with their families."

What makes you think I have bought a load of these books as silly stocking fillers for friends and family?

[CitroJim]

James, they'll be richly appreciated Wish I was on your present list

[Peter.N.]

I was tested with a number of pages of coloured dots, apparently colour blind people see different numbers in them. There was also a machine at 'Evoloun' at Eindhoven which some of you may remember from the trade colour test films, we went there a couple of times and I tried it and it said I was severely rood - groen blind.

I have just been reading a James Herroit book while I was in hospital, read them the first time round but never realised how well written they were until now, they cover every aspect of emotion including humor, I was trying to prevent myself from laughing out loud in the ward.

Peter

[CitroJim]

I have just been reading a James Herroit book while I was in hospital, read them the first time round but never realised how well written they were until now, they cover every aspect of emotion including humor, I was trying to prevent myself from laughing out loud in the ward.

I read and enjoyed them years ago Peter and loved how he related the language of some of his farmer clients... I remember one farmer informing him he was phoning from t' cassock in t' village and asking if he'd heard anything from the Labrador?

After a bit of head-scratching it transpired he was calling from the village telephone kiosk and was keen to know if he had the results of some tests from the laboratory...

Another was when a very skilled and respected surgeon came to do a tricky operation on a cat that was beyond Jame's ability. Operation done and James and this surgeon went for a drink. The surgeon had a reputation for hard drinking and got poor James absolutely sozzled...

In the morning the surgeon, all jolly and bright, phoned James, who was suffering a most terrible hangover, to tell him the cat was OK and had managed to lap a little warm milk. James informed him that he'd just about managed the same

[Hell Razor5543]

That same very skilled vet also drove a Bentley. On one occasion they (James and the other guy) had to go somewhere in tricky conditions (through the Snake Pass, IIRC). It was an interesting experience. A day later James was looking at the beginning of that route, and a policeman told him it had been closed because of the snow, and nothing had made it through in days. James did not comment on this.

I loved the TV series the BBC did, with Christopher Timothy as James Herriot, Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon, and Peter Davidson as Tristan Farnon.

[CitroJim]

That same very skilled vet also drove a Bentley.

Yes, I remember now James... He did indeed... A real larger than life character...

I enjoyed the TV series too.. So well cast... Siegfried in particular, Robert Hardy played him so well he could well have been Siegfried in real life

James's screen wife was famous too I believe, I can picture her but I can't recall her name...

[Hell Razor5543]

The first actress was Carol Drinkwater, and the second actress was Lynda Bellingham.

[CitroJim]

The first actress was Carol Drinkwater, and the second actress was Lynda Bellingham.

Thanks James It was Lynda I was thinking of...

[Peter.N.]

Yes all those comments ring a bell, the wealthy vet with the Bentley played Morse's boss, great big chap. A couple of the chapters in this book were concerning the Romney sheep sheep he took to Russia and the ones he took somewhere hot in a WW 2 transport plane that they had to haul the landing gear up with a rope and subsequently lost an engine.

He had such a grasp of detail and a mind that craved knowledge and experience, I shall have to look at some more of his books again.

Peter