RAMPAGING REPOST: ABSOLUTELY THE SEXIEST WOMAN ALIVE...

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...is the woman I'd

like to marry.  However,

while I'm waiting for her

to discover I even exist,

let's travel back in time

and space to a winter's

evening in Glasgow in

1967 or '68.  The precise

location is under a bridge

(now gone) in Stockwell

Street, where I'm looking

in the window of a shop at

the cover of a BATMAN

colouring book which was

simply crying out to me.

The shop was closed, so

I pleaded with my mother

to promise to buy it for me

at a later date for my fast-

approaching birthday.

She did, but I have no

idea whether she obtained the book from another source or had to go back

to that particular shop to obtain it.

I recall once taking it

to school and colouring

various bits in during the

break, and letting ROSS

CAMPBELL colour-in

one of the pages in return

for allowing me to do the

same in his different Bat-

man colouring book.  His

book may well have been

the other one featured here

- but then again, may well

not have been - so don't

go betting your house on

it.  You wouldn't want to

have to live in a cave,

would you?  (Unless it

was the BATCAVE

of course.)

 Ah, many happy hours of innocent fun, to be had from the mere

application of some coloured pencils or wax crayons - why aren't

kids today so easily pleased?

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