Inspired by The Beatles' 1967 song of the same name, a favourite old suitcase originally found in an antiques shop that, if only trunks could talk, would no doubt have many tales to tell, and quite possibly a little too much Blavorange and absinthe...
Taken in Old Fletton, Peterborough, England on October 20, 2007.
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Must be your-legs-related-humbleness, or the
inspiring song, or that fantastic suitcase
and all the moments it contains, or even the
position and angle for the left heel, but
somehow I like it.
Posted 28 months ago.
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Ah, Perry St, I'm rumbled. No, she wasn't
really leaving home. And neither was this
shot taken on "Wednesday morning at five
o'clock as the day begins." I feel like
such a fake... ;-)
Posted 28 months ago.
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Her escape was thwarted when her stilletto
heels caught in the seam of the plank floor,
dropping the wench to her knees, breaking an
ankle in the process. Of course, I gave her
a wrap with an Ace bandage and took the rap
for the floor. Then elevated that injury.
Posted 27 months ago.
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BuckarooBob, you're terrible! I would have
expected nothing less from a fellow
journalist though. The injury is recovering
well, but I'm still paying it close personal
medical attention, naturally. "Trust me,
I am a doctor..."
Posted 27 months ago.
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Sorry Rich, that shot hit me like a mule kick
to my third eye (I'm working on channeling
the rebirth of Mickey Spillane) sending the
vibrations up and down my chakras---falling
dominos kicking like the Rockettes chorus
line in a Christmas spectacular. I couldn't
help myself.
Posted 27 months ago.
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...I'm not above a little author emulation
myself. Feel free to channel the spirits of
dead writers through the medium of my Flickr
images any time you like. My comment streams
aren't best known for being short and to the
point. Anyway, I'd better get back to that
ankle. "Just hold it up a little higher,
my dear..."
Posted 27 months ago.
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I would have never thought a young woman
sneaking out of the house before dawn to run
away with a man her parents disapprove of
would be wearing spiked heels.
Posted 27 months ago.
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Ah, but he's in the motor trade, remember
Paul. He was probably meeting her outside in
a 1965 Jaguar Mk2 3.8, thus ensuring she
didn't have to totter too far on those
heels...
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Ah, you see I always took "Motor
Trade" to mean that he was a mechanic
and therefore beneath her station. And
that's why the parents disapproved of him.
Now I know they disapproved because he was a
skeevy used car salesman.
I like my interpretation better. I like to
think of this young girl as an innocent who
is following the path of love by running off
with the poor young mechanic that her parents
disapprove of and not a bratty little party
girl who runs off with some older guy because
he has a flash car and a pocket full of
money.
But then again there is the line
"She's Having Fun (Fun is the one thing
that money can't buy)" which can be
interpreted in a number of ways. Apparently
the parents have money, they are a well to do
middle class suburban family that lavishes
their only child with everything she needs,
but what her teenaged heart desires is to get
out and have some fun.
The parents are well meaning, but flawed.
In my interpretation their flaw is their
snobbery. They must keep up appearances.
They can't have their only daughter marrying
a lowly mechanic. In your interpretation
their flaw, as it were, is their morals.
They don't want their daughter running off
with a sketchy older man to go partying.
I want to believe that this girl is
following the path of love. Her parents, the
song clearly wants us to have sympathy for
the parents, will eventually come to accept
this young man. There is a lot more to his
character than what meets the eye. They will
come to see that they should have trusted
their daughters judgment. They raised her
right after all.
I don't want to believe that this girl is a
coked up slut bound to break her parents
hearts.
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The 'motor trade' line was, I believe, purely
an in-joke the Beatles put in, as a reference
to one of their friends who was a car dealer,
albeit a high class one. He definitely wasn't
a mechanic.
But, yes, the rest of your perception of
the song is pretty much spot on. Paul
McCartney came across a story in the Daily
Mail newspaper of February 27, 1967, about
17-year-old runaway Melanie Cole, who was
studying for her A-level exams. She
mysteriously and suddenly left home with
nothing, her father saying at the time
"I cannot imagine why she should run
away. She has everything here." Paul
used the story as the basis for She's Leaving
Home, creating one of his best (and
best-loved) songs in the process, to tell the
tale of a young girl sneaking away from her
claustrophobically respectable home in search
of fun and romance in the swinging Sixties.
In a strange twist to the story, it turned
out Paul had actually met Melanie three years
previously, as she was a massive Beatles fan.
Fortunately, the girl in my photo seems
perfectly happy at the moment, and,
hopefully, has no plans of running away.
Although she does regularly sneak away to
meet a man associated with a few dodgy old
motors :-)
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Well, it's either a renaissance for Rich007,
or these are a VERY memorable pair of legs,
Sedanman. I'm favouring the latter...
Posted 25 months ago.
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Although I like to be supportive of my
friends, both of the Flickr variety and
otherwise, I'd much prefer these legs be in my presence than
your "renaissance" ;O)
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