Today your 'all weather leafletters were: CJ via cab and fresh off the operating table along with all the kuwg equipment: banners, music, cd player, bullhorn, record player, Pam, Mira, folding stool...yes ok, as he passed our estate he picked us up...nothing escapes your keen eyes! Speaking of Keen, Paul K contacted CJ to say he was already in position at Kilburn, as wasGerry Dowing with the leaflets. Abby (more gloves than an Eskimo) and Angie (fur coat and Ski sticks), Peter Murry pulling his wheelchair behind him as an ice breaker. Hassan arrived singing his way down Cambridge Avenue. We even had our Nygell Firminger memorial flame in tow.
We set up. Vinyl on record player and cassettes in the cd player. As we stood waiting for Can the Can to start the notorious Kay passed through our ranks spitting the words "Tell your friend to stop telling lies about me" CJ straightened up and began calling him (all together now) "LIAR!" this is to do with the incident Abby reported last week about Shelley having a seizure in kilburn JCP. I must mention the perma-tanned JCP worker who poked her orange mug through the doorway and shook her head dramatically in a no gesture after clocking us, or maybe her face was inflamed and she wanted to cool off? I shouldn't jump to conclusions.
We did a raucous version of Devil Gate Drive, followed by Crazy Horses (Crazy 'Tories') I have snatches of film and you can hear how much we are laughing as we sing! Our anthem 'Gaukes out' (Schools out) which had the bus stop crowd transfixed, there were so many watchers, surely a few buses had gone by without anyone boarding. We got some waves and cheers too. I filmed as kuwg sang Slades Gudbye to Pam (Jane). We ended with a lovely singalong Glad to be Gay by Tom Robinson then we packed up and went for coffee. Photos to follow and as soon as youtube has twiddled the videos I will send them also. Incidentally, 2 young men going in asked me what we were there for, I expained, they had no idea that Kilburn is to close on Friday! They looked so alarmed they asked me if they could still enter the building...
Goodbye Kilburn JCP!
Pam
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