Jimmy Cliff…..Faces In Stones – Plus…….
by Bernie Bell - 11:28 on 25 November 2025
Jimmy Cliff…..
Yesterday, I had my after-lunch nap, and woke to find that Jimmy Cliff has passed from this life…..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4qdren425o
I’ve been listening to Jimmy Cliff for a long time – more recently wondering at how strong and clear his voice still is.
The film ‘The Harder They Come‘ is a classic of music and attitude. The content is questionable in quite a few ways! But probably true to life in that place at that time.
People use the word ‘cool’ to describe a lot of things and people - Jimmy Cliff was/is …..COOL.
Two of his songs – encapsulating life….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGeCeK85sUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7qsW8qboE
Fare-well Jimmy.
Here’s his play-list….
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMMCuH7MkOEWQDA0ljnbM9EJybFBmKlob
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Faces In Stones - Plus….
Continuing Carolyn’s challenge to post pics of faces in things…..
Face in a Standing Stone, Mill Little, West Cork, Ireland….
A lion’s head by Bernera Bridge, Isle of Lewis….
Also among the Bernera Bridge stones….
At the Sands O’ Wright, Orkney…..excessive nasal hair!.....
The Bu, Orphir, Orkney……
On the beach by Eve’s Broch, Deerness, Orkney….
Scapa Beach, Orkney......
An alien at Skaill Bay, Orkney!…..
Plus…..Non- stoney faces….
We had lunch in the café at the Lews Castle museum, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and I noticed this ‘face’ in the newly plastered wall.
Folk saw me taking the picture, and came to see why. One lady said it reminded her of the Turin Shroud, a young lad said it was “spooky”. Another suggestion was that it was someone who was had been walled up in there! I said it might be Old Matheson, in a grump because the peasantry are now able to wander around his grounds at will! That’s what I reckon it is – Old Matheson, in a grump. I’m not a fan of Old Matheson.
One man commented that life is endlessly interesting, if you are interested in life.
Amen to that.
Trowie in a tree-root…Kirbuster Museum, Orkney…..
Home-made guitar…
In the woods at Woodwick House, Orkney…
Binscarth Woods, Orkney….
Dougal in the field…..
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