Hello my dedicated blog readers, friends and followers. How are you all today? All a bit quiet here apart from our trip to Monmouth on the weekend but i've posted many times before about our trips to Monmouth so no need for an update with that little trip, how much more can i tell you about Monmouth, it's only a small place. In saying that i do have 2 things to show you. Firstly we drank in a pub that Liam Gallagher drinks in when he records at Rockfield Studios and a crazy amount of Greggs for just £5.56.
Sian and I had 8 bakes/slices, 10 sausage rolls, 4 doughnuts, 2 filled baguettes, 2 caramel muffins and a pain au chocolate, that's a crazy amount of stuff but it tasted so good and yes we did eat it all, not in one sitting of course.
The Robin Hood pub, one of Liam Gallagher's locals when he's in Monmouth and as you can see another sunny hot weekend for us, that's what beer gardens are made for. CHEERS! and there was a live acoustic singer on who was really good but can't remember his name, very distinctive voice. We have been here before but on our last visit it was all closed down and empty so it was nice to see it back open.
So just to fill in the gap until our trip to Birmingham to see Duran Duran i thought i would take you for a trip back in time through my individual styles and haircuts to give you a feel of the harrowing upbringing I had. Only joking, my upbringing was a great working class childhood but my fashion choices are outstanding, i've never followed fashion, i'm a lone wolf of the rag trade.
So folks sit back, relax and have a good laugh at my expense which i'm happy for you to do as i'm never serious about myself, what's the point, i am who i am, a short ass balding Welshman. If ever someone attacks you about your looks agree with them, embrace the way you look, it really does throw them off as you've owned it and their too stupid to understand that and they shut up. An Oceanic customer who i'd never met before said "Sheep shagger" that's original and i replied "Get it right it's lamb shagger, i'm to short for a sheep", they were so confused and went quiet for the rest of the night. Another customer said "Your going really bald" my reply was "yes i know, i have to be more artistic now with the little hair i have left" they had no come back lol.
ARE YOU READY TO STEP BACK IN TIME?
NOTE:- None of these pictures have filters or been doctored, it's just natural beauty and Sian has never seen these, i could be single by the time Sian reads this 😁
Here we have part of my Spring Collection being modelled at Roath Park Lake in Cardiff. You can see straight away i didn't follow fashion, i was a ground breaker in infant style to wear on the swings and slides. The photographer didn't quite get the angle right of the framing making me look like i've only got one leg or i've broken my leg and it's twisted out to the side. Not sure of the age here but i was a confident super model from my first outing.
Here i am posing with my 2 older sisters. You can tell from their appearance they had just been recruited by The Manson Family Cardiff Branch, luckily for my sisters we didn't live near any A list Hollywood directors and friends, the most famous person near us was the old lady who lived next door, she looked liked Ena Sharples from Coronation Street. Question, why did old ladies back in the day wear hair nets all day be it in the house or when they went out when they had hair? I'm not sure what fashion statement i was going for in this picture but this little chubby funster has either just been strangled with his neck string tie before this pic was taken or i'm auditioning to be the next Oliver Hardy, Jesus, how round is my head?
Now this picture shows how far ahead of the fashion curve i truly was. Vivien Westwood at the start of the punk revolution started designing mohair jumpers, as you can see i was wearing them about 3 years before that. I'm not sure what statement i'm making holding an action man with helicopter backpack but i can tell you one thing it never ever flew without my assistance, CRAP!
Now here i've decided to go international with a Perth, Western Australia t-shirt to take the fashion world by storm. I can honestly say that i nor any of my family have ever been to Australia so how this fashion faux par got in to my wardrobe i do not know and teal, TEAL, does that go with my eyes? Idiots, that's why i closed my eyes in this pic. Again, ahead of my time, my stance has a sort of Sheldon Cooper look about me from Big Bang Theory and Burberry trousers with the rebel "Hole in knee" look.
Words fail me in this picture. BROWN DENIM! Can you find such a thing anymore. I mean how out there was i? In the age of glam rock and rockers, flares and denim, i wear brown denim with floral flower power design on the bottoms of the trousers, BLOWS MY MIND! I am a fashion icon without knowing it, GENIUS!
OK, bit difficult to explain this one. Scum Utd football shirt, Wales football shorts with a Brian Connolly The Sweet lead singer haircut. As you can see in the back ground, someone has been to Benidorm. I honestly must have been fed crack cocaine by my agent during this period as it just doesn't work on any level and my pose looks like something from the Nazi Youth League handbook, it's just bad judgement all round, the photographer was fired when i saw the prelim pics.
Now here is my first ever action pic taken in Devon when i was 11. You can't just be a standing still fashion icon, you have to also do the whole action shot as well. Now this pic shows how the world has become so lame and pathetic. Where else could you go, get a helmet shoved on your head, knee pads put on your knees and told "Off you go" on a 50cc scrambler around a concrete track without any tutoring what so ever? The answer, well, nowhere these days. I loved it! I got to the point where i was trying to touch my knee down on the circuit like Barry Sheen as i banked corners but then it had to happen, i came off. What did i do? I got back on and tried to do it again. That's what kids these days are missing. parents are ridiculous with being over protective and kids are needy and soft.
Ahhhh, the high school fashion years. My high school uniform was, light blue shirt and light grey jumper. OH NO YOU DON'T, this hip fashion dude blazed the way for the future high school teenager. Grey shirt with tie pin accessory matched with a waffle knit black cardigan. I mean, how cool is my school uniform? My head teacher came in to my class once and shouted at me "Pinnell, who do you think you are....a croupier?" Now, at the age of 12 i had seen the highs and lows of the fashion world but had never gambled at roulette or craps table so how the hell was i meant to know what a croupier was? And that was the headmaster, what a tit!
Hmmm, brill cream, black cord cowboy shirt and drunken looking eyes, this is my drinking years at The Police Club, a dodgy watering hole in Cathays, all fashion icons have them. For about maybe 5-6 years i was just told what to wear, i didn't choose, well how could i when i had a dresser to help me get dressed as i couldn't dress myself. Not my best years. Bit of a young Elvis look going on, god i hate Elvis.
And we're back in the game, BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER, DRINK FREE (Well almost, just down to 6 a night now instead of 18) This was me at the top of my game long lush locks, slimmed down and out in Crete running a nightclub and DJing too boot. My Cretan years were casual/beach bum/rock god combo below the booth were always shorts and CAT boots (NOT boots made out of cats) i think my best style to date if i'm being honest.
From my Cypriot years we have the Ice Hockey cool but sweaty era. Even though the shirts were airtex they were a bugger in 38deg heat. You would think with all those holes it would be so cooling and easy to pull off in a look but not many could until i came along. Look at the confident stance, look at the stare in to the distance, not a bead of sweat in sight although the humidity played havoc with my hair, no Frizz Ease in these days. I'M BACK BABY!
I think during this period of my comeback i was inspired by Kurt Cobain, no i don't mean drug taking blowing my own head off, i mean the cool, calm and silent type with scruffy hair. Although in this pic i do look a bit drugged up but with hand on heart i have never ever done drugs apart from the ones tested on me and at this stage i hadn't started those studies so i just naturally looked like a space cowboy. Ahhhhhh, that's why i kept getting stopped at customs, DOH! Also for you people with a keen eye, yes, that is a flossing fork in my hand, my dental hygiene has always been tip top.
Here i am just about to go shopping for some milk and veg. "What dressed like that?" i hear you cry, oh yes, i was well above the fashion game at this point, you think, these days people go to Asda , Tesco etc in pyjamas, LAZY! In fact i was contacted by Anne Rice and Neil Jordan asking could they use my look in Interview with a Vampire. Of course i said i would be delighted but with one condition, i move in to being a stunt double for Brad Pitt. They accepted with joy and so the movie was made. I take no credit for the costume design, i was just happy to help but yes it was my fashion idea.
And finally, 1999, Zakynthos still my haircuts path the way for future man. Here i am in a bar called The Globe in Laganas that i help set up and open (No longer there) i had been partying so hard someone told me to "Inhale" as i was out of breath but because i had my fingers in my ears i thought they said "Rik Mayall" hence the look.
So folks, don't take yourself so seriously with your pouting and filters and hating any criticism, just don't set yourself up for a fall. I know some people who take themselves way to seriously and won't let anyone joke about them, GET A GRIP! No one is perfect, we all have flaws.
Hope you had a good laugh anyway to keep you going through these difficult times, life's just to short so try to enjoy it, no matter what and as myself and Sian go with the same outlook on life "We really don't give a shit, we're happy".
So until next time........
Serve All, Love All, Peace All. Kevlar Out!
