When I was a little ‘un my Dad liked a good cowboy film, the old John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Robert Mitchum and the like. At times when we had a TV I would enjoy watching the cowboys and Indians as well especially with him, Hi Ho Silver, the Lone Ranger and Tonto was a particular favourite of mine.
I can remember one time when I was ill my mum made up a bed for me on top of the sideboard, to keep me warm and watch over me, and even though I was ill I thought it was amazing to be watching the Lone Ranger while I was technically in bed!
In those days it was acceptable to have toy guns and I had a cowboy gun and a red holster, I also had a home-made bow and arrow so I had some sense that the Indians were not really the Baddies they were made out to be. I had cowgirl dressing up clothes as well, very much influenced by Annie Get Your Gun!
Later years took cowboy films to a new level, films like The Good the Bad and the Ugly, which I remember seeing with my Aunt in Peckham, and this afternoon I was delighted to re-watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on the TV, over 40 years on and it is still a brilliant film.
There are many good one liners, the banter between the two is still amusing and the bicycle scene to Raindrops still a lovely change of pace.
So I just did me some talkin' to the sun, and I said I didn't like the way he got things done, sleepin' on the job pretty much all day today!!!
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