paper was like gold in medieval
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times oh want tobacco
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sugar that everything we thought we knew
about the world might turn out to be
completely wrong
from the long night with an ocean breeze
the D to the of London
city we come from the Sun to Liv call I
miss want my
coconut
over let's keep the music s while
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oh you kids I PID you a watch me I not
wreck
it oh come on sh just bung them in look
Le I don't just bung things in your
mother never taught you to look after
your clothes sh you're only sorting out
jumble for me car boot sale M Van's on a
double yellow oh look I'll give you a
hand no no no no don't hinder me system
okay what's your system well this bag's
rubbish this bag's jumble this bag's
things to keep rubbish jumble things to
keep right got it and this pile's
rubbish this pile's jumble and this pile
is things to keep rubbish jumble things
to keep got it
and what we do is we put the rubbish in
the rubbish
bag the jumble in the jumble bag and the
things to keep in the things to keep bag
yeah yeah yeah he learns fast doesn't he
give the boy a blue Peter
badge right
rubbish
dumball
F rubbish Bush jble bang things keep
brother push jumble that's my R old tamy
this is my jumble give it back Mom tell
me you won't give me back my tamy look
Lee all right all right but it'll cost
you 50p I ain't pay 50p for it yeah
you're probably right call it 25 call it
anything you L that's mine a now that's
rubbish smash H yearbook 1983 who'd want
to buy this yeah shame
guy oh oh look there's a letter in here
rightly you said you wanted some
help yeah I could just about making that
the writing's really bad dear Jim can
you fix it for
me to be in the group Musical
Youth as I think they're well l no no
hard I am 9 years old and all the other
kids in my class say that I've got a
better voice than the lead singer yours
sha pasta duy
Ambrose
czy it was a joke man yeah you're
telling me well
L mom you can't throw these away these
are my formative years man oh look I've
had enough you two sort it out between
yourselves but sort it out by this
evening
otherwise what's
that smashing just smashing don't tell
me ke you got it my van oh you're right
Tony my
hair where there m I sent him running
after him you did what you underestimate
this show he's got the body of a man off
his
age I think you could do the other one
back that show them they won't be back
around here in a hurry Mr que back get
Downy
I don't want to catch you playing around
here again and if you fall down and
break your legs don't come running to
me look what you do to my shop Desmond I
mean you're supposed you going to stand
up and stick up with them again Desmond
not now you're hysterical you hear me
laughing come on Pops I mean everyone's
kicked the ball for a window at some
time orever I haven't have you uh
hypothetically speaking I me I just
going to stand there and take their side
after what they done there it's it's all
right there no need to worry I'm okay
I'm not talking about you T I'm talking
about the let's just get this mess
cleared up Gloria Sean get a broom and
sweep up that glass and be careful Tony
get somebody to fix the window Desmond
sit down okay all
right let's he it all right I'm going to
try explaining this to you one more time
now if the council close down the
playground because they say they can't
afford to make it safe where else you
think the children will have to play eh
the streets the dangerous streets and
that's why I'm on the Action Group
committee the only danger to the streets
is the
kids why don't you just open the window
like everyone
else what would have happened if we done
this when we were kids boy my father
would have lick
me your mother she would have M up your
backside and you know what Charlie wants
to do mash up your backside
give them a new playground but she's
right Desmond you don't read the local
paper it's not the kids's fault it's the
cuts don't tell me on this committee as
well are you really Uncle po no it's
really Uncle Freddy Kroger yes I
am we meeting the council this week you
two should be joining in Desmond you all
should be lending your support to the
Action Group popie I have lent you far
too much as it is without lending you my
support as
well obviously your committee isn't
working very well otherwise the kids
wouldn't be still kicking down my shop
window well for a committee to be
effective it must have objectives which
are clearly communicated by an
articulate Advocate who commands the
respect of both
factions what's that supposed to mean it
means we need someone to State our case
in plain English that counts mat you
out that counts all of you out what you
need is someone whose name is known to
the community someone whose name is
associated with respect who's respected
R well there is someone whose name is
big in Bellon Road for instance oh I get
it and it also happens to be the name of
a shop yes and what's it called Mr Patel
no Anie the baker no Kentucky Fried
Chicken no no Desmond yes you respected
in the community yes so you're going to
make the speech to the council no
this ain't too bad for one of micos
tapes is it you have to shout if it gets
them clearing up the jumble it's fine by
me you see the place look like a pig sty
well is your two little
piglets reunited and it feels so good
easy reunited cuz we
understood there's one perfect thing and
sugar this one is
it so excited CU we're reunited
hey so that kind of shop window was
[Laughter]
broken Michael what is this rubbish that
is reunited by peaches and herbs got to
number 4 April 1979 not that one the one
that's on now oh you kids nowadays if
there's no rapping halfway through a
record you're lost all right then we all
listen to it mother why you had to call
me over here for jumble I'll never know
I mean there's nothing I'd possibly want
to keep well I'm sorry Michael I thought
you had more than just this shoe box oh
great I come all this way for an empty
shoe box okay Mastermind name that
Michael Ambrose take
three Michael Ambrose proudly presents
look I think
we' he Michael Ambrose production
Michael Ambrose is
the The Lone
Ranger Michael Ambrose you think
Michael's in
this and DB as his ever fateful horse
silver are you ready dubbing Yes
Master episode 9 high noon in
PE I hear the sound of a daming
distress help
help I think you I mean we've suffered
enough Michael well M only one thing to
say to you boy
[Applause]
well at least I Ed my imagination you
kids nowadays have so many toys you
don't use your minds I had little but I
was happy with my lot I had to entertain
myself well I'll say one thing son don't
give up the day job
and who was this Dobbin oh Dobbin was a
little toy horse on Wheels we bought for
Michael a a toy horse on Wheels was a
Christmas present that horse I had to
laugh when I gave it to Lee for his car
boot sale this morning you did what you
gave away dubbing that's typical Lee
always flogging a dead
horse mother I thought you of all people
would have understood how important ding
was Timmy he was my only true friend but
Michael a moment ago you say you didn't
want to have anything kept yes but I
didn't mean for you to give away my
childhood did I miss something we are
talking about a toy horse oh you kid
think this is very amusing don't you but
Michael I didn't think you would have
wanted to keep it it was virtually
falling apart it was not it was in
perfectly good order it was m g Michael
I don't understand that's been the
problem for the last 30
years Noah wanted to
understand all that over Su it called
dobbing I ask you
what are we going to do give him back
his damn
horse it's too late Lee would have sold
it by
now did we really give him such a rotten
childhood Desmond I've got some good
news that will please everybody you're
going into a nursing
home if you don't shut up you're the one
that's going to need
nursing well F get on with it it's
official you're the People's Choice to
speak to the council to save the
playground you still all about that
again I told you may not do it po how
you find this out by conducting a poll
po you couldn't conduct a
bus what question did you ask I did it
properly I asked them you think Desmond
should speak to the council to save the
playground don't
you all said yes
oh it's in a good cause Desmond is for
the children children I've had it up to
Here With Children First they break the
shop window then Michael accuses you of
being a bad parent me a bad parent
whatever there's no whatever about it
Desmond you know what your troubl is
you're too busy worrying about what you
want rather than thinking about what
other people need like speaking up for
the playground for instance it is speech
speech speech what I need from all of is
peace and quiet I don't want anyone
trying to convince me to make this
foolish speech if I was to he anything
more about speeches or children of
playgrounds for the rest of the day I'll
I scream Desmond what's this me here
about you not making the speech for the
children's
playground there one I told earlier we
the community make you what you are
today and all you do is take te Tech
what you should be doing is put in
something back out on the streets right
I'll start with
you you me you make me a hard stuff
promises promises forget it bab TR
everything we'll have to get someone
else don't let your blood pressure rise
my blood pressure
mother l oh Lord now I hear screeching
in the ears it looks like you see I bet
one of them kids kick a ball through
some body car window
bring
in you see what you do I don't know how
you got sleep at night I don't know I
could sleep at nights with all this
noise let me take care of the poor
little fell blood
blood you're hopeless the poor child
could bleed to death if he had to wait
on
you ah there there that's not too bad is
it don't cry now so um what's your name
then
Michael oh
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Lord come on dad you must have read it
all down by now just a minute in just a
minute there's a lot to Remember come on
Desmond we've been waiting for half an
hour
just just read us what you got all
right the children need a playground
because
one yeah well that's as far as I've
gone it's where you get this one from
shley you haven't taken in anything
we've been saying well I oh come on Mr
Ambrose it's easy it's just common sense
you expect him to find that easy it's
all well and good for you lot you've had
a just to think about it you've been
been to the meetings you've studied it
in full and you've made up your minds
that's why we've given you the benefit
of what we' fought out so far all you
have to do is write down what we've been
telling you and then put that in your
own words at the council meeting yeah
well that's the bit I've been having
trouble
with okay let's recap I made the first
point which was that every child should
have a safe place to play and explore
under proper supervision and away from
the dangers of the street so you put
that in your own words
children should be kept off the streets
because they're
dangerous well we'll come back to that
one now I made the second point which
was that children need to let off steam
play r games without the grown-ups
telling them off all the time wa why
what well why should they be Rowdy and
play around I mean why can't they be
seen and not heard like we were when we
were their age you think you were like
that H Desmond when you were a child
growing up in Guyana you can take
yourself off into the fields Play Down
By The Stream climb trees throw stones
you had all that space you could get out
from under your mother's feet poor
woman you could be gone for hours and
she knew she didn't have to worry she
only had to worry when you come
back look Dad this is London it was bad
enough when me and Louise was little
it's even worse now yeah most people
around here haven't even got their own
backyards they live in Flats a lot of
them in highrise where can a mother send
her kids where they will be safe and
they won't be a nuisance ah yes well
this all starts to make more sense now
so in your own words don't rush me don't
rush me is that the time I have to get
back to C Cocker his red mullet can't
himself you ever know a man to do
anything for himself oh shut up I mean
stop
gossiping right I got
it London is not like Guyana
so to protect innocent shopkeepers
Windows if children want to behave badly
they should be kept under strict
Supervision in caged
areas in a report Center policy and
resources on the five subcommittee on
December the 7th 1989 the Bellon Road
Action Group highlighted the wul
inadequate resources of the dad this is
like one of Mr Spencer's history lessons
oh thank you Sean I don't think Sean
that as a compliment days it's not what
you say Desmond it's how you say it yes
pop living it up man it ain't what you
do it's the way that you do it the
counil is meeting a respected
businessman Mr D Ambrose not MC
Desmond well Desmond the most famous
orator in ancient Greece was called deos
he'd have to be a good orator just to
pronounce his name and he used to
practice with marbles in his mouth I'm
not putting marbles in my mouth I've got
it
well I hope you ain't
[Laughter]
catching so is you been nicking the C
Stoppers no it's not me I've seen the
kids do it anyway it's for you here's
the next best thing to marbles you don't
need a Gob stoer D you need a gob
starter conf you are elected by the
community to serve the community you
sell up M and Brandy yeah the Gob
father all right forget deos thinis and
his marbles oh I don't know these mares
don't taste too bad and think of the
great speakers of our time Martin Luther
King o Kuma Frank Bruno no I mean AR
never mind about great speakers he's got
to get on with it you've only got five 5
minutes to put your point across all
right all
right as counselors you are elected by
the community no no no the art is in the
pause you must emphasize each phrase
separately all right all
right as
counselors you are
elected by the
community to serve the
community we you're getting it You' got
to move your hands about off yes like
this The airor Grove playground needs
investment refurbishment and re
opening I'm not a helicopter you want me
to
tell yes
please Lee have you found Michael's toy
horse no but I found a person who bought
it off me and no can do shell they
wouldn't sell it unless I pay double the
price what that's right £1
so why didn't you buy it Michael thinks
it's Priceless so do I I wouldn't give
anything for
it and don't come back without it all
right I got it okay Desmond show us and
when you reach an important Point punch
the air and when you get to the meeting
Punch The
Counselor never in the anals of History
has so much been owed by so many to so
few we shall fight them on the
sand on the
swings and on the
seaa we shall Never
Surrender the children
[Laughter]
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need's on
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[Applause]
all right all right all right Desmond
all right you had a bad
dream I was making
this
I I've lost before
surely of course yes I'm sure I'm not
surprised you've been practicing that
speech all day and night
this speech is today what we going to do
we have to
cancel don't no such thing give me those
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notes but Madam
chair what we are talking about here
today are human beings and their lives
yes like you I am a mother and these are
our children
children if we don't take action instead
of comforting a hurt child it won't be
long before we're comforting a bereaved
parent webuild The Playground
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now well done mother I'm very pleased
for you and I appreciate you coming
straight here to to let me know
personally even if the council did only
W you half the money but did you have to
bring rent a fan club with
you hey we're not rent a fan club We're
The acon Grove Action Group we supported
it when it needed us it's for the
children yes Margo you were a kid once
yeah I wouldn't count on that you know
it's like don't you think st's kids have
a right to play safely look I understand
all that and I dare say you're right but
why are you telling me this we need a
private donation to make up the rest of
the money give us the rest of the money
n
man congratulations fpie you're a true
Diplomat this is a back not a charity
but Michael you have the perfect
credential to be a sponsor yes Michael
you're well known and respected in the
community and you are our little
Financial wizard tell me something I
don't already
know I find it ironic that you can
devote so much time to those kids who
are strangers after all and you didn't
even care how your own flesh and blood
felt don't be silly Michael of course we
cared and still do father I've noticed
you've been rather quiet cat got your
tongue cat got him Vice Last it he's a
little horse and talking of a little
horse Michael if we could get Dobbin
back for you would you give us the rest
of the money three four
go ahead make his
day Jing
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