GEORGE HARRISON and PATTIE BOYD leave Kinfauns to go to the Walton and Esher Magistrates Court, March 18, 1969.
She was at Kinfauns, their bungalow home in Esher, Surrey, playing genial hostess to a group of visitors from Scotland Yard’s drug squad. She recalled the events in her memoir Wonderful Tonight: ‘Suddenly I heard a lot of cars on the gravel in the drive – far too many for it to be just George. My first thought was that maybe Paul and Linda wanted to party after the wedding. Then the bell rang. I opened the door to find a policewoman and a dog standing outside. At that moment the back-doorbell rang and I thought, Oh, my God, this is so scary! I’m surrounded by police.
The man in charge introduced himself as Detective Sergeant Pilcher, from Scotland Yard, and handed me a piece of paper. I knew why he was there: he thought we had drugs, and he said he was going to search the house. In they came, about eight policemen through the front, another five or six through the back and there were more in the greenhouse. The policewoman said she would follow me while the others searched and didn’t let me out of her sight. I said, ‘Why are you doing this? We don’t have any drugs. I’m going to phone my husband.’ I rang George at Apple. ‘George, it’s your worst nightmare. Come home.’
The officers clearly thought the Harrisons would be at Paul’s wedding. The timing was not a coincidence. (...) Pilcher had already busted Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Donovan, as well as Lennon and Yoko the previous year. National treasures or not, The Beatles were no longer protected from the law. - ‘And in the End: The Last Days of The Beatles’ Ken McNab
I was with George in the office when that call came through. It was the end of a long day at Apple. Pattie rang and said, ‘They’re here – the law is here,’ and we knew what to do by then. We phoned Release’s lawyer, Martin Polden. We had a routine: he came round to Apple, and we all went down by limousine to Esher, where the police were well ensconced by then – and I stood bail for George and Pattie. They went off to the police station. We were all extremely indignant because it was the day of Paul’s wedding, a poor way to celebrate it. The police can be so nice.
George was calm about it. George is always calm – he sometimes gets a grump, but he’s always calm – and he was extremely calm that night, and very, very indignant. He went into the house and looked around at all these men and one woman, and said something like. ‘Birds have nests and animals have holes, but man has nowhere to lay his head.’ – ‘Oh, really, sir? Sorry to tell you we have to…’ and then into the police routine.
That’s how calm and how cross he was, because, as he said, he kept his dope in the box where dope went, and his joss sticks went in the joss stick box. He was a man who ran an orderly late-Sixties household, with beautiful things and some nice stuff to smoke.
In my opinion he didn’t have to be busted because he was doing nobody any harm. I still believe what they did was an intrusion into personal life. - Derek Taylor in ‘The Beatles Anthology’
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Steph, after summoning The Lords in Black: You find this as creepy as I do, right?
Grace: So it's some kind of weird cult they wear costumes and dance around a big thing. They seem nice enough.
Pete: Okay, you're in denial. That's fine.
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Old Slimav playing ACNH during quarantine be like
Slider: Look Mav, I built an open bakery in my rose garden! Oh, Dotty is giving me a peach? What a nice little girl she is! <3
Maverick: Yeah hang on a second baby, I’m building a death trap for Brad and Ice ‘cause the last time we played together they pushed me to a pitfall and tortured me with nets until I figured out how to escape
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Sometimes you rewatch Over the Garden Wall and have blorbros thoughts. It happens.
Bros without the stock background under the cut!
I have so many thoughts about this au and it’s been not even 24 hours since my rewatch istg
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I think that post-canon Vegas will take up gardening.
He likes to cook. He’d appreciate fresh ingredients. We know he’s not afraid to get his hands bloody dirty and is attentive to things he cares about.
He’ll start small, some little plants like herbs. Then he’ll add chilis. And more veggies. Until he has a sprawling garden that he tends to every day, enjoying watching things grow under his hands instead of die.
Pete and Macau will get roped into helping him harvest every now and again with either good humor (Pete) or complaints (Macau). But neither mind the fresh food in their daily meals, or the way Vegas seems at peace as he does it.
Eventually, they have too much produce, and start pawning it off on the neighbors or anyone else around.
Kinn and Porsche send bodyguards to try and recruit Vegas for missions, only to find him up to his elbows in dirt and tomatoes. They ask him for help and he’s like “nope can’t, too busy, can’t you see I’m busy? Here take some produce and fuck off.”
And Kinn and Porsche have to deal with a string of increasingly confused bodyguards returning with armfuls of fresh produce like “Vegas says he’s busy and gave me these cucumbers? I was too scared to say no to them”
Kinn and Porsche thinks he’s up to something nefarious, but in reality he’s laughing to himself at the thought of everyone at the main family being SO CONFUSED by his produce.
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The Depths of Despair/Rise and Fall and Rise Again
Ah boy finally finished my cover for the Radiant Garden arc of Keys. I wasn’t gonna do one for this but tbh it was the first huge burst of angst we saw in Keys and I couldn’t resist covering it. Also gave me a chance to draw the Restoration Committee for the first time ever, FF characters are not my forte... Even so I spent way too much damn time on this so please appreciate it as well as the chapters associated with it!
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@davidthepyro
Pete is not sure what this means. Is pretty sure he saw this in the human movie the king lion though. Is not sure why there are tiny humans and water and clouds and stuff. Seems kind of all over the place. Also, roses need better work. Growing not good!
Maybe need rest?
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