This is all sounding dangerously off-topic, if you ask me.  Think all this WAFFLE should be moved to a "where was it" thread, if you ask me.

As for where it is, I would imagine that it is neatly packed away into your CD collection at the moment.

  Of course, I'd forgotten that.

Mind you, all this stuff about Ollie being an Aussie..... Once a Brittenesque Suffolk Plough Boy, always a Brittenesque Suffolk Plough Boy .

D R A T !

I've lost my coffee mug. Green, plastic, needs a bit of a wash. And the handle sticking back on.

but I love it

Coffee doesn't taste the same 

If ir is , it will have melted Baz !!

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Of course Baz, have you never tried it? you have never lived!!
It reminds me of when I left an LP ( remember those?) on the back window ledge of a sports car I hadat the time , and when I came to use it the needle was up and down like a merry-go round as the record was warped beyond hope!
Those were the days when we had scratches and hiss on our records, and never really noticed.....
.... Except for the recording I had of Shostakovitch 2nd piano concerto which had a scratch EXACTLY on the beat where the piano enters in the slow movement. I still listen with dread even at a live performance .. waiting for the scratch!!!

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Those were the days eh Kitty?!!

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Ahem.

I had been intending to tie up the loose ends here when the new CD arrived. But as you can read above Caiman in Germany now say they haven't got it after all. After a bit of email toing and froing, some of it apparently automated at their end, it transpires that they don't know when they will have it. So I've cancelled the order and with a bit of luck they'll be sending my money back.

I suppose that's good in a way. My ordering was enough to provoke Noel into reappearing and I don't have to pay for a new one. Still, Ollie promised a copy to the provider of the most accurate or amusing suggestion and Ollie keeps his promises.

No suggestions were actually accurate. It had fallen from the desk into an open drawer and hidden itself away among my tax records. Normally that would have ensured it remained lost until the crack of doom but German bureaucracy is pretty tough stuff and one regularly has to ferret through one's forms and, well, there it was...

For me the most amusing suggestion was the following:


George, I owe you a Graupner CD. As a new Christmas in Darmstadt CD has not actually arrived I shall be in touch to discuss alternatives. But thanks to George for the invention of Australian Rules Jousting, an idea which I shall be putting to the relevant authorities very soon.

By the way, has anyone seen my copy of the ETCETERA Nieuw Ensemble Ferneyhough disc? I can't find it anywhere...

Gosh!

I've never won anything before. I tell you what though, Mr S, I am already deeply indebted to you for performances of, inter alia, Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto (Australian Rules version) and will be proud to count that as my prize. Nothing, however, will stop me wearing a small victor's garland for the rest of the day.