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« Reply #1455 on: 13:31:44, 02-11-2008 » |
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For a really ingenious bit of organ-building have a look at a bottle organ! Excellent. |
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #1456 on: 13:49:43, 02-11-2008 » |
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"Haven't you been a good boy? It must be boring for you." You can only hope she doesn't have children of her own. With an attitude like that if she has a husband she probably sends him out to the shed all day. On the subject of organs, I found a fascinating site a couple of years ago by a chap who had built his own, and used a blower from a vacuum cleaner but had to reduce the power considerably before it was playable anywhere other than the top of a distant mountain. For a really ingenious bit of organ-building have a look at a bottle organ! I was stunned at the stupidity of the silly woman, who was one of the few young members. I don't know if she has children herself but if she does, they weren't there. There was only one other smallish child there (not hers) and the concert was well-attended. I was pleased to see half a dozen new faces in the choir and they looked young, so there may be hope yet. Kitty could you send me a link to that bottle organ that you don't have to have Firefox to download? I want to send it to some friends and I can't seem to pick it up. |
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« Reply #1457 on: 14:53:04, 02-11-2008 » |
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Let's be positive and overlook the patronising chorister.
Your child sounds wonderful: considerate, polite, honest but with a mind of his own and appreciating the experience you gave him. Your risk paid off. Sitting in the front row meant he could see the musicians making music, which must make it much more interesting.
(The Haydn is more jolly than the RVW, isn't it? It could be more interesting visually as well with four soloists popping up and down to do their bits.)
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #1458 on: 15:36:43, 02-11-2008 » |
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Let's be positive and overlook the patronising chorister.
Your child sounds wonderful: considerate, polite, honest but with a mind of his own and appreciating the experience you gave him. Your risk paid off. Sitting in the front row meant he could see the musicians making music, which must make it much more interesting.
(The Haydn is more jolly than the RVW, isn't it? It could be more interesting visually as well with four soloists popping up and down to do their bits.)
Duly overlooked. Thank you Don, my child is wonderful. Not that I'm biased or anything!  He really will quite happily go along to anywhere I want to take him. He seems to look on everything as a new little adventure and has a very broad span with entertainment, as we all do anyway as a family. I always try and sit on the front row anywhere I go because I'm very small not very tall and if anyone sits in front of me I struggle to see. It's great for him too because as you say, he had the best view of the choir and the soloists. I can only do it because he is well-behaved because if he were not, it would be very embarrassing to have to take him out from the very front. You have to know the child really. The Haydn was lovely and as you say, much more joyful than the Vaughan Williams. He enjoyed all of it and liked the young clarinettist also. She was only 18 and did very well indeed. The choral soloists were excellent too although I wasn't personally keen on the tenor. Too much vibrato. They were all very young. The Canadian soprano had a very powerful voice but the mezzo stood her ground. It was a very nice blend. All in all it was well worth supporting. |
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« Reply #1459 on: 09:05:12, 03-11-2008 » |
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Good morning. Another beautiful autumn day here. Had to laugh this morning. Because we are big readers in this family, the teenager obviously decided to give it a go. He announced on Saturday that he'd seen a book he wanted to buy. I was thrilled to bits even though I've over 1000 here from which he could have chosen. Anyway, off he went and came back with a W.H.Smith bag. I didn't have time to ask him what it was at the time, but I've just been in to strip the bed off and it's on the bedside table. "Ross Kemp on Gangs".   Not exactly what I'd hoped for but I suppose it's a start. |
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« Reply #1460 on: 09:08:39, 03-11-2008 » |
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Didn't sleep well.
Was a bit of an emotional scrambled egg by the time I hauled myself to bed, and just lay there for hours until I finally got up to make myself a snack.
Just glad I don't have to get going right away.
Time for some marmalade.
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« Reply #1461 on: 10:03:31, 03-11-2008 » |
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Didn't sleep well.
Was a bit of an emotional scrambled egg by the time I hauled myself to bed, and just lay there for hours until I finally got up to make myself a snack.
Just glad I don't have to get going right away.
Time for some marmalade.
Oh dear, sympathies hh.  Hope you feel better soon. Marmalade is always a good thing.  Morning all. I'm tired too - the late night on Saturday is really catching up on me. All the women in my family seem to need way more sleep than most people and I feel like this is getting more and more exaggerated these days. Any pre-6am start or post midnight finish and it takes me days to feel normal again. It doesn't help that the cat wakes me up every 2 hours slamming through the cat flap and noisily annoucing his presence. I can't wait to have internal doors. Then you get into work and get heckled by the "I'm superior to you because I get up at 4.30 in the morning, in fact no, I get up before I even go to bed because I'm so hard" brigade, who just think you're being lazy.  Gosh sorry - I don't know where all that came from! I didn't set out to create a rant...  [Edit: typo. "Every 2 doors"? Wow I really need to wake up a bit this morning...] |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #1462 on: 10:16:44, 03-11-2008 » |
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That's just the sleep deprivation talking, Ruby. Entirely permissable, especially on a Monday morning! I seem to be turning into a dormouse. No, not sleeping in teapots! I just seem to want to go to bed earlier and earlier recently. Wonder if work would give me hibernation leave?  |
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« Reply #1463 on: 10:44:36, 03-11-2008 » |
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That's just the sleep deprivation talking, Ruby. Entirely permissable, especially on a Monday morning! I seem to be turning into a dormouse. No, not sleeping in teapots! I just seem to want to go to bed earlier and earlier recently. Wonder if work would give me hibernation leave? I love that idea! I'll check if it's in online HR... ... oh. Can't find it.  |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #1464 on: 10:49:15, 03-11-2008 » |
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Much sympathy to the non-sleepers. I know how bad that feels.
I go to bed ridiculously early, Mort, though I don't go to sleep. I read, or listen to the radio, or watch the grotty old television in my bedroom. It's just comfortable.
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« Reply #1465 on: 11:02:49, 03-11-2008 » |
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Then you get into work and get heckled by the "I'm superior to you because I get up at 4.30 in the morning, in fact no, I get up before I even go to bed because I'm so hard" brigade, who just think you're being lazy. You have my sympathies, Ruby. I've known far too many people (including bosses) who delude themselves that hours spent in the office amount to the same thing as productive work. And don't even start me on the meeting junkies ... normally people who are on the promotion treadmill and end up miserable and bitter when they get there. I always thought that a job in HR was hibernation leave. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1466 on: 11:10:11, 03-11-2008 » |
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Much sympathy to the non-sleepers. I know how bad that feels.
I go to bed ridiculously early, Mort, though I don't go to sleep. I read, or listen to the radio, or watch the grotty old television in my bedroom. It's just comfortable.
I've got a grotty old television in my bedroom too. It doesn't get used so much at night because the remote control is broken and when I'm nice and warm in bed the last thing I want to do it reach out to turn the telly off, but I tend to have it on in the morning getting ready for work. I used to watch Breakfast so that I could rant at the telly about the fact that they have the same 3 features on rotation (school energy saving scheme; is it safe to drink any alcohol at all when you're pregnant? no yes no yes no; Which foods are best for you?..) but now I've switched to channel 4 as they do comedy in the morning. |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #1467 on: 11:23:14, 03-11-2008 » |
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Then you get into work and get heckled by the "I'm superior to you because I get up at 4.30 in the morning, in fact no, I get up before I even go to bed because I'm so hard" brigade, who just think you're being lazy. You have my sympathies, Ruby. I've known far too many people (including bosses) who delude themselves that hours spent in the office amount to the same thing as productive work. And don't even start me on the meeting junkies ... normally people who are on the promotion treadmill and end up miserable and bitter when they get there. My sympathies too. Back in the days when I worked in an office, I had a choice of start times ranging from 8 to 9:30. Naturally (being a night owl and late riser) I chose 9:30. Little did I realise this automatically marked me in the eyes of my boss (ex-military, always at his desk at 0600 or something) as an immoral, lazy and work-shy slacker. God forbid if I didn't make it in until 9:35. Or if I went to get a cup of coffee before switching on my computer (he'd actually check my log-in times, so naturally I started leaving the computer on all the time). He was horrified when I actually wanted to use the vacation leave I had accumulated. When it emerged I was doing the odd bit of music freelancing (never on the office's time), that only confirmed his opinion of my moral decrepitude - and the real persecution began. Good thing I had an escape plan! The only job I've ever had where it actually matters if I'm late is being a violinist. The few times I've been late for a rehearsal (every one of them thanks to London transport let me add), it's felt absolutely horrible. You feel you're letting down your colleagues, as well as potentially missing important developments right from the first minute. Generally no one upbraids musicians for being late, because everyone knows no one feels worse about it than the late person him/herself. I've never been late for a concert (touch wood), but not long ago played a gig where two of my colleagues were looking at a slow clock during the interval and came back into the church only to hear the audience applauding as the rest of us went on stage. Highly embarrassing. We took an extra long time to tune so they had a chance to get their instruments out and join us. |
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« Reply #1468 on: 11:29:05, 03-11-2008 » |
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Gosh strina, reading your last paragraph made me go hot with embarrassment just thinking about it!  |
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« Reply #1469 on: 11:34:02, 03-11-2008 » |
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It was certainly one of those "so horrible it's funny" or "so funny it's horrible" moments...
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