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Ah, well done, martle!
I have had a productive day, with lots still left to do. After agonising about whether I really had space for a Christmas tree, I declined to answer the original question and bought one anyway. My next task for the evening is to erect and decorate it.
I have also - for my sins - volunteered to sing "Schliesse, mein Herze" from the Christmas Oratorio during communion on Christmas morning. Lord only knows why I did this, as I hadn't looked at it before today and it's really quite tricky, with angular intervals in Bach's usual fashion. Still, I have been practising - aided by a glass of ginger wine - and I am sure it will be fine. That's if I still have a voice after three more days of my current slight cold along with four church services.
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« Reply #31 on: 19:22:12, 22-12-2007 » |
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Ginger wine - nice idea, Ruth, and good for the throat. Crabbe's or Stones? Ooh, whiskey Mac! There's a drink I haven't had in a while.  |
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« Reply #32 on: 19:25:36, 22-12-2007 » |
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Stone's. Funnily enough, I make informed choices about other alcoholic beverages, but I buy Stone's ginger wine as it's the one my parents have always bought.
Never thought about that before. Perhaps next time I will buy Crabbe's instead.
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« Reply #33 on: 19:35:04, 22-12-2007 » |
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Everyone feeling Xmas-y now, then?
I'm feeling Saturnalian. Does that count?  Ooh, sorry Opi - missed that! Yes, that's perfectly acceptable.  |
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« Reply #34 on: 19:48:15, 22-12-2007 » |
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« Reply #35 on: 20:04:43, 22-12-2007 » |
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I can't help wondering ... where do you keep your keys, Opi? LOL. Well, I keep my cups in the cupboard, and my keys in the keyboard ... <diving for cover emoticon> |
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« Reply #36 on: 20:23:35, 22-12-2007 » |
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« Reply #37 on: 22:22:54, 22-12-2007 » |
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« Reply #38 on: 22:51:53, 22-12-2007 » |
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The aria is taking shape. Except for one particularly fiendish passage where I have to find a B# from the C# a seventh lower (we're in B minor here, by the way). I have run through that passage time and time again and it is not getting any easier. I know I should be able to think "stepwise only up the octave" but it's not working.
I gave up for the time being and moved on from the ginger wine to Bailey's (which in previous years I have always kept for Christmas Eve). However I've stopped drinking now as I need to be in a fit state for choir in the morning.
Christmas tree looks lovely.
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« Reply #40 on: 23:04:45, 22-12-2007 » |
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 Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and A Happy and Musical New Year martle - and a Very Happy Christmas to everyone else who's abandoning this board before Dec 25th! MJ  |
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