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Jeez. Finally, after gloom, snow and hailstones we have ... bright blue sky and sun. Still flippin' freezing though!
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« Reply #181 on: 18:14:15, 24-03-2008 » |
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Mind you, the Russians are very big on ice cream.
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« Reply #182 on: 01:08:54, 25-03-2008 » |
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I've just heard the unmistakeable tones of the local ice-cream van going down the road - you have to admire the optimism.
I always assumed ice-cream vans are actually a cover for something else (drugs maybe?) - I can't imagine how they could be profitable, in any weather! I'm jealous, Mary. I'd love to go to St Petersburg. When were you there? |
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« Reply #183 on: 08:34:17, 25-03-2008 » |
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I've just heard the unmistakeable tones of the local ice-cream van going down the road - you have to admire the optimism.
I always assumed ice-cream vans are actually a cover for something else (drugs maybe?) - I can't imagine how they could be profitable, in any weather! I'm jealous, Mary. I'd love to go to St Petersburg. When were you there? Such cynicism in one so young, tinners!  I'm never going to see ice-cream vans in the same way again   |
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« Reply #184 on: 09:14:01, 25-03-2008 » |
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Bank holiday weekends around here usually throw up a host of ice cream vans. I haven't seen or heard even one this time. There didn't seem to be nearly as many tourists as usual either. Perhaps they all went abroad somewhere warm. Just got back from the school run and it's freezing sleet. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #185 on: 09:47:48, 25-03-2008 » |
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Not much snow where I live near the coast but I saw a lot of in Northumbria. We went over to Vindolanda (on Hadrian's Wall) to watch some Roman re-enactors in the snow. Actually, by the time we got there all the Legionaires had sensibly escaped to the cafe/pub/bus, leaving one brave auxiliary to hold the fort (ho ho ho). Had a long discussion with him about how long it would take Romans stationed in a British winter to abandon the knee-length-skirts-with-open-sandals look |
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« Reply #186 on: 09:49:33, 25-03-2008 » |
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I'm jealous, Mary. I'd love to go to St Petersburg. When were you there?
Ages ago - about ten years. Wonderful experience - we went to the Mariinsky and the Philharmonic and some of the Hermitage (a big place!), and looked at the palaces and the school where Pushkin was a pupil in Tsarskoye Selo (sp?). Also to a church service - wonderful singing from unseen choirs - and the ballet school where Nijinsky, Pavlova and Nureyev trained. One of the things I remember best is seeing frozen roses on Tchaikovsky's grave (it was early November, but it snowed), which seemed incredibly romantic, somehow. The Catherine Palace:  |
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« Reply #187 on: 12:22:37, 25-03-2008 » |
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I've just heard the unmistakeable tones of the local ice-cream van going down the road - you have to admire the optimism.
I always assumed ice-cream vans are actually a cover for something else (drugs maybe?) - I can't imagine how they could be profitable, in any weather! I'm jealous, Mary. I'd love to go to St Petersburg. When were you there? Such cynicism in one so young, tinners! I'm never going to see ice-cream vans in the same way again Not that cynical really - there is some real history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars |
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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 #188 on: 12:56:37, 25-03-2008 » |
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It's not stopped snowing all day here: just little grains, like rice, rarely heavy but always visible floating down. They're not settling here, but roads inland were already closed due to snowfall yesterday, and it's still balticly cold: there may well be much more snow upcountry....
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« Reply #189 on: 16:59:55, 26-03-2008 » |
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I played a concert in famously freezing Lincoln Cathedral last night. I wore wool tights, thermal leggings and thick socks under my trousers, a vest and two thermal tops under my heavy jumper, two pairs of cashmere wrist warmers, a long jacket, a big pashmina/shawl thingy, a silk scarf wound around my head in the manner of a wide headband - and sat on my down coat. Yet still I was cold.
Yesterday was the first day of spring.
Ugh.
My choir director always seems to book us to do a turn as visiting choir at Lincoln first weekend in January. On one particular occasion they were doing a baptism during the eucharist, so we had to traipse out of hte (marginally heated) choir, down to the font at the West End where they practically had to break the ice on the font. there's usually just about enough time to gulp down a cup of coffee in the just about heated Chapter Hosue between the two morning services, which just about staves off hypothermia. Unfortunatley we're not a robed choir, and there's a limit as to how many layers you can get on under a suit. |
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« Reply #190 on: 19:34:56, 26-03-2008 » |
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Unfortunately that's true in the summer as well.
You can get away with a remarkable lack of attire under a robe but that's more difficult to pull off (ahem) if you're wearing a suit.
I don't remember Lincoln being cold but then we were singing there in the middle of the summer and I was a little bit drunk a lot of the time.
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« Reply #191 on: 19:50:23, 26-03-2008 » |
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and I was a little bit drunk a lot of the time.
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« Reply #192 on: 21:44:04, 26-03-2008 » |
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In a really hot summer, cathedrals are the best place to be - at least they are if, like me, you hate heat. One boiling hot day in Ely, I spent nearly all day in the cathedral or Tesco, the other cool place.
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« Reply #193 on: 21:45:20, 26-03-2008 » |
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Tesco, the other cool place.
Did you meet Lord Byron there? |
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« Reply #194 on: 21:47:10, 26-03-2008 » |
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Cool......
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