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« Reply #3405 on: 21:06:52, 05-02-2008 » |
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Cautiously happy today as my offer for a house has just been accepted...early days yet but it's a start - I've gone up the first ladder and so far encountered no snakes! :)Good luck with the sale of your house Mabeljane
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« Reply #3406 on: 19:14:05, 06-02-2008 » |
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What a gorgeous day !! SUNSHINE at last, I saw 2 Bumble bees, several Skylarks and managed a lovely walk along Perranporth beach with my dog for 1 1/2 hrs at lunchtime. Glorious!!  |
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« Reply #3407 on: 19:19:58, 06-02-2008 » |
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Nice, Jan!  It was pretty sunny and mild here ont' south coast too, not that I saw much of it! |
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« Reply #3408 on: 19:30:10, 06-02-2008 » |
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Retirement is all it's cracked up to be !
I love it !!
xx Jan xx
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« Reply #3409 on: 20:51:19, 06-02-2008 » |
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:)Good luck with the sale of your house Mabeljane
Thanks bbm but slight change of circumstances now - arranging a transfer of equity instead of selling. I still need the luck though! |
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« Reply #3410 on: 22:05:12, 06-02-2008 » |
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I am off oop North tomorrow for a few days to see my Mum ( age 92) and daughter... so I am happy apart from who I leave behind  Anyway I'll be 'around' A |
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« Reply #3412 on: 22:25:02, 06-02-2008 » |
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Conversely, I'll be Darn Sarf from tomorrow noonish until early next week: apart from airport lounges, not sure that I'll be able to look in much: no internet where I'm staying....
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« Reply #3413 on: 22:46:24, 06-02-2008 » |
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Send us a few 'motherf**king bastards' from the airport lounge then, Ron.  (Have I confused two different scenes there???) |
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« Reply #3414 on: 23:27:00, 06-02-2008 » |
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Don't have the libretto to hand, tinners, but I rather think that that particular operatic début is indeed in a later scene. Not my happiest ever night in an opera house, I must admit |
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« Reply #3415 on: 23:42:58, 06-02-2008 » |
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My German teacher told me he'd once gone out to sit in the car for a cigarette in the gap between end of school and parents' evening, and happened to turn on (quite loud) a Radio 3 broadcast of that opera at a particularly unfortunate moment just as the first few parents were making their way through the car park ...
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« Reply #3416 on: 08:23:11, 07-02-2008 » |
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A, safe journey and a happy stay with your ma. And just think how you`ll be dancing with delight when you get back! Thanks Mort. My Mum , surprisingly, has internet and uses email so... we'll see A |
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« Reply #3417 on: 08:41:42, 07-02-2008 » |
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A, Have a safe jourey and lots of good time. Ron, I don't know what opera you are going to see. Wish you many interesting musical adventures. I am going to be perched here, waiting for news.  |
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« Reply #3418 on: 08:59:37, 07-02-2008 » |
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Ah, t-p, it's not an opera I'm off to see at all: I'm travelling South for Raymond's funeral. Mention of the possibility of my catching up with the board from airport lounges led tinners to think of one of at least three operas which take place at least partly in an airport, Tippett's The Ice Break, where one of the characters (the son of a Russian dissident, incidentally) has opera's first four-letter outburst. Since Raymond was a Quaker, the funeral as such will be largely silent, I've been told. The friends I'm staying with are going to a concert in Reading tonight: if I can get from London City airport to Reading in time, I'll catch it, although since it contains the only Britten work I loathe (his Simple Symphony) and most of the rest is by a composer who largely leaves me cold (whom I'll not name - I'm not proud of the fact), it won't be the end of the world if i am delayed en route. On balance, I'd rather have stayed up here to see this, tomorrow: http://www.scottishensemble.co.uk/Concert.aspx?concert=71 |
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« Reply #3419 on: 09:11:25, 07-02-2008 » |
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Since Raymond was a Quaker, the funeral as such will be largely silent, I've been told.
Yes, Quaker funerals (like Friends' Meetings) are largely silent. My father was a Quaker and his funeral consisted of 30 minutes of silence, punctuated by four people (including me) saying a few words as and when the spirit moved them. Perfect. And very comforting. |
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