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I put her name in Google and I only got two replies (isn't there a game in which you try to get as few hits as possible.) This seems like a rather flippant response for the subject matter but yes, it's Googlewhacking. You're allowed two words that have to be recognised by the dictionary google uses and the aim is to get just one hit. It absorbed quite a few hours of my life for a little while 4 or 5 years ago, but it wears thin quite quickly. Unless you're Dave Gorman of course.  One of them was for the parish magazine article I mentioned. She never told me that she was in church one day, and a gentleman came in and asked to be shown round. She obliged and afterwards learnt it was John Betjeman. She's the sort who would never tell about that.
What the article doesn't mention is her passion for prayer. It was almost certainly her influence that lead to that parish having two silent retreats every year, and she was always there.
What a lovely story. I've been reading about your visit but didn't say anything since there are others here more experienced in this field. Since I'm here now though, I agree completely with what everyone else has said - it's great that you're going to see her, and you probably don't know just how much she does appreciate it. And like BBM says, although she might not remember your name she may well know your face. |
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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 #4651 on: 20:48:36, 17-06-2008 » |
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A lovely story, indeed. Thank you for sharing it with us, Don Basilio! |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #4652 on: 17:27:22, 18-06-2008 » |
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As followers of the Sudden Saga might have heard once or twice over the months and years, one of the main annoyances of Schloss Plötzlich since I took up residence has been the windows - decades old and rendered utterly useless at either noise or heat insulation by building works opposite that commenced just after I moved in and lasted about a year, so that every little noise out in the courtyard I heard as though it were in the room (including some very noisy downpipes that make a loud dripping noise for about 24 hours after rain or about 6 hours after the neighbour at the top of them waters his/her plants). The bad news is that another bout of building works came even closer yesterday and today. But the extremely good news is that this was for the purpose of replacing the old windows with brand spanking new ones. Those nice German ones that you can open horizontally or tip, depending on which way the handle's pointing. Double glazed. The silence is eerie. I'm probably going to go mad. But I've learnt a useful skill in the past couple of years: I can now sleep with earplugs. So it wasn't all for nothing. In other news, it does look as though I might get to play the Messiaen quartet on his centenary date after all. A few hurdles to jump yet but fingers are being crossed and wood touched. |
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« Reply #4653 on: 17:46:34, 18-06-2008 » |
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Mazeltov, Ollie! Have a smashing time with your new windows. Ah. Er, cough, well not exactly that but mumblemumblekicksanklesmumble  |
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« Reply #4654 on: 08:04:16, 19-06-2008 » |
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Hope you get to play that wonderful Quartet for the End of Time, Ollie!! Great music.
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« Reply #4655 on: 08:16:11, 19-06-2008 » |
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Already playing it on August 12 in Melbourne and then December 6 in Köln on current plans but playing it on the centenary day would be a rather lovely thing.
But now (well, soon) I'm off to play some Barrett in Düsseldorf. As one does.
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« Reply #4656 on: 08:53:18, 19-06-2008 » |
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In other news, it does look as though I might get to play the Messiaen quartet on his centenary date after all. A few hurdles to jump yet but fingers are being crossed and wood touched. Here's hoping, Mr S. For some unaccountable reason Mr Google can't find me a picture of a hurdling clarinettist so, to see you on your way, we will have to make do with a hurdling cymbals player instead.  |
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« Reply #4658 on: 14:57:12, 19-06-2008 » |
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and will certainly mean a lot to her son That's also true, and equally important. I'm not a great fan of John Betjeman, but there's one short poem by him which I find very moving, and which I know by heart. It seems quite appropriate in the circumstances: I made hay while the sun shone;
My work sold.
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And the world cold,
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #4659 on: 21:02:17, 19-06-2008 » |
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Lovely poem that. I dont usually go out of my way to read poetry, let alone books. But I do like to read.
I have my new mouthpiece for my tuba now. Cool. Denis Wick 3L. Lovely.
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« Reply #4660 on: 21:02:50, 19-06-2008 » |
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A former Radio 4 messageboard poster living in California who used to post on Word of Mouth and Questions Questions in the olden days before the boards changed, and who has kept in touch by email with me and two others in England for several years, is coming to visit Britain (for a wedding somewhere else) and has just confirmed he's booked a hotel (very near here) for him and his two children for next Friday. This long-awaited visit is finally happening!!! One of the other friends lives very near me and the other is hoping to drive up from the south for the occasion! Something to look forward to. |
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« Reply #4661 on: 08:01:53, 20-06-2008 » |
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Band practice tonight, so I be able to try out my new mouthpiece properly, for the first time!! Cool!
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« Reply #4662 on: 11:22:11, 20-06-2008 » |
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Just a thought about my friend with dementia.
Before all this she was a worrier and lacking in confidence (although still bringing up a large family lovingly and responsibly as far as I can tell).
When I went to see her a couple of years ago, she had lost her short term memory, but still could hold a (rather circular) conversation. However, she appeared to have no anxiety.
In one sense she was happy in a way she had not been before. But in another she had lost her personality and free will.
Without our anxieties and fears and distress, maybe we can never be truly human.
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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 #4663 on: 14:00:21, 20-06-2008 » |
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Its one of the frailties of being a human being. In some ways, its our charcter that makes us human.
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« Reply #4664 on: 14:28:02, 20-06-2008 » |
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Its one of the frailties of being a human being. In some ways, its our charcter that makes us human.
BBM, we are born human. Character then develops from that, for better or worse, dependent on how we respond to the situations that we find ourselves in. Surely character is something we gain as we stumble through life? |
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