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« Reply #2085 on: 10:39:28, 12-11-2007 » |
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So near and yet so far... It seems I've managed to have two close encounters of the fourth kind with fellow MBers in the past couple of days, one without realising it until afterwards. On Friday night, for various reasons too complicated and boring to go into, the overnight Sleeper from Inverness to London took a major detour via Aberdeen so I found myself at one point sliding horizontally about four foot off the ground through the middle of Carnoustie, the historic location of Castle Dough. Unfortunately my photographic skills aren't quite up to Ron's standards and this doesn't really do it justice.  And then on Saturday, although I'm afraid I couldn't go to the evening performance of the Monteverdi Vespers in Snorberns Abbey, I did go to the rehearsal in the afternoon so, if only I had known it at the time, I was within paw-waving distance of strinasacchi! (And I have a funny feeling I might have been within paw-waving distance of strinasacchi at another concert recently too. Maybe this calls for a PM  ) |
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« Reply #2086 on: 10:41:29, 12-11-2007 » |
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[Oh bugler, I've done it again. 'Quoted' when I meant to 'Modify'.]
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« Reply #2087 on: 10:52:45, 12-11-2007 » |
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[Oh bugler, I've done it again. 'Quoted' when I meant to 'Modify'.]
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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 #2088 on: 10:55:37, 12-11-2007 » |
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paw-waving Last Thursday, on my way back from a dropoff at Luton Airport, I decided to avoid coming back on the M1 since I'd noticed the southbound carriageway bore a disturbing resemblance to an extremely long thin car park, and I found myself instead cruising sedately through the centre of Snorberns, thinking to myself that George Garnett could issue at any moment from one of the high-class emporia lining the high street. Sadly it was not to be. |
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« Reply #2089 on: 11:53:55, 12-11-2007 » |
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Hi George, I hope you enjoyed the Vespers rehearsal! I was the one coughing and pulling strange faces in a vain attempt to get my ears to pop.
(They're getting better now, but slowly.)
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« Reply #2090 on: 16:12:02, 12-11-2007 » |
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So near and yet so far... It seems I've managed to have two close encounters of the fourth kind with fellow MBers in the past couple of days, one without realising it until afterwards. On Friday night, for various reasons too complicated and boring to go into, the overnight Sleeper from Inverness to London took a major detour via Aberdeen so I found myself at one point sliding horizontally about four foot off the ground through the middle of Carnoustie, the historic location of Castle Dough. Unfortunately my photographic skills aren't quite up to Ron's standards and this doesn't really do it justice. And then on Saturday, although I'm afraid I couldn't go to the evening performance of the Monteverdi Vespers in Snorberns Abbey, I did go to the rehearsal in the afternoon so, if only I had known it at the time, I was within paw-waving distance of strinasacchi! (And I have a funny feeling I might have been within paw-waving distance of strinasacchi at another concert recently too. Maybe this calls for a PM ) Good Herrings George! Did you go suborbital? |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #2091 on: 18:39:03, 12-11-2007 » |
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Good Herrings George! Did you go suborbital?
I think it said Scotrail on the outside but it was too dark to see properly. Oh, the Pleiades. Um, you may have a point there, KittyB  |
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You're not the only one who's had a sudden attack of the Pleiades...  |
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« Reply #2093 on: 23:50:26, 12-11-2007 » |
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I found myself at one point sliding horizontally about four foot off the ground through the middle of Carnoustie
Heavens, GG! I have it on Dode's authority that I've occasionally managed pretty much the same feat, though without Scotrail's assistance.  Go through the middle of the town the railway most certainly does, too; I'll have to find (or take) a pic to prove it sometime. |
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071113/thl-china-health-condoms-offbeat-aa1aa08_1.htmlI can't help thinking the surname of the dermatologist is just about the funniest thing about this article ...
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« Reply #2096 on: 14:37:44, 14-11-2007 » |
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That would be what we doctors call a "hollow" laugh, I think. |
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« Reply #2097 on: 00:13:55, 15-11-2007 » |
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'Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.' This is really interesting.... (Thanks tinners) First of all I thought about incitement to violence. Then I thought about grief and the nature of love. (The thing that is being 're-created' isn't actually being re-created. It will never be the same again, and the vase that one loved is gone for ever.) Then I wondered about how the vase changed even if it hadn't been broken. Is the vase sitting on my windowsill the same as the vase I saw there yesterday? Any thoughts? Tommo |
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« Reply #2098 on: 07:39:06, 15-11-2007 » |
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A deeply pedestrian mind writes: I couldn't help thinking that, although the tensile strength of the love might have increased, the vase had ended up diminished in the process. From the point of view of the vase therefore.... [Note to self: So stop all this falling in love again business NOW, George. It may damage the recipient.  ] |
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« Reply #2099 on: 11:14:51, 15-11-2007 » |
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I couldn't help thinking that, although the tensile strength of the love might have increased, the vase had ended up diminished in the process. From the point of view of the vase therefore....
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