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Bridgewater concert haunt, the Ducie Arms (by the University Toblerone dwellings) another; the Salutation is handy when one wants to escape from The Factory (some of you know where I mean...)
rm, my dear boy, you're probably too young to remember, or even have experinced it; but there was once a deuced fine watering hole on the very site where now sits the latest extension of the 'factory'. My pals and I would regularly repair there for lunchtime pints, in the days when my constitution could withstand such things! Ha! There was also that place above the shopping precinct directly opposite said 'factory'. The stories I could tell you about THAT, my lad! But, in my days there, I spent most time in drinking establishments well away from the cultural epicentre: the Clarendon, on Clarendon rd, for example. Gosh - very near and handy for those curry emporia! martle, when I first donned my overalls, the watering hole had become an annexe, appropriately enough, for the brass players  - Lloyds Building, I think it was called. As for the Risen From The Ashes in the precinct - we all have tales to tell about that place    Sadly, one needs a bulletproof vest to venture down Clarendon Rd nowadays... A - yep, the Peveril and the Britons are both Halle favourites; when the Free Trade Hall was the Halle's home, there was another pub that was popular and I'm damned if I can remember its name - served a good pint of Flowers, I recall... Just picked up the post about the Mitre, and the other pub by the cathedral that was reconstructed brick by brick after the 1996 bomb - another name gone... |
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I seem to have missed all the excitement over the last couple of days. Not sure if that is good or bad..... Still, I thought a timely reminder of my request from the first post of this thread might be in order. If you sound off, please try to end your post on a positive note.
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« Reply #1532 on: 23:53:46, 06-05-2007 » |
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Right by the Mitre, was the sweet shop 'Clive Hayes' still there in any of your time?
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« Reply #1534 on: 23:55:06, 06-05-2007 » |
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Haway! What happened to grumpy old rants? This isn't the "grotty old pubs" thread, you know.
Call that a rant? Not you again... well, since you ask, members might have gathered from my recent posts that I am currently sojourning in picturesque Flanders. I had a summons from reception at my hotel this morning and was told that my credit card had been refused authorisation, which was somewhat embarrassing. ("Do you have another credit card, sir?" "Er, no, I'm a musician actually.") When I called my bank I was told that the card had indeed been blocked for security reasons because someone had apparently tried to use it in a foreign country. "Yes", I said, "that was me. I'm in Belgium at the moment" - at which I was told that somewhere in the "terms and conditions" of my account I'm supposed to inform the bank whenever I go abroad. Has anyone else come across this madness? (They'll be asking people to put their toothpaste in a transparent plastic pouch at airports next.) I mean, does Sir Paul MacbloodyCartney have to listen to arrangements of his own music while waiting for someone at a call centre to answer so he can tell them he's just about to get into one of his private jets and swan off to Phuket?
Careful, dear, you'll get these good people all upset. Sorry.
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« Reply #1535 on: 00:03:51, 07-05-2007 » |
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I played some McCartney/Lennon/Berio today.
That's not a rant but an aside. I'll sidle away now.
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« Reply #1536 on: 00:06:25, 07-05-2007 » |
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Haway! What happened to grumpy old rants? This isn't the "grotty old pubs" thread, you know.
Call that a rant? Not you again... well, since you ask, members might have gathered from my recent posts that I am currently sojourning in picturesque Flanders. I had a summons from reception at my hotel this morning and was told that my credit card had been refused authorisation, which was somewhat embarrassing. ("Do you have another credit card, sir?" "Er, no, I'm a musician actually.") When I called my bank I was told that the card had indeed been blocked for security reasons because someone had apparently tried to use it in a foreign country. "Yes", I said, "that was me. I'm in Belgium at the moment" - at which I was told that somewhere in the "terms and conditions" of my account I'm supposed to inform the bank whenever I go abroad. Has anyone else come across this madness? (They'll be asking people to put their toothpaste in a transparent plastic pouch at airports next.) I mean, does Sir Paul MacbloodyCartney have to listen to arrangements of his own music while waiting for someone at a call centre to answer so he can tell them he's just about to get into one of his private jets and swan off to Phuket?
Careful, dear, you'll get these good people all upset. Sorry.
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« Reply #1537 on: 00:13:04, 07-05-2007 » |
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("Do you have another credit card, sir?" "Er, no, I'm a musician actually.") When I called my bank I was told that the card had indeed been blocked for security reasons because someone had apparently tried to use it in a foreign country. "Yes", I said, "that was me. I'm in Belgium at the moment" - at which I was told that somewhere in the "terms and conditions" of my account I'm supposed to inform the bank whenever I go abroad. What happened to this 'Europe' concept then? I can only assume that my credit card has no such stipulation on it. (And if it did I'd wipe it off. Ho ho.) In that I live in Germany but have a French credit card, a hangover from my time living in Paris a few years ago. I am however a musician with two credit cards. One Australian and they don't have any problem with me using it at any of the round earth's imagined corners. So Richard's parenthetical stereotype doesn't hold in all cases. In other words - Richard, you've been had. |
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I had a summons from reception at my hotel this morning and was told that my credit card had been refused authorisation, which was somewhat embarrassing. ("Do you have another credit card, sir?" "Er, no, I'm a musician actually.") When I called my bank I was told that the card had indeed been blocked for security reasons because someone had apparently tried to use it in a foreign country. "Yes", I said, "that was me. I'm in Belgium at the moment" - at which I was told that somewhere in the "terms and conditions" of my account I'm supposed to inform the bank whenever I go abroad. Has anyone else come across this madness?
I certainly have, but I've not experienced it personally. I have had my credit card cloned, but I have to say that my bank actually called within hours to tell me that this had happened and that the £15,000 or so of attempted fraudulent purchases made on it would not be charged to me - not only that, the replacement card that would usually have taken "a minimum of five clear working days " (what an irritatingly quaint expression that is! - ever seen a day do any work?) was rushed to me in less than 48 hours so as to minimise my inconvenience. Sorry not to grump and rant here (which means I'm going off topic), but I thought that I'd answer from my own experience. I mean, does Sir Paul MacbloodyCartney have to listen to arrangements of his own music while waiting for someone at a call centre to answer so he can tell them he's just about to get into one of his private jets and swan off to Phuket?
If only! SirPaulus to Requirements if you ask me - and that's putting it mildly. But don't get me on call centres, otherwise the moderators will ban me both for making racist-sounding comments and for posting in this thread material that should be in the "Orientalism and Music" one; not for nothing has a friend from a certain subcontinent joked to me about "going out for a chicken-out how-can-I-help-you-today masala"... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #1539 on: 00:20:29, 07-05-2007 » |
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What happened to this 'Europe' concept then? Margaret Thatcher, I believe. |
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« Reply #1540 on: 00:22:53, 07-05-2007 » |
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Martle - to think we could have been in the same room all those years ago! But you never clobbered me, rest assured. I'm wallowing in nostalgia now too. One of these days (not tonight, I'm tired and it's work tomorrow) I'll put up a photo of Ian in the sixth form, unless he objects.
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« Reply #1541 on: 00:26:14, 07-05-2007 » |
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What happened to this 'Europe' concept then? Margaret Thatcher, I believe. So it's a Pommie credit card you have? Selber schuld...  |
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« Reply #1542 on: 00:34:44, 07-05-2007 » |
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Martle - to think we could have been in the same room all those years ago! But you never clobbered me, rest assured. I'm wallowing in nostalgia now too. One of these days (not tonight, I'm tired and it's work tomorrow) I'll put up a photo of Ian in the sixth form, unless he objects.
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« Reply #1543 on: 05:52:12, 07-05-2007 » |
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It appears that I have to apologise for my behaviour. This includes saying 'erm' to t-p instead of ' please could you tell me what it is you mean?' (I still haven't been told by the way)
I also have to apologise for using similar phrases to t-p.
I have to apologise or I will be suspended.. so, I apologise.
I am not sure how much fun is left in a board that sides with one person so completely over a problem. It used to be fun. But thanks to those people who have contacted me privately and agreed with my point of view. Unfortunately no-one has said anything publically, but never mind.
So , sorry t-p it must be so hard to send all those thousands of messages when it must take so long to work out the English phrasing. I hadn't realised how much terrible anguish I had given you.
Politeness, as they used to say at school , is of paramount importance . I stand chastised.
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« Reply #1544 on: 05:59:17, 07-05-2007 » |
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We also have a problem in that it is thought that Baz and I are the same person. Could anyone who has met both of us on those evenings out please say... on the board... that we are 2 different people using the same internet address . Baz is being blamed for my behaviour too.
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