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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

That's wonderful, Helen! What lovely memories to have of your Dad's musical abilities.

oldraver · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 1172 Location: London

Just read your last posts about your Dad's tapes, H. How lovely. Made my day, that has.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Thanks Eileen and Raver. I'm so pleased I can hear him play again.

We were up at his house again this week (just put it on the market) and there was an empty minidisc cover with 'Me on Clavinova' (the last piano he had) written on it. I've not located that disc yet but I've still to go through a box of them.........

H
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

I missed that Becky but sounds amusing!

It's taking us forever to clear the house Becky, some nice memories and some things I know nothing at all about!

H
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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Claire Runacres using a very unscripted and non BBC word when reading the news bulletin - I think it was at 11am during the KB Show

I could hardly believe my ears

Have a listen and you'll be shocked Shocked

- I never thought she had it in her Smile

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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

I looked at the blue tits' nest today, the one with the camera inside, to see what progress there has been. There were 7 eggs at the last count and the female is now incubating them. While I was watching, her partner flew in with a tasty morsel for her Smile

It's now Wednesday and I just saw the female leave the nest, presumably to find herself some food, and I could see clearly that there are 9 eggs.

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

I have two nesting boxes,Eileen and saw blue tits having a look in them earlier on in the year but they must have decided they didn't want to nest there..well not this year...maybe next.

How lovely for you to be able to watch them so closely.

FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

Yes, Becky, it is quite a treat to watch them - I shall also be watching next door's cat very closely in a few weeks time Sad

. Her owner feeds birds but believed the rescue cat home where she got this cat when they told her that because it is white, she will never be able to catch birds. Wrong!! She was seen catching one of my baby blue tits a couple of years ago.

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

Three baby blue tits have hatched and are being fed by both parents. Six eggs to go Smile

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

How lovely, I hope they all survive. Smile

H
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

What a lovely day I have had. I met up unexpectedly with an old friend for coffee and then went for a walk in the park at Hatfield House - shady woodlands and hot open spaces with fantastic ancient trees to admire.

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

Out of the mouths of babes..

From Twitter

Mum:"how was school?" little girl "good, Selassie is my friend" "that's an unusual name, is he black?" "I don't know, I'll ask him tomorrow"

Very Happy

oldraver · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 1172 Location: London

We could learn a thing or two...maybe compulsory nursery for over 50's is the way to the future. With bigger chairs, in case of break sit.
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

Blondehedgehog · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 286 Location: UK

I felt good after making a banana cake.....the Tesco recipe on TV.

Looked and tasted GREAT Very Happy

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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

I took part in a concert last night. It was a fundraiser for our local hospital stroke unit. There were various styles of music and I was in the U3A Ukulele Band which got a great response with lots of audience participation in well known old and not-so-old songs e.g. Black Velvet Band, Top of the World, Pack up Your Troubles, Morningtown Ride, World Without Love and a Ragtime Medley etc. Good fun.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3414 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

I am pleased for you Eileen.
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

I don't think a recording was made but here is something we did last December. i am in the front row wearing a check shirt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huniTBKTETk

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oldraver · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 1172 Location: London

That certainly cheered me up and made me feel good, Eileen. Smashing!
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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

Joining a ukulele group is great fun and with practice you do progress. I thoroughly recommend it Smile

oldraver · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 1172 Location: London

I've got 12 guitars and a couple of ukes, Eileen, so I'm pretty much up to scratch...but I will get a uke out and practise more, as it's always guitars for me, not least because there's always one next to me. So there's much scope for improvement on the uke front. I'm scared to keep the good one on display, in case one of the grandkids break it. The other one I let them play with.

I'll have a little go at Bring Me Sunshine, that's for sure.
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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

I wonder how long it takes to play the uke by ear? One long term player I asked said he always needs the chord chart to follow.

oldraver · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 1172 Location: London

Depends on the indivdual, I guess. If I put the time in, I would hope not long, but I have a printed chord chart. and only looked at it for three major chords and a minor. That's how things started with the guitar, many moons ago. My ear/mind tells me where I should go, now. And of course, the more you play, the easier it is.

If only I could play the piano.
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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

Frank Skinner's programme about George Formby is on again tonight on BBC4 at 9pm. I have seen it a number of times but it is so enjoyable.

oldraver · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 1172 Location: London

Thanks Eileen. I did see this last week, but forgot to reply. I've seen the Frank programme once...and hopefully, I will watch again, before it expires.
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

Seeing Dame Judi Dench rapping (with Lethal Bizzle ????) made me smile yesterday, when I saw it on Twitter, and is making me smile again today just thinking of it.

She really is a good sport and from her many interviews seems a lovely person.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/14/judi-dench-rapping-with-lethal-bizzle-is-a-thing-and-its-pure-joy-6927655/

Laughing

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3414 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Seeing tonight's 'harvest moon', then, thanks to someone else explaining about space travel to one of his children, I also looked up and there, directly overhead was the ISS, currently without Tim Peake of course!
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

Seen on Twitter...

A winning piece of graffiti

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Like it Becky!

For me was hearing Richard Allinson on Magic FM Drive. Ages since I listened and I always enjoyed his shows on R2 and elsewhere so just hearing his voice cheered me up. He played a lot of 'typical Allinson' tracks too. Very Happy

H
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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

Yes, Becky, that is an inspired piece of graffiti Very Happy

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6791

Away from Brexit... Rolling Eyes

Watching this little boy not only cheered me up ..it had me laughing away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-a8MpZmmM

Another thing that cheered me up today was this news.....Eric would have loved it...

It was the scoreline that the late, great Eric Morecambe always used to joke about but had never come true - until now.

East Fife 4 Forfar 5 was the much-loved comedian's idea of the ultimate tongue-twister for anyone trying to read out the football results.

On Sunday, that result finally happened for the first time in the fixture's history - sort of.

The Scottish League Cup Group B tie between the sides went to penalties after a 1-1 draw. And the score in the shootout? East Fife 4 Forfar 5.

Had he lived to see that, it would surely have raised a smile from Morecambe, who came up with the score as a jokey greeting whenever he met his friend James Alexander Gordon, the popular announcer who read the classified results on the BBC for 40 years.

"Eric never called me James," Gordon, who died in 2014, once recalled. "Whenever I saw him over a 20-year period, he would say 'East Fife 4 Forfar 5'. I've got a tape of that."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44916496

FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5747 Location: Hampshire

I had a day in Emsworth yesterday and did a walk I've done many times with an old friend. Afterwards I decided to look for a house where PG Wodehouse had lived. I wandered up and down the road but couldn't spot the blue plaque. There were no pedestrians to ask but then I spotted a chap on his driveway so asked him. "Yes" he said "It's this house and I live here". I then saw the rather pale blue plaque high up on the wall.

He was so pleasant and asked me if I'd like to come in, so I did, on the way noticing the name of the house above the front door was Threepwood (In the Blandings Castle books Lord Emsworth's younger son is Freddie Threepwood). His wife offered me a cold drink and they showed me round the downstairs and the back garden which had a tree which PG would have known. They let me take photos and when I was going out through the front gate the chap appeared with a rather nice old booklet about PG and his connection with Emsworth. "Here, you can have this" he said.

How amazing that the only pedestrian I saw was the current owner! It certainly made my day.