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Message 1.Β
Posted by Jane_6MusicHost (U9666316) on Thursday, 1st May 2008
Evening Gideon,
Today's update brings bad news...an inappropriate use of a knife has led me to incise an inch long gash in my left index finger. not good news generally, but this promises to seriously curtail my bass playing over the next few days...as well as bathroom diy. one of these vexes me more than the other.
The lovely Liz has been very supportive with extra tea and macaroons, bless her.
Nwt for me to do but to sit back and enjoy the show.
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Message 2
Posted by Jane_6MusicHost (U9666316) on Thursday, 1st May 2008
Just me this evening as the lovely Liz is out on the lash with work friends.
As you may remember I reported last night that I had injured myself somewhat in a finger/knife incident...well after a visit to university college hospital today I am banned from bass guitar duties for a week.
Harsh, but this also applies to bathroom diy so this cloud does have a silver lining.
I've been solidly at radio 6 since between marc radcliffe today...much enjoyed his radar brothers session..tres bon.
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Message 3
Posted by Jane_6MusicHost (U9666316) on Thursday, 1st May 2008
I have some shocking news from tottenham towers...it seems the plain chocolate digestive is replacing the fried-egg sandwich as snack of choice.
Shall I inform Reuters ?
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Message 4
Posted by Jane_6MusicHost (U9666316) on Thursday, 1st May 2008
Evening.
I do have to report a total absence of sparrows on the Teddington Borders!
There where however lots in Spain when I was over visiting my Pa a week or so again.
Maybe all those 'cheap' flights have fished them in. Small sparrow carbon footprints al over the globe...
I had sole charge of my two boys over the weekend and allowed them to direct me.
We were eventually thrown out of the kiddies bike area.
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Message 5
Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Thursday, 1st May 2008
What's going on 'ere then, are Gid's correspondents being given official ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ logins? If we send passport photos can we get ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ passes? With neck cords.
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Message 6
Posted by Jane_6MusicHost (U9666316) on Friday, 2nd May 2008
Hiya Roofdog,
All these 'Correspondents Correspondence' threads are basically the best emails the team have recieved over the last few weeks...
I've copied and posted them on here to kick this feature off on the messageboard. Hopefully it'll mean that everyone can keep up to date with the latest news from the various parishes!
Hope this makes sense and sorry for the confusion.
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Message 7
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 8th May 2008
I saw a rat under some decking
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Message 8
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Thursday, 8th May 2008
I saw a rat a few days ago and it hissed and screamed at me. Middle of the pavement. At 4 on a Friday afternoon. What's going on? You're never more than 3 pavements away from one apparently.
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Message 9
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 8th May 2008
Relatively harmless, though, compared to the menace that is the urban badger.
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Message 10
Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Thursday, 8th May 2008
sniff
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Message 11
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 8th May 2008
Are you unwell knerak?
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Message 12
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 8th May 2008
Probably bovine TB. There's a lot of it about.
I went into B&Q and asked for badgers traps, and they said it was illegal! Can you credit it? I told them the stripey wee b*st*rds were in the drains and coming up through the toilet, but they refused to even discuss it.
The things aren't even native to the UK. They were introduced by American airmen who brought them over as mascots. That's why Oxfordshire is full of them - still ferretting about wondering where all the hershey bars have gone.
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Message 13
Posted by PeteIsLegend (U10945656) on Friday, 16th May 2008
I have some pretty exciting news...
I was rushing round the house this morning, and looked out into the dreary garden.
I saw this year's first baby sparrow!!! It was sitting in the tree, whilst mum went to the feeder and back and fed it. Cute little thing - I'll try to get the camera out for the next one.
Pete (Basingstoke sparrow correspondent)
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Message 14
Posted by GidsProducer (U10158733) on Tuesday, 20th May 2008
Dear Gid
Now that there is an online bit for this, I'd like re-register my claim as Battersea and 'City Crime' correspondent.
In reinforcement of this, may I note the massive increase in the number of pigeons ordinaire down here in Battersea, including a pair who are trying to take up residence in the common hallway outside my flat, giving me a right old turn with their panicked flapping everytime I open my door.
It's like Tippi Hedren meets Steptoe and Son down here some days.
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Message 15
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 20th May 2008
Pigeons? Ha! You should see the feral shire horses that are making life HELL on our estate.
They feed on old takeaways, and now they've built up an immunity to the poison.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 16
Posted by BatterseaAlex (U11973183) on Tuesday, 20th May 2008
Feral Shire Horses! Yes, I would like to see that, 'Birds'-style, a flock of shire horses sitting on a climbing frame in a wind-swept playground, throwing themselves at phone boxes, or attacking Rod Taylor in his sports car.
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Message 17
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 20th May 2008
They crap all over my van as well......
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Message 18
Posted by Wearebees (U10389621) on Thursday, 22nd May 2008
Here is the Northolt news.
Poppy our timid homeloving puss attempted to pull the wool over our eyes by proudly delivering a dead Blue Tit to the dining room while we were eating our tea.
It's just a pity I had already seen the poor little thing thing in the garden earlier covered in ants & obviously a victim of the far more streetwise & fearsome Fifi.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 19
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Monday, 26th May 2008
There is a wasp behind my curtains.
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Message 20
Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Wednesday, 9th July 2008
Is the wasp still buzzing around behind the curtains Fist?
Here on the Southgate/Palmers Green borders we are experiencing a preponderance of stag beetles, as is normal for this time of year. On some evenings, venturing into the garden entails a high risk of the clumsy devils crashing into one's head as they flutter about in search of a mate. A couple of days ago I narrowly avoided stepping on a couple of males as they locked mandibles on the lawn, doubtless bickering over a female, unseen but heard rustling noisily in nearby undergrowth.
Not sure how their population will be affected by my garden pond, currently under construction. They don't seem the brightest of creatures even by insect standards, and I don't think they can swim.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 21
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Wednesday, 9th July 2008
Wasp is gone now. But where? Do they migrate?
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Message 22
Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Wednesday, 9th July 2008
I don't trust wasps. More than likely it was an emissary of the dark forces of He Who Must Not Be Named. Flown to report back to its evil masters and/or mistresses.
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Message 23
Posted by Drujay (U10961475) on Wednesday, 9th July 2008
Does anyone else recall an act called 'Norman Standish and his Friendly Wasps'? Standish would apparently have his vespine chums perform various extravagant stunts (flying, stinging etc.) then, on the command from his whistle, they would fly back into their wasp home. As if this were not enough, Norman would properly finish off his bedazzled audience by reciting the fish alphabet.
As an aside, I must report that on our annual visit to Posh Johno's in London last week, George Lamb (for it was he) walked in front of our bus at Swiss Cottage. I think it represents probably the first time I have felt a genuine pang of regret at never having learned to drive.
Hey, Fist, never mind your problems - I've only got another 7 weeks holiday left.
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Message 24
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Monday, 14th July 2008
Norman Standish is the kind of Showbiz talent that 6 seems to be recruiting these days - but has he got the right agent, eh?
Drujay - if you've got time on your hands, do you want to help me complete my Christmas 2008 blockbuster - "Ten Games of Badminton That Changed The World" ?
But, to return to the geographically-based thread topic - does anyone know what's happening to all the conker trees in the South? They're all dying around here! What's causing it?Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 25
Posted by GidsProducer (U10158733) on Monday, 14th July 2008
Hi Gideon
Oxford is peppered with venues that have over the years been witness to some great gigs, going back through the decades, there are places like The Jericho Tavern, an epicentre of all things Indie through the eighties, from the twee jangling of Tallulah Gosh, followed by the wave of "shoegaze" bands that populated the Thames Valley in those days, I remember when it was referred to as the "Scene that Celebrated itself", from Chapterhouse to the local powerhouse "Ride", who I saw so many times I've actually lost count, its too many I can't remember.
It was a great place The Jericho, and there was that time when a sound engineer had to give one of those blokes from peroxide blonde NME darlings the frankly disastrous Birdland, a damn good talking too.
One venue that doesn't exist anymore is Oxford Polytechnic Union where I saw My Bloody Valentine and a very on form Spacemen 3.
We can't forget the Zodiac previously "The Venue" and previous to that "The Co-Op hall", I have seen countless bands under that roof too many to mention, because its now an Academy the redevelopment of the downstairs means the small downstairs room and cocktail bar are now gone forever it continues to have great bands playing there, but its not quiet the same.
Honourable mention goes to the Cellar, The Wheatsheaf and even the Port Mahon (where only about 3 or 4 years ago i had the pleasure of seeing Jad Fair perform to a room of eight people, actually seeing him perform "Charmed Life" all those years after hearing it and loving it since 1988 was breathtaking.
Is knowing all the staff, the owner, the promoter, and sometimes the bands at all the gigs I go to, a form of gig duffing or is it just age.
Any chance of some Tallulah Gosh, Ride or even "Charmed Life" by Jad Fair, maybe next thursday as I am just about to head off to Norway to go to Slottsfjell Festival who have got Stereolab and F Buttons playing.
Great show as ever
Tim
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Message 26
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 15th July 2008
Not forgetting the excelent Nigh Shift music free sheet made available all over Oxford by the noble Ronan (no relation).
I've noticed a fair few Oxford/Oxfordshire correspondents emailing the show this year.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 27
Posted by toungengroove (U12673712) on Tuesday, 15th July 2008
Hi
Sorry for the delay in my first Correspondance from the Hemel area but I went camping over the weekend, proper camping in a ex-army truck brilliantly converted into a motorhome great fun was had .
anyway recent events include a new neigbough with a rather severe sleep apnea condition moving in above me who wakes up screaming at regular 2 hour intervals
thus making myself wake up screaming every two hours also, as Im on the 8th floor this "could" be having a chain reaction below me ..
jaffa cakes are bogof
erm not alot else has happened yet
& there are no venues in hemel so the outlook is rather bleak on the gig front
living in hope
Kent
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Message 28
Posted by GidsProducer (U10158733) on Tuesday, 15th July 2008
Hello Gideon
Firstly, thank you for giving me reassurance at 2 minutes to midnight last Tuesday night that I did not fail at duffing - you took pity on my boyfriend's pleading text to mention weirdo-candle-making girl!
Anyhow, secondly, where to start? Can I be the Brimpton correspondent if the job is still going? Sadly I'm not in the village for the one weekend when something very, very exciting is happening - The Glade festival, this weekend. I will be at Larmer Tree Festival for the 8th consecutive year (well, actually I missed last year -gave birth to twins just before).
Anyway - tonight I am upholding my end of the costume-making deal for Saturday night of Larmer's dressing up "Come Dancing" theme. My friends, our collection of 6 children, my boyfriend and I are going as "Morrissey Men" - half mediaeval dancing man, half theatrical singing poet! Well Tamsin and Simon (friends) have scored cricket trousers from ebay, bedecked them with ribbons and sleigh bells and made rattley things from old beer tops; I'm still creating t-shirts for all with "meat is murder" pic ironed on front and "Morrissey Men" (using THE SMITHS font) ironed on back and supplying hair gel!! Genious. Well we think so and we'll have our swanky tankards filled to the brim! Cheers!
Love the show - REALLY!
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Message 29
Posted by Drujay (U10961475) on Tuesday, 15th July 2008
Never mind all that...
Fist, at first I was afraid, I was petrified, thinking I could never think of even one badminton game that changed the world. However, I am happy to get the ball/shuttlecock rolling/randomly spinning with the epic three-setter in the mixed doubles from the 2004 Olympics involving the British pair of that blonde girl with the nice legs and that bloke.
Big Geoff and I, incredibly, were glued to the telly watching, but then had to leave to drive from Edinburgh to Glasgow in Geoff's mum's old banger of a car. The car's radio had ceased to function some time previously, so I had to sit in the passenger seat with an old transistor radio, continually pointing the ariel in several hundred different directions in order to listen -yes listen! - to the drama unfold on 5Live.
Needless to say, the plucky Brits were, in the end, defeated, but for a period of about two hours the entire nation was gripped by badminton fever: who'd've thunk it?
On a similar, but not very, theme I should also confess to always having been amused by the Badminton Horse Trials event, purely because it sounds as if it must surely be related to the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is the Horsefinder General, I ask you? And are the good people of Badminton really so disturbed by a seemingly strange equine force that they must pursue various Dobbins and Flossies on an annual basis? I think we should be told.
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Message 30
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Wednesday, 16th July 2008
Drujay - thanks for badminton memories. Donβt get me wrong β itβs good stuff, and just the sort of personal anecdote that theyβll lap up when we appear on Midweek with Libby Perveys, but , butβ¦.., I can see it was a badminton game that changed your and Big Geoffβs afternoon - but did it change the world? Really?
Iβve already finished chapter one, on the grudge match between Churchill and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, which decided the fate of eastern Europe, and Iβve got a rough draft of chapter two β on the 1980 game of Atari Pong that led Stephen Hawking to his ground breaking explanation of the electro-magnetic dissonance of stretched gravity within theoretical black holes. And Iβve got a few thousand words on the bloody wars of 1911, 1922-25 and 1961 between Guatemala and Honduras β all triggered by controversial umpireβs decisions at Boxing Day exhibition matches.
But that still leaves me a bit short. We might need a change of tack. I reckon with an afternoonβs work I could re-jig the above as βVinegar β the condiment that built the twentieth century!β Got any vinegar anecdotes/facts?
If all else fails, we can fall back on my bog-book idea: βIncredibly Ugly Babiesβ. There are some real shockers out there
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Message 31
Posted by Drujay (U10961475) on Wednesday, 16th July 2008
You are quite right, Fist. I am recalling, however, that Wales was decided by a badders match between Lt Col Sir Crispin "Crispy" Serrano-Hamm (of the Worcestershire Serrano-Hamms)and General Montgomery "Monty" Montague-Montmorency.
They didn't actually play, obviously; their batmen ('Stumpy' Small and 'Choppy' Watters) competed on their behalf while they sat and smoked.
On the subject of vinegar...an honourable mention must go to the greatest of all vinegar-based condiments: Edinburgh chippy sauce. As an Edinburgh man through and through, it is a source of much distress that anyone west of Harthill regards this wonderful complement to so many dishes ("It's not just for chips" (C)) with open derision, if not downright hostility. The honourable gentlemen of Edinburgh's chippies are obviously duty-bound to keep its exact constituent parts a secret, but I am told that the addition of just the right amount of vinegar is crucial - nectar.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 32
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Wednesday, 16th July 2008
What the hell is chippy sauce?
Break it to me gently. I have a strong stomach - I used to be a hospital cleaner - but I'm aware that some elements of scottish cuisine can be challenging to not only the palette, but one's mental balance.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 33
Posted by Drujay (U10961475) on Wednesday, 16th July 2008
Like I said, the ingredients are a closely guarded secret, Fist, but it's essentially Gold Star (other brown sauces are available, but neither suitable nor comparable) mixed with acetic acid and water (I am indebted to the father of one of my pupils of Italian extraction for this information - I will not name names lest he finds a you know what's head in his bed for revealing so much information. Blimey, we're back at the Badminton Horse Trials again!). It is deposited all over one's chippy, traditionally from a glass fizzy juice bottle with a hole pierced in the bottle's metal top.
Treat Mrs Fist to a weekend in Edinburgh and experience, on ordering your chosen supper, the delight of being asked: "Sossansaw?" (Sauce and salt?).
Beware the west coast and their unreconstructed ways - they will ask "Sollanvinger?" (Salt and vinegar?) Euch!
I am counting down the seconds before a Weedgie refutes this with, as John Major would say, not inconsiderable vehemence.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 34
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Wednesday, 16th July 2008
Yasus! Brown sauce, acetic acid and water squirted out of an old pop bottle. That alone is the worth the eight hour drive.
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Message 35
Posted by Bargeman (U1017072) on Wednesday, 16th July 2008
The 'salt and sauce' has spread to Fife and can now be enjoyed here (why isn't this discussion taking place on the Scottish board?), and indeed is, by the weegie Mr Bargeman. I have seen it being mixed, but was not paying sufficient attention at the time to help much on how it's made. I reckon the irn bru bottle with the hole in the lid is crucial to its character - in the same way that the coppers(?) in a whisky distillery shape the character of the whisky, or so they say.
Of course chips with salt and sauce are a close second to the greatest scottish chippy invention of all time (excluding the deep fried mars bar) the deep fried pizza. Ye cannae whack it.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 36
Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Thursday, 17th July 2008
it was pointed out to me many years ago, as I drove by harthill, at just about where the the service station is, that indeed there is the whiff of chips in the air - try it.
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Message 37
Posted by Drujay (U10961475) on Thursday, 17th July 2008
Well done, Bargeman; only testimony from the indigenous population will convince Glaswegians of what they are missing out on. It's interesting you say that it has spread to Fife; I had a pal who did Geography at Edinburgh in the 80s, and he was keen to build his thesis on the demographic reach of chippy sauce: obviously this was given academic short shrift for being patent nonsense.
You are right to mention coopers (who make the barrels); the selection of old sherry casks, for instance, apparently greatly influences a whisky's flavour and for this reason should make it a cause for national concern that chippies who sell bottles of chippy sauce (huzzah!) are no longer allowed to use old Irn Bru bottles (health and safety spoilsports; political correctness gone mad; Brussels telling us what we can and can't do blah, blah) and must now use plastic bottles with a seal (for the lid, not a balance-a-ball-on-your-nose-at-the-circus one you understand).
I was actually about 28 before I found out that those pizzas are just dropped into the deep fat frier and then put straight on top of the chips - I did have a drunken bet with a pal that this was not the case and the man in the Clam Shell in the Royal Mile was only too happy to prove me wrong by demonstrating the technique.
I think the reason this is not on the Scottish board is that it grew from Fist and I talking mince about matters irrelevant to the thread anyway. Besides, why keep it local? Fist could corner the Oxfordshire market for chippy sauce.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 38
Posted by Drujay (U10961475) on Thursday, 17th July 2008
Knerak,
This may be due to the fact that Scotland's, as far as I can see, last remaining 'Wimpy' burger bar is there! Now here's a thought - never mind Fist and his Oxfordshire franchise: imagine getting the chippy sauce contract for McDonald's?
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Message 39
Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Thursday, 17th July 2008
Drujay
There's a Wimpy in Dingwall. No matter how hard I sniff, not a whiff of chip to be had there.
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Message 40
Posted by Drujay (U10961475) on Thursday, 17th July 2008
A Wimpy that doesn't smell of chips? They must be doing something wrong. Several moons ago I worked in a bookshop in central Glasgow that had the misfortune to adjoin a branch of a well known chain of fried pigeon, sorry, chicken goods; jeepers, the constant smell of fat and chips was overpowering. It was almost like you were continually passing Harthill in fact.
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Message 41
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Friday, 18th July 2008
The man taking the asbestos away from the site I'm working on today, disturbed a HUGE wasps' nest. They stung him. It's nature's way.
Also there was a squashed rat on the road at Hampton Poyle this afternoon. And I saw a brown horse in a field, doing a poo on the very same turf that forms all his meals. Revolting really.Link to this forum: Correspondents Correspondence - London and beyond...
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Message 42
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Sunday, 20th July 2008
Today I saw loads of birds - little brown numbers - all jabbering and leaping about in a bush.
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Message 43
Posted by laurencea (U4486044) on Monday, 21st July 2008
I don't think i've ever gone to a gig just because of the venue... but on saturday Laura Veirs played at the London Wetland Centre in leafy Barnes. it was he most intimate gig i've been to in an age.
I've lost track of Laura's stuff over the years and thought it was a good way of catching up, as well as seeing some ducks - always a bonus.. in fact, a Tufted Duck proudly displayed her newly hatched duckling for the crowd as we wandered around before the start,.. more gigs should have waterbirds. the venue was the small theatre at the centre with no mics of amps... Led To See opened, just Alex, or Alice from the band playing viola (we'd learn later) and singing. She did a short set and then Laura came on, with just an acoustic guitar. Later Alex, or Alice joined her and there was lots of chatting and even a joke about a viola and banjo duo to tie in with laura playing the latter. They explained that they'd played the Lovebox festival earlier in the day and it was a slightly different atmosphere there. There was even an end of tour merch sale (i got the new album and a free tour ep) and advice on how to cover scratch marks on a hire car (they were looking for a muddy puddle).
what a great way to end an evening, lovely music in a beautiful setting. even the geese seemed to enjoy it.
birdwatching is the new rock 'n' roll
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Message 44
Posted by GidsProducer (U10158733) on Tuesday, 22nd July 2008
The grass is getting quite long in the big field with the tree.
Ian,
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Message 45
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Wednesday, 23rd July 2008
The branch of the linden is leafy and green,
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
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Message 46
Posted by Mozo (U10059077) on Thursday, 24th July 2008
Dontcha just love that Alex Harvey?
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Message 47
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 24th July 2008
The dead rat in Hampton Poyle is gone - but in EXACTLY THE SAME SPOT, I saw a live rat running across the road.
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Message 48
Posted by Mozo (U10059077) on Thursday, 24th July 2008
Anything's possible in Hampton Poyle. I've got rats in my loft, maybe they could be persuaded to do the same thing in reverse.
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Message 49
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 24th July 2008
Is it some superhero power of resurection I've suddenly developed? Hope not, as I drove past at least three graveyards on the way back. I'm locking all the windows tonight.
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Message 50
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 24th July 2008
And "Anything's possible In Hampton Poyle", whilst making for very snappy marketing copy, is actually the least true statement ever made of that sleepy hamlet of a mere 20 households.
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