Entering the Twitterverse

[Catherine Bott]

Thanks for your wise words closing this thorny subject, French Frank: I hope Forum users will forgive me for Tweeting and forget I ever mentioned it! In Twit-speak, I'm "looking forward" to reading future "iconic" postings on this "legendary" discussion board. And considering changing my Twittername to @Edwina Reardon....
Best wishes, Catherine

[french frank]

considering changing my Twittername to @Edwina Reardon....

Heh, heh!

[Dave2002]

Thanks for your wise words closing this thorny subject, French Frank: I hope Forum users will forgive me for Tweeting and forget I ever mentioned it! In Twit-speak, I'm "looking forward" to reading future "iconic" postings on this "legendary" discussion board. And considering changing my Twittername to @Edwina Reardon....
Best wishes, Catherine

Catherine

Great to see you here, and I hope very much that you come back.

I'm very partial to Ed Reardon - I wonder what you would call your cat?

Unlike some others here I do have twitter accounts - more than one. All pretty much defunct.
I can't remember the passwords. Been there, done that!

I'm afraid I call (frequent?) users Twitts - which I think might align with the views of others who have posted.

On a more positive note I have much enjoyed many of your recordings, and the Early Music Show.

[Catherine Bott]

I'm allergic to cats - but how about Jeoffrey?

[Dave2002]

@Thropplenoggin for all your lexical prestidigitation needs. Well, when I'm not riding the circumbendibus, that is.

It is most welcome to see someone from the R3 posse here. I once wrote to CD Review via their email address, requesting that they make all the past episodes of Building A Library available for repeated listening and searchable in the same way that Desert Island Discs now is. Reply came there none (the blighters!)

I think many of the Building a Library programmes are available, though with the examples cut down, as podcasts. They may also be shortened further by some other editorial process.

Maybe your missive did have an effect, though a reply would have been good.

[Dave2002]

I'm allergic to cats - but how about Jeoffrey?

So am I, though despite that I quite like them. I thought you might choose Delius, or to go with the EMS, Purcell. Byrd might not be appropriate for a cat, however.

[Bax-of-Delights]

I too have a Twitter account but after the first flush have never used it. Occasionally I check the account and find I have some dubious followers (buxom young ladies who seem to think that a 65 year old gent is just the fellow to take them out on a Saturday night ) who are duly deleted along with Walker's Crisps and Evian water tweets.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Occasionally I check the account and find I have some dubious followers (buxom young ladies who seem to think that a 65 year old gent is just the fellow to take them out on a Saturday night

Erm; just remind me, would you BoD - how do you join Twitter? <butterwouldn'tmeltunmouthemoticon>

[Globaltruth]

Sadly, Miss Pringle thought it was a corncrake. Molesworth reckoned it was Gillibrand bloing his nose....thanks for your kind words about the programme. Suspect Tweeting is supposed to bring in new adherents, not preach to the converted.

... I'm an irregular user of Twitter, a variety of IDs for different purposes, and you'll find the music one, @MrKleeg, now following you Catherine (and perhaps one or 2 others too whose posts on here I like) - I listen to your programme irregularly though.

I am definitely not going to promote or defend the use of Twitter - what a tedious and pointless debate that would be. However both Max Reinhardt & Fiona Talkington are using it increasingly, and in different ways... the posts on this topic are particularly why I do so love this forum.

Today we found a shop frozen in time which sold those red flags for use when walking in front of motor cars.
Needless to say Mrs GT & I bought the ENTIRE stock.

Watch out for Mr Toad dressed as a washer woman everyone.

[Frances_iom]

Given this Gov's careful analysis of policies and success in manageing everything from forest sales to railway franchises then the latest scheme - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...g-8196543.html - seems set for a problem-free future having the full support of all those advertising companies who all have the best interests of the British population at heart

[Catherine Bott]

Thanks for joining me @MrKLeeg, I'd better start thinking of interesting things to say!

[Nick Armstrong]

Greetings all - the Early Music Show, now in its tenth year, is officially hip as well as HIPP, apparently, so R3 has asked me to Tweet, in line with most of my colleagues. I'd managed without Twitter until now, but have agreed to sign up, as @CatherineJBott.

I had to betweet myself for work reasons, and follow an increasing number of interesting non-work tweeters - to which I shall add you immediately. I catch EMS when I can but in any event listen to all the podcasts (wish there could be longer musical extracts - how come France Musique podcasts have full musical extracts, but the BBC have to prune their podcast clips so brutally? ).

I agree with others, one of the great R3 shows - and very good indeed to have you strolling around the Forum with us

All best wishes.

Caliban

[Globaltruth]

Thanks for joining me @MrKLeeg, I'd better start thinking of interesting things to say!

Just be yourself - quite interesting enough.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Spurred on by the fact that there might be a few intelligent people using Twitter, I signed up today, only to find my user name has already been STOLEN by someone else.

HOW DARE HE/SHE?!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Just be yourself - quite interesting enough.