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  • Northender

    Did you know that, for obvious reasons, an alternative name for the Bergenia is 'Elephant's Ears'?

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12815

      Originally posted by Northender View Post
      Did you know that, for obvious reasons, an alternative name for the Bergenia is 'Elephant's Ears'?
      ... the other name for Bergenia is "pigsqueak", which is rather nice :

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      • Osborn

        Originally posted by french frank View Post
        La donna รจ mobil'.
        Qual piuma al vento,
        muta d'accento e di pensier!
        Or, for lovers of the beautiful game & rather more subtle:

        Paolo di Canio,
        Paolo di Canio,
        Paolo di Canio, f**k off to Lazio

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        • Old Grumpy
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 3611

          Originally posted by Osborn View Post
          Or, for lovers of the beautiful game & rather more subtle:

          Paolo di Canio,
          Paolo di Canio,
          Paolo di Canio, f**k off to Lazio
          The Beautiful Game

          Such a misnomer - as is elegantly demonstrated by #1563!
          Last edited by Old Grumpy; 18-08-12, 14:54.

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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8782

            Quite a, IMHO, decent Breakfast served up by PT this morning, Howells, Finzi, Berlin Phil (Your Call) Charles Tietjens, Barbara Pym, To Serve Them All My Days and of course Rhapsody in Your Favourite Colour.

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            • salymap
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5969

              Iput Breakfast on briefly, but SMP then asked me to put a message in a bottle for people to read in the future. I think 60 years hence was mentioned.
              It was very early, perhaps I dreamed it, if not it is slightly worrying . And was I supposed to post it down the loo, not being near the sea. :err:

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8782

                I think your message and 2 others, one of which will obviously be French Frank's, are to be made into a song by a member of Blur and then something else weird happens.
                Glad I could clear that up for you........

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                • cloughie
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2011
                  • 22119

                  Originally posted by salymap View Post
                  Iput Breakfast on briefly, but SMP then asked me to put a message in a bottle for people to read in the future. I think 60 years hence was mentioned.
                  It was very early, perhaps I dreamed it, if not it is slightly worrying . And was I supposed to post it down the loo, not being near the sea. :err:
                  A Sting in the tale there then!

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                  • Suffolkcoastal
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3290

                    Looking at the Breakfast playlist for this morning, it looked a typically ghastly selection. Including yet another Hungarian Dance, another Schubert Impromptu, the Barber of Seville overture again, the March from the Karelia Suite yet again, yet another Grimes sea interlude, the Shostakovich Festival Overture yet again, and yet another offering from Piazzolla (which R3 seems to think is 'trendy'). I see the programme started with Mozart's A Musical Joke, which was rather apt and perhaps should begin every R3 breakfast programme these days!

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22119

                      Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
                      Looking at the Breakfast playlist for this morning, it looked a typically ghastly selection. Including yet another Hungarian Dance, another Schubert Impromptu, the Barber of Seville overture again, the March from the Karelia Suite yet again, yet another Grimes sea interlude, the Shostakovich Festival Overture yet again, and yet another offering from Piazzolla (which R3 seems to think is 'trendy'). I see the programme started with Mozart's A Musical Joke, which was rather apt and perhaps should begin every R3 breakfast programme these days!
                      But just the odd quip not the full yarn! Was it the 'Horse of the Year Show' bit?

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8782

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        But just the odd quip not the full yarn! Was it the 'Horse of the Year Show' bit?
                        It was indeed - I almost jumped the lights!

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                        • Bax-of-Delights
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 745

                          Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
                          Looking at the Breakfast playlist for this morning, it looked a typically ghastly selection. Including yet another Hungarian Dance, another Schubert Impromptu, the Barber of Seville overture again, the March from the Karelia Suite yet again, yet another Grimes sea interlude, the Shostakovich Festival Overture yet again, and yet another offering from Piazzolla (which R3 seems to think is 'trendy'). I see the programme started with Mozart's A Musical Joke, which was rather apt and perhaps should begin every R3 breakfast programme these days!
                          I tuned in today for the first time for some weeks and was struck by two things:
                          A) The utter blandness of the familiar choices (Holst's "Mars", Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" etc etc)
                          and
                          B) How I hadn't missed the programme one jot in all those weeks.

                          (And the same goes for "Essential" - what a piffling unimaginative adjective - Classics).
                          O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                          • Don Petter

                            We got into the car this morning, delighted to find and hear the second half of the classic performance of Renard, with Ansemet, only to be rudely awakened within a microsecond of the last triumphal chord by RC, eagerly reporting on someone's trivial tweet.

                            Surely a work such as this deserves at least a second or two to be digested and relished, just as much as one ending in a quiet passage?

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                            • Frances_iom
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 2413

                              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                              ...eagerly reporting on someone's trivial tweet. :
                              the only time I switch on Sunday morning is for the Bach Cantata - he did exactly the same within microsecs of the end - who the 'ell cares about some stupid comment from anyone who is daft enough to tweet - I presume Rob has either lost it or has swallowed the Wright shilling so deeply that he can no longer think any other way.

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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30283

                                Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                                We got into the car this morning, delighted to find and hear the second half of the classic performance of Renard, with Ansemet, only to be rudely awakened within a microsecond of the last triumphal chord by RC, eagerly reporting on someone's trivial tweet.

                                Surely a work such as this deserves at least a second or two to be digested and relished, just as much as one ending in a quiet passage?
                                They won't be told



                                I'm not sure whether it's just dumbing down Radio 3 or whether, by persisting, they actually dumb down their audience by eventually getting them to accept it without complaint.
                                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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