The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Serial_Apologist]

I think Martin Handley’s finishing piece today was rather overpraised. There are many things I enjoy hearing her sing even in ‘crossover’ but I would question Renee Fleming’s tuning in ‘All the things you are’.

One of the things she isn't...

[LeMartinPecheur]

... Avro Part's Summa...

Saw this spelling years ago on a divider-card for the classical discs in a high-street chain CD shop. Asked them for a rear gun-turret for an Avro Lancaster with four Browning machine-guns but they couldn't supply Can you please?

[cloughie]

Saw this spelling years ago on a divider-card for the classical discs in a high-street chain CD shop. Asked them for a rear gun-turret for an Avro Lancaster with four Browning machine-guns but they couldn't supply Can you please?

Not even played by John Browning?

[Quarky]

Saw this spelling years ago on a divider-card for the classical discs in a high-street chain CD shop. Asked them for a rear gun-turret for an Avro Lancaster with four Browning machine-guns but they couldn't supply Can you please?

Deep apologies for creating confusion ;; yes I must have confused it with the Airplane manufacturer. I guess I should have spelt his second name correctly as well:: Pärt , or may be Paert.

However I do note that Avro is a known first name, of Indian or African origin: Your name of Avro makes a quick thinker, both philosophical and creative, appreciating
appreciate music, art, and drama and, given training, could excel in those fields. https://www.kabalarians.com/m/Avro.htm

So perhaps not too far out!

By the way I enjoyed Tom Service's analysis of his music this afternoon.....

[kernelbogey]

Well....
Can anyone enlighten me why Elizabeth Alker so frequently starts a sentence with 'well'? (E.g. 'Well yer listening to Radio Three...'). To me it's a really irritating speech mannerism - but since she makes much of her particular northern origin (I think Wigan), is it a dialect thing? Or just one of those new speech mannerisms (cf 'like' et al) for old fogies to moan about?

[oddoneout]

Well....
Can anyone enlighten me why Elizabeth Alker so frequently starts a sentence with 'well'? (E.g. 'Well yer listening to Radio Three...'). To me it's a really irritating speech mannerism - but since she makes much of her particular northern origin (I think Wigan), is it a dialect thing? Or just one of those new speech mannerisms (cf 'like' et al) for old fogies to moan about?

Whatever the original reason(if any)it won't be helped by the requirement to avoid "dead" space at any cost? A way of filling that dread potential silence while lining up what to say next.

[Old Grumpy]

Well....
Can anyone enlighten me why Elizabeth Alker so frequently starts a sentence with 'well'? (E.g. 'Well yer listening to Radio Three...'). To me it's a really irritating speech mannerism - but since she makes much of her particular northern origin (I think Wigan), is it a dialect thing? Or just one of those new speech mannerisms (cf 'like' et al) for old fogies to moan about?

Well, I guess it would be regarded as a "filler" at All Saints Academy https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...-london-school

[AuntDaisy]

Well....
Can anyone enlighten me why Elizabeth Alker so frequently starts a sentence with 'well'? (E.g. 'Well yer listening to Radio Three...'). To me it's a really irritating speech mannerism - but since she makes much of her particular northern origin (I think Wigan), is it a dialect thing? Or just one of those new speech mannerisms (cf 'like' et al) for old fogies to moan about?

Well, well, well. Perhaps she has sisters called Lacie & Tillie and once lived in a treacle well?

[cloughie]

Well....
Can anyone enlighten me why Elizabeth Alker so frequently starts a sentence with 'well'? (E.g. 'Well yer listening to Radio Three...'). To me it's a really irritating speech mannerism - but since she makes much of her particular northern origin (I think Wigan), is it a dialect thing? Or just one of those new speech mannerisms (cf 'like' et al) for old fogies to moan about?

Nathen kernelbogey I prefer ‘well’ to the ‘so’ which so many use nowadays! As for EA’s choice of music I like most of it except the obligatory ‘unclassified’ untuneful piece. … Bob Dylan’s ‘One too many mornings’ really enjoyed - took me back to where music was at!
‘Are you well?’ is a greeting I use frequently!

[Serial_Apologist]

So...........

[kernelbogey]

Well i rest my case, members of the jury....

[antongould]

Nathen kernelbogey I prefer ‘well’ to the ‘so’ which so many use nowadays! As for EA’s choice of music I like most of it except the obligatory ‘unclassified’ untuneful piece. … Bob Dylan’s ‘One too many mornings’ really enjoyed - took me back to where music was at!
‘Are you well?’ is a greeting I use frequently!

Well ….. so do I cloughers …..

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well....
Can anyone enlighten me why Elizabeth Alker so frequently starts a sentence with 'well'? (E.g. 'Well yer listening to Radio Three...'). To me it's a really irritating speech mannerism - but since she makes much of her particular northern origin (I think Wigan), is it a dialect thing? Or just one of those new speech mannerisms (cf 'like' et al) for old fogies to moan about?

I don't think it's anything to do with her northernness. I was born and bred in that part of the world, and such mannerisms are no more common there than anywhere else. It's just an irritating affectation to add to all of the others.

[AuntDaisy]

Hat's off to Martin Handley for the swift recovery when Brandenburg 5 went wrong just before 8am.

[kernelbogey]

Hat's off to Martin Handley for the swift recovery when Brandenburg 5 went wrong just before 8am.

And, I think, for an impromptu live trailer for Jenufa to fill the time opened up before the news by the error!