Petroc sounds bored and tired this morning.
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Yes, John and Jesse Boot, though not 'upper class' until the latter (old boy of my school, dontchaknow) became Baron Trent. Father John started in a very small way - he was a farm worker who started a herbalist business. Although I've never known whether or not it's "Boots the Chemists" because there were two of them, father and son. Originally it was Boot & Co Ltd.Originally posted by french frank View Post
Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 21-05-14, 08:06."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I was about to say that! Well. that "Marks & Spencers" contains both a correct and a bogus 's'...Originally posted by cloughie View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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In a combination you may not have expected Jesse Boot and his wife are linked to a Church designed by René Lalique and featuring ( obviously!) lots of glass in the St. Lawrence region near St. Helier on Jersey. My maternal grandfather was stationmaster at the nearby station of Millbrook, which is how I know this illuminating fact!
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No wonder their profits are down - Alpers has stopped going there tooOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
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.Comment
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More to the point it was Anthony Rolfe Johnson and John Mark Ainsley, and therefore well worth playing.Originally posted by mercia View Post........ tho' it was the Britten realization for 2 tenors + piano ........... which on second thoughts probably doesn't make things any better for youComment
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostNot noticed that in our local Waitrose (Welwyn Garden City)Originally posted by Don Petter View PostWe were impressed with the Uckfield Waitrose last week. Unlike our nearest branch (Hailsham) they don't require a £1 coin to release a trolley, and the checkout man instigated a discussion on the philosophical theories of René Descartes.
There is a lovely quote from, I think, 'The News Quiz' - "The only decent thing about Sainsbury's is that it keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose!"Comment
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Originally posted by clive heath View Post
Absolutely fascinating, clive!
Thanks - I love surprising conjunctions like that.
It has always struck me as odd that the school doesn't commemorate the Boots in any building on the premises, whereas the Assembly Hall is still called The Player Hall after another old boy, John Player the tobacconist...
Strange, in this day and age. Perhaps the terms of the endowment trump political correctness.
(The products of John Player & Sons were at least always immaculately apostrophe'd...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Player_%26_Sons)Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 21-05-14, 11:32."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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That's because of the hideous piped music in the Scarborough store. They didn't have it for generations, but introduced ghetto blasters to provide "atmosphere" in their Per Una department. I quickly turned the volume down to zero whenever I went into the store, but was admonished by the staff for my acts of terrorism (which I continued to ignore, insolently waving at the security cameras). In the end M & S defeated me by refurbishing the store with a piped music system.Originally posted by french frank View PostNo wonder their profits are down - Alpers has stopped going there too
I did try to explain to them that it was highly unlikely that people would go into a shop because it had muzak playing, and that more would simply not go in, in order to avoid it.
However, I did succeed by the same method in a clothing department in a Tesco store. Despite the 'no interference" notice on the ghetto blaster, I continued the war of attrition until the machine was placed too high for me to reach. I then merely traced the mains cable to its source and unplugged it. They gave up the struggle.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThat because of the hideous piped music in the Scarborough store. They didn't have it for generations, but introduced ghetto blasters to provide "atmosphere" in their Per Una department. I quickly turned the volume down to zero whenever I went into the store, but was admonished by the staff for my acts of terrorism (which I continued to ignore, insolently waving at the security cameras). In the end M & S defeated me by refurbishing the store with a piped music system. I did try to explain to them that it was highly unlikely that people would go into a shop because it had muzak playing, and that more would simply not go in, in order to avoid it.
However, I did succeed by the same method in a clothing department in a Tesco store. Despite the 'no interference" notice on the ghetto blaster, I continued the war of attrition until the machine was placed too high for me to reach. I then merely traced the mains cable to its source and unplugged it. They gave up the struggle.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostI quickly turned the volume down to zero whenever I went into the store, but was admonished by the staff for my acts of terrorism (which I continued to ignore, insolently waving at the security cameras). In the end M & S defeated me by refurbishing the store with a piped music system. I did try to explain to them that it was highly unlikely that people would go into a shop because it had muzak playing, and that more would simply not go in, in order to avoid it.
However, I did succeed by the same method in a clothing department in a Tesco store. Despite the 'no interference" notice on the ghetto blaster, I continued the war of attrition until the machine was placed too high for me to reach. I then merely traced the mains cable to its source and unplugged it. They gave up the struggle. 
Vive la Résistance !!!!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I wouldn't go that far.Originally posted by amateur51 View PostAlpie the jihadiste
(Did I ever tell you about the road sign with the word "centre" spelt in the Wild West fashion?)
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