Oh dear

[Cockney Sparrow]

One point I would make is that Tom Service is quite a presence on the BBC - Radio and more generally. He is a professional broadcaster but his style of delivery, quite often, is counterproductive in persuading that part of the audience represented by many of us here to listen and take forward the information he is delivering. An interviewer/producer's job is to bring out a non-professional interviewee in the best possible way but the expectation of a guest interviewee is different.

Where its an introduction to concert items, I'd rather mute the sound and read a source such as Oxford Music online. Where there is useful content to be gained (as in Record Review) I will persist in listening but it is hard work.

Not intended, but just as well to move on

In posting I'm not trying to re-ignite tensions, just expressing my point of view. I'm glad that no member has left the forum or posts needed to be removed..................................

[Petrushka]

You assume I'm putting myself down. I had a friend who worked for a while at MI6 and he said I'd make a good spy because I could walk in anywhere and no one would notice me. Some people said they felt really sorry for me - but I thought it one of the most satisfying things anyone had said about me

Can't beat the friend who worked at MI6 bit but I have the experience of people not noticing I'm there all the time. A cracking example occurred after the interval at one of last year's Proms when the lady sitting next to me turned and asked if I'd been sitting there in the first half. I had, of course, and she was highly embarrassed about it but I didn't mind at all and took it as a compliment. Indeed, like FF, I felt very satisfied that it had amazingly worked again. There are times when it can be very useful.

[jayne lee wilson]

Not intended, but just as well to move on

PS Team - Jonathan Pearce supports City. Up the Gas! (Is that right?)

Gasheads are indeed Bristol Rovers fans, but the full story is very interesting......rather like our out, proud and exhilarating reclamation of "queer"...

https://bristolrovers.fandom.com/wik...e_Rovers_story.

(Hit "..Bristol Rovers: the Gas and the Rovers"...etc)

As for disappearing into the background or not being noticed.... My God, as if! It started with being 5'10, and unafraid of expressing myself......(after a miserable teenage of exclusion and trying to hide...)..... I used to go everywhere urban in 3" heels, but a few years ago settled on Vans or Reeboks.
The shades are always there though.

Yet as Larkin put it...

"Life is first boredom, then fear.
Whether or not we use it, it goes,
And leaves what something hidden from us chose..."

[french frank]

As for disappearing into the background or not being noticed.... My God, as if!

I suspect we ought to be on the Round Ball Game thread, but being a diametric opposite, I've never ventured there as I could only say that the undesirables within glowering distance of me are the neighbourhood cats and the so-called "Mem", a name that could only have been bestowed on the old Memorial Ground, an official war memorial set up as a tribute to the Bristol rugby players who lost their lives during the two world wars, by incomers. My father played for Bristol RFC; 'the Gas' arrived, sold off part of the ground for housing, changed the name to the Memorial Stadium or "Mem", and finally tried to sell the ground to Sainsbury's for a vast supermarket so that they could then decamp with their cash and build a lovely new stadium out of town. And leaving our area with an unwanted supermarket threatening the livelihoods of all the small businesses that line one of the longest independent shopping streets in the country.

Glower?! Oh, yes, I do. Very fiercely indeed.

PS Just waiting for someone to say, "Well, I don't suppose anyone notices."

[cloughie]

I suspect we ought to be on the Round Ball Game thread, but being a diametric opposite, I've never ventured there as I could only say that the undesirables within glowering distance of me are the neighbourhood cats and the so-called "Mem", a name that could only have been bestowed on the old Memorial Ground, an official war memorial set up as a tribute to the Bristol rugby players who lost their lives during the two world wars, by incomers. My father played for Bristol RFC; 'the Gas' arrived, sold off part of the ground for housing, changed the name to the Memorial Stadium or "Mem", and finally tried to sell the ground to Sainsbury's for a vast supermarket so that they could then decamp with their cash and build a lovely new stadium out of town. And leaving our area with an unwanted supermarket threatening the livelihoods of all the small businesses that line one of the longest independent shopping streets in the country.

Glower?! Oh, yes, I do. Very fiercely indeed.

PS Just waiting for someone to say, "Well, I don't suppose anyone notices."

What is on the site of the Eastville ground now? ...and of course Rovers played in exile in Bath for a few years.

[Leinster Lass]

What is on the site of the Eastville ground now? ...and of course Rovers played in exile in Bath for a few years.

I think it's an IKEA superstore (what else?)

[Leinster Lass]

Gasheads are indeed Bristol Rovers fans, but the full story is very interesting......rather like our out, proud and exhilarating reclamation of "queer"...

https://bristolrovers.fandom.com/wik...e_Rovers_story.

(Hit "..Bristol Rovers: the Gas and the Rovers"...etc)

As for disappearing into the background or not being noticed.... My God, as if! It started with being 5'10, and unafraid of expressing myself......(after a miserable teenage of exclusion and trying to hide...)..... I used to go everywhere urban in 3" heels, but a few years ago settled on Vans or Reeboks.
The shades are always there though.

Yet as Larkin put it...

"Life is first boredom, then fear.
Whether or not we use it, it goes,
And leaves what something hidden from us chose..."

What an amazing coincidence - I've been 5'10" for years (just in case anybody's interested), but it has never bothered me or caused me any problems, I'm pleased to say!
I buy my footwear online from a company called Chums.
'The Whitsun Weddings' is one of my two favourite poems, the other being 'Adlestrop'.
I very much enjoyed my teenage years on the whole.
Nice to have the chance to compare and contrast experiences!

[french frank]

I think it's an IKEA superstore (what else?)

Oh, is that where the Rovers ground used to be? That Ikea building is a nightmare. You can get in quite easily but it's near impossible to find the way out again. EV'rybody says that. I escaped once and haven't been back since.

[cloughie]

Oh, is that where the Rovers ground used to be? That Ikea building is a nightmare. You can get in quite easily but it's near impossible to find the way out again. EV'rybody says that. I escaped once and haven't been back since.

As a Bristolian I thought you would know - though Rovers only left there in 1986 and it finally closed as a greyhound track in 1997. Checking on wiki indeed confirms the IKEA store. For a long time it was the most westerly IKEA and my CD shelves were purchased there in 2008.

[french frank]

As a Bristolian I thought you would know - though Rovers only left there in 1986 and it finally closed as a greyhound track in 1997. Checking on wiki indeed confirms the IKEA store. For a long time it was the most westerly IKEA and my CD shelves were purchased there in 2008.

You know how you can live in Hampstead and never have visited Balham? We weren't a football family. I went to the Memorial Ground with my father to watch Bristol when they were a side (amateur) to be reckoned with. And I went to Twickenham a number of times. Though to retain my credibility, when I was about nine someone once got me the autographs of all the then current Rovers' team. I remember Geoff Bradford (centre forward), George Petherbridge (some sort of back I think) and Bert Tann (good old Bert) who I think might have been the goalkeeper. [No, I've just googled - he was manager]. As I said we were a rugby family.

[jayne lee wilson]

What an amazing coincidence - I've been 5'10" for years (just in case anybody's interested), but it has never bothered me or caused me any problems, I'm pleased to say!
I buy my footwear online from a company called Chums.
'The Whitsun Weddings' is one of my two favourite poems, the other being 'Adlestrop'.
I very much enjoyed my teenage years on the whole.
Nice to have the chance to compare and contrast experiences!

Sisters IN the skin then, as well as, I hope, under it....

[Serial_Apologist]

Sisters IN the skin then, as well as, I hope, under it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AHec7sfZ8

[Leinster Lass]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AHec7sfZ8

We are all sisters, brother - except for the blokes, that is.
I've got way too many Sinatra CDs, but the other S's on the shelf will just have to remain bunched up and accept the fact that, when it came to deciding whose was the Voice Of The (20th) Century, for me it was a very close-run thing between Francis Albert and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

[cloughie]

We are all sisters, brother - except for the blokes, that is.
I've got way too many Sinatra CDs, but the other S's on the shelf will just have to remain bunched up and accept the fact that, when it came to deciding whose was the Voice Of The (20th) Century, for me it was a very close-run thing between Francis Albert and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

What about the other Frankie:

https://youtu.be/xSpyqTjztwM

[Leinster Lass]

What about the other Frankie:

https://youtu.be/xSpyqTjztwM

Before clicking on your link, not realizing that you were thinking of another version of the same song, I ran through a list of possible candidates - The One Who Went To Hollywood? 'Titter-ye-not' Howerd? Avalon? Vaughan? Laine?
Are you a close-harmony sort of chap, by any chance? I'm a big Man Tran Fan (better that than a ManU fan, I guess).