Beethoven's 8th: What's it all about?

[Nick Armstrong]

Humbled by words of kindness, he comes in from the cold, as is the Thropplenoggin way.

[Dave2002]

Humbled by words of kindness, he comes in from the cold, as is the Thropplenoggin way.

Welcome back!

[Thropplenoggin]

Thanks, C and D.

[teamsaint]

Welcome back after your almost endless exile !!

(Thropplenoggin Way would be a wonderful name for a road !!)

Can we discuss Hindemith now, please?

[cloughie]

(Thropplenoggin Way would be a wonderful name for a road !!)

Would surely lead to Nog's Row.

[teamsaint]

Would surely lead to Nog's Row.

Does that lead to the Northlands.....
to "the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale ... and those tales they tell are the stories of a kind and wise king and his people; they are the Sagas of Noggin the Nog. Welcome to Northlands, a tribute to Noggin, King of the Nogs and the People of the Northlands."

Just wonderful.


(Sorry Throppers....)

[Nick Armstrong]

(Thropplenoggin Way would be a wonderful name for a road !!)

A propos, do any of our northern compadres here recognise my Yorkshire granny's phrase that she came out with when she was very busy: "Ooo I'm throng as Throp's wife!" ?

'Throng' is presumably the same word/root as 'thronging' as of a busy place... a mighty 'throng'...

But who was Throp's wife?

Nothing to do with you, Throppers, or your other half?

[cloughie]

A propos, do any of our northern compadres here recognise my Yorkshire granny's phrase that she came out with when she was very busy: "Ooo I'm throng as Throp's wife!" ?

'Throng' is presumably the same word/root as 'thronging' as of a busy place... a mighty 'throng'...

But who was Throp's wife?

Nothing to do with you, Throppers, or your other half?

I know the expression and there are others:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-26566.html

[verismissimo]

Humbled by words of kindness, he comes in from the cold, as is the Thropplenoggin way.

Goodonya.

[teamsaint]

A propos, do any of our northern compadres here recognise my Yorkshire granny's phrase that she came out with when she was very busy: "Ooo I'm throng as Throp's wife!" ?

'Throng' is presumably the same word/root as 'thronging' as of a busy place... a mighty 'throng'...

But who was Throp's wife?

Nothing to do with you, Throppers, or your other half?

If you've a couple of hours to spare, this article may help.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Uk/uk.local.yorkshire/2007-04/msg00024.html

I lost the will to return to any Yorkshire routes after the first hour or so .

Do you think perhaps Bruckner had any Yorkshire connections?

[cloughie]

If you've a couple of hours to spare, this article may help.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Uk/uk.local.yorkshire/2007-04/msg00024.html

I lost the will to return to any Yorkshire routes after the first hour or so .

Do you think perhaps Bruckner had any Yorkshire connections?

ts On Children in Need day the reference to Pudsey is a happy coincidence.

[HighlandDougie]

.

Do you think perhaps Bruckner had any Yorkshire connections?

Ja, ja, seine Großmutter war die berühmte Nora Batty, in Heckmondwike geboren, hence her portrayal in the scherzo of the 4th Symphony, in the hitherto obscure 1872 edition.

[mercia]

"Ooo I'm throng as Throp's wife!"

saw this on a site

as throng as Throp's wife - commonly applied to a busy person in both Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, other variants having the additional clause that hanged hersen in the dishclout, which is amplified by the legend remembered in 1970 by a Gainsborough man in his sixties who heard it from his Yorkshire mother: 'Throp's wife was always busy and she hadn't enough time to get all the work done. She was caught out working after midnight on a Saturday (i.e. early on Sunday morning) - and the Devil comes into the story somewhere. She'd sold her soul to the Devil, and was working on a Sunday!

[amateur51]

Ja, ja, seine Großmutter war die berühmte Nora Batty, in Heckmondwike geboren, hence her portrayal in the scherzo of the 4th Symphony, in the hitherto obscure 1872 edition.

@ Nora Batty. Is that why he became a Composer?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Welcome back after your almost endless exile !!

What 2 days?