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Maybe because God believes in the Protestant Work Ethic.
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You can say for certain it will rain on the bank holiday. if serial apologist checks his diary i bet he can find some contradictions to this widely held suspicion. though as i typed that last sentence the sky blackened.....
muggy weather here in the middle of blighty. 'they've' lowered the sky, to look just like an oppressive grey ceiling in a cramped prison cell
but an absolutely beautiful, sweet smelling summer night last night though. so i put my washing on the line at about 10.30pm with the garden light on, and felt a bit kerazy in case anyone saw me... tbh. then went to bed, only to be freaked by someone enjoying kicking a drinks can down the street at about 12.30, which surprisingly turned out to be a white haired bloke of about 50/60 + yrs..... still, an annoying older twit makes a change, (though it wasn't 'as good as a rest' as the saying goes. more instead of)!
hopefully, yesterday's pattern will repeat: it'll brighten this arvo, (as it did here at least). it'd be good to have to put sun glasses on
..AND .....i'd best dash, get my laundry in ...it's about to chuck it down..... darn it!Comment
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Afraid I never note bank holidays in my diary, handsome.Originally posted by handsomefortune View Post
I hope the same is not going to happen here - I'm about to pedal off to today's lunchtime Debussy/Schoenberg Prom. If you hear any applause, that'll be me...Originally posted by handsomefortune View PostComment
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Where do you leave your cycle at the RAH S_A ? You can't trust people around thereOriginally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
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perhaps he takes the bike in with him salymap, padlocks it to the timpany legs! (hope s-a doesn't want to leave early that's all)
1) 1959 - but with lots of gaps
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i see your tail ends of world storms, hurricanes etc coming here, was correct!
just hope there's none today.
Maybe because God believes in the Protestant Work Ethic.
he/she/it/the theory etc doesn't really, commerce exploits a lot of tenuous links with faith though... but i'd best leave that
topic well alone... as it can make people prickly, and it's bad enough it already raining on 'the banks' day off. ho hum, i wonder what the co-op staff are doing today? something not as fantastic and lucrative as hsbc, or barclays staff..who are probably lunching on a jamaican beach before returning to work tomorrow. that's if jpmorgan staff don't drown them all at sea in an uninsured accident in one of those inflatable bananas that holiday makers ride the sea in. i went on a banana boat in mexico - they absolutely stink, are very noisy, spew diesel everywhere, and it's gr8 !
pedal faster serial apologist - to beat the rain....(in fact don't).
my mum likes the expression 'knit faster the wool's running out'... (if applied imaginatively of course).
regards to debussy and schoenberg .... hope their both 'perfick comin' in your ears'. (will it be on iplayer)?Comment
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This raining on a BH thing.... It's not a BH in Scotland, although (naturally) the banks are shut, and because I work for an anglocentric outfit, my place of work is shut today, although conversely some of our offices in England will be open.
To even things up, my place of work was open on 2nd January, which is a Scottish BH, and some of our premises in England were closed.
Anyway..... BH or no, it's been coming down in buckets all day today, so is that because it's an English BH, or because I and several hundred of my colleagues have been told to take it?
Answers please on a waterproof postcard, and I do hope it's sunny where you are.Comment
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It's a great expression. Reminds me of the school teacher who encouraged his pupils by telling them that the sooner they fell behind, the longer they had to catch up.Originally posted by handsomefortune View PostComment
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The gig was at Cadogan Hall saly. I usually tie it to one of the bicycle stands at the Sloane Square end of Sloane St, or one of the stands in the actual square itself. But tbh I don't think anybody'd be interested in my paint-peeled bike in either location - the money flaunts itself around there.Originally posted by salymap View PostWhere do you leave your cycle at the RAH S_A ? You can't trust people around there
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I enjoyed the Debussy, didn't hear the Schoenberg as somebody phoned. Did you meet any old friends? Tell me to mind my own...........Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostThe gig was at Cadogan Hall saly. I usually tie it to one of the bicycle stands at the Sloane Square end of Sloane St, or one of the stands in the actual square itself. But tbh I don't think anybody'd be interested in my paint-peeled bike in either location - the money flaunts itself around there.
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It's because God believes in The Union. Or the Queen does. Well, in some people's eyes she's kind of next in line...Originally posted by mangerton View Post
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Happy Bank Holiday! We have our end-of-summer holiday (Labor Day) this coming weekend. it's the official end of the summer season here. The beaches close (no lifeguards on duty), the students are back at school, day-trippers go home. However, we have a "second summer" with all the cruise ships that come in throughout the autumn.Comment
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Ah. Thank you. That's quite clear. I knew there'd be a rational explanation.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostIt's because God believes in The Union. Or the Queen does. Well, in some people's eyes she's kind of next in line...
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I did actually saly - fellow called Tim who goes to all the most far-out jazz and improvised music gigs on offer with a little DAT recorder and set of mics, which then goes to a chap who runs EMANEM records (who once criticised me for mis-spelling St Pancras: "St Pancras isn't the patron saint of glands!"Originally posted by salymap View PostI enjoyed the Debussy, didn't hear the Schoenberg as somebody phoned. Did you meet any old friends? Tell me to mind my own...........) and gets put out on CD, mostly at other far-out gigs attended by oddballs like me. He introduced me to a friend of his, Brian by name, and his very charming Portuguese girlfriend called Claudia, and we afterwards went to a tiny, very quaint, genuine olde worlde pub festooned with amazing hanging baskets, just around the corner. But not the person you may have in mind , who was nowhere to be seen.
The concert's due for re-broadcast on Saturday 1 September at 2 pm says RT - I might start a thread. I'd imagine it'll be on iPlayer.Comment
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Ah well it's all for the best probablyOriginally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostI did actually saly - fellow called Tim who goes to all the most far-out jazz and improvised music gigs on offer with a little DAT recorder and set of mics, which then goes to a chap who runs EMANEM records (who once criticised me for mis-spelling St Pancras: "St Pancras isn't the patron saint of glands!") and gets put out on CD, mostly at other far-out gigs attended by oddballs like me. He introduced me to a friend of his, Brian by name, and his very charming Portuguese girlfriend called Claudia, and we afterwards went to a tiny, very quaint, genuine olde worlde pub festooned with amazing hanging baskets, just around the corner. But not the person you may have in mind , who was nowhere to be seen.
The concert's due for re-broadcast on Saturday 1 September at 2 pm says RT - I might start a thread. I'd imagine it'll be on iPlayer.
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