Stormy Weather

[salymap]

After reading through threads about BBC closures and Elgar's love child, is there any good and reliable stories about the future to cheer us up. FM not going yet pleases me, what else is there?

[salymap]

Ahem, ARE there any good stories? Back on topic. SNOW [just a lttle] today on the South Downs, SE England
very, very, cold. What's it like where you are?

[antongould]

Cold and dark here salymap with the promise of not much better. Agree it is very hard to find a "good" story anywhere at the moment but we will all, I am sure, keep looking and hoping - I don't suppose SMP plugging the classical charts on a Thursday will count as good news on these Boards. However just for you she is now playing some very cheery Dvorak!

[salymap]

Morning Anton, do you know I just caught the Dvorak; at the moment I can't think what it is. The awful thing, at my age, is that quite well known and favourite pieces 'escape' me. Oddly enough, I usually get the
nationality of the composer before the composer or the work.

A good music filled day to everyone.

[sigolene euphemia]

Returning from a deep soulful rest, and I am so very pleased to see our beloved member, salymap, up and about with music. We have brilliant sun this day and barely a breeze. I am on page 333 "Between Scylla and Charybdis" of Alison Weir's book, "The Life of Elizabeth the I". The beginning pages were difficult reading; for my grasp of history is barely there, but it is absolutely intriguing as I wind through the pages and then look upon the land.

kind wishes
and a dash of sunshine to all,

sigolene

[sigolene euphemia]

Returning from a deep soulful rest, and I am so very pleased to see our beloved member, salymap, up and about with music. We have brilliant sun this day and barely a breeze. I am on page 333 "Between Scylla and Charybdis" of Alison Weir's book, "The Life of Elizabeth the I". The beginning pages were difficult reading; for my grasp of history is barely there, but it is absolutely intriguing as I wind through the pages and then look upon the land.

kind wishes
and a dash of sunshine to all,

sigolene

[salymap]

My memory worries me, lack of, I mean. The work I heard and didn't recognise earlier was part of Dvorak's 'Bagatelles', one of my favourites. I suppose we all lose our marbles in time but it's sad................

[antongould]

Your marbles are fine - you delight us every day with what your marbles bring back to life!

[salymap]

Look on my page Anton, there's an offer for you if you want it!!!!! Free, gratis and rather scruffy .......

[greenilex]

Agree about the cold and dark...and I have to submit to dental work this pm...but I hope salymap and the rest of you are warm and cosy, at least. Feeding my open fire keeps me sane on mornings such as this one.

The Portuguese piece just now was very enjoyable.

[Mahlerei]

Gosh, I miss an open fire.... Yes, it's grey out there so I'm trying not to look. Could be worse; someone I know in Finland tells me it's minus 23 there at the mo. He sent me a picture of his house, with what looks like six feet of snow in the foreground.

Stay warm, y'all.

[salymap]

Morning everyone, especially the old gang. WARNING, neve take a sleeping tablet at 2am because you haven't
slept by then. It's 7.40 and the noises in my head are deafening. Hope to survive after lots of tea.

Have a good, warm and musical day.

[Uncle Monty]

Hope you've "come to" now, salymap! I do sympathise -- I have only occasional sleep problems, but my late father had a terrible time with insomnia all his life. He learned to cope with it, to the extent one ever can, but it was obviously very debilitating (and demoralising). He also found that sleeping pills were awfully disorientating, and eschewed their use as far as possible. I have a fixed memory of him, sitting in the dark by the fire in his Army greatcoat with a mug of tea. It was a sort of family joke, but though he joined in with the joke, it can't have been much fun!

[salymap]

Thanks Uncle Monty. I popped to the local shops and the extreme cold woke me up. I only take a quarter of the prescribed dose of my sleeping tablet, Sominex, and not every night,but for various reasons wake after two hours in bed and that's that. There are worse things though.

[antongould]

Morning All- hope you have survived what was a very cold night in the Northern foothills. Perhaps all is not lost with the youth, or soon to be youth, of the day - my three year old grandson in calling me from my slumbers begins "Excuse me Grandad.........."