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  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    I can do without Bach's 110 orwhatever Cantatas. A short spell at Breitkopf,London meant I had to type a catalgue of the pesky things, in German AND English, with full scoring etc and differential spacing, not known to the computer generation now. That meant lining up the right hand margin, as the ......thing was for printing. And yes,typewriter was equipped with umlauts etc. Geistlich und weltliche[??? ]
    That would put any girl of the things. Sorry, waldhorn, et al........

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    • mangerton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 3346

      Originally posted by salymap View Post
      I can do without Bach's 110 orwhatever Cantatas. A short spell at Breitkopf,London meant I had to type a catalgue of the pesky things, in German AND English, with full scoring etc and differential spacing, not known to the computer generation now. That meant lining up the right hand margin, as the ......thing was for printing. And yes,typewriter was equipped with umlauts etc. Geistlich und weltliche[??? ]
      That would put any girl of the things. Sorry, waldhorn, et al........
      I hope they were better umlauts than this, which I got from the BBC website:

      OrgelbÃ1/4chlein - chorale preludes for Passiontide and Easter:

      PS.... my computer and I can do umlauts: ü Ü

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        I cant believe what we have today!! :) (I'm not going to say it, just in case it may be a dream!!)
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37835

          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
          I cant believe what we have today!! :) (I'm not going to say it, just in case it may be a dream!!)
          Here too, now, BBM - but with bl**dy cold wind! - I just went out on the bike, and had to come straight back for some gloves!

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          • Petrushka
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12313

            Reasonably sunny here but that biting wind just will not go away and it feels perishingly cold. Out in the countryside round here there is still lots of snow in the fields and large piles on the roadside, a foot deep in isolated places where strong drifting occurred.
            "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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            • salymap
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5969

              I'm really hoping that it's just that biting wind that stops my very sore throat from recovering. Even young fit people like you boys say it's cold, so it must be.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26574

                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                I cant believe what we have today!! :) (I'm not going to say it, just in case it may be a dream!!)
                No...! you mean... sort of... 'round'.... 'yellow'..... 'sky'.... ???

                (Still freezes another pair of round objects the moment you step outside though )
                "...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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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26574

                  Originally posted by salymap View Post
                  I'm really hoping that it's just that biting wind that stops my very sore throat from recovering. Even young fit people like you boys say it's cold, so it must be.
                  I managed to shake off a cough two weekends ago but there are lingering catarrhal annoyances that will not go... Warm sunshine is urgently called for!
                  "...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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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37835

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    I managed to shake off a cough two weekends ago but there are lingering catarrhal annoyances that will not go... Warm sunshine is urgently called for!
                    For Promises, Promises, from Brummie Simon, click the link on my #7709

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                    • mangerton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 3346

                      Originally posted by salymap View Post
                      I'm really hoping that it's just that biting wind that stops my very sore throat from recovering. Even young fit people like you boys say it's cold, so it must be.
                      saly, it definitely is. Still perishing here in the frozen north, though dry and sunny today.

                      As part of my exciting lifestyle up here beyond the pale, I read my electric meter on the first of each month*. In March 2013 I used 33% more than I did in March 2012. (All my heating is electric).

                      * I know, I really must get out more, but it's been too damn cold!

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        No...! you mean... sort of... 'round'.... 'yellow'..... 'sky'.... ???

                        (Still freezes another pair of round objects the moment you step outside though )
                        Indeed, Cali!! :)
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • salymap
                          Late member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5969

                          I know, I've had my gas central heating on at about 70f/ 20c day and night since about October mangerton.

                          I pay an enormous sum by DD every month and any over will be spread into next year, if I understand their jargon correctly. Not much to get excited about here either.

                          Oooh kind neighbour has just put my bins out for me too. Lucky old me.

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                          • Angle
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 724

                            Excellent, Salymap. Be warm and be damned to them, whoever they are.

                            I, too, have had the heating on day and night since October. I don't intend to be cold, ever againf.

                            Fortunately, things are looking up in Liverpool. It has been sunny and quite mild all day - and the Liverpool "duck" sank in the Salthouse Dock.

                            Best wishes to all from Angle

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37835

                              Steady snow falling here right now. Will have to check when it was the last time I recorded 1 degree C at midday in April - probably never!

                              But just to cheer everyone up, temperatures should be back to normal everywhere by Saturday... for January!

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                              • eighthobstruction
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 6449

                                A whole 24 hours without a Stormy Weather post....bitter again....(that's me not the weather)....
                                bong ching

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