Stormy Weather

[marthe]

It's cold here too. Down to 14F tonight so there will be extra blankets on the bed as well as cats curled up on our toes. The sun is quite bright now with sunset getting later and later. Spring is coming but it's taking its time. Today a saw about 20 robins (male) congregating in a grassy area by the edge of a nearby wood. Here, robins are a sure sign of spring. They're larger and have a more rusty-colored breast than English robins.

Pianorak: I'm sure your bulbs will find their way to the top, upside down or not.

Saly: I hope your chill is better. This is the worst time of year for catching a chill when the weather is betwixt and between.

[salymap]

Morning marthe and everyone. A group of robins would be very strange here. They are very territorial and would chase intruders from 'their' garden. I believe I have read that our robins are one of the most aggressive birds when they feel threatened.
I hope all the bulbs grow well and it soon gets a bit warmer. I'm okay thanks marthe, just a sniffle and shivers.

[Eudaimonia]

Morning all!

Sal: hope you shake the chills and blues (and anything else that needs shaking) and feel better soon. What's new? Last night I went to an extraordinary sold-out concert at Lincoln Center...not live, but from the 1960s! Bet you didn't think there were that many people in the States who'd show up for such a thing, did you? Truth be told, I was rather shocked myself. ha!

In two extraordinary performances, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Kindertotenlieder conducted by Lorin Maazel (1968) and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen conducted by Paul Kletzki (1960). Soprano Irmgard Seefried, one of the Vienna Opera’s finest post-war singers, performs songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn under Manuel Rosenthal (1967). Led by Leonard Bernstein, Christa Ludwig and the great Wagnerian tenor René Kollo perform three movements from Das Lied von der Erde with the Israel Philharmonic (1972), and Maureen Forrester sings “Urlicht” from Symphony No. 2, with Glenn Gould in the unusual role of conductor (1957).
Presented in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Classifilms.

I lucked into getting a standby seat on the second-row left...between being so close to a colossal screen and the blisteringly intense performances, it was quite overwhelming. Unfortunately, I had to miss the last piece on the programme as I had an orchestra seat at the Met for Iphigénie en Tauride and couldn't risk being late. I mainly came for the Fischer-Dieskau and Seefried anyway, so left happy.

I would say more, but must get off to bed. Cheers! ~E.

[Chris Newman]

Morning all. Brrr. It is freezing here too, but the sun is shining. I shall take advantage of it while it lasts and tan my bald bit.

[Uncle Monty]

Last night I was amazed, first to hear and then to see, a gritting lorry going through the village! Now it's cold, but there has been no mention of ice on the roads for weeks -- and anyway, where was the gritting when it was needed? Never saw a single lorry

What I'm wondering is, is it possible they're desperately trying to use up their supplies before the end of the fiscal year, even if there's a ***** heatwave, otherwise the amount coming from central government for next year will be cut?

Anyone know how (and indeed if) local government works?

[antongould]

Very interesting "concert" Eudaimonia I would imagine dear Glenn would be an appalling conductor but Maazel is a favourite of mine.

[greenilex]

Morning all: rather grey here but not quite so raw today.

Hope Sal's indisposition is improving?

Have just heard I'm to be a grandma again - very thrilled. Peter and the Wolf triumph music.

[antongould]

Well nearly 1,000 posts already and still the weather is not as we would like! It's decidedly grey here in the deep south i.e. Oxford. Don't ask me how I noticed this but in the 1.55 race at Newbury there is a no doubt equine wonder called Stormy Weather .............

[Paul Sherratt]

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[salymap]

As, when Gorgeous Weather was beheaded on the old MBs I came back with 'Stormy Weather' as a new thread, Mahlerei starting it up here, Morning to all comers old and new as we enter our next century.
Still not whatI call Spring, what do I know?

[salymap]

Congratulations, Grandma greenilex, do grannies still knit for the newcomer? I shouldn't think so.

[greenilex]

Must call in to the little shop in St Aldate's Oxford and have a word with the sheep behind the counter.

[Chris Newman]

Congratulations, salymap, for achieving a statistical century and millenium in one strike.

[salymap]

Thank you Chris, but where would we be without our faithful members who keep this going with all sorts of fascinating posts. Yes think I underestimated the length of the thread, thought it was a mere hundred, like me.

[Pianorak]

Must call in to the little shop in St Aldate's Oxford and have a word with the sheep behind the counter.

That wouldn't be the shop at No. 82 St Aldates?