Public libraries. Does anyone borrow CDs from them?

[alycidon]

Well, at least pasty's Library has made a step in the right direction by replacing George Lloyd with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

That's lost on me. I'm not acquainted with either of those.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm sure Dorking is lovely. I wouldn't know - I've never Dorked.

[cloughie]

Well, at least pasty's Library has made a step in the right direction by replacing George Lloyd with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

That's right ferney - have a go at a Cornish composer!

[Stanfordian]

I've not visited our music library in Edinburgh for some time so I was delighted to see their stock of classical CDs was up to date with some recent releases available. I was also delighted to borrow some, for me, esoteric stuff such as Cage, Stockhausen and Boulez which was interesting and didn't require outlay of large amounts of cash!


Today, I borrowed Jenny Pike's Czech album which is gorgeous. I also borrowed the Nelson's DSCH 10 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My finger has hovered over Amazon's 'Buy it now' button a few times, restrained only by the thought of the mortgage, council tax and having to eat and keep warm.

I'd forgotten what a great resource it is.

Hiya PG, Cash struck local authorities around my part of Lancashire seem to be freezing libraries of funds. Many of the books in the reference sections have been sold off (including Grove) and the CDs collection for loaning is old and not updated. I reckon the pupil library as we know it will not exist in a decade.

[jean]

You people still have public libraries??

[french frank]

Dorking seems an odd place to put a collection, but it might be useful to know anyway.

I went there a year or so ago to give a talk - as I remember, the owner of the winery offered premises there to house the collection when there was talk of moving it somewhere else. It is a superb collection.

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm sure Dorking is lovely. I wouldn't know - I've never Dorked.

You should try Godalming instead.

[vinteuil]

You should try Godalming instead.

... it's not as good as Reading, tho'



[... redingote already on, and out the door... ]

[Gordon]

I'm sure Dorking is lovely. I wouldn't know - I've never Dorked.

You are on form today ferney! Have you ever been Woked or Chipped in Sodbury? Or even Spalled, Kettered, 'Ealled or Tooted? What you'd do in Tring I could not guess at. But on a full moon I imagine you'd have Barked!

[vinteuil]

... ah, but I know the way to Turnham Green

[Nick Armstrong]

... ah, but I know the way to Turnham Green

...via Mincing Lane? And, one hopes, avoiding Spital in the Street

[Gordon]

Mornington Crescent!!!

[Serial_Apologist]

First retired general: "I say, what do you reckon about Kipling"
Second retired general: "Never kippled, old boy".

[Roslynmuse]

First retired general: "I say, what do you reckon about Kipling"
Second retired general: "Never kippled, old boy".

Or the more aggressive version - Do you like Rudyard Kipling? etc etc

And its companion - "Do you like Dickens?" "I've never been to one..."

[Nick Armstrong]

First retired general: "I say, what do you reckon about Kipling"
Second retired general: "Never kippled, old boy".

And the less said about Dickens, the better...


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Curses, Ros, I'm a minute late. Two minds with but a single thought. I think I was slightly more decorous!

(Had never heard the 'Rudyard' variant, mind you! )