Alphabet Associations - II

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(though Irish passport application form has arrived)

Similar considerations here in the lovely Pennines. As I had an Irish grandmother, I have an automatic right (or similarish terminology) to become an Irish citizen; and there is quite a bit of property in some staggeringly beautiful landscapes that I could afford. I think the fight has been sapped from me - in the '80s and '90s I was active in fighting the deprivations wrought on Britain by successive Tory governments; now the strongest inclination is to let those who caused the mess to clear it up for themselves.

But the Pennines are looking especially lovely today - and the garden needs some attention ...


All OT - I think you've cracked it with your Clarinettisms.

EDIT:see? Si!

[Pulcinella]

A classic clean sweep, Mr P - very well done. Yes my first clue was going to be that it was a double 'c' solution...

Are you too busy to set and superintend the D ... in which case shall we play 'Clapham Junction' Rules and anyone who's so inclined can board the AA Train, and set the next one?

Just off volunteering, but a double d is brewing.......back soon.

[Pulcinella]

Although I should have celebrated conquering Caliban's craftiness by cycling to skool, I was a bit late, so I drove instead.

It worked wonders, but I bet that this is not dastardly enough for you lot!

The elephant may have enough space, the ballet is a capital thing (though its scenario is probably lower case), but the cello is in mourning.

Who is the D, or even the DD?

Warning: the ballet appears never to have been performed, so it does not feature in Wiki's list of ballets, for example. Sorry, Flay (I think): neither did The Quest, previously.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ah ha! or should I say Arrrr harrrrr !! Avast there me hearties arrr harrrrr....

'Tis Captain Blood then, for one element!

A little OT - but the obvious Centennial commemorations today might have obscured the fact that today is also Ms de Havilland's 100th birthday: still as bright as a very elegant button, it was reported.

[Nick Armstrong]

A little OT - but the obvious Centennial commemorations today might have obscured the fact that today is also Ms de Havilland's 100th birthday: still as bright as a very elegant button, it was reported.

Indeed! An Association worthy of a tangent!

In Captain Blood, 1935:





At home in Paris, Saturday before last:

[Pulcinella]

Correction to previously posted warning: there is a YouTube clip of excerpts from the world premiere performance of the ballet, posted in 2015.

[Pulcinella]

Is another hint needed?
I should have known that this was top of the scale in hardness terms.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is another hint needed?
I should have known that this was top of the scale in hardness terms.

Oh! It is him, then?! I'd gone through all the [infantile bra joke removed] but couldn't find any works matching the clues. Back in a minute ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Now, y'see - I'd been so keen to discover ballets with the names of capital cities, that I looked straight at TOM and rejected it - and as David Diamond hadn't written any other ballet scores, I didn't see that he'd written a Kaddish for 'cello & orchestra. "Elephants" are still bothering me, but perhaps they're in An Enormous Room?

Works wonders.

[Pulcinella]

Now, y'see - I'd been so keen to discover ballets with the names of capital cities, that I looked straight at TOM and rejected it - and as David Diamond hadn't written any other ballet scores, I didn't see that he'd written a Kaddish for 'cello & orchestra. "Elephants" are still bothering me, but perhaps they're in An Enormous Room?

Works wonders.

Well done, ferney.
Yes, I was thinking of the ubiquitous elephant in the room, who will have enough space because the room is enormous.
TOM seems usually to be given his capitals (not sure why, particularly, except that that's the style of the title of the scenario written by e e cummings, that lover of lower case).
And the Kaddish is a prayer of mourning.

The extra initial clue, which you seem to have picked up, relates to a Double Diamond, which worked wonders in its advertising slogan, and the clincher was that diamond is number 10 on Moh's hardness scale of minerals.

So, it's pints of DD all round while we wait for an e!

[cloughie]

So, it's pints of DD all round while we wait for an e!

Heaven forbid - the mere thought of that dreadful gassy, bland keg stuff

[Pulcinella]

Heaven forbid - the mere thought of that dreadful gassy, bland keg stuff

Yes; times have changed since that might have been one of very few offerings in the local pub.
Interesting to read its history here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Diamond_Burton_Pale_Ale

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Double Diamond and McEwan's Export were my father's two favourite tipples, and DD was my very first taste of "beer". It explained why he always went round with such a miserable expression on his face.

I shall take the morning off in Harrogate, and ponder my E numbers (what will happen to them, I wonder?) for later.

[antongould]

Yes Double Diamond was, IMVVHO, terrible stuff ... strange that ferney has gone to a town that, I would guess, will be awash with the flags of St. George and continuing its struggle to come to terms with the 20th century. Lady Gould once bought some pillowcases in a shop there and then decided, as does happen, they weren't "quite right" ... We went back on a Saturday and found the shop didn't open on Saturdays ..... I have seen her, on occasions, happier ....

[Nick Armstrong]

Double Diamond and McEwan's Export were my father's two favourite tipples, and DD was my very first taste of "beer". It explained why he always went round with such a miserable expression on his face.

... are we back in Darwen with that lugubrious anecdote....?

I don't think I ever tasted Double Diamond - but had a similar experience with Shipstones and Home Ales around Nottingham.

However 'Double Diamond Works Wonders' was one of the refrains of my childhood... and the jokes on that theme, none of which I can find either in my memory or via a rapid Google search.

However it did remind me of this not-irrelevant old favourite:

I say, I say, I say, why is this beer we are drinking similar to making love in a punt?

I don’t know, why is this beer we are drinking similar to making love in a punt?

Because it’s ****ing close to water!!

Yes Double Diamond was, IMVVHO, terrible stuff ... strange that ferney has gone to a town that, I would guess, will be awash with the flags of St. George and continuing its struggle to come to terms with the 20th century. Lady Gould once bought some pillowcases in a shop there and then decided, as does happen, they weren't "quite right" ... We went back on a Saturday and found the shop didn't open on Saturdays ..... I have seen her, on occasions, happier ....