Nice one, John! 
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"...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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Star performance jcOriginally posted by johncorrigan View PostQuiz Night last night in Alyth Town Hall - I'm in the Bowling Club Team...never played a game of bowls in my life, by the way.
Can't remember how I ended up in the team. Last night they announced the various topics - Round 10 was announced as 'Classical Music'...cue sighs of horror from the other teams. 10 tunes, name the composer...I thought, 'Surely I've learned something from hanging out on the forum all these years?!?' 
The other two in our team were nervous. I wrote down a list of the composers I knew the names of - you know, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss, Copland etc. Anyway, it wasn't tough - you classical chums would have been horrified at how simple it was...I got all ten, some after the first couple of notes...the only ones I wasn't sure of were Bizet (I reckoned it was something Carmen-ish), and Rodrigo (which I vaguely recalled from the charts in days gone by). Brownie points from all fellow contestants and enough for us to overtake the usual winners of the quiz in the final score. Glory! I then won the raffle and the Buddies won 1-0 against Aberdeen. Should've bought a lottery ticket on the way home. Comment
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A good Burns Night for you. Perhaps it was one for the Good News thread jc!Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostQuiz Night last night in Alyth Town Hall - I'm in the Bowling Club Team...never played a game of bowls in my life, by the way. Can't remember how I ended up in the team. Last night they announced the various topics - Round 10 was announced as 'Classical Music'...cue sighs of horror from the other teams. 10 tunes, name the composer...I thought, 'Surely I've learned something from hanging out on the forum all these years?!?'
The other two in our team were nervous. I wrote down a list of the composers I knew the names of - you know, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss, Copland etc. Anyway, it wasn't tough - you classical chums would have been horrified at how simple it was...I got all ten, some after the first couple of notes...the only ones I wasn't sure of were Bizet (I reckoned it was something Carmen-ish), and Rodrigo (which I vaguely recalled from the charts in days gone by). Brownie points from all fellow contestants and enough for us to overtake the usual winners of the quiz in the final score. Glory! I then won the raffle and the Buddies won 1-0 against Aberdeen. Should've bought a lottery ticket on the way home. Comment
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Tatties and Haggis with turnip (swede in these southern counties) and snippets of the Ode (I couldn't find the book with the whole thing - just as well as in abandoning my E End roots I stopped in the Home Counties as to an acquired accent). All to welcome Mrs CS after a cold winter's evening tennis fixture. With memories of Caledonian Society's Burns' Night suppers of old (Soc. now disbanded) where, on occasion, I sang some of the songs.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
We then watched a programme on the iPlayer where Maya Angelou went to a Burns Night at Dundonald Castle and another "Inside the mind of Robert Burns".Comment
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Great to see Dick Gaughan in his prime, CS...and I also saw a couple of old pals at one of the tables looking 25 years younger, which was brilliant. There were some great bits in the programme, I thought.Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostComment
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I think officially north of the Border it’s neeps! Mrs C and I enjoyed the combination last evening with the benefit of a McSween’s!Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostComment
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Bashit neeps even. Something I loved as a child when served up by my Scottish granny - plenty of fresh ground black pepper and lots of salted butter. I must remember to look out for reduced price haggis later this week. Prepping the root is more difficult these days with arthritic hands but the end result is worth it.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Neeps north of the border are what we call swedes down here. We did haggis and neeps last week; good thing as we overlooked Burns' Night.Comment
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"How many Valentines cards did you get this morning?" I asked Wendy at the Chemist's just now.
"I think they're a waste" she replied.
"That's my excuse, too" I told her.
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Very funny (as in funny-peculiar) conversation earlier in the supermarket, when a woman flashing sad eyes at me from behind her face mask said she wasn't at all surprised that everyone seemed so gloomy "after what that Putin just done in Ukraine" - to which the cashier cheerily replied "I can't understand how people can be so miserable on a beautiful day like this"!
"How do you manage to stay cheerful these days, when the world is in the state it is?" the sad lady continued. "Oh me? I do my best to arrange things around me so as to bring out the best in me" I said, echoing words the late saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith wrote about performance in his autobiography, "The Safest Place in The World".Comment
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