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  • Old Grumpy
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 3617

    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
    I bet they felt dun... in! And just as well they aren't of "middle eastern appearance", eh?
    Probably Dunroamin for a while - certainly would have been had they been quarantined!

    OG

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37699

      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
      Probably Dunroamin for a while - certainly would have been had they been quarantined!

      OG

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      • LMcD
        Full Member
        • Sep 2017
        • 8477

        I've only recently discovered that the Dunedin Consort are not based in, and were not established in, New Zealand ....or Dundee and Edinburgh.

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        • Old Grumpy
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 3617

          Looking at their website to find the origin of the name (I didn't), I came across this:

          If Dunedin were a drink, it would be a smokey Islay whiskey;
          The Spice Girls would be a carton of concentrated orange juice.

          Note the spelling mistake...

          ... shocking!

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          • Bryn
            Banned
            • Mar 2007
            • 24688

            Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
            Looking at their website to find the origin of the name (I didn't), I came across this:

            If Dunedin were a drink, it would be a smokey Islay whiskey;
            The Spice Girls would be a carton of concentrated orange juice.

            Note the spelling mistake...

            ... shocking!
            Maybe they were just overstating its quality?

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            • LMcD
              Full Member
              • Sep 2017
              • 8477

              Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
              Looking at their website to find the origin of the name (I didn't), I came across this:

              If Dunedin were a drink, it would be a smokey Islay whiskey;
              The Spice Girls would be a carton of concentrated orange juice.

              Note the spelling mistake...

              ... shocking!
              Apparently their name comes from 'Din Eidyn', the ancient Celtic name for Edinburgh Castle.

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              • Old Grumpy
                Full Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 3617

                Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                Apparently their name comes from 'Din Eidyn', the ancient Celtic name for Edinburgh Castle.



                Certainly has more of a ring to it than the Edinburgh Castle Consort!

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                • LMcD
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2017
                  • 8477

                  Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post



                  Certainly has more of a ring to it than the Edinburgh Castle Consort!
                  Didn't they use to entertain passengers on their way from Cape Town to Southampton in the late 1940s?

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                  • Old Grumpy
                    Full Member
                    • Jan 2011
                    • 3617

                    Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                    Didn't they use to entertain passengers on their way from Cape Town to Southampton in the late 1940s?
                    Quite possibly. I travelled as a bairn on one or more of the Castle Line vessels back in the day - can't say I remember the Consort though!


                    OG

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8477

                      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                      Quite possibly. I travelled as a bairn on one or more of the Castle Line vessels back in the day - can't say I remember the Consort though!


                      OG
                      Didn't they feature a young Vaal Doonican in the early 60s?

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37699

                        Cambridge boffins develop biodegradable plastic substitute from peas!

                        Rarely nowadays do good news items come up with the promise of this one, briefly mentioned on today's BBC national lunchtime news: a fast-degrading substitute for ocean-polluting microplastics, potentially applicable widely for commercial packaging and other purposes, and which can be harmlessly (maybe even beneficially) consumed by marine life:



                        Rejoice? I nearly choked on my marmite sandwich!

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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25210

                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          Rarely nowadays do good news items come up with the promise of this one, briefly mentioned on today's BBC national lunchtime news: a fast-degrading substitute for ocean-polluting microplastics, potentially applicable widely for commercial packaging and other purposes, and which can be harmlessly (maybe even beneficially) consumed by marine life:



                          Rejoice? I nearly choked on my marmite sandwich!
                          That certainly is good news, mush .
                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • oddoneout
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2015
                            • 9206

                            I do so hope that Covid, Brexit, Home Office etc don't derail this
                            After just four years’ training in India and some fast crowd-funding, Kamal Singh joins English National Ballet School

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37699

                              Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                              I do so hope that Covid, Brexit, Home Office etc don't derail this
                              https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-ballet-school


                              I just hope he managed to make it over that railing!

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                              • oddoneout
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2015
                                • 9206

                                Difficult to know where best to post this - it is something of a joke but overall good news seems the main message - other than 'does what it says on the tine' given the title of the sculpture.

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