I wonder what happenned to "the length and breadth of the country", it's only "up and down the country" now.
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Oh, come on. Truck is a far older word than lorry, dating from the middle ages.Originally posted by mangerton View PostComment
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"The squeezed middle"
seems to include everyone but the most successful benefit fraudsters and the idle rich or investment bankers
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Maybe the programme was originally devised to open a new BBC TV channel ─ SmellivisionOriginally posted by Caliban View Post"And now, Ravel's orchestral showpiece Alborada del Gracioso" (Rob Cowan, 5.10.11, 09:08)
(Mind you, interesting version - didn't hear who due to the noise of but GREAT bassoons and cor anglais, the aural equivalent of the aroma of very ripe cheese, French I think...) 
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Reminds me of the production of Love of Three Oranges at the ENO where scratch cards were included in the programme, which released a relevant aroma / pong at strategic moments in the production. I picked up some spares and gave them to friends who wanted to listen to the relay on R3...Originally posted by Ventilhorn View PostMaybe the programme was originally devised to open a new BBC TV channel ─ Smellivision"...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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............... this will make you a better/stronger person .... "s/he has to work through his feelings" ...to get closure and other stuff and nonsense uttered around separation and loss ...According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Funny how every child that has cancer is dubbed "brave" by the patronising tabloids. "Brave little Peter has undergone ten chemotherapy sessions", "Brave Penny is off to Disneyland for one final trip of a lifetime". I doubt either child knows what cancer is or what's happening to them.
And every time rail/Tube fares rise, you can be sure there's a news "correspondent" whose package ends with the cringeworthy line "but many passengers feel they're being taken for a ride".
Can Fiona Bruce's incessant arm-waving be construed as a non-verbal platitude? I think nearly everyone I know perceives it as contrived.Comment
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Guardian readers (I better duck before Mr Pee or Simon get in on the act!!) were given a smelly scratch card with their papers for the Prokofiev.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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"...Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations" (Rob Cowan, 6.10.11, 09:34)
Fast becoming one of the laziest items of programming. It was on yesterday or the day before. It's just banal.Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 06-10-11, 09:07."...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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WhateverOriginally posted by Caliban View Post"...Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations" (Rob Cowan, 6.10.11, 09:34)Comment
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Bovvered, Anna?Originally posted by Anna View Post"...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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