Alphabet associations - I

[Norfolk Born]

Indeed - but they're like the gargoyles at the entrance to the cathedral (and there's a few more on the cast): grotesque, unchanging, highlighting the quality of the rest...

Yes I remember you commenting on his acting before, Norfs...

Few things more satisfying on the box than to see stupid, nasty Sally Webster given her comeuppance (Who's the AA'er who held a candle for her?? Not you, Norfs? Was it Taps?! )

It was- and still is, despite her repeated efforts to alienate my affections... (Mind you, she's facing stiff competition from the wonderful Laura Linney, and Barbara Flynn still ticks my boxes).

[cloughie]

J linking

- a Welsh baritone (with an actress daughter) who made his operatic debut as the Herald in Lohengrin
- P P Pond
- a musicologist, expert on Monteverdi

Must be Jones or Jenkins to tick the Welsh box!

Norfy, I met Barbara Flynn a year or two back in a gallery in Penzance - she was selling some of her own made jewellry. I had a conversation with her about the Beidebecke series - a very pleasant lady - don't remember much about the jewellry though.

[Norfolk Born]

Must be Jones or Jenkins to tick the Welsh box!

Norfy, I met Barbara Flynn a year or two back in a gallery in Penzance - she was selling some of her own made jewellry. I had a conversation with her about the Beidebecke series - a very pleasant lady - don't remember much about the jewellry though.

I'm sure that would also have been true in my case, had I had the good fortune to meet her. We periodically watch 'Cracker', in which she was excellent as 'Doctor Fitzgerald's long-suffering wife. I think her 'breakthrough' role might have been in 'A Family At War'.
Back on thread ...does John Julius Norwich rank as a Monteverdi expert?

[mercia]

Must be Jones or Jenkins to tick the Welsh box!

not on this occasion, though one of those is P P Pond

[mercia]

does John Julius Norwich rank as a Monteverdi expert?

not on this occasion

the link is a heducational one

[cloughie]

not on this occasion, though one of those is P P Pond

Did he make a splash?

[mercia]

Did he make a splash?

he may have done, I know very little about him
....... or is that a pun on pond ? I'm a bit slow today

[Anna]

As "P.P. Pond", Paul Jones performed duets with various people I think.

[mercia]

Paul Jones

very good, Anna

(Jones is not the J word)

[cloughie]

As "P.P. Pond", Paul Jones performed duets with various people I think.

Anna, you just beat me to that, so Jones the Lohengrin would be Richard, daughter Ruth. For the other I'll flip a coin between Indiana and Spike!

[mercia]

Jones the Lohengrin

sorry, Jones is not the link

[cloughie]

Paul Jones attended Jesus College Oxford as did David Ffrangcon-Davies the Lohengrin man His daughter was actress Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.

[mercia]

Paul Jones attended Jesus College Oxford as did David Ffrangcon-Davies

brilliant stuff there cloughie
.............. and the third unfortunate person ......... ?

[cloughie]

brilliant stuff there cloughie
.............. and the third unfortunate person ......... ?

Denis Stevens.

[mercia]

Denis Stevens.

brilliant cloughie

a well-deserved K to/from you