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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    Anything to do with Child Ballads?
    indeed, number 81 according to wikipedia
    hope that helps

    I think I confused matters earlier

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26524

      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      I reckon you made that up, cloughie
      "...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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      • cloughie
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        • Dec 2011
        • 22115

        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        indeed, number 81 according to wikipedia
        hope that helps

        I think I confused matters earlier
        In that case it must be Thea!

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          In that case it must be Thea!
          indeed it must
          so your Maxwell tie-in is .............. what ?

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22115

            I fancy I've got there!

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
              I fancy I've got there!
              quite. a tidy-up is required I think, will you or shall I ? I think you should state the M
              Last edited by mercia; 17-04-12, 11:48.

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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22115

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                quite.

                a tidy-up is required I think
                will you or shall I ?
                Musgrave

                Thea Musgrave

                Miss Musgrave's Fancy (Maxwell-Davies and the Bullfinches)

                Child Ballad 81 - Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26524

                  Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                  Musgrave

                  Thea Musgrave

                  Miss Musgrave's Fancy (Maxwell-Davies and the Bullfinches)

                  Child Ballad 81 - Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
                  Good puzzle, good solution! (Yet again, I was nowhere )
                  "...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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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    very good. do you know the Britten setting of the Ballad ? I don't.
                    PMD Eight Songs for a Mad King, number 3, The Lady-in-Waiting, Miss Musgrave's Fancy

                    well done cloughie. Nut us with an N

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      It was when I went over to the old R2 MB and asked them if they would like R3 to give them Brian Kay's Light Programme. Their reaction was so vile/violent that you all had to come across from the R3 MB and rescue me!
                      Oh yes, I do remember that time you took your life in your hands!!! They were indeed awful MBs, absolutely no discipline from the Mods, Trolls running riot, it's a wonder they hadn't been shut down years before (not like this very genteel, well behaved, terribly middle class MB we now find ourselves inhabiting where we are all really polite .... and no fights ever, ever, break out!!)

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                      • Flay
                        Full Member
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 5795

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        .... and no fights ever, ever, break out!!)
                        Except when your back was turned, miss, and Norfy and Subby had a skirmish!
                        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26524

                          Originally posted by Flay View Post
                          Look at page 2 of his biography, cloughie:
                          http://justinlavender.co.uk/
                          I see he has the same agent as Sven Göran Eriksson



                          http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...ngland&cc=5739
                          "...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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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22115

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            Fascinating as that might be you now need to concentrate on an N to link Canterbury, 148 and Bradford.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26524

                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              Fascinating as that might be you now need to concentrate on an N to link Canterbury, 148 and Bradford.


                              I take it we're not talking about bus services? Cos the N148 actually links Shepherd's Bush and Camberwell Green...

                              I think I need some fresh air...
                              "...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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                              • Anna

                                I'm guessing (only guessing) there are not many Bradford Symphonies so a birthplace of a famous composer - that should narrow it down a bit to Delius maybe who I know nothing about? I know not about the omnibus that runs to Shepherds Bush but the N148 is also a Samsung Notebook.
                                Edit: Not asking for clue, but can we assume all 3 elements are musical, or not?
                                Last edited by Guest; 17-04-12, 15:44.

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