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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22127

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    surely cloughie doesn't want to bowl another googly so soon
    flay?
    Got the message, merc!

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
      Got the message, merc!
      sorry I wasn't being rude, you seem to have an endless supply of questions

      and we're here to (try and) answer them

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
        Got the message, merc!
        It's all so stressful isn't it? I too should be doing other things on a Bank Holiday....

        But can we have a Z to link:

        A brainwashed hairy insect
        A home shared by two composers
        Ben invariably needs another pair of hands for this piece
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26540

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          It's all so stressful isn't it? I too should be doing other things on a Bank Holiday....

          But can we have a Z to link:

          A brainwashed hairy insect
          A home shared by two composers
          Ben invariably needs another pair of hands for this piece
          Intriguing... Are the shared home / Ben supposed to make us think of Britten and Pears, and if so, is that a ish misdirection?

          (Rather more available today than I thought - before setting out, got messages that the relative I was supposed to be going to visit died in the night, so services are not required... )
          "...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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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Intriguing... Are the shared home / Ben supposed to make us think of Britten and Pears, and if so, is that a ish misdirection?

            (Rather more available today than I thought - before setting out, got messages that the relative I was supposed to be going to visit died in the night, so services are not required... )
            Sorry to hear that, Calibs.

            I don't think Pears was composer, was he? But the two I have in mind were same-sex. (I was going to put but I don't want to be accused of being homophobic )

            But the Ben bit in the third clue is correct
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Anna

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Intriguing... Are the shared home / Ben supposed to make us think of Britten and Pears, and if so, is that a ish misdirection?

              (Rather more available today than I thought - before setting out, got messages that the relative I was supposed to be going to visit died in the night, so services are not required... )
              Sorry to hear that Caliban, I hope you're not too upset at missing the chance to say goodbye
              I cannot get anywhere with Flay's latest, my first thought also was of Ben Britten but then I wondered, is heavy metal involved again with the hairy brainwashed insect (Flay seems very knowledgeable about HM)

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                Warlock and Moeran shared a house that I used to live near but I can't think of an associated Z

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  Warlock and Moeran shared a house that I used to live near but I can't think of an associated Z
                  No, not those two. Mine lived further west. Not heavy metal, Anna, quieter than that, although of the same era.
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Mine lived further west.
                    looks as if Barber and Menotti might fall into this category

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      looks as if Barber and Menotti might fall into this category
                      Them and a special piano [why was that?] all happily together. It will all fall into place now....
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        Sorry to hear that Caliban, I hope you're not too upset at missing the chance to say goodbye
                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        Sorry to hear that, Calibs.
                        Thanks both... No, not upset, I think he was pretty unaware of things - would have gone for aunt-support but she is with friends and then will sleep I think having been up most of the night. It's one of those "merciful release" situations, I think.

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        I don't think Pears was composer, was he?
                        DOH!! No wonder I struggle sometimes. I was thinking Barber Menotti, too, and meant to type that...

                        Doesn't get me closer to a Z though...

                        EDIT: mercia got to the Barber's before I'd finished typing...
                        Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 07-05-12, 13:11.
                        "...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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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          I do enjoy a race on a Bank Holiday Monday. Will Calibs or Mercs get to the line first? What was the house called????
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Originally posted by Flay View Post
                            It will all fall into place now....
                            You're 'avin' a larff aintcha?
                            "...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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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26540

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              I do enjoy a race on a Bank Holiday Monday. Will Calibs or Mercs get to the line first? What was the house called????
                              There's a good Y going there - GCM lived in Yester House in East Lothian, I've been there (my mate owns the next-door castle )
                              "...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

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                Will Calibs or Mercs get to the line first?
                                mercs has decided to pull up at the second fence

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