Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

Both a fair shade of dark grey methinks.

Oooh! All cats are grey at night and, if a Queen gives birth to kittens in a kettle, it doesn't make them heir to the Russell-Hobbs empire. Old Welsh saying.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, as Anna suggested, I was thinking of Brahms Frei aber Froh (hence my "happily" earlier), but Joachim's gloomier motto gives the correct word so

Potato Salad:
Aber;
Sounds like ABBA (Benny Andersson's Quartet);
First part of Aberystwyth (Joseph Parry's Hymn Tune, later used by the ANC);
and the Brahms/Joachim Musical motto Frei Aber Froh/Einsam ("Free but Happy/Lonely")

I've lost track: Anna and subby between them seem to have got to the solution?

If Anna's here I vote for her B...

Am on the blackberry in deepest Herts. waiting to attend a celebrity barbecue and this is painfully slow to load, it's probably been set and maybe solved by now

[Anna]

Popped through today's posers with much hilarity. You lot are nutters!
Is anyone going to write all this up as a book? It could be a best-seller!

We know we is nutters, what's your excuse for joining in? Aha! Gotcha! I know exactly why, and you cannot help youself .... and that's what's going into my submission to Cardiff Uni for my Masters. No, seriously, you think I would have Masters ..... I might, if I were in Dr Who
Edit:

Am on the blackberry in deepest Herts. waiting to attend a celebrity barbecue

Gosh, is he a major showoff or what? Celebrity bbq in Herts? Have they transported the cast of TOWIE into the wilds, sort of Sleb in Suburbia?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Both a fair shade of dark grey methinks.

[Flay]

Am on the blackberry in deepest Herts.

Blackberry wine, I hope!

Gosh, look at this recipe: http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/blackberry-wine/

Must be a typo. They have written to use as ingredients:
4lb Blackberries
3lb Sugar
1 Gallon wine
Yeast & Nutrient 1 teaspoon of each
Pectic Enzyme (pectolase) 1 teaspoon

What will Vinny say about that sacrilege???

[Anna]

OK, for wont of direction, here is a very silly B and apologies to subcontra if I have stepped on his toes, (he gets to next goes, dib-dib- and all that girl guide stuff)

What B word am I

Derek Jarman and a Rabbi waltz, appropriately.
Oh, this third movement it's just Bliss.
Is that Benny & The Jets? – no, it’s just some fairies from Beds.

[vinteuil]

Am on the blackberry in deepest Herts. waiting to attend a celebrity barbecue :

... odd, I thought Chipping Norton was in Oxfordshire

[Norfolk Born]

OK, for wont of direction, here is a very silly B and apologies to subcontra if I have stepped on his toes, (he gets to next goes, dib-dib- and all that girl guide stuff)

What B word am I

Derek Jarman and a Rabbi waltz, appropriately.
Oh, this third movement it's just Bliss.
Is that Benny & The Jets? – no, it’s just some fairies from Beds.

Derek Jarman made a film called Blue.
Benny and The Jets Blue Eyes
Bliss Colour Symphony Blue Movement.
(Just off to Coventry for the Britten).

[Anna]

Derek Jarman made a film called Blue.
Benny and The Jets Blue Eyes
Bliss Colour Symphony Blue Movement.
(Just off to Coventry for the Britten).

Not quite:
Derek Jarman: film Blue
Rabbi: Lionel Blue (you did not get that!!)
Bliss: Correct, 3rd movement of Colour symp
Benny and the Jets you did not get cos it was:
Fairies from Beds was: David Bedford, Sprites. Elves and Blue Jets.
But, well done.
I told you it were silly And, The Blue Danube Waltz

[Norfolk Born]

Well, I didn't do that well, but I'll think of a 'C' if you like. (I couldn't watch the Brtitten cos the signal kept breaking up, so I watched John Bridcut's Delius film instead).

[Norfolk Born]

'C':
The first is a ceremonial march, the second a suite and the third sounds as if it goes on for ever.
All three composers are British.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Coronation March; Elgar
Coronation Suite; Eccles
Coronation Tedium; Walton

[Nick Armstrong]

Gosh, is he a major showoff or what? Celebrity bbq in Herts? Have they transported the cast of TOWIE into the wilds, sort of Sleb in Suburbia?

... odd, I thought Chipping Norton was in Oxfordshire

Both ends of the evolutionary scale (to quote Basic Fawlty) in those two guesses...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I shouldn't submit an answer so close to my bedtime! Time for me to Log Out.

If Corrie is the correct answer, then may I pass the ball that I took from cloughie back to him for the D; or to subby who shared the Aber honours with Anna?

Night, all!

[Nick Armstrong]

Coronation March; Elgar
Coronation Suite; Eccles
Coronation Tedium; Walton

I wonder if that's right...

PS Tarraa, Ferns