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  • Northender

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    He was maybe inspired by hearing Arrau on the Joanna.

    Do I have permission to start thinking about a 'K'?

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
      Cali - the only answer - not tonight!
      So that was supposed to be telling me the answer wasn't Josephine?

      I thought "the only answer" meant that it was the correct one.



      I'd love it if the 'cryptic' quotient - both in questions and answers - went down a notch, and the 'clarity' nudged up just a little bit. That's 20 minutes looking for Northern Irish Josephines I'll never see again
      "...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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      • Northender

        Oh dear...I've been working on a cryptic(ish) 'K'.....

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26540

          Originally posted by Northender View Post
          Oh dear...I've been working on a cryptic(ish) 'K'.....


          Do your worst! Just tell me straight if I'm barking up the wrong tree later!!
          "...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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          • Northender

            OK
            How might Ena Harkness, Beelzebub and Erik lead you to uses of 'K', on-screen in all three cases and also on-stage in the third?

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by Northender View Post
              OK
              How might Ena Harkness, Beelzebub and Erik lead you to uses of 'K', on-screen in all three cases and also on-stage in the third?
              Oooh even without googling I know that Ena Harkness is a lovely, scented dark red rose - my father, a keen rose grower, had a bed of them

              Make of that what you will

              K?

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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22127

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                Oooh even without googling I know that Ena Harkness is a lovely, scented dark red rose - my father, a keen rose grower, had a bed of them

                Make of that what you will

                K?
                Thought I heard something Russelling!

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                • vinteuil
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12844

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  Oooh even without googling I know that Ena Harkness is a lovely, scented dark red rose - my father, a keen rose grower, had a bed of them

                  :
                  wiki tells us "Harkness Roses (a trading name of R. Harkness & Co. Ltd) are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England. The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs. Harkness'. In the 1950s, Harkness popularized 'Frensham' and 'Ena Harkness', both developed by amateur Albert Norman, and for a time 'Ena Harkness' was the most popular red Hybrid Tea in the world."


                  My father, an austere aesthete, thought they were a bit vulgar. But then he allowed no bright coloured flowers in the gardens - only white and green, with the occasional very dark iris.

                  A few years after he died my mother timidly introduced a few old roses, Rosa moyesii and the like.

                  Not Ena H, tho'...

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                  • amateur51

                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    wiki tells us "Harkness Roses (a trading name of R. Harkness & Co. Ltd) are rose breeders based at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in England. The nursery was founded in 1879 in Yorkshire. Early varieties included a sport of 'Heinrich Schultheis' introduced in 1893 as 'Mrs. Harkness'. In the 1950s, Harkness popularized 'Frensham' and 'Ena Harkness', both developed by amateur Albert Norman, and for a time 'Ena Harkness' was the most popular red Hybrid Tea in the world."
                    Dad had a bed of Frensham too and Peace, Superstar and a lovely old lemon-scented yellow rambler called Leverkusen. He had a large multi-rose bed in the front garden too

                    Still nowhere near a K I'm afraid

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                    • cloughie
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                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22127

                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      Thought I heard something Russelling!
                      Did you no' Ken that?

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                        the gardens


                        Visions of Versailles there, VinoNobile!!!



                        "...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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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                          Visions of Versailles there, VinoNobile!!!



                          Are you sure, Caliban?

                          Might our friend's papa not have been gardener for our mutual acquaintance Clarence in deepest Shropshire?
                          Last edited by Guest; 13-08-12, 12:29. Reason: tidyin'

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                          • Northender

                            Yes. Ena Harkness is The Name Of The flower which you googled. (Is there an Eco in here?)

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                            • Northender

                              Erik has been around since 1910. And remember, you're looking for uses of 'K' on stage and screen.

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                              • cloughie
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                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22127

                                Originally posted by Northender View Post
                                Erik has been around since 1910. And remember, you're looking for uses of 'K' on stage and screen.
                                So it's not Ken Russell then.

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