Alphabet associations - I

[subcontrabass]

I do hope you're not escaping from Wales just because the lady wife and I are dropping in for a few days. (We're staying in Llandrindod Wells ...

There are people around who would not regard that as going to Wales. Some years ago I was looking for a small village in Radnorshire just off a main road. I stopped at a shop just over the border in Montgomeryshire to ask for directions. I was told: "Go down the road, and when you cross the border out of Wales into Radnorshire you will see the turning." When my father lived in Radnorshire (1905-1925) the county was almost entirely (if not entirely) Anglophone.

[mercia]

Angle, it's your Y question

[Anna]

"Ombra mai fù di vegetabile, cara ed amabile, soave più"

Blimey, with my rusty Italian I transated that as "It's nice and shady down here in the vegetables, darling, love of my life, open another bottle of Soave"

Then, I realised, it was Xerxes!

[Nick Armstrong]

"Ombra mai fù di vegetabile, cara ed amabile, soave più"

Blimey, with my rusty Italian I transated that as "It's nice and shady down here in the vegetables, darling, love of my life, open another bottle of Soave"

Then, I realised, it was Xerxes!

I prefer your first thought Anna!! Toot toot!!

[Anna]

Actually, just to raise my classical listening profile. I do have Semele, Kathleen Battle and John Nelson. So, it just needs Y and Z and we have zipped through the alphabet twice again! And I can send the updated archive to rubbernecker afore I goes on me hols

[Angle]

Such activity while I have been away reading the paper and having something to eat.

Here is Y

but Not all solutions begin with Y but sound as if they do.


An instrumental guide

She was first scaled in 1811

First woman to conduct at a Vienna opera house

Made opera debut with Glyndebourne company at Edinburgh Festival in 1850

He never set foot in Liverpool but described it being “the Pool of Life”

[Angle]

Dear me, I forgot to clarify that it was Xerxes who was sitting underneath the spreading plane tree. Sorry about that.

[mercia]

1850

??

[Angle]

now all present and correct

[Angle]

Ha ha. Sorry about 1850. Not even I was around then. My finger hit 8 when it was aimed at 9 - should have been 1950.


Here is the corrected set:


An instrumental guide

She was first scaled in 1811

First woman to conduct at a Vienna opera house

Made opera debut with Glyndebourne company at Edinburgh Festival in 1950

He never set foot in Liverpool but described it being “the Pool of Life”

[Angle]

Have a cup of tea while I put the heating on. It's getting a bit nippy around here.

[Anna]

Is this a play on Jungfrau, you know J and Y, being, a bit similar? Like. Leading to Young?

[Angle]

It is certainly phonetic playtime, Anna

[Anna]

very nice questions you set, if I may say so

well I've got 3 of these, but I won't barge in

Apres-vous, my dear mercia.

[Angle]

Maybe someone will barge in tomorrow