Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

You know we're good at that!

Where's Ofca? I've got the Corrie omnibus on - agree that Sean's (?Shaun's) trip to London was a waste of time. It doesn't work without the cobbles and fishwives shouting at each other from their doorsteps!

It's going off at 2:20 though - final session in the rivetting snooker semi-final, even-stevens at 12-12 between the inscrutable Ding Junhui and the mesmerising 21 year-old Judd Trump with the Bristol drawl and the porcupine hair-do. I'm trumping for Trump

[Anna]

talk among yourselves for some considerable time

Well done mercia, I too have not knowingly heard any of that music. Out and about this morning all the talk is about the wedding of course and that if Bea and Eugnie fall upon hard times they would be brilliant as the two ugly sisters in Cinderella!!

[amateur51]

Well done mercia, I too have not knowingly heard any of that music. Out and about this morning all the talk is about the wedding of course and that if Bea and Eugnie fall upon hard times they would be brilliant as the two ugly sisters in Cinderella!!

Eugnie sounds like a homeopathic toothpaste of the 1950s

Your suggestion is a cracker, Anna - made for those roles

[vinteuil]

Fanning Island! !

Anna - you might like to try

https://www.janeresture.com/kiribati_line/fanning.htm

and also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabuaeran

[mercia]

what H musically connects

- a poet of the Swabian school
- a Vatican decorator
- the chronicler of a good-for-nothing

?

[Nick Armstrong]

That's a nice teaser, mercia!

Been trying to exercise the brain and solve it without recourse to online resources... so far without success!!!

[mercia]

without recourse to online resources

you're a better man than I Gunga-Din

[mercia]

there are rather a lot of Swabian poets. I can tell you where this one was born if you like (or not if you don't).

[amateur51]

there are rather a lot of Swabian poets. I can tell you where this one was born if you like (or not if you don't).

Oh yes please!

[mercia]

Oh yes please!

I can't tell if that's ironic enthusiasm

anyway

Ludwigsburg

[amateur51]

I can't tell if that's ironic enthusiasm

anyway

Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg?

A poet?

Oh ... her??

[amateur51]

So is the Swabian poet in question yer actual Mörike?

[mercia]

you tease

[mercia]

it's gone quiet, the snooker must be exciting, if that's not a contradiction in terms

[amateur51]

So ... Hugo Wolf set to music poems by a Swabian poet Morike and the Vatican decorator, Michelangelo and Eichendorff's best known work, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Of the Life of a Good-For-Nothing)