Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

Oh well done mercia, that answer seems feasible to me!! We shall have to await guidance from Dave

[Dave2002]

Hi

Answer is almost right but a couple of reasons wrong. Check out NASA again, otherwise I'll give a clue later. Lilac Time did run for 626 performances in its first run, though this would have gone through 1923 and perhaps also 1924, so Lilac(s) seems to be a candidate for the answer.

[Anna]

I really miss the AA thread! I just can't spend more than 5 minutes at a time at the jolly old computer these days - unless it's at work, which is still busy. Let's see what this weekend brings... (apart from the Corrie Omni - which I shall watch while doing some work this weekend ). Even now I find myself immured in one of the country's leading media institutions (also frequented sometimes by the Rubber One) wherein I must remain working for another hour...

We've missed you too Ducks!! I see it's all been hotting up down in Deepest Wapping Interesting times we live in. What did you think of the Corrie omni? I ask whilst we wait for mercia to sally forth with more Lilacs.

[Nick Armstrong]

We've missed you too Ducks!! I see it's all been hotting up down in Deepest Wapping Interesting times we live in. What did you think of the Corrie omni? I ask whilst we wait for mercia to sally forth with more Lilacs.

True... though I wasn't at Wapping thankfully....

[Anna]

True... though I wasn't at Wapping thankfully....

Thank goodness for that! Ooh, rubbers gave me such a little frisson the other day about you, but I know he was kidding. Anyway, what do you you think of Fiz's chances? Also, (although a newcomer to Corrie) I have really turned against Sally Webster and her attitude. Yes, yes, I know it's all make believe but how come Fiz and Chesney look like two peas in a pod if they are not really brother and sister?

[Dave2002]

Do you want more clues yet?

[Dave2002]

Sleep Maybe

NASA employs these

[Dave2002]

That was just the reminder.

Let's try to fix the first of these. Think of a novel approach to Shakespeare!

[mercia]

Perchance to Dream / We'll gather lilacs

[Dave2002]

OK - now can you get the NASA link?

[Dave2002]

Shuttle riders perhaps?

[mercia]

well apparently there's a band called The Lilac Time who released Astronauts in 1990

[Dave2002]

You're there now. The band was started in Herefordshire. It's called Lilac Time, and one of their albums is called Astronauts.

Re June Bronhill, I actually met her a couple of times. First time I met her on a train, and we had quite a long discussion, during which she invited me to go to see her in the Ivor Novello show she was performing in. Bizarrely I also had to feel her head, as apparently she'd been injured by a fly curtain falling down on her in one of her performances, and she needed urgent surgery - basically trepanning, to release pressure on her brain.

I think she was surprised that I'd actually heard of her beforehand. She was fun to talk to. Perhaps I should have followed her more closely - it would have been good to meet her again.

When I posed the questions I was actually thinking of "We'll gather lilacs in the spring time" - which I think she recorded. I'm not sure if she also performed/recorded Lilac Time, which is a show by Ross bassed on the life of Schubert.

Am I playing the game right?

[mercia]

I guess I should set a question. It won't be interestingly cryptic like the last one.


an M to connect

- Stalag 8-A
- Theodore Ballu
- rue des plantes


must go now, back in the morning

[Dave2002]

OK - it's 77 rue des plantes.

Will unveil all in the morning!

Sleep tight!