Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

hello rubs.
yep, that's the geezer
all yours ..................

[rubbernecker]

hello rubs.
yep, that's the geezer
all yours ..................

Hello, Merce. It's been a long time. Don't you want the explanation, or have the rules changed in my absence?

Pascoe the preacher appears in her opera The Wreckers;
She conducted a ‘performance’ of her March of the Women in Holloway jail with a toothbrush;
She was the inspiration (along with Liz Lutyens) for the eponymous female composer (played by Mary O'Farrell) in the BBC’s Hilda Tablet comic radio plays.

[rubbernecker]

Can some kind soul tell me what T's we've had previously?

[mercia]

this is the first T we've had after a long gap in play, so, as Anna suggested, we're not worrying about what came before
the field is open, so to speak ...................

[rubbernecker]

this is the first T we've had after a long gap in play

So I've not missed anything, then? Oh, good. I'll stop feeling guilty...

What T links Josef Stalin, a seasonal November, a non-existent soldier and a few horses?

[Nick Armstrong]

So I've not missed anything, then? Oh, good. I'll stop feeling guilty...

What T links Josef Stalin, a seasonal November, a non-existent soldier and a few horses?

No idea but it's nice you've... bounced back, rubbers

By the way, how come mercia seems to have had a pressentiment of your return??

[rubbernecker]

No idea but it's nice you've... bounced back, rubbers

By the way, how come mercia seems to have had a pressentiment of your return??

He knows my mind too well. Actually, I posted on the Violin Concertos thread before this one.

Thank you for your warm welcome, Caliban. I feel I owe everyone an explanation:

My severance arrangements with my erstwhile employer, various appearances before Parliamentary Select Committees, not to mention a spell of forced detention at Her Majesty’s pleasure have all conspired to hinder my participation on the boards of late. However I am exceedingly glad to see the AA thread has survived, although not thrived, in my absence. Such of my energies as are not immediately harnessed to the writing and publication of my memoirs, I shall endeavour to direct towards maintaining the traditions of this great institution. I thank you. (The Lord Rubbers)

[Nick Armstrong]

He knows my mind too well. Actually, I posted on the Violin Concertos thread before this one.

Thank you for your warm welcome, Caliban. I feel I owe everyone an explanation:

My severance arrangements with my erstwhile employer, various appearances before Parliamentary Select Committees, not to mention a spell of forced detention at Her Majesty’s pleasure have all conspired to hinder my participation on the boards of late. However I am exceedingly glad to see the AA thread has survived, although not thrived, in my absence. Such of my energies as are not immediately harnessed to the writing and publication of my memoirs, I shall endeavour to direct towards maintaining the traditions of this great institution. I thank you. (The Lord Rubbers)

Presumably you are also working hard to pay the legal fees of your defence team...

You must have been hacked off. Oh well, I'm sure you've made some interesting new chums

[Anna]

Not to mention a spell of forced detention at Her Majesty’s pleasure

Oh rubbers, that's a very unkind description of your holiday with Lady Rubbers!! :laugh

[rubbernecker]

Oh rubbers, that's a very unkind description of your holiday with Lady Rubbers!! :laugh

Oh, Anna. How I have missed you!

[Anna]

Oh, Anna. How I have missed you!

Reciprocated of course, and I trust your velocipede is well oiled and your lycra does not lack for talcum?

[Norfolk Born]

So I've not missed anything, then? Oh, good. I'll stop feeling guilty...

What T links Josef Stalin, a seasonal November, a non-existent soldier and a few horses?

Troika - respectively: A three-man commission introduced by Stalin to speed up trials of his opponents; a movement from Tchaikowsky's 'Seasons'; Lieutenant Kije sleigh ride; and a vehicle pulled by three horses.

[rubbernecker]

Troika - respectively: A three-man commission introduced by Stalin to speed up trials of his opponents; a movement from Tchaikowsky's 'Seasons'; Lieutenant Kije sleigh ride; and a vehicle pulled by three horses.

Ah, Ofca! Just like the good ol' days, eh?

Well done!

Over to U...

P.S. I see they're expanding the port of Felixstowe. Hope your house is safe from the bulldozers.

[Norfolk Born]

Should the above be correct, please possess yourselves of patience as far as 'U' is concerned, as I have to work my way through emails etc. that have accumulated while we were away in the far-from-frozen North. If I O U A 'U', I'll think of one tomorrow morning.

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh rubbers, that's a very unkind description of your holiday with Lady Rubbers!! :laugh