Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

so Percy Grainger is a red herring
but Highgate Cemetery and John Betjeman are not
I think

Yes, Percy is a herring, he is not the G
Highgate and Betjeman are indeed clues to one G
I think you're getting there mercia!

[mercia]

Highgate and Betjeman are indeed clues to one G

which is I think the photographer John Gay (Victorian Valhalla and London's Historic Railways)
is "urging others to run" - Run Rabbit Run by Noel Gay (continuing the Gay theme)?

[Anna]

which is I think the photographer John Gay (Victorian Valhalla and London's Historic Railways)

Hurrah! Yes, John Gay, do you know his work mercia? Absolutely beautiful isn't it?

So, are you going to fill in the other two? I know you don't need further clues ....

[mercia]

So, are you going to fill in the other two?

trying to, slow progress though

[Anna]

trying to, slow progress though

mercia, you altered your other posting after I'd quoted it, therefore I hadn't seen you had added:

Noel Gay 'Run Rabbit Run' (the other two songs don't really matter, you got the name)
to John Gay the photographer

Yes, Duckie, the word is GAY

So, how does Percy fit in with his nutshell?

[mercia]

So, how does Percy fit in with his nutshell?

oh, I thought I'd abandoned Percy as a red herring

"Gay but Wistful" from the suite "In a Nutshell" ?

[Anna]

oh, I thought I'd abandoned Percy as a red herring

"Gay but Wistful" from the suite "In a Nutshell" ?

YES!! Sorry if I misled, Percy was a herring because the G wasn't Grainger but the 2nd Suite is in fact the G 'Gay but Wistful'

The other two songs in the clue by Noel Gay were 'Lambeth Walk' and 'The Sun has got his Hat on', lyrics by Ralph Butler (I met RB's grandson while I was down in Sussex)

Well done mercia A Trio of Gays!

[mercia]

I met RB's grandson while I was down in Sussex

ah yes, I remember you saying
wasn't that the petanque trip

is there more for me to get with G ?

[Anna]

ah yes, I remember you saying
wasn't that the petanque trip

is there more for me to get with G ?

What a good memory you have mercia, yes we played petanque!! No, nothing more to get, just the three elements which were all the word Gay. I could have substituted Beggars Opera for the photographer John Gay of course, but thought that would make it too easy!

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, what a gay day.... A propos of which and in honour of the recent Rugby World Cup and Anna's return to AA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNnktZTSgNo

00:59 - 01:03 is fantabulosa...

[Anna]

Oh, what a gay day.... Anna's return to AA

But where were you Heart Face, and where was Ams when the subject was Gay? Not sure if this is my return or just a brief Guest Appearance

[mercia]

I've no time to set a question ......... would someone else oblige please .............

[rubbernecker]

I've no time to set a question ......... would someone else oblige please .............

I'm free! (Quoth rubbers in his best John Inman voice)

[Anna]

I'm free! (Quoth rubbers in his best John Inman voice)

Rubbers! Gosh, your endless sudden popping up is, in many ways, terribly exciting! Does it give others a certain frisson knowing that His Lordship is observing us as we play merrily?

[rubbernecker]

Rubbers! Gosh, your endless sudden popping up is, in many ways, terribly exciting! Does it give others a certain frisson knowing that His Lordship is observing us as we play merrily?

'Tis only a sporadic foray. I was desperate to join in the Gay festivities but stayed my hand while Mercia finished it off, as it were.

I have an H forming as we speak, if you'd like...