Alphabet associations - I

[subcontrabass]

Malcolm?

Please elucidate.

[Don Petter]

Just George as the harpsichordist - No idea about the others.

[Anna]

Malcolm Sergent's Dad was a coal merchant.

[subcontrabass]

Malcolm Sergent's Dad was a coal merchant.

Two down - one to go (better known as a composer).

[Norfolk Born]

Malcolm Arnold shot himself in the foot, allegedly to get out of the army.

[subcontrabass]

Malcolm Arnold shot himself in the foot, allegedly to get out of the army.

That completes the set. I think the N goes to Don, who got the link first.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well I've just got back from hols (in Venice).

Welcome back - you've returned inspired and relaxed, I trust? Not sure what excuse it gives you for the "a barn" gag, but good to see you back safe. Gizz an N

[Norfolk Born]

That completes the set. I think the N goes to Don, who got the link first.

Of course - I merely followed where others led.

[Nick Armstrong]

Young Don still living La Dolce Vita, lounging on cushions and sipping a breakfast martini...???

[Don Petter]

Oh dear! just got up, to find the hot seat. Bear with me ...

[Don Petter]

Young Don still living La Dolce Vita, lounging on cushions and sipping a breakfast martini...???

Not quite, but visiting relations, so breakfast en famille. (I suppose I'd better try to get some recipes to maintain the food content of this thread in the manner to which it has become accustomed?)

[Don Petter]

Sorry about the delay.

What N connects a poem from the North, a doubly demanding monarch, and a funereal opening?


I will try to keep tabs on this today, but this afternoon will be on the road for about three hours. (Though I imagine, this being an easy one, by then we'll be further down the alphabetical road. )

[Don Petter]

Welcome back - you've returned inspired and relaxed, I trust? Not sure what excuse it gives you for the "a barn" gag, but good to see you back safe. Gizz an N

No excuse really, just name dropping. (And not even as good as 'He's from Barcelona'.)

Venice was wonderful, as always, and pretty much unchanged, which is one of its major attractions. We have to go round and check that all the special features are still there, including the owl with knees, the false clock that always says half past nine, and the '30s tailors heads in that shop window on the way to the station.

They had magnanimously taken the scaffolding down from the Bridge of Sighs after about three years, but even that was unchanged (just the same sighs).

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry about the delay.

What N connects a poem from the North, a doubly demanding monarch, and a funereal opening?

Been toying with Kallevala and Gawain and the Green Knight, and with the possible synonyms for 'doubly demanding', but so far getting nowhere reasonably speedily......

[vinteuil]

well,

the Nibelungenlied was a Northern poem -

'Napoleon' is etymologically cognate with 'Nibelung' - and there were two Napoleonic empires...


.... but I don't think this is a serious starter