Alphabet associations - I

[LeMartinPecheur]

Quite!
(But I'd still like a photograph )

It's the 'bodiless' that's getting to you, isn't it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Dear Anna
As you know, many of us have developed a keen interest in matters Welsh as a result of reading your messages. This 'sulk' of which you speak - is it an item of nightwear, or some form of resting-place - possibly akin to a hammock? (Please feel free to embellish your explanation with photographs if available).
In a spirit of nothing more than honest socio-cultural scholasticism
I remain
etc. etc.

If the word is Welsh in origin, the pronunciation would be more like the Saesneg "silk" / "silky" wouldn't it?

[LeMartinPecheur]

If the word is Welsh in origin, the pronunciation would be more like the Saesneg "silk" / "silky" wouldn't it?

Silky, bodiless nightwear (or hammocks)? This is getting a bit torrid!

High time for fhg to lead off the Ws if scb doesn't feel worthy of the honour?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Silky, bodiless nightwear (or hammocks)? This is getting a bit torrid!

Just let me stay with that image for a moment ...

































... Okey-dokey:

Which W sadly requires no movement in one movement and certainly no stone-throwing?

[Don Petter]

That was a bit torrid - My screen seems to have steamed up.

[Don Petter]

Which W sadly requires no movement in one movement and certainly no stone-throwing?

Are we in a (Philip) glasshouse?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Are we in a (Philip) glasshouse?

Not Philip, but a glasshouse is involved.

[Don Petter]

Not Philip, but a glasshouse is involved.

Thank goodness for that! I recently caught, by chance, his Koyaanisqatsi on Private Passions, and have no wish to know more about him.

[subcontrabass]

Not Philip, but a glasshouse is involved.

Wesendonck Lieder ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Wesendonck Lieder ?

HUH?

[Nick Armstrong]

Thank goodness for that! I recently caught, by chance, his Koyaanisqatsi on Private Passions, and have no wish to know more about him.

I'm with you 100%

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wesendonck Lieder ?

"Sadly" = "Sorrow"
"no movement" = "Keep still"
and "In the glass/green/hot house"

... all translations of the titles of three of the five Songs.

You're neXt!

[Nick Armstrong]

"Sadly" = "Sorrow"
"no movement" = "Keep still"
and "In the glass/green/hot house"

... all translations of the titles of three of the five Songs.

You're neXt!

Excellent! A cryptic version of my own Wesendonk "W" a round or two ago... and I didn't spot the connection at all!

[subcontrabass]

"Sadly" = "Sorrow"
"no movement" = "Keep still"
and "In the glass/green/hot house"

... all translations of the titles of three of the five Songs.

You're neXt!

A modest bereaved X with terrible connections.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A modest bereaved X with terrible connections.

This isn't Tchaikovsky's diary reference to his homosexuality, is it?