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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    Ladies in Lavender
    Lavender's Blue Dilly-Dilly?
    Boom Boom!! Much slapping of foreheads. And for a tenner (just in) who was the third? And tell me the nuclear connection please
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22127

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      We have already established Cornwall for the film. Mercs nearly sniffed out the flower, then gave up There is a colourful children's 17th century song about it. Now leave me alone....
      Sorry Flay , I missed your subtle yes to Cornwall, as I had gone to SW France thinking further south from Bergerac! As a result I hadn't got a sniff of Lavender!

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      • Anna

        Don't look at me - I still don't understand the answers yet! Also, running very late for appointment!

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22127

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          Boom Boom!! Much slapping of foreheads. And for a tenner (just in) who was the third? And tell me the nuclear connection please
          Justin Lavender was persuaded by Peter Pears and
          Benjamin Britten to abandon nuclear engineering for music.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            well done cloughie, don't know how you found that

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              [QUOTE=cloughie;151655]Sorry Flay , I missed your subtle yes to CornwallQUOTE]

              Oops, I missed the out for Cornwal - blame the computer.
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26540

                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                Sorry Flay , I missed your subtle yes to Cornwall, as I had gone to SW France thinking further south from Bergerac! As a result I hadn't got a sniff of Lavender!
                Only on the AA thread, ladies and gentlemen, only on the AA thread would that make sense



                Even then, only just... !!
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • cloughie
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2011
                  • 22127

                  [QUOTE=Flay;151664]
                  Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                  Sorry Flay , I missed your subtle yes to CornwallQUOTE]

                  Oops, I missed the out for Cornwal - blame the computer.
                  From where I am sitting a for Cornwall goes without saying!

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22127

                    M for Mercia?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      Justin Lavender was persuaded by Peter Pears and
                      Benjamin Britten to abandon nuclear engineering for music.

                      Gordon Bennett! How on earth..... ?!??!

                      And what was the Debussy connection in all that, then?

                      A particularly fierce question, that, Flay. I was nowhere. (Though I did see Ladies in Lavendar - was that the one where a young violinist washes up on Judi Dench's and Maggie Smith's beach? )
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        M for Mercia?
                        don't mind - have you an M handy? - send us all over the edge

                        what, if anything, were the "rows" in that last one ?

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                          Gordon Bennett! How on earth..... ?!??!

                          And what was the Debussy connection in all that, then?

                          A particularly fierce question, that, Flay. I was nowhere. (Though I did see Ladies in Lavendar - was that the one where a young violinist washes up on Judi Dench's and Maggie Smith's beach? )
                          Yes, the washed-up violinist played Debussy (flaxen hair)
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            And what was the Debussy connection in all that, then?
                            apparently Joshua Bell plays some Debussy on the soundtrack

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                              Gordon Bennett! How on earth..... ?!??!

                              And what was the Debussy connection in all that, then?

                              A particularly fierce question, that, Flay. I was nowhere. (Though I did see Ladies in Lavendar - was that the one where a young violinist washes up on Judi Dench's and Maggie Smith's beach? )
                              The girl with the flaxen hair was on the Ladies in Lavender soundtrack!

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22127

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                don't mind - have you an M handy? - send us all over the edge

                                what, if anything, were the "rows" in that last one ?
                                No M handy - you go ahead! As to the rows - a few of us got quite heated, but I don't think Flay meant that - I've seen lavender in very neat rows in France, however.

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