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  • Anna

    Well, what I had on the card was: Billy the Kid and The Red Pony, along with Fanfare and Appalachian, but you got it, Copland was the C. Just a bit of a silly one (as usual!) Edit: Whoops, crossed with mercia, who was right about the Labour supporting quadraped! Further edit: The little ginger man had nothing to do with the puzzle, but in case anyone wonders about it:

    In Butcher Beynon's, Gossamer Beynon, daughter, schoolteacher, dreaming deep, daintily ferrets under a fluttering hummock of chicken's feathers in a slaughterhouse that has chintz curtains and a three-pieced suite, and finds, with no surprise, a small rough ready man with a bushy tail winking in a paper carrier. At last, my love, sighs Gossamer Beynon. And the bushy tail wags rude and ginger.......

    Oh, beautiful beautiful Gossamer B, I wish I wish that you were for me. I wish you were not so educated....... She feels his goatbeard tickle her in the middle of the world like a tuft of wiry fire, and she turns in a terror of delight away from his whips and whiskery conflagration, and sits down in the kitchen to a plate heaped high with chips and the kidneys of lambs.
    Last edited by Guest; 14-05-12, 20:20.

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26536

      Lovely, Anna... I knew it well a while back, not least from my cassettes of Richard Burton reading it

      I have a quick D - I hope, as I shall be progressing south of the Channel tomorrow and offline till later on Wednesday

      Which D links a queenly little island, a missed opportunity for Bergman, and UNESCO ?
      "...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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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
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        Uh-oh... the silence doesn't bode well for my unavoidable absence over the next two days.

        An easy clue: the fourth connecting element is Mr A Östman.
        "...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
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          • Dec 2011
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          Delos?

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          • Nick Armstrong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 26536

            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            Delos?

            Afraid not.

            (Do I recall Monday evening is singing? Hope you had a good bellow, Mr C )
            "...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
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              • Dec 2011
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              Originally posted by Caliban View Post

              Afraid not.

              (Do I recall Monday evening is singing? Hope you had a good bellow, Mr C )
              Indeed it is - yes I did. I didn't expect my google-fishing expedition to yield anything but at least you're still around at this late hour.

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
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                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                Indeed it is - yes I did. I didn't expect my google-fishing expedition to yield anything but at least you're still around at this late hour.
                The clue in #19863 should help target where you cast your line...
                "...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
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                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  The clue in #19863 should help target where you cast your line...
                  Damrau

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                  • Nick Armstrong
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                    • Nov 2010
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                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    Damrau
                    Sorry, no.
                    "...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
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                      • Dec 2011
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                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      The clue in #19863 should help target where you cast your line...
                      Not at all, means nothing at all to me!

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
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                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        Not at all, means nothing at all to me!
                        Arnold Östman... check him out
                        "...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
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                          • Dec 2011
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                          drottningholm

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                          • Nick Armstrong
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                            • Nov 2010
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                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            drottningholm
                            Bada bing bada boom

                            The Palace and Theatre (important artistic director Arnold Östman in the 80s) on Queen's Islet near Stockholm, A UNESCO World Heritage site... Ingmar Berman wanted to shoot Magic Flute in the theatre but had to recreate most of it in a studio as the actual place was too fragile.

                            E for you. (I think we relieved you of a C earlier... )

                            "...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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                            • Anna

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              I shall be progressing south of the Channel tomorrow and offline till later on Wednesday
                              Ooh, more pictures of Cali's French Fancies?? And full reports of fine dining please!

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                              • cloughie
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                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                Ooh, more pictures of Cali's French Fancies?? And full reports of fine dining please!
                                By 'eck you were up early. Thanks for relieving me of the C - very cleverly conceived. Copland, and his music, seems to feature well in AA clues.

                                The E links plonk, a building set and a Bill

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