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  • Anna

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    My mum always said I was an accident!
    My Mum referred to it more delicately - I was the 'after thought'
    In other words, after she'd done it she thought, I didn't have oughta done that!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      Will the witness please answer the question...!

      "...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
        Will the witness please answer the question...!
        Are you talking to me? Ooh, I say ... am I to be interrogated by Billy the Barristers' Clerk or a real-life Barrister in Silk? My knees are trembling as we speak ....
        The answer is, Your Honour, (curtsey) I merely thought Cloughie saying Edward would obviously lead us down the Primrose Path to Elgar and perhaps he was being sneaky and it could indeed be Edward German. Hence my query as to RVW being banned by the Nasties. No more, and no less than that. I am entirely Innocent, your Lordship, of anything I am accused of!

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26540

          Originally posted by Anna View Post
          Are you talking to me? Ooh, I say ... am I to be interrogated by Billy the Barristers' Clerk or a real-life Barrister in Silk? My knees are trembling as we speak ....
          The answer is, Your Honour, (curtsey) I merely thought Cloughie saying Edward would obviously lead us down the Primrose Path to Elgar and perhaps he was being sneaky and it could indeed be Edward German. Hence my query as to RVW being banned by the Nasties. No more, and no less than that. I am entirely Innocent, your Lordship, of anything I am accused of!
          A very wailing among the wards of Chancery!

          I would advise (not even requiring so much as a guinea in my silken purse) that you start preparing an H question!
          "...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
            A very wailing among the wards of Chancery!

            I would advise (not even requiring so much as a guinea in my silken purse) that you start preparing an H question!
            I hesitate, Your Honour, to think of anything in your silken purse (why, the very idea could have me reaching for the sal volatile in an instant) because I have not got the answer. I am merely, how shall I put this, a Muse upon the shoulders of AAers, guiding them, a Blest Pair of Sirens, towards their goal of hitting the G spot, which could be Germanic in origin. And now, I have to go until the wee small hours...

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26540

              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              And now, I have to go until the wee small hours...




              "...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

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                I hesitate, Your Honour, to think of anything in your silken purse (why, the very idea could have me reaching for the sal volatile in an instant) because I have not got the answer. I am merely, how shall I put this, a Muse upon the shoulders of AAers, guiding them, a Blest Pair of Sirens, towards their goal of hitting the G spot, which could be Germanic in origin. And now, I have to go until the wee small hours...
                OK so you've got Edward German - there is a link there with Henry, also who was Johannes, and you need to look to the West Country for the link with Holst and Vaughan Williams.

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Edward German - Henry VIII ("Henry Irving version"), Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) ?

                  Johannes Brahms ?


                  have we concluded that the G word is GERMAN(Y) ?

                  what a lot of names to juggle with

                  does the Holst/RVW West Country link begin with G ?

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22127

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    Edward German - Henry VIII ("Henry Irving version"), Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) ?

                    Johannes Brahms ?


                    have we concluded that the G word is GERMAN(Y) ?

                    what a lot of names to juggle with

                    does the Holst/RVW West Country link begin with G ?
                    It is indeed German(y) and the Holst/RVW West Country link begins with G!

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      does the Henry [who has a link with Edward German] come from Germany ?

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        It is indeed German(y) and the Holst/RVW West Country link begins with G!
                        Gloucester(shire)?
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Henry Purcell wrote The Duke of Gloucester's Trumpet Suite;

                          OvertureRitornelloChaconneHenry Purcell (1659-1695)The Duke of Gloucester's Trumpet SuiteVaraždinske barokne večeri / Varazdin Baroque Evenings2 October 2011...
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            not sure that the Henry has to have a link with the Holst/RVW West Country link

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              does the Henry [who has a link with Edward German] come from Germany ?
                              sorry I thought you'd already sussed HenryVIII.

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                not sure that the Henry has to have a link with the Holst/RVW West Country link

                                Well, there's Edward German's Glorious Devon, but this isn't a West Country area associated with RVW & Holst beginning with G.

                                ARRRRGGGGGH!!

                                Richard III
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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