Sunday night chat

[teamsaint]

Not me, I'm afraid. Had a slightly earlier night than usual, up far too early Monday morn.

Congratulations on the new job, ts. Hope it's not taking a job off someone who was made redundant but been in that situation myself in the past.

Thanks Pet.
no not really taking somebody else's job. I'm happy to say.

[Alison]

Point about fair Sainty?

[teamsaint]

Point about fair Sainty?

was really Alison. we gifted them a goal , but they also missed a sitter. We didn't really deserve to score more than one,despite a lot of possession, so justice done I think.
Good to rescue a point with a good goal on a night when were weren't firing...the benefit of having two top class full backs.

Calming down with some Schumann piano music. !!!

[gurnemanz]

was really Alison. we gifted them a goal , but they also missed a sitter. We didn't really deserve to score more than one,despite a lot of possession, so justice done I think.
Good to rescue a point with a good goal on a night when were weren't firing...the benefit of having two top class full backs.

Calming down with some Schumann piano music. !!!

I love Schumann piano but the more I listen the more his manic disposition comes through.

[teamsaint]

I love Schumann piano but the more I listen the more his manic disposition comes through.

Yes, I completely agree.
If / when i have the time to study these things in much more depth, it will be one of the top things on my list.

There is of course, calming down and calming down.........and there is Schumann and other Schumann...

Anybody seen this?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123806953

[Petrushka]

Evening Sunday nighters. It's Advent Sunday which means Christmas is but a short time away. I'm not typical of most men as nearly all of my Christmas shopping has been done. I remember dashing around on Christmas Eve years ago struggling to find last minute presents and swore I'd never do it again. I aim to have most done by December 1.

Good to have the Classical Music Association thread back for it's Christmas residence on these pages. I steer clear of the Alphabet Associations thread but do like the Classical Music one. Let's keep it going until Twelfth Night.

Looks like Edgeley Rob and teamsaint are in the pub.

[teamsaint]

Evening Sunday nighters. It's Advent Sunday which means Christmas is but a short time away. I'm not typical of most men as nearly all of my Christmas shopping has been done. I remember dashing around on Christmas Eve years ago struggling to find last minute presents and swore I'd never do it again. I aim to have most done by December 1.

Good to have the Classical Music Association thread back for it's Christmas residence on these pages. I steer clear of the Alphabet Associations thread but do like the Classical Music one. Let's keep it going until Twelfth Night.

Looks like Edgeley Rob and teamsaint are in the pub.

no, faffing around on here, and listening to some Martinu String Quartets, Pet.

actually most of our shopping done, but the dreaded cards still to do. Luckily, I have absolutely dreadful handwriting, so Mrs TS insists on writing them.

Even got our Xmas tree, a rather nice little one from Asda with a root.

[EdgeleyRob]

I'm here,evening Pet,ts,and Alison,hope you are all well.
We need a recruiting drive for more members.

Those classical and non classical associations are so addictive,the alphabet one makes my brain hurt.

Mrs ER loves shopping so much she does mine for me,except for her own presents of course.

We had a development/team building day at work this week,dontcha just love those.
This year has been great apparently,and next year will be even better !!!

[gurnemanz]

I'm suffering from a horrendous cold - dripping nose etc which may prevent me from attending the last rehearsal of our choir's carol concert tomorrow. I hope that if I'm having the cold now, it means that I won't have one over Christmas.

[EdgeleyRob]

I'm suffering from a horrendous cold - dripping nose etc which may prevent me from attending the last rehearsal of our choir's carol concert tomorrow. I hope that if I'm having the cold now, it means that I won't have one over Christmas.

Good evenig gurnemanz,it's called man flu.
Hope you are soon feeling better.

[teamsaint]

Good evenig gurnemanz,it's called man flu.
Hope you are soon feeling better.

yup, hope you are soon over it.

A good point at Swansea might have helped your recovery.
I'm sure you don't need that final rehearsal anyway.

[gurnemanz]

Thanks for kind words. I had a flu jab for the first time thsi year which appears to have had precious little effect.

[Alison]

A friend came over for a big shopping day in Chelmsford.

I was inspired to acquire a tree extra early this year and she has decorated it for me.

A horrible cold for me too and just taken Night Nurse!

Best wishes to all as we journey towards Christmas.

[Nick Armstrong]

A horrible cold for me too and just taken Night Nurse!

Best wishes to all as we journey towards Christmas.

Get better soon! Your post made me revisit this!


'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.'
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.

Than at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory.

All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different: this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.


T.S. Eliot - Journey of the Magi


Advent greetings to all !

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oooh! Put this on the Poetry Thread, please, Cali!