Absent Friends & Missing Persons

[BBMmk2]

No chance of my doing a Roehre or Am51 but a scaling down seems right somehow. The end of day posts when I feel tired are a concern as I am up at 6am and don't get back in until over 12 hours later. A CD programme and it's bedtime whereupon the cycle starts all over again. Retiring at the end of next year so expect the situation to improve.

Sounds like a very challenging lifestyle there Pet but hopefully during the weekend perhaps we will see you more often? Do rather like seeing you concert programmes.

[Alain Maréchal]

I’d say no need to make a ‘big’ decision, just post as and when you can.

I have for some time considered leaving the Forum. My interest in Radio Three has now dwindled to very few programmes, none of which are broadcast before lunchtime. Of course there are good concert relays, but France Musique presents just as many, and Iplayer, to which I can obtain access through some clever technology (certainly not my cleverness) gives me access to the BBC. Moreover Carrefour de L'Odeon is In Tune with more intelligent waffling. Also (I hesitate to raise a subject that may get me expelled) my interest in the U.K. has, through no fault of my own and because of recent events become rather peripheral. I've written you off as hopeless, and, to be honest, peripheral, more or less. However I think I will post as and when I can, if a particular subject (such as Bruckner 6) piques my interest.

N.B. re "recent events". Cave Hostem.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sounds like a very challenging lifestyle there Pet but hopefully during the weekend perhaps we will see you more often? Do rather like seeing you concert programmes.

[antongould]

Thirded .....

[Petrushka]

Sounds like a very challenging lifestyle there Pet but hopefully during the weekend perhaps we will see you more often? Do rather like seeing you concert programmes.

It is a very challenging lifestyle and it's one that needs to change. Weekends are all too often taken up with endless shopping, housework and catching up with friends/relatives and though I have access to the Forum on my mobile phone it's a terrible faff around trying to post.

The concert programmes won't change though as they have formed the backbone of my life long before the Forum existed.

[Pulcinella]

Fourthed (and I'm another Stravinskyan character scaling my forum activity back somewhat).

[Beef Oven!]

Thirded .....

Fifthed ...............

[BBMmk2]

Fourthed (and I'm another Stravinskyan character scaling my forum activity back somewhat).

Please don't!

[Richard Barrett]

Also (I hesitate to raise a subject that may get me expelled) my interest in the U.K. has, through no fault of my own and because of recent events become rather peripheral. I've written you off as hopeless, and, to be honest, peripheral, more or less.

You should be aware that not all contributors to the forum are British and not all those who are actually live in the UK. I find it a bit strange that somehow you seem to be associating the actions of the current British government and its predecessor with members of this forum! That kind of conflation is behind very many of the problems that arise between people from different nations, if you ask me.

[french frank]

I find it a bit strange that somehow you seem to be associating the actions of the current British government and its predecessor

and its people? Count me in

with members of this forum! That kind of conflation is behind very many of the problems that arise between people from different nations

That too …

[Richard Tarleton]

You should be aware that not all contributors to the forum are British and not all those who are actually live in the UK. I find it a bit strange that somehow you seem to be associating the actions of the current British government and its predecessor with members of this forum! That kind of conflation is behind very many of the problems that arise between people from different nations, if you ask me.

I was thoroughly bewildered by Alain's post. I feel rather as one does when a much-loved family pet, slumbering unnoticed on the hearthrug, suddenly wakes up and bites one in the leg, entirely without provocation.

[french frank]

I was thoroughly bewildered by Alain's post. I feel rather as one does when a much-loved family pet, slumbering unnoticed on the hearthrug, suddenly wakes up and bites one in the leg, entirely without provocation.

I didn't read it that he was attacking the forum … and I sympathised.

[french frank]

And - as Alain implied - the same applies to Radio 3: once your loyalty is destroyed, you move on elsewhere.

[Alain Maréchal]

You should be aware that not all contributors to the forum are British and not all those who are actually live in the UK. I find it a bit strange that somehow you seem to be associating the actions of the current British government and its predecessor with members of this forum! That kind of conflation is behind very many of the problems that arise between people from different nations, if you ask me.

The "you" is the U.K.: I thought that was clear from my previous sentence, but if not, then I wrote with insufficient clarity and careless syntax. I was not attacking the Forum (although from time to time I have been bitten in the leg by other posters and it stung). Perhaps "written off" is strong, but what seems to have happened in those Isles is that you seem more insular - how could you not? Geography dictates it. Discussion of a certain subject over here has now been relegated well down the pages, we have other much more pressing uncertainties* to worry about.

*Example: how much discussion is there in the U.K. press of the current and probably incendiary border dispute between a country on the edge of the E.U. and one about to join? We see a Casus Belli. You probably feel they are small countries a long way away and of which your people know nothing.

[Lat-Literal]

Isn't "peripheral" being misinterpreted here?

Surely it is a compliment.