Beautiful quiet British beaches

[eighthobstruction]

Wilson had bought a property on the St Marys main street in 1960's (off comers now unable to buy I think)....never went to St Martins (I think it is the furthest out isn't it)....My faves St Agnes and Bryher....Old Salts on boats and in pubs loved spreading dis information....I always went May to Aug....espec May June to see the Sea Pinks....I worked in hotels there too (fond memories of discos on the village hall St Marys)....Best sun tans ever (now revealing themselves as liver spots all over me....)....

No helicopter? How silly.....Yep Scillonian YUCK....

[Richard Tarleton]

I see the autumn influx of birders to Scilly is not what it once was....like Cape Clear, Fair Isle and a few other spots a landfall for misguided rarities.

[ahinton]

Obviously needed extrasupercalicoffeedoses....

The pianist Charles Hopkins (1952-2007) was a great fan of the strongest possible coffee; he used to say that he couldn't see the point on coffee so strong that you could stand your spoon up in it, his personal preference being for coffee so strong that you couldn't get your spoon into it.

Anyway, where music's concerned, there are those three coffee-based works, J S Bach's so-called Coffee Cantata, the 1920s Brown / de Silva song You're the Cream in my Coffee and - well, wht's the third? Clue: it's by one of the longest-lived of all French composers...

Anyway, apologies for the off-topic distractions.

As you were...

[mercia]

Arthur Benjamin's Jamaican Rombouts

[ahinton]

Arthur Benjamin's Jamaican Rombouts

Nice try, but neither things Jamaican nor the origin of Rombouts nor Mr Benjamin are/were French!...

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyway, where music's concerned, there are those three coffee-based works, J S Bach's so-called Coffee Cantata, the 1920s Brown / de Silva song You're the Cream in my Coffee and - well, wht's the third? Clue: it's by one of the longest-lived of all French composers...

How very jocund of you , ahinton. Somthing's telling me Saint-Saens... He lived to a ripe old age, and wrote all sorts of odd things... 'The smells of Paris'... 'Hail! California!' etc..

Something to do with Java?

(there's his "Javanaise" of course - at least with the hispanic procunciation )

[ahinton]

How very jocund of you , ahinton. Somthing's telling me Saint-Saens... He lived to a ripe old age, and wrote all sorts of odd things... 'The smells of Paris'... 'Hail! California!' etc..

Something to do with Java?

(there's his "Javanaise" of course - at least with the hispanic procunciation )

Again, nice try! - but it's rather more prosaic than that, I fear - and the composer lived longer than did Saint-Saëns...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

'Tis a Mystère, methinks ... but I'll get it very quicky. I take no credit; it's all Due to youse.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Something to do with Java?

There is the fourth in Mr Hinton's trilogy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6IUqrFHjw

[ahinton]

'Tis a Mystère, methinks ... but I'll get it very quicky. I take no credit; it's all Due to youse.

Got it indeed, fhg!

[clive heath]

For another view of the Isle of Purbeck as well as the Needles , you could be the other side of Hengistbury Head from Highcliffe where there is another relatively deserted beach (albeit quite stony near the head but more and more sandy as you approach Southbourne) from which you can see the whole of Bournemouth Bay round to Sandbanks and then to Old Harry Rocks to the headland beyond Swanage. You can see where they plan to put an array of 180 or so turbines (Navitus Bay Wind Farm), and occasionally the fast Condor ferry to the Channel Islands departing/arriving Poole.

[ahinton]

There is the fourth in Mr Hinton's trilogy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6IUqrFHjw

Ah, yes - I'd not thought of that at the time - though it would presumably have turned into a tetralogy had I done so and, even if I had, it would have been Godowsky's Phonoramas, otherwise known as Java Suite. But then supposing that espresso had taken the place of espressivo as a performance direction? Or that Sorabji had entitled his second volume of essays Mi Contra Fa:The Immoralisings of a Macchiato Musician? And might a canonical treatment of a certain Warren / Gordon song made famous decades ago by the Glenn Miller Orchestra be Double Chagganooga Choo-Choo? And, of course, as another once popular song by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles tells us, there's a lot of awful coffee in Brazil (or something like that). But perhaps my capacity for latte-ral thinking falls short of the high expectations of members of this distinguished forum, though hopefully not so much so as to provide FF with sufficient grounds to request my departure therefrom. In the meantime, mocha me not.

But never mind all that! Once more onto the beach, dear friends!

[ahinton]

For another view of the Isle of Purbeck as well as the Needles , you could be the other side of Hengistbury Head from Highcliffe where there is another relatively deserted beach (albeit quite stony near the head but more and more sandy as you approach Southbourne) from which you can see the whole of Bournemouth Bay round to Sandbanks and then to Old Harry Rocks to the headland beyond Swanage. You can see where they plan to put an array of 180 or so turbines (Navitus Bay Wind Farm), and occasionally the fast Condor ferry to the Channel Islands departing/arriving Poole.

Having been obliged to sail with Condor Ferries from Poole to Cherbourg once almost a year ago during a Brittany Ferries strike, I can certainly recommend - er - swimming the distance as a better alternative.

[Nick Armstrong]

But never mind all that! Once more onto the beach, dear friends!

I didn't have time to decipher 'all that' (I'm out and about and the type is very small) but in any event saw no sign of a French composer who lived longer than Saint-Saens... Is the puzzle still unsolved?

[ahinton]

I didn't have time to decipher 'all that' (I'm out and about and the type is very small) but in any event saw no sign of a French composer who lived longer than Saint-Saens... Is the puzzle still unsolved?

Not to the ever observant fhg, it isn't! And if you remain on a quest for a French composer who was longer lived that Saint-Saëns, you have to cast your memory back a mere quatre-vingt trois jours...