Proms 2014

[Petrushka]

I do so wish that the Proms booking opened much sooner than it does. There's so little time left to organise your summer especially with work colleagues inevitably getting their dates in before I've even thought about it. Same story every year.

[teamsaint]

I do so wish that the Proms booking opened much sooner than it does. There's so little time left to organise your summer especially with work colleagues inevitably getting their dates in before I've even thought about it. Same story every year.

quite so, Pet.

Rather typical of our London centric country. Looking forward to the announcement anyway. We are lucky here in being able to get home on the train after concerts , although I need to take a half day off to queue if promming.

[Beef Oven!]

quite so, Pet.

Rather typical of our London centric country. Looking forward to the announcement anyway. We are lucky here in being able to get home on the train after concerts , although I need to take a half day off to queue if promming.

London is the capital. England will be London-centric, therefore.

The most important people live and work in London. They have a greater need for recreation, therefore.

It stands to reason.

It would be be silly to have the Proms or Manze's Pie & Mash in Southampton.

[teamsaint]

London is the capital. England will be London-centric, therefore.

The most important people live and work in London. They have a greater need for recreation, therefore.

It stands to reason.

It would be be silly to have the Proms or Manze's Pie & Mash in Southampton.

We have Plested's pie shop. Well we used to. It was brilliant. Actually it may still be there.
I don't think you can say that about the Proms, untill they have tried them in So'ton for a year.
besides, come July/august, most of the londoners have shoved off to their holiday homes, so your logic is shot through with holes.

No offence.!!

[Beef Oven!]

We have Plested's pie shop. Well we used to. It was brilliant. Actually it may still be there.
I don't think you can say that about the Proms, untill they have tried them in So'ton for a year.
besides, come July/august, most of the londoners have shoved off to their holiday homes, so your logic is shot through with holes.

No offence.!!

We are spoilt in London, and many of us take things for granted.

We are able to leave work at about 5.00 and still get a decent spot in the queue.

[teamsaint]

We are spoilt in London, and many of us take things for granted.

We are able to leave work at about 5.00 and still get a decent spot in the queue.

not on Mahler nights !!

[Beef Oven!]

not on Mahler nights !!

I don't recall ever having a major issue on Mahler nights.

My memory tells me that the longest queue I've ever been in was a Verdi Requiem a few years ago.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

We have Plested's pie shop. Well we used to. It was brilliant. Actually it may still be there.
I don't think you can say that about the Proms, untill they have tried them in So'ton for a year.
besides, come July/august, most of the londoners have shoved off to their holiday homes, so your logic is shot through with holes.

No offence.!!

Looking forward to shoving off to my holiday home in July/August.

[edashtav]

We have Plested's pie shop. Well we used to. It was brilliant. Actually it may still be there.

Saints be praised - I think you've solved one of my life's enduring mysteries, ts!

It must have been 1955, and I'd been taken to Hants County Cricket Club by my Uncle. Then, as now, I took my cricket very seriously. Henry, who couldn't sit for long after having been shot through the scrotum in WWII, insisted we should leave the match half an hour before the lunch interval to get "the best pie you've ever eaten, Ed". I marched off a truly surly pre-teen. I was not impressed by the back-street entrance to Henry's Holy Pie, either. But, once I'd tasted the rich, juicy sauce on my steak & kidney pie, all thoughts of HCCC and the runs that Roy Marshall would be scoring in my absence, evaporated.

To this day, I've remained in total ignorance about which Pie Shop was the entrance to Valhalla.

Now, I'm sure I know.

I owe you a Plested Pie,ts!

[teamsaint]

Saints be praised - I think you've solved one of my life's enduring mysteries, ts!

It must have been 1955, and I'd been taken to Hants County Cricket Club by my Uncle. Then, as now, I took my cricket very seriously. Henry, who couldn't sit for long after having been shot through the scrotum in WWII, insisted we should leave the match half an hour before the lunch interval to get "the best pie you've ever eaten, Ed". I marched off a truly surly pre-teen. I was not impressed by the back-street entrance to Henry's Holy Pie, either. But, once I'd tasted the rich, juicy sauce on my steak & kidney pie, all thoughts of HCCC and the runs that Roy Marshall would be scoring in my absence, evaporated.

To this day, I've remained in total ignorance about which Pie Shop was the entrance to Valhalla.

Now, I'm sure I know.

I owe you a Plested Pie,ts!

You are a gent, Ed !!
Roy was a top player, spent a good deal of my summer hols back in the early seventies watching Richards, Greenidge and Marshall Amassing huge totals at Northlands Road. Great days .

[edashtav]

You are a gent, Ed !!
Roy was a top player, spent a good deal of my summer hols back in the early seventies watching Richards, greenidge and Marshall. Amassing huge totals at Northlands Road. Great days .

I was there, too,ts. The sole reason for doing my education year at Soton was that its Uni was a hop, skip & a jump from Northlands Rd... and the sole task for the summer term was writing an extended essay... on the train to & from Bournemouth to Soton Central ( & the cricket)

Now only the names of the roads of a dull modern housing estate remind us the former County ground's glory days.

[teamsaint]

I was there, too,ts. The sole reason for doing my education year at Soton was that its Uni was a hop, skip & a jump from Northlands Rd... and the sole task for the summer term was writing an extended essay... on the train to & from Bournemouth to Soton Central ( & the cricket)

Now only the names of the roads of a dull modern housing estate remind us the former County grounds' glory days.

We must meet up for a (plesteds)pie ,a pint and a reminisce sometime ,Ed !

[MrGongGong]

Could I be the first to complain about the clapping between movements, dumbed down presentation and lack of neglected British composers in the 2014 Proms.

[edashtav]

Yes, indeed.

Were you to be free on 21.06,ts, I'd upgrade (impossibilile!) you Pie to a ticket (or two) - I've bought too many for a prestigious(long) London gig. Another in my party spent his youth at Northlands Rd!

[teamsaint]

Yes, indeed.

Were you to be free on 21.06,ts, I'd upgrade (impossibilile!) you Pie to a ticket (or two) - I've bought too many for a prestigious(long) London gig. Another in my party spent his youth at Northlands Rd!

Thats a very kind offer indeed, Ed.

I will PM you when i am back home,and have a decent machine to type on !

(How did Hampshire win so few trophies back then? Unbelievable !!)