@bill yes, symphony no.3 sorrowful
Beth Gibbons is half of Portishead. Was a 2014 concert, has big applause at end. polish national radio symphony orchestra conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki. It is good.
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@gembo literally just read about The Sisters Brothers in The List. I feel like a film Dummy.
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@jdanielp, heard review on radio four the other day, very positive. Eldest daughter also saying Us is better than the first one. Get Out. she is a Fan of Jordan Peele
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@gembo @jdanielp I am really surprised that you both know of that symphony! CCE is a really strange (good strange) place!
@gembo I didn't realise that this symphony was ever performed by non-Slavic singers.
@gembo @jdanielp We saw 'Us' last week as well (we get free cinema tickets with our health insurance). I liked 'Get Out' better.
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@bill @gembo I much preferred Get Out. Us raised a lot of quite interesting questions, but, from my perspective, they pointed towards Jordan Peele not having well thought through his story.
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According to wiki, Beth gibbons learnt the polish language. I imagine this would need verified. I would be listening to it now but youngest has pal for sleep over and despite there being two bedrooms to choose from they are in the Snug on the sofa bed. This is where the CD player is. I should get more up to date but I believe I am actually going back to tapes. Making a pal a mix tape was always something to do, now I will need to also buy Walkman copies from China to go with the tape. Could be like a plot device in a spy movie. The main protagonist played by Rachel Weisz receives a Jiffy bag from mystery doctor, maybe the one employed by Team Sky and inside is a Walkman with headphones and she plays the long and detailed message in sections over the course of the film until she locates the even larger stash of mix tapes hidden by Jarvis Cocker's civil servant who surreptitiously recorded various top government meetings. Lots of flash back to Jarvis in his brown seventies suit and massive earphones.
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Alison Johnstone has been starting to recognise me when I cycle past her on the canal towpath some mornings which she just confirmed by asking me about my cycling activities in passing at the Scottish Greens Spring Conference.
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Was doing some talking in Oban. Stopped off on the way home for a spot of tourism.
In the Knapdale forest, parked up on a whim and walked along the Crinan Canal. Stumbled on a forest walk and decided to explore that. Spotted a wee branch path off the trail and had a wee look.
At the end of the path, overlooking a glade was a small wooden post with a steel plaque. It was a memorial to a friend of mine who died in Australia in 1992. I didn't know he had a memorial or any connection to Knapdale. But then no one knew he was a Zoroastrian until his funeral.
I was, to say the least, taken aback. I will return and replace the post soon - it was beginning to return to nature.
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@iwrats, could be start of new book? Check out Alistair Moffat The Hidden Ways. He always takes his car but he is old. Another corker is The Electric Shepherd by Karl Miller. The opening chapt of finds James Hogg high up in the hills tending sheep living in a bothy which is a hole in the ground and has a bed of rushes. The greatest short story writer of all time Alice Munro did part of the Hogg trail into Ettrick by post bus. Mungo Park retired to Peebles.
I am thinking of kicking off this idea with cycle to the Gordon Arms this week, the last meeting place of Scott and Hogg.
To summarise, the layers of our society lie under our feet, and roads can be found that the Romans put down. The layers of previous writings about our nation are also redolent in the landscape.
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The Hidden Ways came out when I was deep in Overlander and I forbade myself the pleasure of reading it until I was done. It's good.
My friend's name was so fine it could not figure in a novel. He was Doctor Xerxes S. Captain and I hope he made it across Chinvat. I'm sure he did, and the bridge was wide.
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Jim Crumley is with Saraband. They have great taste in writers.
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How do you know??
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That bridge sent me down the rabbit hole of Sogdian Iranians from China and of course swimming The Hellespont with Xerxes whipping the water for its bad behaviour. (Emperor Xerxes, not Captain Xerxes)
Hidden ways has the story of Pringle Elliot putting in fences in 1920 at Clovingfords above Galashiels and meeting an elephant.
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Pictures;
https://twitter.com/overlandertheb1/status/1115203974980874240
Almost inexpressibly weird to just stumble on the thing.
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@IWRATS that's some very touching story!
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@bill
It was quite disorienting. (And I'm a bit sad you have reverted to 'IWRATS'. I enjoyed being IWARTS for a while.)
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So your IWARTS got better? That's a relief.
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IWARTS and all.
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A two berth tent in the middle of the Meadows this morning. Inside an area cordoned off with rope for grass renewal purposes.
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About 2:30pm spotted a Council team delivering a note which they tied to the guy rope of the two man tent in the fenced off cricket square on the meadows...!
Assume they were saying "you've every right to pitch a tent on meadows but could you not do it on the nice recovering grass that we need to use to play crickets"
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"you've every right to pitch a tent on meadows“
Even with Access laws, don’t think that’s true.
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Now I really need to know the tale of the tent pitcher.
It doesn't look like a v restful place to camp. I'd at least have chosen a location closer to the public toilets.
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The Saga of the Portobello Beach Piano Vendor versus The Council brought up something about permission to camp not being possible within a particular distance of a road. Might have been 100m?
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It'll be 'Gandalf'.
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There were actually 2 tents on the Meadows yesterday evening when I went past.
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Ladyboys staking their area early this year?
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In years to come we will look on the packed shanty town that will become known as 'Hope Park City' and say wistfully 'All this was grass in my day...' as we duck stray bullets from the latest paramilitary police raid.
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@greenroofer on the Gogarstation Road. I was disguised as bemused passenger. Mrs Garto following sat nav to Broxburn. Picked up child from pals and also third pal who lives Kirknewton. I took over directions from satnav. Slight hiccup when reached the dead end into almondell but easily rectified via pumpherston and the restaurants of the world. How many Chinese restaurants can one small west Lothian village have?
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On my cycle home earlier, I spotted a tent pitched in the field between the canal and the M8 near the access from Hermiston House Road to the towpath.
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