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Jared 
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 Posted: June 20 2008 at 07:42 |
I would just like to say that a couple of days ago, I came across a bookshop which also sells 2nd hand classical music. As a consequence, I was able to purchase:
and:
apologies for the size of the pictures.
I have to say that I really like the Verdi, especially 'I vespri siciliani' and have surprised myself at how many bits I am familiar with, without really being aware of the fact.
the Mendelssohn, I find a bit flowery, but have always loved The Hebrides Overture; my main reason for the purchase.... 
I can see me building up a small collection of classical CDs before long.... 
all suggestions and contributions gratefully received from all you more knowledgable Grey haired ones... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 08:42 |
you should hear Mendelsohn's symphonies, Jared, they're lovely.. 
i managed to pick up 100's of DG vinyl albums in the 90's for pennies, though i have a few on CD.
Edited by mystic fred - June 20 2008 at 08:43
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Jared
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 08:45 |
^^I really like the Scottish symphony, Steve...its the only one I know at present...
back in the '80s I got hold of an old cassette with Fingal's Cave and the Scottish on...thought it was great, but have never heard anything else of his to match it, as yet...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 12:13 |
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Indeed it is - face it - a complete who's who of rock royalty, having a whale of a time on stage playing the music of one of England's finest ever songwriters...
...how could it miss??
Added to that, you also have a complete CD of some fine Indian classical music as well; although you get the impression from audience reaction, they were just waiting for Clapton, Preston, McCartney & co to hit the stage...
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Jared
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 12:22 |
^^^ sounds like a great disk, Jim...
I expect most of you will be heading home to your loved ones for the weekend before too long...
have a great one, all of you....  |
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 12:25 |
OK - before I bugger off for the weekend to be over-fed & drowned in milky tea by my wonderful mother, I thought I'd share this with you:
It was received from a friend at work, addressed to all her friends born in the 50s, 60s & 70s, but could be a list of qualifications to call yourself a true Grey:
Enjoy, all & have great weekends 
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 13:51 |
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So true Jim, so true. I read in the paper yesterday that a school has cancelled their sports day this year in case the children trip over on the grass and hurt themselves. Words fail me.
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 14:19 |
 fandango wrote:
^^^ sounds like a great disk, Jim...
I expect most of you will be heading home to your loved ones for the weekend before too long...
have a great one, all of you.... |
Cheers,Jared.
Tomorrow,I will be redeeming a gift that Evelyn presented to me on the occasion of my birthday in February.
I am going to G.F.Trumpers,(posh barbers)in Mayfair to have a 'proper' shave (cut throat razor.Yikes!).Er...Luxury? We will then go to Fortnum and Masons for a bite to eat and I will buy a pot or two of gentleman's relish whilst we are there.
I might treat Evelyn to lunch at Porters' restaurant.Steak and kidney pud' follwed by spotted dick and custard. Yum!
Have a great weekend,Jared.
Edited by Man Erg - June 20 2008 at 15:03
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 14:23 |
chopper wrote:
So true Jim, so true. I read in the paper yesterday that a school has cancelled their sports day this year in case the children trip over on the grass and hurt themselves. Words fail me. |
Me too,Alan.Great post,Jim.
I think that everything on the list is a reference point to my youth.Kids need to develop some 'backbone' nowadays.
I read that one of the reasons why there is so much knife crime is because kids are afraid of losing credibility if they lose a fist fight.
See what America does when it sneezes.We haven't just caught a cold,we have succombed to an epidemic.
Germolene* will go out of business if we are not careful.Do people still use Iodine nowadays? The sight of that when I was a kid was worse than the pain of the injury that it was about to treat.
My Nan used to use a bit of kidology and a spit 'n' a lick on her hanky.
She would spit on her hanky.Wipe the graze with it then tell me that if I had worn different coloured socks on that day,the pain would have been worse...it worked...in my case...I'm easily fooled.
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Jared
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 15:11 |
Man Erg wrote:
I am going to G.F.Trumpers,(posh barbers)in Mayfair to have a 'proper' shave (cut throat razor.Yikes!).Er...Luxury? We will then go to Fortnum and Masons for a bite to eat and I will buy a pot or two of gentleman's relish whilst we are there.
I might treat Evelyn to lunch at Porters' restaurant.Steak and kidney pud' follwed by spotted dick and custard. Yum!
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just make sure you don't wind up as the principle ingredient of a S&K pie, Lee... 
yes, as a Youth Hostel manager, I have sen quite a bit of this 'wrapping kids up in cotton wool'..
suffice it to say that teachers are very concerned about bringing kids away, because of the risk assessments, site surveys, concerns from their union and threat of ligitation from parents if things go wrong...its a wonder any field trips are made at all, these days... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 15:11 |
repetition of the above...
Edited by fandango - June 20 2008 at 15:13
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 15:26 |
fandango wrote:
repetition of the above... |
I heard you the first time.
So these "cotton wool kids" now think themselves invulnerable and indestructible because they have no concept of thing that could hurt them. It also makes them incredibly disrespectful, because they know you can't clip them around the ear when they've been rude or discourteous.
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Jared
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:37 |
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^^which is the number one reason why secondary school teachers are leaving the profession in increasing numbers, and replacements are proving diffcult to recruit...especially in inner city areas
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 03:31 |
Totally agree with all the above re kids. What puzzles me is that almost anyone you talk to, even a lot of today's children, will agree also. So why on earth do our education and disciplinary establishments carry on down this ridiculous road?
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 04:49 |
It's 'elf 'n'safety mate innit?
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr 
The 'system' is churning out kids totally unprepared for the harsh realities of life, other than of course, the fear of being sued!
Blinkin ridiculous state of affairs and one reason why I take my tribe off to the woods in Wales to manage with sharp knives and campfires!
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 05:36 |
^^childhood just wouldn't be childhood without wrapping your bike around a barbed wire fence, or falling out of a tree whilst scrumping, every once in a while... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 05:49 |
Verb
to scrump (third-person singular simple present scrumps, present participle scrumping, simple past and past participle scrumped)
- To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard
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Jared
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 06:50 |
^^phew...for a moment, I thought I'd got the wrong word...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 07:33 |
Is this the right place for an old fart to have a rant 
Rant 1: I've been in Singapore on an extended stay for work. I have plenty on prog mp3 files on my laptop but it is not always convenient to cart the old laptop around so today I splurged on a 4GB Sony mp3 player to give my music a little more portability. I get back to the hotel and behold, I have to load some Sony software called SonicStage to transfer files to the mp3 player because it is not really an mp3 player but a player of mp3 files converted to special Sony files. So here is the rub: the company I work for is so paranoid about the software we may load to our PC's I cannot load SonicStage to convert and transfer the files, so I have bought a paperweight (for the time being). I say shame on Sony for not letting me use plain old mp3 files  ...and shame on my employers for being so bloody paranoid
Rant 2: To top it all off, I went to get a haircut and beard trim today because I am looking a bit like Father Christmas at the moment and the barbers in Singapore don't do beards because most of the Asian men can't grow them. It looks like I may have to keep the Kris Kringle look until I get to go home to Perth!
Now I feel a bit better even though you may not want to listen to my petty gripes
And I did find a pretty good second hand vinyl shop last week in Singapore and picked up nine prog albums, so there has been some good to go with the bad (though can't listen to them until I go home, which is the only down side).
Edited by T.Rox - June 21 2008 at 07:38
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