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dave brum

Am wn i = As far as I know, as far as I am aware, wotever. I learned this little shortcut quite early on. You know what 'na' neans, yes???

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Yes, a little like Craig Revel Horwood. His music being used at royal weddings certainly hasn't made him a modest person.... Because of his army wives choir work with Gareth Malone, he would have to be the obvious choice for a judge, really I guess. I don't think Britten would have done such a thing...

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We were doing power walking in keepfit class yesterday, with our instructor showing us how we should walk every day. 'You mean like Leonard Rossiter in The Waterloo Bridge Handicap?' I call out with interest. She didn't have an answer. She's older than me!!

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I have yet more good news to share with the world. Today I fitted a set of loft ladders, re-hinged and re-aligned the trapdoor (so it opens outwards) and fitted a new catch. And I did not swear, cuss or get angry once. I'm quite pleased with myself.

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Hope so, have to wait and see. Had an emu from Amanda today. Have to pay a visit to the Library of Birmingham this week and pick up (if it's on loan) Piano Time 1 and 2 by Pauline Hall (Oxford Piano Method). Two months ago I gave a copy away.

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Am wn i, na. Ond efallai os bydd Caryl yn llwyddo, bydd posibilrwydd o gael swydd pendant yn Llyndy Isaf. Ydych chi byth yn gwybod!!!!! Ger fferm Caryl yn Nant Gwynant (rhwng Capel Curig a Beddgelert) ym 1981, des i mewn cysylltiad a'r Gymraeg am y tro cyntaf erioed, pan arhosais i mewn canolfan pre...

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One only has to mention the word 'gay' and the Nick Ferrari's and James Whales of this world go berserk.... I have on DVD The Young Ones as well, would be interested in some of his other films too. George Cole, who starred as a Birmingham Labour councillor in 'Take me High' (and whom Cliff works his...

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Paul Mealor seemed quite critical of them. Had to snigger at the name of the pub in Central London where they went for their bonding section. Still think our choir has the edge, not that I'm biased as a City of Birmingham council tax payer. Fitness instructor told me this morning Stephen Masonthe fi...

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Only four days to go now

And only nine until I get unlimited broadband, not connected with learning the piano - but pretty handy for piano lessons through Skype

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YT has been playing up for a few weeks. I can't download anything....and my new piano teacher has made a very useful video about how to make your own rhythm and sight reading aid in Blue Peter fashion. Think RealPlayer needs a major update. Nothing witty here but the title track of Jethro Tull's '75...

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Wel, dydy ysgloriaeth (scholarship) Caryl ddim ond yn para am flwyddyn. Wedyn, bydd rhaid iddi hi wneud rhywbeth arall....ond mae'i theulu hi yn Nyffryn Ceiriog yn ffermwyr i gyd, felly bydd dim anhawsterau ganddi hi i gael cyflogi wedyn. Pob lwc, Caryl (a Mist y ci defaid). http://www.nationaltrust...

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Or Church of England/Wales/Scotland/Ireland as appropriate....

Mr.Malone is at Sainsburys in east London tonight doing his magic. They're doing a Spice Girls song...and I've just seen Old Spice.

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I put the seasonal CDs out today. I've always believed Christmas should be kept in the month of December but we'd sold quite a few CDs last week so I was caught between a rock and a hard place with too much shelf space and not enough donated stuff to put out this week. And I counted two Victorian/Ol...

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Eve Boswell came to mind just now whilst I was preparing some nice tasty meals for Sophie and Sarah Jane from yesterday's roast leftovers. She's fine thanks, being quite naughty as I type.......

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Good piece on Countryfile last night about Britten and the coast and countryside that inspired his works, such as 'Curlew River'. I've always wanted to go to Aldeburgh and see the museum of Britten and Pears since I saw it a few years back on an episode of Escape to the Country. Quite a trek from Bi...

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You could say I have three wives as it's a case of 'love me, love my cats' here!

Meow meow!!

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Gill the Piano wrote:You save your £££ for piano lessons and moosic!

I had a telephone call from my friend in the north wanting to know what T would like for Christmas...then he asked me. I didn't need to think about it. Money for

lessons.

Will PM address.

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That's nice. You must post a photo of Tuppence online if you can, Gill. How is she as regards to pianos, I wonder? Can she instantly tell if you've forgotten to close the keyboard lid???

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Bloody great song. I'd love the chance to sing it if I could. The version I have is sung in Yorkshire dialect but a version on Youtube I came across was in West Country accents: Good King Wenceslas looked out, we still keeps on recordin' Yes said Bates, You look out too it's seldom I've heard more d...

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Pob lwc Gill. Dwi wedi ceisio bod mor Deheuol a sy'n bosib i ti I've tried to be as South Walian as I could for ya! Eitem diddorol ar Countryfile heno am ffermwraig ifanc 23 oed o'r enw Caryl Hughes a oedd wedi ennill cystadleuaeth gan yr Ymddiredolaeth Genedlaethol (National Trust) i reoli fferm yn...

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He's a piano playing comedian who does routines around classical music backed by full orchestra and sometimes chorus, and tends to satirise the whole genre. For example, he's illustrated the link between Prokoviev's 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Barwick Green' aka the Archers theme, He has also done a twi...

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Yes I know. Give us a kiss me dear, he'd say.........Bit more witty is the Thomas Sterndale Bennett Christmas song about an enterprising group of amateur carollers who can't sing that I heard for the very first time last year when I purchased a Victorian Christmas song CD in a charity shop...do you ...

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Mae ffilm 'da fi sy'n dangos y dalentog a ddawnus Caryl Parry Jones o'r enw ''Steddfod 'Steddfod' ac yn y ffilm, mae Caryl yn chwarae sawl rhan ac ym mhob rhan mae hi'n 'rhoi ymlaen' yr acenion gwahanol Cymraeg Cymru. Un gymeriad oedd merch ysgol gwael o Gaernarfon, un oedd gweithwraig fferm o ardal...

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What colour is Tuppence then?? Eggs have shot up in price over the past few months so here's rather hoping for an extra hen for you. I'd love to build a chicken run in the back garden but our neighbourhood has loads of wild cats and foxes so would not be ecologically viable. There's a house near the...

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Someone from the music shop where I used to work sang it in the pub as 'You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel, 400 yards on my roof through a field...' That sounds very like something Messrs. Corbett and Barker may have done. It's around this time of year with Christmas coming I miss that ...

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Couldn't see it, it was an aerial shot, like the sort of thing on Google satellite on the closest zoom.

Shouldn't have said, would have been a good Christmas present

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I remember my mum used to sing it around the house. Only she used to sing: What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur With Uncle Arthur Coz e's a tarter!! It was actually the closing theme for the original TV series as I remember. Then fast forward, the late Benny Green got cajoled into playing the s...

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Or wifi

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I saw a picture of the village of Fingest, Bucks on a 2014 calendar of pictures of quintessentially British villages today but the church where Gill sometimes plays the organ was nowhere to be seen

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I was thinking about 'Upstairs Downstairs' last night, and whilst I'm not a great fan of the programme itself, there was this jolly little Edwardian-style song featured in the original series that went something like What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur? A blooming stallion is Uncle Arthur! I d...

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STATEMENT WITH REGARD TO DEFAMATORY COMMENTS ABOUT PIANO TEACHERS AND OTHER DISPARAGING AND NEGATIVE POSTINGS. Sunday 17th November 2013 Over recent days there has been some controversy generated over some rather graphic and over critical postings I have made on this Forum during the months of Octo...

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Kenny Rogers 'Lucille' was another one. Four hungry children and a crop in the field could have been four hundred children.

That was down to medium wave (AM) radio, mostly.

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Yes, or simply 'produced', doesn't matter how you say it just as long as it's in that tense, .....ED. 'CYNHYRCHWYD GAN....' is quite a common way of saying 'produced by', or the word 'cael' is also used quite often, as in 'wedi caei ei gynhyrchu' or 'wedi cael ei chynhyrchu' (lit. had its production...

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I came down the stairs today and there was Sarah Jane sat perched at the end of the radiator, with Soph sat on the floor staring up at her. I had to sneak quietly back upstairs quietly and get the camera. Unfortunately I cannot upload it due to me being near my data limit AGAIN until after the 20th ...

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Another trip to Sainsburys, and yet again Up the Junction was playing, followed by Waiting For A Girl Like You by Foreigner, also heard twice this week. I think I visit Sainsburys too often, but it's just their free wife I go for in their cafe, plus their Danish pastries! When I used to play the Lum...

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An old chestnut from the 80s by Godley and Creme: Don't want to be under your bum for ever It really does sound like bum! Slightly less cheeky was the old Rod Stewart number. When it first came out I always used to think he sang If you want my money and you think I'm sexy I saw him perform the song ...

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We seem to be talking a lot about cats these days on here, so I thought we could have a proper thread for matters canine and feline, possibly even vulpine and quite possibly equine or bovine. My Sophie Anne (cat, 18 1/2 years old) has a very strange taste for things you wouldn't expect a carnivorous...

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That's very good, Your original contract may not have been as good as that though. But loyalty pays. My original deal with 3 was for 3Gb of data for £15 then they offered me a new contract for 5Gb for the same price, which has only increased with inflation once. Either way, £71 overall is way too mu...

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Gill the Piano wrote: 'I'm sorry, I'm learning for fun and this isn't bloody fun'!

I never think of the right things to say at the right time. Like it!!!

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Ditto, swapping the word Welsh for the two words piano playing

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Gill the Piano wrote:DCDC is still on, yes. You should catch up with Pobol Y Cwm; astyonishing that so many crises/murders/accidents/addictions/character disorders/pregnancies can occur in one little village...

Wedi cynhyrchu gan yr un bobl y daeth ag East Enders i'r byd!

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Gill the Piano wrote:DCDC is still on, yes. You should catch up with Pobol Y Cwm; astyonishing that so many crises/murders/accidents/addictions/character disorders/pregnancies can occur in one little village...

See you on the Welsh thread.....

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I get TV, phone and internet from Virgin. Their broadband is unlimited and I have a great fixed fee phone package. I'm looking at Virgin for all 3 as well, Fiona. We have TV from them but nothing else (£32 for XL pack), then £23 for BT unlimited UK calls anytime, and £16 to 3 for Internet, but as I...

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'Ynfytyn' isn't in my dic as well, I've had a look (mine's the Oxford Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary). Only twpsyn. I've heard the word in pop songs by Datblygu ('Ffansin Ynfytyn') and Tynal Tywyll ('...ac ar fy enaid! Mae'n amlwg, ynfytyn y bydda i un'). However I had a chance look on geiriadur, an...

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Shall we continue on the Cymraeg thread in t'other room??? More good news, the piano is now plugged in and I'm ready to go. Had to do some good old grade 1 scales, and had a go at picking out the intro to 'Up The Junction', not one of my favourite songs I have to say (happen/Clapham), but I remember...

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Gill the Piano wrote:Also, you must NOT think that you're wrong and everyone else is right!

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I think so. I use Supanet and it's about a tenner a month I think. Sorry to be vague but I am not in the slightest technological! Me neither. There's a part of me that wants to sell my CDs and CD player and just buy a Grundig or Pye stereophonic radiogram c.1965 and a load of vinyl from our shop. I...

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That's EXACTLY what I intend to do. I never did a single exam or proficiency test in Welsh....and there was no Internet learning resources in those days (early 90s), only Radio Cymru.

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Pob lwc, cariad; ac anwybyddich yr twpsin clewiwr. What books will you be using? Perhaps you can just use Complete Piano Player? Or Fanny Doodah? It makes more economical sense to use books you already have. Diolch yn fawr Gill. Twpsin wir. 'Ynfytyn' yw gair sy'n golygu'r un peth :) That's the word...

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I think she will, Gill. I just have to learn to trust her and not keep thinking that I'm right and everyone else is wrong. And enjoy it as well.

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