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moonfruit
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I survived the glitter, barely. We had an epic craft afternoon planned today, and then my TA was called away to deal with a child in another class (part of an ongoing arrangment), so I was left with 29 children and finger painting, glitter and general mayhem. Still, we made it, and I don't appear to have bought too much of the glitter home with me.
Tomorrow is the Juniors Christmas Party Day. Lord, have mercy.
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ArachnidinElmet
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; I'm looking forward to the Post Officer's face when I ask for 150 £1.37 stamps and airmail stickers.
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FIL used to reckon that whenever he was in a hurry at the post office, there would be someone in front of him wanting to send a bassoon to the Cayman Islands.
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I did post a Secret Santa pressie today, but it wasn't a bassoon, so I was in and out in no time.
Congratulations, Boogie. You must be chuffed.
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Moonfruit, I wouldn't be the cleaning-lady for your classroom for all the tea in China.
I have, however (with a bit of help from D), been a moderately accomplished piglet today:
Christmas cards signed and envelopes addressed (hurrah for labels!), just the Dreaded Christmas Letters™ to be added (hopefully by D)
Pressies ordered for family from the Wine Society, Amazon and Judith Glue (that bit was mostly D)
Rolls baked for tomorrow's lunch
Laundry in tumble-dryer
I'm getting there ... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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We've just had a lovely morning and lunch with the twins (now two and a half and delightful) and their parents.
Now we are awaiting a courtesy car to arrive due to a minor prang last night (their fault and full responsibility accepted - the poor girl was only 22) It was sad to see our car being driven off on top of a breakdown waggon ![[Frown]](frown.gif) I'm pleased to say we are getting exactly the smae make and model until ours is mended. The insurance companies couldn't have been more prompt or helpful.
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Piglet, that does indeed sound like a very accomplished day - well done!
Boogie, glad to hear that the insurance company have been helpful, and hopefully they can sort your car out for you!
Christmas party day was enjoyed by all (even me!) - tomorrow is the Carol Service, which is, as I think I may have said already, just glorious. Somehow it's the real start of Christmas for me: full church, organ going full blast, joyful singing. I'm smiling just thinking about it!
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Had a pretty good day off work yesterday. Began with a full English breakfast at my favourite café. Got quite a bit of Christmas wrapping done while watching lots of episodes of The West Wing. Then I headed down to my local art gallery in the afternoon for an MC Escher exhibition, which was delightful. Went carol singing with the church in the evening, before coming back and got to the midnight showing of Star Wars.
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Welease Woderwick
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Did you have that breakfast with ketchup or brown sauce? Fried bread or toast or were you a greedy guts and had both? I tend to fry bread in a mixture of Olive Pomace Oil and butter and that is wonderful! I sometimes spread marmalade on it, too.
Isn't food wonderful?
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Sipech - We went to the Escher exhibition last week and very much enjoyed it. We also went to a cafe but probably not the same one as you. It certainly wasn't the sort of place to serve any sort of sauce.
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Welease Woderwick
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No sauce?!?
You can't have The Full English without sauce - I think you'll find that it's against the law or something. There is [or was] a little cafe in The Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham that does a wonderful full brekkie and the sauce is on the table!
As we usually have what you would probably call curry for breakfast we don't need it but on the odd occasion I make my own breakfast I usually prefer brown sauce.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Had a pretty good day off work yesterday. Began with a full English breakfast at my favourite café. Got quite a bit of Christmas wrapping done while watching lots of episodes of The West Wing...
If you're in front of a tv on Friday evening, one of the specialist subjects is West Wing.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... You can't have The Full English without sauce - I think you'll find that it's against the law or something ...
Oh bother - Criminal Piglet checking in ...
I have tomato ketchup with chips, but IMHO the only on-plate lubrication required with a Full English is the yolk of the eggs (which should be runny enough to dip your toast/fried bread into) and the insides of the fried/grilled tomatoes, which will be nicely absorbed by the sausages and/or black pudding.
Anyone putting baked beans anywhere near a full breakfast (unless they're in a little separate bowl, and possibly not even then) should be shot.
[ 17. December 2015, 15:12: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... You can't have The Full English without sauce - I think you'll find that it's against the law or something ...
Oh bother - Criminal Piglet checking in ...
I have tomato ketchup with chips, but IMHO the only on-plate lubrication required with a Full English is the yolk of the eggs (which should be runny enough to dip your toast/fried bread into) and the insides of the fried/grilled tomatoes, which will be nicely absorbed by the sausages and/or black pudding.
Anyone putting baked beans anywhere near a full breakfast (unless they're in a little separate bowl, and possibly not even then) should be shot.
Seconded, to the nth degree. Anyone trying to smuggle chips onto a breakfast plate gets the other barrel, although yesterday's boiled or mashed potatoes fried up are an excelent accompaniment.
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Vinegar on the bacon. Brown sauce with sausages. I'm also partial, occasionally, to a dab of mustard on the yolk of a fried egg.
Does this make me a bad person?
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Albertus:
... I'm also partial, occasionally, to a dab of mustard on the yolk of a fried egg.
Does this make me a bad person?
No, just a slightly odd one. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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The Full English makes me cringe, but not like the Scottish Cardiac Breakfast where porridge is a mandatory appetiser. I try to be brave, but I can't do it. I'd be crawling around all day on my hands and knees with heartburn. I've asked for crispy bacon to make sure the pig was actually deceased when it left the frying pan, but just get strange looks. Much safer to stay with good, healthy butteries and Marmite.
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Welease Woderwick
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Mustard with egg sounds rather nice.
As for Baked Beans: mustard and brown sauce and, of course, garlic are superb additions, as is grated cheese.
When is the firing squad?
eta: as for the mashed potato - add some cold cooked cabbage, a little onion and make bubble and squeak - fabulous!
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Stercus Tauri:
... good, healthy butteries and Marmite.
You can't do that to a buttery! Go and wash your mouth with soap!
Having discovered that another new restaurant (part of a chain) had opened in St. John's, we felt it incumbent upon us to conduct some research, so went out for a sort of late-evening bite. We were probably the oldest people in the place by a country mile, and at least part of the menu seemed to be geared to a rather younger clientele than us (wings, burgers, what-have-you).
We weren't really hungry enough for a full-on feed, so we shared a very nice tomato and feta bruschetta and a big mixed salad of leaves, chicken, peppers, tomatoes, raisins, nuts and seeds. The only fault I found was that the "spicy citrus dressing" was rather more spicy than I'd have liked. We ordered a pudding to share (funnel-cake fries) but they'd run out of it (it was their first night of being open to the public, so they hadn't quite sussed out portion control), so we had a cheesecake instead, which was quite good, and not tooth-achingly sweet like a lot of puddings here.
I'd say we'll quite possibly go back; I'd like to try one of their (very reasonably-priced) steaks when I'm feeling hungry enough to appreciate it.
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Sipech
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I should clarify, my local cafe does what they call the double full English which is 2 slices of toast, 2 rashers of bacon, 2 sausages, 2 fried eggs, 2 grilled tomatoes, 2 fried mushrooms and beans.
However, as fried mushrooms are an abomination and I'm none too keen on tomatoes that haven't been deseeded, I swap those out and add black pudding instead.
With beans on the plate, you don't need to add tomato ketchup, and I'm still suspicious as to what brown sauce actually is. Having never received a straight answer, I'll steer on the side of caution and avoid it.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sipech:
I should clarify, my local cafe does what they call the double full English which is 2 slices of toast, 2 rashers of bacon, 2 sausages, 2 fried eggs, 2 grilled tomatoes, 2 fried mushrooms and beans.
When we have fried breakfast (and am I the only one who detests the term "Full English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh Breakfast?") that's about par for the course. Then again, we are most likely to have it for tea.
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However, as fried mushrooms are an abomination and I'm none too keen on tomatoes that haven't been deseeded, I swap those out and add black pudding instead.
Fried mushrooms are OK but black pudding is the Best.Thing.Ever with fried egg.
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With beans on the plate, you don't need to add tomato ketchup, and I'm still suspicious as to what brown sauce actually is. Having never received a straight answer, I'll steer on the side of caution and avoid it.
We always have HP sauce. It isn't your average brown sauce but I have been using it forty-plus years so I think we can trust it.
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Piglet
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I don't really mind the expressions "full English/Scottish/Irish"* but I think the contents may vary from one to the other. A proper Ulster Fry has to have a toasted or fried soda farl and/or a potato farl, and a Scottish one really ought to have a toasted buttery if you're within hailing distance of Aberdeen and may be permitted to have haggis in some form or another. Kippers ought to be on offer if you're in the Isle of Man.
* I don't think I've ever had breakfast in Wales, so I'm not qualified to comment about theirs.
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ArachnidinElmet
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I may have mentioned this before, but a Full Yorkshire is available from a café in Whitby: a cooked breakfast in a Yorkshire Pudding.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
I may have mentioned this before, but a Full Yorkshire is available from a café in Whitby: a cooked breakfast in a Yorkshire Pudding.
That I must try! Another excuse to visit Whitby too.
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A breakfast in coastal south Wales used to include lava bread (seaweed which is delicious fried in bacon fat.
Otherwise, its chips all the way.
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A while ago we were staying at a "nice" B&B. I asked for brown sauce with my breakfast, so the lady appeared with a small saucer of brown sauce and a teaspoon and asked how much I wanted and then spooned it on to the plate. What's that about? Why can't I help myself? Just leave the bottle on the table for goodness sake!
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I'll tell you why: the landlady had met a certain aquaintance of mine (no, not me) who shook the bottle. The top came off and the sauce covered not the breakfast plate but the papered wall behind. The family never went back (maybe that's discretion being the better part of valour, as I can't imagine they would have been welcome).
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Welease Woderwick
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A rather difficult guest we had here once did that with the ketchup and it went mostly all over her - but we managed to neither laugh nor cheer...
...or not out loud.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by L'organist:
A breakfast in coastal south Wales used to include lava bread (seaweed which is delicious fried in bacon fat.
Otherwise, its chips all the way.
Lava bread and bacon is very nice indeed. I've had lava bread, bacon and cockles which is a rich mixture but very tasty.
Not sure about chips for breakfast mind, not even in Zooport.
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All this talk of breakfast is making me feel hungry. I'll be off shortly to start cooking tea.
Nenlet2 arrives home tomorrow for Christmas. Can't wait! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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All this talk of breakfast is making me feel hungry ...
I don't know if D. reads the Ship much these days (he's usually too busy with a web-site for organists and organ geeks) but in a moment of prescience he bought some eggs and suggested a fry for today's lunch. It was very nice.
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Although I haven't been over the threshold today - the temperature reached 11°C but it's been blowing a hoolie* with gusts up to 70mph - I haven't been an entirely idle piglet:
Document for the cemetery committee typed and e-mailed to them
Hair colour applied in anticipation of haircut on Tuesday
Nail colour re-applied (slightly metallic, festive version of Tart Scarlet, since you ask)
Another batch of red-pepper jelly made (should cover last-minute pressies plus any I might need myself)
Now just a few other edible pressies to make - some are perishable, so best made as near to Christmas Day as possible.
* I could feel the house shaking, even though it's in the middle of a row of three, and D. said the Pigletmobile was bouncing around a bit when he was out. Poor little car.
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Welease Woderwick
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Every time I say to Himself "I think the second monsoon is over at last" that night we get a major storm - last night being a case in point. I hd also said the same in an e-mail to our friends arriving in 2 weeks. Quite a storm last and a lot of water lying when we went to mass this morning.
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3 days of temps in the high 30's (celsius) means hot food is off the menu here - unless it is grilled meat accompanied by salad. Breakfast is tropical fruit.
It is still quite common when asking for brown sauce at a cafe in Oz, to be handed a bottle of bbq sauce by the usually very young wait staff. TP tells our grandchildren that he has been especially commissioned by the Queen to try to civilize this country in the ways of English condiments. As the gap in education seems to widening, not lessening, I fear he will not be on the honours list again this year...
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I have a new enjoyable, nerdy pastime!
Tracking parcels!
Mr Boogs an I have started small cottage industry making tea light holders in oak. We have sold 450 since we started last July! He's the craftsman, I'm the designer, marketing and Admin person.
Here are two examples.
We do cats too the tabby was a challenge!
I don't always have the parcels tracked but I love doing it. The latest went to a tiny village near Derry in Ireland (no postcodes there) - it's amazing how convoluted its journey was!
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Our vet does cats, too. Not enough of them, so they still reproduce at a fast rate.
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Boogie, I love the cat tea light holders!
We had our Sunday school nativity this morning, with lots of"Arrrh"factor to gloss over the mistakes and hiccups. We have our carol service tonight with our churchwarden's choir. She is the aunt of the director of Only Men Aloud, and has a formidable talent for singing and conducting herself.
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We had a real donkey in our Nativity play at church this morning. He completely stole the show.
Two things I always panic a bit about, around this time: stocking fillers and food. It always does get sorted, but the panic seems to be an essential part of that.
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Did the donkey have its own chasuble? I know one that does!!!
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No, if it was in Sydney it would have to wear a suit and tie. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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... a tiny village near Derry in Ireland (no postcodes there) ...
Unless it was over the border in the Irish Republic, it would have had a postcode; most of the Co Londonderry postcodes are BT47 or BT48.
Now who's being a nerd? ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
We may well have been the only church in Christendom who didn't have our carol service tonight. Ours is next week, in accordance with Correct Liturgical Practice™, but in complete contravention of the laws of Common Sense.
We had a significantly-enlarged congregation for Evensong though - I suspect that the extras may have been expecting a carol service. I hope they weren't too disappointed - and that they noticed the posters and come back next week ...
Afterwards we celebrated the impending birthday of one of the other altos with supper in the pub we go to after choir practice. The food was ordinary, but the craic was good.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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... a tiny village near Derry in Ireland (no postcodes there) ...
Unless it was over the border in the Irish Republic, it would have had a postcode; most of the Co Londonderry postcodes are BT47 or BT48.
It was over the border, in a little village near a place called Carrigart. I can't imagine the parcel will get there before Christmas as it's only reached Dublin so far!
(I asked for a postcode and she said "no, we're in the dark ages here, people usually put " the house with the 2 round windows!")
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No donkeys at ours last night. We had one sheep who was having a bit of a strop, but we did have real hay. A few of us were keeping a close eye at the end on the pastor's son who was enthusiastically tossing it up in the air (and getting it in his hair) as he was getting closer to the candles that dotted the edge of the church building.
Thankfully, there was no conflagration. But in typical style of our church, the antipathy of organised religion, the start was delayed by 15 minutes because they didn't test the slides properly, so they didn't work. One of the songs referenced someone called "Jesus Chris" and for a carol service I was grumpy at the omission of 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' and 'O Holy Night'.
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Nenya
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Did the donkey have its own chasuble? I know one that does!!!
No - but a very colourful blanket. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I did the first of the two Big Christmas Food Shops this morning (planning to go again the day before Christmas Eve, very early in the morning!) and survived the experience. Due to much sorting undertaken Chez Nen, I had unearthed quite a number of money off tokens which made a pleasing reduction to my bill.
No present wrapping has happened yet. Must do something about that.
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Piglet
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... grumpy at the omission of 'O Holy Night'.
IMNSHO O holy night should always be omitted.
I'm a deeply p*ssed-off piglet this morning: as we were about to turn in to the car-park at w*rk, a blithering idiot in a truck stopped right in front of us. We stopped, but then he started reversing and before D. got the chance to lean on the horn, he had hit our front bumper, damaging it and buggering our beloved Orkney number plate.
We weren't hurt, but what a plonker. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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I was involved in a VERY near miss on the way back from The Big City - a private express bus nearly wiped us out by overtaking on a blind bend and then glared at our bus driver! Another plonker!
Now, a long time ago in a land far away we had a priest friend [now saying mass for the Choir Invisible] in Liverpool who had a magnetic thingy on his fridge that said:
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A piece of Carrot Cake counts as a serving of vegetables
If he was right, and who am I to doubt a man of the cloth?, I have just had 2½ servings of vegetable - with ice cream!
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We were hit in the side last Thursday by a girl (only 22 years old) and still have the hire car. It was sad to see the car going off on a truck! Luckily their insurance took full responsibility and the hire car is the same size as ours and takes the dogs' crate.
We told them we need to transport dogs as we puppy walk for Guide Dogs and they even asked us to measure the car crate to check it would fit.
I don't think we'll see our car before Christmas.
Hope it's good as new as we are selling it in January! We're getting an new blue car like this one - very posh
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Piglet:
IMNSHO O holy night should always be omitted.
![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) Poor little Piglet. I feel sorry for your lack of aestheticism.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Sipech:
... grumpy at the omission of 'O Holy Night'.
IMNSHO O holy night should always be omitted.
But then how would screechy wanna-be opera singers get to show off every year? (I actually know of a family who left their long-time church because their precious daughter wasn't allowed to sing her traditional screechy OHN one year.)
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Sioni Sais
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We had O Holy Night last night but we did at least have a 23 y o who is training to be an opera singer. Ok, he's not Jussi Bjorling, but it does help when the singer doesn't go off-tune nor need a mike to be heard. Good resonance too.
I do however hold that it is a man's song. I suppose a good mezzo might do it but otherwise it is like Vivaldi's The Four Seasons played on a flute.
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We had the BIG carol service last evening.
Some of the congregation were a bit grumpy at the lack of O come, all ye faithful and Hark! the herald angels sing but the Vicar put them in their place with a stern reminder that there were 5 days to go before Christmas. Anyway, I gave them the much-requested Holst In the bleak mid-winter this year, with the predictable car-crash of lyrics, much enjoyed by the choir!
Other than that we took it easy with a lot of Willcocks arranged carols, plus a bit of Warlock and some Patrick Hadley - it was a Rutter-free zone!
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