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Blimey, just looked out of the window preparatory to setting off for work and seen it's snowing.
There's a few flakes - bet the trains will be terrible.
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Went to the theatre last night to see the wonderful Vamos Theatre doing 'The Best Thing' - mask, mime, music telling the story of a young girl in the '60s giving up her baby for adoption (where's the emoticon for 'heartrending' when you need it?)
Judging by the sniffs and sobs towards the end, it wasn't only hard-hearted Hannah here who was affected by it - but the fact that our grandson is only 8 weeks old made the whole thing very emotional and it was all extremely well done ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
Worth anyone's time and money!
Mrs. S, *snif*
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It won't let me in.
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Oooops, sorry
Here it is.
This could be my last photo of Gypsy as guide dog owners are not obliged to get in touch with puppy walkers, although they are given our details. It is, of course, up to them if they want contact.
Work hard and enjoy life, beautiful girl xx
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Boogie, she's beautiful, you must be so proud. I was thinking of you today as there was a stall at our local hospital raising money for Guide Dogs, with a lovely golden retriever called Flora.
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Thank you St. Gwladys!
Cold and overcast - not my favourite kind of day!
My husband is coming to help walk the dogs - that makes a nice change!
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I can handle "cold and overcast" as long as there isn't anything actually falling from the sky.
We've had a sudden burst of (almost) Spring here - at just after midnight last night it was 13°C. That would be warm in the middle of the night in June, let alone February.
It's cooled down a bit (9° as I'm typing this) and a bit blustrous, which cools it further, but still ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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After a v. pleasant evening at a Chinese restaurant celebrating the birthday of a friend, came home to find that the History Channel was showing Skyfall, which I'd never seen in its entirety, but I have now, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
They shouldn't have been allowed to do that to an Aston Martin DB5 though ... ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Lord P has begun his big adventure! He's going to Dorking via Tunbridge Wells, then flying from Heathrow to Austin in Texas where he'll be staying with friends for a month. Being Lord P, he's flying on Feb 29th and coming back 1st April, because he can!
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How are you doing St G? I hope you're feeling better?
Quiet day today. It's been a mixed bag of a week: bitterly cold, sunshine, hail, gales, rain; spring flowers everywhere now, but still no sign of spring lambs, probably too cold for them; saw the collapse of part of Didcot Power Station, without realizing at the time what was happening; had two delightful lunches (on different days, I'm not that greedy) with a colleague I haven't seen in a while, and a business contact from the States; there's been a lot of laughs and banter throughout the working week, which has been lovely.
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Nice lazy-ish day here - made a chicken-and-mushroom risotto for lunch, then went for some retail therapy - there's a shoe-shop here that sends me a birthday voucher for $15 off, and as it would expire on Monday I thought I'd better use it. They didn't have any shoes that both floated my boat and fitted me, so I bought a pair of slippers, as the old baffies I'd been using for the past God-knows-how-long were getting beyond a joke.
Thing is, last week the same shop sent me another voucher, this time for 20% off*, which lasts until the beginning of April.
What am I to do? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
* and which the girl in the shop said could be used more than once ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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We all get an extra day tomorrow - I think it should have no label, be a holiday for all and be named 'leap day'.
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Thanks Ariel - I'm in plaster, got an appt at fracture clinic tomorrow when I should find out more.
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I hope tomorrow goes well S. G ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Good luck St G, let us know how it goes.
Very annoyed earlier to lose my nice new beret in Tescos this morning. It wasn't handed in, and they're hard to get. By an amazing stroke of luck I actually found two replacements locally reduced to a quarter of the original price, each, but still sad to have lost a good-quality new one.
Cheered up by the first sight of spring lambs this afternoon - by the look of them they are 3-4 weeks old already, but enjoying running around a large hillside field, with their mothers and some large crows for company. Spring is finally here - snowdrops, daffs and spring lambs. Now we just need some blossom.
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I shouldn't imagine that we're finished with winter yet over here, but since we had that big temperature hike last week (13°C ) and the rain that accompanied it, the snow is becoming more notable by its absence, and there doesn't seem to be much more in the offing for the next week or so.
We quite often get a phenomenon known locally as "Sheila's Brush" - a snowfall around St. Patrick's Day - but by that time the ground is usually beginning to warm up a bit, and it often doesn't lie for long.
Famous last words ... ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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I've just had a lovely weekend away with the icing on the cake being on the way home yesterday - I had a gap between trains planned in so I could have a meal. Also sitting in the restaurant was a lad of about 8 - 10 years with his mum. The lad clearly had Downs Syndrome and was absolutely in the moment with his food, relishing every mouthful then every so often he'd look up at his mum with a look of such amazing love and devotion that it was magical - 0h that we should all have such a look bestowed upon us!
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Piget - who is, or was Sheila?? And what was she doing with her brush?
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I've just had a lovely weekend away with the icing on the cake being on the way home yesterday - I had a gap between trains planned in so I could have a meal. Also sitting in the restaurant was a lad of about 8 - 10 years with his mum. The lad clearly had Downs Syndrome and was absolutely in the moment with his food, relishing every mouthful then every so often he'd look up at his mum with a look of such amazing love and devotion that it was magical - 0h that we should all have such a look bestowed upon us!
This brought a tear to my eye WW ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
Piget - who is, or was Sheila?? And what was she doing with her brush?
I think the inference is she was St. Patrick's metaphorical wife or sister, and the "brush" referred to her clearing up after the St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
Sexist or what? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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We just spent a very pleasant week at chez parents en rouge in the Midlands.
Highlights: a daytrip to Worcester visiting the olde worlde bits; a very enjoyable lunchtime concert of Beethoven trios by three members of the CBSO for the princely sum of £10 each (I was about thirty years younger than anyone else there ); visiting the Grandad; balti. There are restaurants here serving food from the subcontinent, but they just aren’t the same as proper balti from Sparkbrook.
Husband en rouge continues his formation as an anglophile and was sighted in a pub eating pork pie.
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Aargh! I've got to have a MRI. I've had one and hated it, I very nearly pressed the panic button. I've definitely fractured my foot, and the MRI is to determine what damage I've done to the ligament. Best case scenario is plaster for 3 months, worst case is an operation and plaster for 6 months.
Meanwhile, thanks to ST's help, Lord P is now on a plane to America. It's great fun explaining to non-shippies how we came to know the vicar of a parish in Guildford diocese, who we met at the Eden Project (he was a curate in that area) and whom we'd never met previously.
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Darllenwr got a concert programme signed by an artist last night, 37 years after the concert. He played timpani with his school orchestra, who ended up playing Katherine Howard From Rick Wakeman's "6 wives of Henry 8th) at the Royal Festival Hall.
We went to a Rick Wakeman concert last night, and Darllenwr took his programme and photos. Rick was signing things afterwards, and was fascinated to see the items and signed them. He comes across as a really nice man who seems genuinely interested in people.
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Oh no St.G, that doesn't sound good.
Life continues very much as per normal this week. I had an entertaining lesson in How I Am Viewed By Seven Year Olds last week - I was dicussing with my class what they'd done during their half term break, and one of them asked me where I'd been/ what I've done, and before I could reply, another child chipped in, quick as a flash: "Yeah, I bet she just stayed at home all week". Clearly they've got the idea that I'm not the jet-setting type! (Entirely accurately, I might add...)
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
... Husband en rouge continues his formation as an anglophile and was sighted in a pub eating pork pie.
Glad to hear the training programme is going according to plan.
St. G., that sounds v. nasty re: your foot.
Meeting Rick Wakeman, on the other hand, is v. cool - when I've seen him interviewed on TV he comes over as a decent sort of bloke.
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Oh dear, poor St.G! Maybe as the MRI is only for your foot it won't be so bad as for more intimate parts of the body! Bad enough though
And I do hope its only plaster for 3 months, not 6!! Still, you'll be able to enter for the Crutch and stick manoeverability Olympics!
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It is very wet now in London. And when I have to get the children from their school it will be not nice.
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Plaster for three months!? Commiserations
Yes, we're expecting heavy rain here any time now. I was also handed a jolly little leaflet at the station this morning saying I can expect two weeks of rail closure in the summer for flood prevention, to which my response was a spontaneous cry of anguish. I know there will be replacement buses but it will take forever to get to and from work because the roads will be extra congested.
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St David's Day has delivered its usual weather of rain and wind. At least it wasn't freezing cold so we didn't have to scrape ice off the windscreen this morning.
btw Ariel, from recent history you are likely to get two weeks without trains for flooding anyway. Let's hope the work takes place at that time, so you don't lose even more time.
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A happy St David's Day to everyone.
Its crisp and windy here with the daffs (small, wild ones mostly) blowing: the sort of day that, if you were lucky enough to be born on the right side of the dyke, makes you feel Pob dydd, pan dwi'n deffro, dwi'n dweud diolch i Dduw fy mod i'n Gymraeg*!
Chex l'Organist tonight it will be salt lamb for dinner.
* Everyday when I wake up I thank God I'm Welsh.
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Happy St David's Day. My daffodils are beginning to peek above what's left of the lawn after the ravages of a wet winter.
It's been so wet here that neighbours had flooding. We were grateful to discover that we are not in the path of even exceptional flooding at present, but it's made me check that we're far enough from the river to fulfil the requirements of our house insurance.
Cattyish, looking forward to getting some vitamin D in April.
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Happy St David’s Day. Another thing I forgot about the trip to Blighty: the Wales-France rugby match on Friday night.
We obviously cheered for Wales (father en rouge is Welsh). More surprisingly, husband en rouge didn’t mind the Welsh winning either. He doesn’t really care about rugby and agreed that the Welsh deserved to win for the superiority of their singing.
Get well soon, St G.
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Happy St. David's Day to those of you "west of the Dyke".
Over here (a bit further west ) it's currently 9° with a mixture of sunshine and showers, but it's forecast to plummet again tonight (expected low -8° ).
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
He doesn’t really care about rugby and agreed that the Welsh deserved to win for the superiority of their singing.
A great predictor of a Welsh rugby win is the singing of Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer at mass as we did on Sunday. I pick the music and have no claim to clairvoyance, but it seems to work
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IMHO one doesn't need any excuse to sing Guide me, O thou great Redeemer. Especially with the descant.
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I thought it was 'Guide me o thou great Jehovah'?
Is it a different translation?
M.
[ 02. March 2016, 06:14: Message edited by: M. ]
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Hymns Ancient and Modern and The New English Hymnal both say "redeemer".
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A quick check on Cyberhymnal and other sites suggests that Peter Williams produced two slightly differing translations in 1771 and 1772. You can check out numerous versions on the Hymnsite with scans from largely American hymn books.
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Just to say that the oldest pages scanned dating from 1791 and 1792 respectively have "Jehovah".
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I'm Welsh. I use Redeemer
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
FWIW all the people I know who use "Redeemer" in Cwm Rhondda are English. I have never heard a Welsh person sing anything other than "Jehovah" (or rather Je'ovah once the accent is taken into account )
At our shack in Cardiff, most people including those who choose and play the music are English, so we sing "Redeemer" on the rare occasions Cwm Rhondda is included.
Everywhere else however, except for some CiW churches, it's "Jehovah" and sung with notable gusto at funerals.
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Ooh, interesting. Thanks, Shippies all.
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I'm Scottish, and I think all the versions I've sung (in Scotland, Ireland and Canada) have been "Jehovah". Either way, it's a jolly good sing.
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I think Sioni’s got it right. My Welsh acquaintance are indeed stalwart Presbyterians.
(Cwm Rhondda was not sung at my uncle’s funeral, but the singing was indeed glorious. If you have to die young, that’s the way to be sent off )
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I've seen one hymnal that printed two versions, differing only in whether the first line had Redeemer or Jehovah. I think it might have been the Church Hymnary.
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Lord P posted on f/b that the weather in Texas was like midsummer on the Scillies,. When I told him, Darllenwr made a rude comment as we've had icy winds, hail and even a few flakes of snow.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
I think Sioni’s got it right. My Welsh acquaintance are indeed stalwart Presbyterians.
(Cwm Rhondda was not sung at my uncle’s funeral, but the singing was indeed glorious. If you have to die young, that’s the way to be sent off )
That might be the key. We have a Welsh member at our church who's never stated a preference, but we're Catholics. Singing ones though, which I understand from the Ship is a rare beast. We're singing it again for a funeral next week hopefully with a bit of welly.
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
... hopefully with a bit of welly.
That's exactly the right way to sing it. I always imagined that expression was a purely Scottish thing - perhaps I was mistaken.
We tried out a new-ish Chinese buffet for lunch today; it was really rather good, but there was a slight oddity in the fresh fruit salad. When we were up at the buffet bar I said I thought they looked like tomatoes, but D. said "it's a fruit salad - they must just be big grapes".
I was right. ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
I think a change of signature line is in order ...
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...but tomatoes are a fruit!
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MrsBeaky
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Four weeks from today we will travel down to Nairobi thus beginning the journey back to the UK- we've been here since 2012 so there will I'm sure be plenty of adjustments to be made.
Our plan is to then be based (for family reasons) in the UK returning here to Kenya for 3 months each year as friends of the diocese.
Any heads up on things to be aware of back in the south of England?
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