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Postby Mick Harper » 12:41 pm

As some of you know, Hatty and I have been making a film on the Hydrological Cycle and the project has now reached the rough-cut stage. There are no megalithic implications but since you are all Renaissance People it can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHK_v62 ... e=youtu.be [You may have to cut-and-paste this URL to get there rather than simply click on it. It is best viewed on a telly screen rather than a laptop, if you have the technology].

This will be your last chance to view the epic because it has received ‘mixed reviews’ (as the phrase goes) so we are going to re-cut it in the new year as a very straightforward (if still wildly revisionist) DVD called something like “The Distribution of Deserts – Towards A New Consensus” and aimed at academic geographers. [And, yes, we invite suggestions for a slightly sexier, but definitely not too sexy, title.]

You may be as robust as you like with your criticisms since this will be our last chance to ‘get it right’. However, on the You-Tube site itself would you mind confining yourself to pressing the Thumbs Up button (or at least resisting the temptation to press the thumbs down one). Don’t make comments on the You-Tube site without clearing it with us first.
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Postby Boreades » 7:32 pm

Mick Harper wrote:[And, yes, we invite suggestions for a slightly sexier, but definitely not too sexy, title.]


Rising Damp?

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Postby TisILeclerc » 8:19 pm

Riddle of the Sands?
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Re: Book & site list

Postby Boreades » 10:38 pm

Re the Distribution of Desserts - did you want them frozen or chilled?

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Postby spiral » 10:10 am

I am going to take a further look at TME this season of wren whacking.....

There is a lot that remains a puzzle.

Like the Authors names.....

We have Harper and Vered.

Or as behind the name informs me. Vered=Rose

So its Harper/Rose

Harper Row

Are you guys having a sly dig at the publishing trade?
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Postby hvered » 12:07 pm

Dark Dorset's blog about Christmas customs http://darkdorset.blogspot.co.uk/2014/1 ... s-and.html describes the custom of 'gooding' which strikes a chord as our road is called Goodings Green.

It seems to have been women who went a-gooding, another name might be Hag-money, described as a northern custom.

Happy Wren Whacking, Spiral & co.
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Postby Boreades » 11:44 pm

Mention of Hag-money reminds me of "Kissing The Hag", an book by Emma Restall Orr, another excellent author that has chosen to spend time at Château Boreades.

Her book is based upon the old tale of The Marriage of Sir Gawain. Some might notice a resemblance to the plot of Shrek.

Kissing the Hag brings us face to face with the nauseating horror of the hag - the raw side, the dark side, the inside of a woman's essential nature. Here we find the untamed soul, the wild, angry, selfish, lustful, manipulative and incomprehensible elements of woman: all that makes us unacceptable and badly behaved.

No, it's not a biography of M'Lady Boreades, and it's very naughty of you to suggest so.

http://www.o-books.com/book/detail/374/Kissing-the-Hag
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Postby Boreades » 1:48 pm

I'm intrigued by a title called "Bach and the Heavenly Choir".

Amazon UK says:
Apparently the only book by German author Rüber available in English, it's a magical little masterpiece. Translated by Maurice Michael, this gentle 150 page novel is a loving paean to the everlasting music of Sebastian Bach. It corners the story of a monastic Pope Gregory, intensely accomplished violinist, whose consuming desire as Pope is to canonize Bach. Rüber finely manages a pure devotion with freshness and a thrilling economy of means, leaving the reader with the bare brilliance of a moving original idea. Rüber's idea took shape in Positano in southern Italy in 1954 when Pius XII was ill. The Pope had ordered all of Bach's organ music to be played in the little church of S. Maria in Rome. Rüber states "all my thoughts about Bach united with the ill Pope." It's a worthy little treasure, most assuredly for lovers of Bach's immortal music. Steep price here, but worth it, measured against one's devotion to Bach. Affectionate recommendation!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Heavenly-C ... B0007E8DJE

It appeals to me, but I don't usually read fiction. Has anyone read it?
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Postby hvered » 3:40 pm

Haven't read it but am mindful of The Bluffers Guide To Music whose advice, when Bach's name comes up, is to nod sagely and murmur 'Ah...Bach...'
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Postby Boreades » 5:53 pm

That reminds me, my brother had a lot of trouble trying to digitise his old collection of Bach vinyl records.

It consumed too many megabytes of storage space.

In the end we decided his Bach was worse than his Byte.
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