I don’t wish to shout, but....
Each and all and every man jack of you, wherever you may chance to live, I call upon: to give your aid now. Even if it means not buying a book for Christmas. Even if it means not buying our books for Christmas.

If you cannot make a contribution as I am shortly to suggest, I really do expect you at the very least to ( Read more... )

If you’re in the UK, and not eligible to vote in the Scottish Referendum (a Cockney charlady hired away by an oil company to live and work in Aberdeen is eligible, for example; a member of Clan Wemyss who was born in Renfrewshire but happens to live in the West of England … isn’t. It’s all very odd and very convoluted), please consider joining me, ( Read more... )

Pay packets and All That. Before it all quite goes on fireworks, of one sort and another, may I remind all here of this appeal? A fiver or two for a decentish chap who wrecked his health and fisc caring for his parents for the past ten years, and lost them both in the past sixteen months. (As Sir Pterry reminds us, there are NHS Trusts in this ( Read more... )

I’m not filtering it because there’s no point; he must of necessity know (and he’s not best pleased with me).* In the past 16 months, my publishing partner and co-editor has endured the deaths of his parents in succession, been lumbered with by all accounts an encumbered and complicated estate situation, had a bit of a breakdown, and accordingly ( Read more... )

Have just now heard from a happy-in-the-wee-hours Brammers that the Linwood College appeal has been SUCCESSFUL.

The Linwood College Orchestra SHALL be at the Abbey on Anzac Day. Shezan, Femme, Noe, Brammers, all of you: you lot are heroes.

Enough was raised not only to allow this dream to go forward, but, as Mrs Hyde advises Brammers, a bit over:

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Firstly, my thanks to those who have aided - and, yet more, who continue to aid - Linwood College. Yes, I know quite well there are now yet further disasters, but I should be obliged that you not forget this appeal.

I should now wish to mention a few pleasant thoughts before we return to dire disaster.

I had occasion within the past ( Read more... )

… for the Linwood College appeal.

CHEQUES:

Cheques payable to:
Linwood School PTA - Orchestra
PO Box 19760
Christchurch 8241
New Zealand

DIRECT NZ BANK TRANSFERS and LARGE OVERSEAS DONATIONS:

Orchestra Trust Fund

Ainger Tomlin Trust Account
06-0801-0540322-02
Ref No: L1015
It is imperative to cite the reference number as that identifies ( Read more... )

A Paypal account for overseas contributors is being worked upon.

Ad interim, this, from one of the orchestral mums, via Brammers:

For the Linwood Orchestra Trust Fund:

Ainger Tomlin Trust Account
06-0801-0540322-02
Ref No: L1015

It is important to cite the reference number as that identifies the
College Orchestra account.

Do feel free to look up ( Read more... )

You may or may not recall my prior post on this heading. Linwood College - that is ‘high school’ in American, I understand - in Christchurch, New Zealand, is not a particularly well-off institution, materially. Yet only materially: its pupil orchestra is quite good, although most of them cannot afford private lessons or to own their own instruments ( Read more... )

( Brammers adverted me to this. )