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Es trinken ausser mir echt nur alte Tanten Sherry...
Another year, another Wise Guys gig at the German School in Richmond. After a load of stress over who was going and who wasn't, and who was meeting whom where and when, The Fireman and I arrived at the school on Saturday evening to find the Russian Aristocrat (neither actually Russian nor aristocratic) outside the school. We found some seats ( Read more... ) -
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Happy birthday to womble2, who is a prime number this year. -
In a garden shady...
Happy St. Cecilia's Day, folks. -
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Happy birthday to my blue-haired minion, whose hair is once again dark blond.
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a song meme, nabbled from tamariki
Comment on this post and I'll give you a letter of the alphabet, and you post your top 10 songs that begin with that letter.
tamariki has assigned me the letter A.- In no particular order:
- Abendlied by Josef Rheinberger, which I first heard/sang while sort-of-gatecrashing a King's Singers workshop in 1996, and which we still sing during casual Wednesday ( Read more... )
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This year's OMGWTFBBQ
Once again good, saw people I only see once a year, had some singing (difficult when nobody in the assembled company is actually an alto), nearly succeeded at "Guide me, o thou great Redeemer" in Welsh. The whole thing seemed a bit less raucous than in previous years - perhaps we are just getting old(er ( Read more... ) -
2002, yet again
Bride: Dude. It's like a quarter to eleven, and there are hardly any guests here. Where da hell they be?
Registrar: Calm down.
Bride: I AM CALM!
Five years already - gosh. -
The weekend that was
I want to be a Rhinemaiden when I grow up. In other news, I fail slightly less at Foxtrot than previously. -
weekend update
Saturday I went along with various members of the Dance Clique to the Broadwalk Ballroom - yes, I went voluntarily to London! What's the world coming to? Met up there with dave_t_lurker, who took manylots pictures and was generally good company and got on quite well with the dancers, which pleased me greatly. I do love the Dance Clique. Going along again to ( Read more... ) -
Tasty, tasty Social Contract
I'm currently more or less hosting a pancake party celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Debian Social Contract, along with many other people all over the world.
We used Tollef's recipe, which has proven successful. Thanks, Tollef!