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Wed, 08 February 2012 23:51   |
EMoon
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Leopard repellent goes on your shoes; then your hands are free for the bell rope. (And the leopard, trying to track you, goes "Eeeeuw!!!" and turns away after something easier.)
Tonight was my second choir rehearsal after the long break to finish the revisions. We had to sight-read Svengali's music. Svengali not only runs the music program, and teaches voice, but composes. Much as I worship the ground Svengali walks on, I am not overwhelmed with glee about his music, and tonight the piece in question gave the worst line to the altos. Counter-intuitive and completely unmelodic. The basses got a nice line. The tenors got a nice line. The sopranos got the melody, and we got something that jumps around like a toad on drugs, no reason for any particular leap in no particular direction. But we learned it, and we sang it, and I still (singing it correctly) hate it.
Next week, a voice lesson again.
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| Re: There is hope, continued [message #48211 is a reply to message #48203 ] |
Thu, 09 February 2012 00:51 |
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Chaos, who, as we know, has no attention span and after four and a half years of wearing a harness instead of a collar, cannot reliably remember to pick both front feet up to have it put on, remembers EVERY TREE he has ever chased a squirrel into.
This lets you know what is important to the dog brain. Or at least to Chaos's brain.
Neither of my hellhounds is prompt about the bodily-functions business.
They are not alone in this, believe me. Teddy takes more time to find Just The Right Spot than any dog I've ever had to wait for, and that's saying a lot. If it's very cold he just looks really unhappy while the hunt for the perfect place goes on and on. Aaargh.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: There is hope, continued [message #48213 is a reply to message #48203 ] |
Thu, 09 February 2012 02:38 |
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But it’s rounds in a GIGANTIC room and I feel bizarrely vulnerable as if there are leopards in the shadows.‡‡ I feel all sort of wavery and reed-like, out in the middle of the floor like that
Oh gosh, I know that feeling exactly (Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, huge industrial ringing chamber, 12 bells, heavy - and having to stand on a doughnut-like 3ft raised platform to ring!!!). Total nervous breakdown, looking into the abyss. There is a photo of Frank and I, both Cathedral novices, both terrified, ringing rounds on adjacent bells. My hands are down at the bottom of my backstroke, Frank's hands are above his head! Rounds!!?! Ha!! 
But hey, most importantly - well done on the Grandsire!!
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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| Re: There is hope, continued [message #48215 is a reply to message #48213 ] |
Thu, 09 February 2012 04:03 |
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| CathyR wrote on Thu, 09 February 2012 02:38 |
But it’s rounds in a GIGANTIC room and I feel bizarrely vulnerable as if there are leopards in the shadows.‡‡ I feel all sort of wavery and reed-like, out in the middle of the floor like that
Oh gosh, I know that feeling exactly (Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, huge industrial ringing chamber, 12 bells, heavy - and having to stand on a doughnut-like 3ft raised platform to ring!!!). Total nervous breakdown, looking into the abyss. There is a photo of Frank and I, both Cathedral novices, both terrified, ringing rounds on adjacent bells. My hands are down at the bottom of my backstroke, Frank's hands are above his head! Rounds!!?! Ha!!
But hey, most importantly - well done on the Grandsire!!
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Grandsire is very important. A 'Well Done' is definitely in order!!
And I think that description of being in the ringing chamber preeeetty much summed up how I felt in every tower around England when I visited... LOL (Me, a rank beginner! Ringing in a UK BigNameCathedral! aaaiiieeeeee) The only VERY SLIM thought that gave me any backbone at all was "I learnt to ring in a cathedral". We're only SMALL but it COUNTED. LOL
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: There is hope, continued [message #48217 is a reply to message #48213 ] |
Thu, 09 February 2012 08:35 |
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| CathyR wrote on Thu, 09 February 2012 07:38 |
Oh gosh, I know that feeling exactly (Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, huge industrial ringing chamber, 12 bells, heavy - and having to stand on a doughnut-like 3ft raised platform to ring!!!). Total nervous breakdown, looking into the abyss. There is a photo of Frank and I, both Cathedral novices, both terrified, ringing rounds on adjacent bells. My hands are down at the bottom of my backstroke, Frank's hands are above his head! Rounds!!?! Ha!!
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So, one of you was on the tenor and the other was on the treble? 
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: There is hope, continued [message #48218 is a reply to message #48203 ] |
Thu, 09 February 2012 08:52 |
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But I’d programmed myself too well.
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It's a pain, that, isn't it. I felt the same about yesterday evening's practise. I sat in the car, on the driveway, in the cold and the dark, and felt I was just too tired/fed up to go. But I went anyway. And it was fine once I was there - well, fine until I was standing there practising (I thought) the plain course of Plain Bob Doubles from the two, and suddenly the conductor started calling bobs. OK, I was unaffected, but nooooo...the bells I was trying to follow all started changing. Help!
Re the Diamond Jubilee celebrations that have just started, one of my non-ringing local friends aimed a Tweet at me on Monday evening, to ask what on earth was going on with the bells at Canterbury Cathedral as it sounded as though they'd gone mad and as if "someone had sat down hard on a giant piano keyboard". When I asked a ringing friend what was up, the Cathedral band had apparently been working up to an extended session of 'firing' in honour of the Jubilee. She said it got better as they got further into it.
(For anyone who hasn't heard this, firing is when all the bells pull off exactly together, at both hand and back stroke. A small example is here.) It must have sounded pretty alarming from the big 12 at the Cathedral!)
[Updated on: Thu, 09 February 2012 09:19]
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| Re: There is hope, continued [message #48219 is a reply to message #48217 ] |
Thu, 09 February 2012 09:42 |
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| AJLR wrote on Thu, 09 February 2012 13:35 |
| CathyR wrote on Thu, 09 February 2012 07:38 |
Oh gosh, I know that feeling exactly (Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, huge industrial ringing chamber, 12 bells, heavy - and having to stand on a doughnut-like 3ft raised platform to ring!!!). Total nervous breakdown, looking into the abyss. There is a photo of Frank and I, both Cathedral novices, both terrified, ringing rounds on adjacent bells. My hands are down at the bottom of my backstroke, Frank's hands are above his head! Rounds!!?! Ha!!
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So, one of you was on the tenor and the other was on the treble?
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If only! I'd probably struggle on the treble (9cwt), never mind the tenor (82cwt, 4100kg, 4 tons)!! It's the heaviest and highest peal of bells hung for change ringing in the world.
Mind you, it's skill not brute strength (although it does usually take two people to ring the tenor up). I've seen a fairly slight teenage girl ring that tenor.
We've probably a second visit there in a couple of months. Hopefully I'll do better. I'll think of Robin to give me strength!
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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| Re: There is hope, continued [message #48243 is a reply to message #48242 ] |
Fri, 10 February 2012 01:55 |
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| CathyR wrote on Fri, 10 February 2012 01:44 |
| b_twin_1 wrote on Fri, 10 February 2012 03:41 |
| Audrey Falconer wrote on Thu, 09 February 2012 22:20 |
| AJLR wrote on Fri, 10 February 2012 00:52 |
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But I’d programmed myself too well.
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It's a pain, that, isn't it. I felt the same about yesterday evening's practise.
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You want to try waiting 40 minutes for a late bride (plus another 20 minutes for the over-long service) when the temperature is 35+ degrees Celsius.
And we're a ground-floor ring on display so we have to look respectable. No ringing in shorts, singlets and thongs. :+<
Audrey
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That's why we have air-con. And a seperate tower. 
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Air con!? You ring in some luxury! 
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If we didn't have air-con then we basically wouldn't ring over the summer at all. On average we're hotter up here than Melbourne. I was still surprised to learn that we were only one of 2 towers in Victoria that had A/C - and up until a year or so ago we were the *only* ones. *boggled*
Of course, we don't have an ancient stone tower so logistically it was pretty easy to install...
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: There is hope, continued [message #48333 is a reply to message #48331 ] |
Mon, 13 February 2012 15:29 |
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In many countries, of course, the Head of State is elected but does not have any governmental authority - reigns but doesn't rule, just like our Queen. Ireland springs to mind, and France to a certain extent. I don't know whether being Head of State by accident of birth is better or worse than being it by popular vote. Certainly kings have been elected in the past, although not so much here.
Mrs Redboots
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