Top table
I really do think HM the Queen should be allowed to choose her own lunch guests when the occasion is her Diamond Jubilee but then One shouldn’t be surprised if Ones’ selection of table-mates raises a few eye-brows. But that’s politics. Read more…
Abschied Dietrich
Well, since the Chariot is a Broad Church and many of us are now of an age when our icons are dropping off the twig at a depressing rate, I thought that I should record the passing of the boy Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
I was fortunate enough to hear him live several times with both Schubert’s ’Winterreise’ and ‘Die Schöne Müllern’ cycles more than once. Pure magic every time.
But, it’s his interpretation of a Strauss song that is my particular favourite
Royal Navy, Bikers and Araminta visit Poole
Well, actually, it was a coincidence. I went the Poole last weekend to a party to celebrate my grandson’s second birthday.
Farewell Donna
Have to admit that back in ’75 I was more into Sabbath, Heep, Purple and the like but wherever I went I’d here this………
Thanks for the memories
Oops!
I just got sacked from my job with the Samaritans.
A guy called Abdul phoned and said, “I’m lying on the railway track waiting
for the train to come”.
All I said was, “Remain calm and stay on the line” ..
The envy of less happier lands
By way of recognition, nay celebration of the hegemony of this royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by Nature for herself against infection and the hand of war, this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in the silver sea (etc.), some wonderfully prescient people in the Politecnico di Milano have decided to adopt our language for the purposes of teaching.
This is but the beginning, in Jubilee and Olympic year, of Britain’s Big Comeback. (No, not flatulence, you fool.) Our Renaissance, our call from the bench of civilisation in extra time, with the World Cup of Cups itself at stake.
Would that the Argentinians and the Spanish might abandon their forlorn attempts to claim our sovereign territories and bow down to a superior race of men (and a few girls these days too).
(The organ sounds a crescendo of chords to lead us in Jerusalem, swell to great, no less.)
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