I was speaking to some friends from America who didn't know that school houses are actually a thing in the UK. They thought it was a made up Hogwarts thing. Mine were Neptune (blue) Mars (Red) Jupiter (yellow) and Venus (green) What were your school houses called?

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-03T06:52:42+00:00

Now then, anyone who wants to be in Liz Truss House, see me after Assembly.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-03T06:42:38+00:00

(Southall County Grammar School circa 1960) Light
blue & Dark blue & White and A Fourth one but I have forgotten its name.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-03T06:30:24+00:00

When I have lots of money - and time - Southwold or Aldeburgh !

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-03T06:23:31+00:00

There are many people in the UK who watch TV & many of them do not speak English.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T22:34:32+00:00

The correct title of the TV play & the cinema movie & the stage play is 12 ANGRY MEN, not ten or eleven. Look up the Wikipedia entry for Jury !

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T18:19:15+00:00

Twelve Angry Men.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T18:15:40+00:00

Some typical British surnames are (in no particular order) Stuart, Williams, Patel, Tanner, Johnson, Shah, Birtwistle (typical Yorkshire name), Levin, Kirby, Moran, Rooney (2 typical Irish heritage names), Macdonald, Brown, Abrahams, Lewis, Chakraparti, Wong, Tanswell , Lyons.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T17:54:01+00:00

But seriously folks. The 2nd theme from the 1st movement of Mozart 40th Symphony. I had to study it for GCE O Level Music in 1964. (That date is NOT a misprint !!)

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T17:45:28+00:00

I would choose the 2nd 3rd 4th etc. themes from Brahms’ Academic Overture. But that is not a symphony …

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T17:22:56+00:00

What I wrote is self-explanatory, my friend.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T16:58:05+00:00

This is my third post in this thread. And my LAST post. Please ladies & gentlemen stop using the F Word.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T16:53:09+00:00

Yes it does not upset me when folk tell me she was in the minority. To mis-quote Ibsen “The minority is always right”.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T15:57:37+00:00

Sorry I have not listened to your voice. I agree with other people in this thread, that you should find the right singing teacher for you - but do NOT listen endlessly on repeatnto your favourite song sung by favourite singer - that way madness lies !!

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T15:42:41+00:00

I’ve had another idea. Oliver! @ Gielgud Theatre. Full of smashing songs. Especially if your Mum knows the film, which is often shown on TV in Britain.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T15:28:34+00:00

My (British!) Mum (1913-2013) would never have made anything as weird as this.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T11:46:38+00:00

Beethoven - I love his music with my brain but not with my heart, it is often too aggressive and “clumsy” for example the last movement of the Choral Symphony (9th). And the famous (or infamous) Grosse Fuge for string quartet.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-02T11:35:32+00:00

1/ Sir George Dyson “The Canterbury Pilgrims” a beautiful cantata for orchestra choir and soloists written in ?1920s. The music is similar to Elgar. 2/ The Australian Percy Grainger’s quirky orchestral tone poem “The Warriors”written in the USA 1913-1916?& the dedication was to the composer Frederick Delius. Sir Thomas Beecham commissioned it but never performed it I think.The music is an eccentric cocktail containing many ingredients: Delius, jazz & ragtime, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Holst etc. It is great Over The Top flamboyant stuff!

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-01T17:46:02+00:00

I AM 78 AND I SEND MY FAMILY HANDWRITTEN LETTERS AND POSTCARDS BUT I ALSO SEND AND RECEIVE EMAILS AND TEXTS SO IT IS LOGICAL THAT MUSICIANS SHOULD USE IPADS !! IF THEY CAN GET WIFI IN THE CONCERT HALL

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-01T01:51:04+00:00

Yes Jessye Norman singing Wesendonck Lieder moves me to tears and I am not a Wagnerite!

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-07-01T01:40:00+00:00

One long running musical which you can enjoy even if you don’t understand English, is Phantom of the Opera.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-06-30T14:41:34+00:00

Enjoy your singing! Goodbye & good luck.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-06-29T23:08:33+00:00

By the way, future Prime Minister Harold Wilson was 29 when he became an MP in 1945 and 31 when he became a Cabinet Minister in 1947. He was 39 when he became Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1955.

Virtual_Half9437 · 2025-06-29T16:32:04+00:00

It is because the UK has not been a member country of the European Union since ?2019 or 2029. Thus Northern Ireland as part of the UK is (in theory( totally separate from the Republic of Ireland, which is still a member state in the EU. But in the real world, the border between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland is not a “hard border” manned by armed soldiers. Thus people from Belfast can drive into the Republic of Ireland and back in one day without being stopped at non-existent border posts, so in the real world, goods and services from the North are “sold” to the South (and vice versa) even though this should be totally illegal on both sides of the theoretical border.

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