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inStand out from the crowd. All the rest were Canada Geese and Mallards.
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Anglo the Musical, Anglo-Irish bank, Bargain Hunt, Canada geese, Danny Boyle, David Barby, David Cameron, Elysian Quartet, FT, House of Lords, House of Lords Reform, Ian McEwan, Lysistrata, Mastermind, MI5, Nick Clegg, Pointless, Stockhausen, Togo
Saturday, 25th August
Pouring. Stayed in and read Lunch with the FT. Ian McEwan has brought out a new book, so he was being wined and dined. On a previous occasion, he remarked, he married his interviewer. No pressure then. He explained that he had once applied for a job with MI5, online, and ended up by having to answer questions on the migratory patterns of Canada Geese. I became over-excited as this is a topic I have mentioned before in my blog and so I might have been in with a chance. It is another topic useful for Pointless or Mastermind general knowledge section.
(I really must apply to be a contestant soon. Once I met David Barby, entirely by accident, I hasten to add, and he commented that I would be good on Bargain Hunt, but I told him that I thought the mandatory fleeces were a bit last century.)
The frequency of spotting helicopters in the skies might not have been anything to do with Prince William after all. It might have had everything to do with rehearsals for Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht, even if I hadn’t necessarily only seen them on a Wednesday.
We have had to wait seventeen years for a full premiere. Four members of The Elysian Quartet- well, there would be four in a quartet, wouldn’t there?-went up singly, in separate helicopters, and made a scraping noise which was beamed down to four screens at ground level. Nine soloists played on trapezes. There were long periods of silence and nothingness which puzzled the audience, just as had been a feature of the Olympic ceremonies. It was meant to be an outpouring of the ego on an intergalactic scale. So, something in common with Danny Boyle productions, then?
Remaining on the musical theme, I see that Dublin theatregoers are buying tickets for Anglo: the Musical, which is about the Anglo-Irish Bank and its role in boom and bust. The tagline is: because all it takes is a few muppets to screw an entire country. We have to wait till November for the opening, and I expect they will be able to add a few more song and dances numbers to the show by then.
I see that women in Togo are denying their men sexual favours, in order to encourage reform. Maybe they read the Lysistrata over there. Already Nick Clegg is being inspired and is refusing to get into bed with David Cameron, metaphorically speaking, unless he is granted House of Lords reform. Unfortunately, Cameron is so not bovvered.
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27 Monday Aug 2012
Posted Nature, Suttonford
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Too darn hot. Stayed inside and made a pissaladiere for supper, which tastes better than it sounds. We sat outside and demolished it with a bottle of Montbazillac, once the neighbours had graciously retired from their pool. Silhouetted skeins of Canada geese flew in V-formations overhead, harbingers of Autumn and the necessity for Jeyes Fluid jetwash to be vigorously applied to every drive and paving that they crap on. Peter Scott never dwelt on that aspect.
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