Trojan
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Trojan replied to Leeds Wire's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
In June 1975 snow stopped play in a county match at Buxton. The long hot summer of 1975 and the 1975/76 drought followed. Here's hoping! -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
Trojan replied to paley's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
I reckon I'm a bit older than you. I remember the first time I heard the Beatles. In those days in Yorkshire we got Granada TV from Manchester, and the local news programme was called People and Places, introduced by Bill Grundy. There was an item about this band from Liverpool. They played Love Me Do! I've been a fan ever since. At the time the charts were full of stuff by Frank Ifield, Craig Douglas, Jimmy Rogers and Pat Boone, they were like a breath of fresh air. There is something about the blend of Lennon and McCartney's voices that is somehow magic. The whole was much better than the sum of the parts. Neither of them singly was a patch on them together. -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FAV3zr1PMk -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
Trojan replied to paley's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Having listened to Tom Jones play it on Jools Holland, St James Infirmary Blues Louis Armstrong -
Bradford may be East Manchester (end of Mancunian way?) But Bradford and Clayton are in Yorkshire.
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http://www.britishpathe.com/video/army-rugby-final-2 the player who scored the first try is Billy Boston
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What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
Trojan replied to paley's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
It's available on Spotify and You Tube. Benny Goodman also did a version. Same arranger, Fletcher Henderson, but Chick's is far superior IMO. -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
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Stompin' at the Savoy, Chick Webb Orchestra. I'm a sucker for thirties swing! -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
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Still Life Kirsty McColl -
I saw my first swallows of this year at Wigglesworth (near Settle) they were nesting in a workshop I was visiting. I remarked on it to the guy I was talking to and he said there had been 4 or 5 in the warm spell at the end of March, but they'd been about tor a week and then disappeared, he reckoned they died because the weather turned cold, and there was no food for them. Which reminds me of a story: There was a swallow who decided one autumn not to fly south with its mates. As September wore on into October there were still plenty of flies, but then the weather turned cold, and there was no food. The swallow fell out of the sky into a farmyard, where a cow crapped on it, the warmth of the ###### revived the swallow and it began to flutter its wings. A passing cat saw the fluttering and investigated, found the swallow and ate it up. Which goes to prove that it's not always a bad thing to be in the ######, and if you are you should keep quiet about it!
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Book thread: what are you reading?
Trojan replied to Futtocks's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
I've read most of the Sharpe books, not keen on the Vikings ones, really miss the Starbuck US Civil War stories, I thought they were excellent. -
Book thread: what are you reading?
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Gordon Brown "Beyond the Crash" -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
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That's what jogged my memory to listen to Pres and Teddy again -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDesCGeGLL4 -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
Trojan replied to paley's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Pres & Teddy - Lester Young and Teddy Wilson -
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
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Voi che sapete, Marriage of Figaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDeFdGzthV0 -
I saw my first bee of 2015 yesterday. It was on the ground seemingly unable to take off. There was a programme on R4 about the life cycle of bumble bees last year. Apparently the queens hibernate and emerge at this time of year to found new colonies. It said if you find one struggling on the ground give it some sugar and water in a teaspoon and it will revive. It works!
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What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
Trojan replied to paley's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Stompin' at the Savoy - Chick Webb Orchestra, & begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw - two swing classics -
The media show on Radio 4 reckons Sky had to bid so high to secure soccer because without soccer it has no USP. The increase according to the Media Show will come from Sky's drama output and yes other sports. Not looking too bright for RL in that case.
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According to "PM" spending on the Premier League amounts to 17% of all TV spending. The audience for Premier League amounts to 1% of the total TV audience.
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The cheesy B-Movie thread
Trojan replied to Futtocks's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Art Deco classic too! -
The cheesy B-Movie thread
Trojan replied to Futtocks's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
I always classed "B" Movies as second features. In the heyday of the cinema, when the local fleapit would change the programme halfway through the week, if one of the films was fairly short, you'd get a second feature, the series that sticks in my mind is "Scotland Yard" with the creepy Edgar Lustgarten. Always black and white and always about some gruesome murder, so that, at the end Lustgaren could smack his lips in satisfaction in relating that the criminal had paid the ultimate penalty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UFo5fKCwk -
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Trojan replied to Leeds Wire's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
I had the same experience from Salisbury. Delays on the A34, delays on the M40, but mainly the M1. All the way from 15A they were flagging long delays between 31 & 34. There were certainly long delays to 31 because of all the sodding roadworks! At 34 the sign said "incident" the only incident I saw was that it was clear the road had not been ploughed. It snows nearly every year, and the weather forecasters have been flagging this for days but we are still "taken by surprise!" I blame the Tories -
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