Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Dry with a touch of sun this morning but still a bit breezy. I was just going to say that there was no sign of the BIN wagons this morning but they have just arrived and their dawn chorus has commenced. The lesser spotted glass and bottle wagon was last week which was cancelled so it won't be here until next week. Time to run a bath, be back later.

[Gwiwer]

I am obliged to respect the ukulele. It is one of SWMBO’s instruments. She owns several though normally plays the concert one. 
 

Here is one of her own compositions played and sung with support from a friend on guitar. 
 

https://m.soundcloud.com/fantom_inc/deep-water

[leopardml2341]

30 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

  I felt sorry for the staff on the phones as it wasn't their fault things were so bad, there was a hell of a turnover of such staff too - tells it all.

Relying on my o-level physics to determine the colour, if I've got it right, I'm led to believe (by a now ex employee) that the leadership culture was, shall we say, autocratic at best.

Edited February 18, 2021 by leopardml2341
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[leopardml2341]

Well, so much for my recovery.....

 

Woke this morning with a throat feeling like it was razor blades and not much voice to speak of (literally ).

 

Phoned mi boss and his advice was to 'stay home' as it were, cos I'm doing that anyway. Good news is temperature is back to normal.

 

A cuppa seems to have helped mi throat and meds for the headache seem to be effective.

 

Best wishes to all for today, stay safe, sane and well.

[leopardml2341]

53 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

It wasn't weeing down, but when I said, I think I need a walk this morning, it started.

If it's any consolation, it's tipping it down here too. Also very windy.

[Andrew P]

6 minutes ago, leopardml2341 said:

If it's any consolation, it's tipping it down here too. Also very windy.

Windy? Is it the Beans?

[leopardml2341]

14 minutes ago, leopardml2341 said:

If it's any consolation, it's tipping it down here too. Also very windy.

 

7 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

Windy? Is it the Beans?

And to think, I did consider typing breezy as an alternative, but then I thought no; ERs are above all that

 

The triumph of hope over experience I guess.........

[jonny777]

A cloudy and damp morning here in North Somerset, but I do believe a clearance is on its way. From our NW facing living room window I can see a line of blue sky on the horizon, which usually means the clearance has reached the Brecon Beacons and will be here in about an hour. 

 

This is why I put the washing on at 8am, in order for it to be ready to hang outside by 11am when the sun comes out. 

 

The general post-vaccine nerve-ending chaos seems to be fading now I am about to reach the 7 day anniversary point. Itching has more or less stopped. General gum ache is subsiding and didn't happen at all overnight, which meant I actually slept for much of it rather than trying to predict which side of my mouth would be next to exhibit stabbing pains. 

 

Yesterday afternoon was a great example, as around 3pm I suddenly had the most severe toothache I can remember in decades, and it had arisen from nothing to "lets jump out of a 10th floor window, and end the pain forever" level in about 5 minutes. That proved to be the peak (or maybe it should be trough) as the pain then eased over the following 15 minutes until it had vanished completely by 3:25pm and has yet to return. 

 

If I knew what the hell was going on inside, I doubt there is much I could do for these random events. 

[Tony_S]

My hospital appointment was a couple of minutes early. Gastro doctor was very pleased that all the heart and lung problems hadn’t triggered any colitis flare ups. 
Aditi has said she could drive herself to Southend this afternoon but I suggested I should drive just in case there are parking problems. Ordinarily if we go the Cliffs Pavilion (now the vaccination centre) we park on the sea front parking but that is all closed to deter day trippers. There is parking reserved for the Covid clinic but just in case it is full I can leave Aditi and find somewhere else. 
Tony

[Pacific231G]

It was sunny and breezy in London when I got up this morning but now it's wet and breezy.

Weekly shop this morning plus picking up my new printer from Argos. Having had the jab a week ago I'm now more than usually conscious of doing my darndest to  not catch the virus before the protection kicks in a week or two so from now. The irony would be unbearable.

[laurenceb]

On music, most of what I listen to could be called covers. The one that I do know that is a cover is Streets of London, I greatly prefer Rodger Whittakar's version. I did like Please please Mr Postman as posted by Andy P earlier. A fan of Karen Carpenter

[laurenceb]

My favorite peace of music is Pictures at an Exhibition so that shows my music tastes

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Well it was raining earlier on and the garden is now very wet, so any sort of gardening is out for today I think. I’ve got plenty of things to do inside anyway so it doesn’t matter. 

 

Sheila seems to be having a reaction to the vaccine, she woke up with a headache, high temperature and felt like she’d been kicked all over, she’s still in bed at then moment, fast asleep. So I’ll do something quite for now. 

 

I though of a few more musical covers

 

ELP’s version of Copeland’s Fanfare For The Common Man. It has a great driving beat at the heat of the song. 

Preludes version of the Beatles; Here Comes The Sun, a very happy up beat version. 

Hearts version of Led Zeppelin‘s Rock and Roll, strictly speaking not better, but certainly it’s equal. 

Dan Fogelberg’s version of The Cascades; Rhythm Of The Rain, with a nice segue with the Beatles Song Rain at the end. 

 

Incidentally, when Dan released that he got a letter from John Gummoe, the songs writer to say that it was the best cover of that song he’d ever heard. 

 

Stay safe, stay sane, enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later. 

 

Brian

[Pacific231G]

9 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

I drove to have my (Oxford A-Z) jab and wasn't even asked if I was driving. Neither was I asked to wait afterwards.

I did drive to my vaccination appointment last week, or at least to a street with free parking 5-10 mins walk away from the Town Hall. It was Oxford-AZ and they didn't ask me to wait there but advised me to wait fifteen minutes before driving (just to sit in the car if necessary)  I simply took a more circuitous route back to my car thus getting some of my daily exercise as well. 

 

I felt a bit virusy for a day or so afterwards but nothing out of the ordinary and totally obviated by my delight at actually getting the jab. I'm in group 5 so it was a couple of weeks earlier than I'd expected. That's actually slightly concerning as it suggest that a lot of groups 1-4 didn't take up the offer round here.

 

It's notable that the variants seem to be coming from countries that allowed the pandemic to get out of control like Brazil, RSA, us and now the USA so we really do need a high vaccine take-up to counter that. Fortunately, we do seem to have particularly good scientists in this country (which is just as well given the current quality of our political leaders)    Presumably variants won't appear in the deep south of the USA as they don't allow evolution  

Edited February 18, 2021 by Pacific231G

[tigerburnie]

Morning all, started off wet but it's getting brighter now, the snows all gone from our garden, but the mountain at the side of my car left by the snow plough is still there. We are managing a walk round the village, but keeping off the fields as they are very boggy and I don't have Norfolk feet despite having relatives in the county..........................

I believe the ECML should be re-opening up to Aberdeen today after the bridge partly collapsed near Stonehaven, a few trains have been running to Montrose, it's odd not hearing them rumble by. I had a delivery of potting compost and manure yesterday, so some indoor "G" word might happen in the greenhouse later, also some wheels will need turning on parallel strips of metal too. Stay safe all.

[PeterBB]

Have worked through all the pages generally not recognising most of the originals/covers mentioned.  

 

House of the Rising Sun I did for some the reason below have always liked by the association.

On a field trip (Gwier may have done the same Pembrokeshire one some years later) we were staying in a 'hotel' with no heating (just come to mind was that it snowed and going into a shop told the proprietor whose response was 'It never snows here').  

Anyway a gaming evening was planned and I was looking forward to it until that is 'they' decided to play for money' so that participants would play to win.  That was me out  when you play, although you hope to enjoy, the aim is to win.  Watching proved interesting and for some caused real financial grief at which point the music in the background was 'House of the Rising Sun'. It has stuck in mind and the cover above has given me a generally rather pleasant remembrance of the field trip.

Edited February 18, 2021 by PeterBB
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[Erichill16]

5 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 (here’s your effing prescription, you stupid c...) and gobbing on difficult customers...

Or perhaps not!

 

 

iD

 

Oih, I only speak posh like that when I’m in a good mood, you ............

Edited February 18, 2021 by Erichill16
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[Gwiwer]

28 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

My favorite peace of music is Pictures at an Exhibition so that shows my music tastes

Excellent. Following the theme of cover versions check out Isao Tomita’s superb electronic version. 

[polybear]

3 hours ago, Barry O said:

 hope you get back to full fitness asap! As it happens her indoors worked for Norlin in London for a while. She had to look after Lucille when BB King had it in for a bit of a rework..

 

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Woah.  R E S P E C T!

Do tell more! In fact, why not get her-indoors to post about the experience here on ER so we can all enjoy it (add photos as well, if you've got 'em)

 

Is Norlin good?  Who's Lucille? 

 

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Finally, Tangerine Dream’s Burning Bar (from the the soundtrack of Thief, with James Caan)

Put it on the car stereo, put it on a loop, crank it up to “11” and I defy you to keep to the speed limit....

iD

 

Perhaps if you happen to be in a "20" limit at the time maybe.....

 

2 hours ago, Andrew P said:

And the Wipe out bit is awesome.

 

 

Ahhhh, now you're cookin'......

 

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

P-Bear, it would be unprofessional of Andyram to mention who is causing him issues, but I'm well out of the trade and won't be going back, so I can hint that the longer wavelength of the colour spectrum is probably the issue, in my experience!  &^%$ing useless in recent times in fact, although they used to be OK, and ripped us off on returns when we wound up the business (all the other suppliers were brilliant).  I felt sorry for the staff on the phones as it wasn't their fault things were so bad, there was a hell of a turnover of such staff too - tells it all.

 

Gotcha.....

 

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

Rick

 

her indoors always says.. "the ukele should be banned and all burnt"  why .. schools started to "teach" the kids how to "play" the ukele and it is a s!d to keep in tune ..

 

 

 

George Formby music?  A bit of this is more Bear's scene:

 

 

 

[andyram]

Morning all and supportive wishes to Andy (leopard) once again who appears not to shaken his illness as yet. I hope you feel better soon mate.

 

Sarah is still suffering from the after effects of the jab. She has been going hot and cold, has shakes, head ache and is feeling sick. She (nor I as a result) slept much last night. She has stayed in bed and does appear to be sleeping things off now. Hopefully the side effects will ease when she awakes. 

 

This afternoon I will have to venture out to Matlock Bath for the said delivery which is due to arrive sometime between 2.50pm and 3.50pm. There is a customer coming to collect an order just before then. 

 In terms of the delivery, as NHN states, it would be wrong of me to name and shame the said company despite their obvious failings and the frustration they cause. I know that I am not alone in being frustrated by their level of service however. 

 

Have a good day and stay safe.

 

Andy

[chrisf]

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

Space Rock?  Why not?  This is - errr - different 

 

 

Now you're talking.  A few years ago at Sidmouth I heard a version of the Shadows' "Wonderful Land".  It captivated me and I was determined to find out who was playing it.  It was, of course, the Ukulele Orchestra.  Before the end of the day I had tracked down and bought a copy of the CD.

 

Chris

[polybear]

17 minutes ago, chrisf said:

Now you're talking.  A few years ago at Sidmouth I heard a version of the Shadows' "Wonderful Land".  It captivated me and I was determined to find out who was playing it.  It was, of course, the Ukulele Orchestra.  Before the end of the day I had tracked down and bought a copy of the CD.

 

Chris

 

 

[45156]

2 hours ago, Andrew P said:

Not famous, but a couple of cover I do like.

https://fb.watch/3JSwD3kS_F/

 

And the Wipe out bit is awesome.

 

Nice to see that I'm not alone in liking this pair - they came into my radar via a YouTube recommendation, and I have been following their music ever since.  Their own composition Close To You has Lennon/McCartney written all over it - quite amazing

 

 

And just while we're disussing music - here's Josh Turner's latest offering Old Train

 

 

 

Now then, sorry for absence - and won't catch up a lot of the missed pages.  Have had my invite to the Zoom meeting - hope to be there.

 

A real oddity over COVID vaccines round here - some of 30747's colleagues are being turned away, and some are being vaccinated - all are now classed as Health and Social Care, allegedly.  Also, her manager, aged 38 was invited by text to have a vaccination, as was her manager's partner, also aged 38.  Neither was any underlying condition, and the partner is not in a designated employement.  Her manager's mum, aged 59 and under the same GP practice has not been invited - most strange.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[Tony_S]

Aditi had just had an email from the GP informing her that she had been added to the clinically vulnerable to Covid list. It won’t really make any difference as she had been behaving as if she was on it to protect me. 

Edited February 18, 2021 by Tony_S
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[Tony_S]

I think the only ukeleles in the family belong to a cousin who is a paramedic. I haven’t heard them, some of his guitar playing and songs allegedly exist online somewhere. 
My nephews are multi instrumentalists and seem to be able to get a tune out of a variety of devices but I haven’t heard them mention ukelele. My nephew Josh did consider music as a career but settled on medicine. When at university he liked playing in bands but wasn’t pushy enough to play guitar so played bass. He then took up banjo and for fun plays jazz bluegrass fusion. 

Edited February 18, 2021 by Tony_S