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Re: Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 3
« Reply #594 on: Wednesday 30 April 08 15:00 BST (UK) »
I knew there were people out there!

I haven't got a clue when half term is but I'm happy to move the dates to suit - I was basically waiting for Michel as he will travel the furthest - except for Kidsnana of course!

I just wanted to get the date sorted for Scrimnet and the lads!

I have to be on duty at Weddings the two weeks either side of my History Exhibition so I'm limited on time on Saturdays in June but I will do my best to nip along whenever it is.

So Tisgrannie, when is half term and how come it comes along much more often and for much longer than when I was in prison school?  :'(

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« Reply #595 on: Wednesday 30 April 08 17:41 BST (UK) »
Hi Lynne

Half term is 26th-30th May in this neck of the woods (Gloucestershire) should think this is the same over rest of England.

Too early for the stonemasons?

Susan  :)

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Re: Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 3
« Reply #596 on: Wednesday 30 April 08 20:54 BST (UK) »
Hi Prison Officer tisgrannie reporting school holidays as recorded in previous message. 26th -30th may.
I would like to point out if you had the children we have to work with you would be happy with half terms once a month! No joking!
You probably respected your teachers way back then !!  :D
Its a shame that we didn't get a bit of a rush from the stonemasons considering the advertisement they will get!
Its not sour grapes but they could push it forward a little bit! Considering.
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Re: Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 3
« Reply #597 on: Wednesday 30 April 08 23:46 BST (UK) »
Just a thought ... we've waited so long for this....a few months more is not going to make a real difference .... would it not be an idea to book some time a good way ahead  for definite so that people have plenty of time to make plans and there isnt the possibility of things being pushed so fast that  a hiccough could occcur ( Like the chief Stonemason hitting his thumb with a hammer  and rendering himself out of action for two weeks... what ?...it could happen ! ;) ;D) and make the plans of people travelling long distances  in Novempointless if the stone was not ready .... Maybe those people living locally could take some pics of the stone being actually erected and then the meeting could be a month or two afterwards .... even a meeting on Remembrance weekend . I know it is a long way ahead  but it may even allow people from farther afield to make plans.. Just  an idea anyway ... I for one would love to go  anytime but would love for there to be be a maximum turn out ...The success of things like this is nearly always directly commensurate with the amount of planning put into it ... in my humle opinion !! ;) ;D ;D
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Re: Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 3
« Reply #598 on: Wednesday 30 April 08 23:59 BST (UK) »
just to add my two penneth- i cant make weekends due to work - so whilst i will go with the majority that can - I am sure someone can take my thoughts in  to the visit with them!

So i am "spiritually" with when ever anyone can make what.

Mair

PS half term is the week following Whit Bank Holiday or as is now more PC to call it the Late Spring Holiday weekend - ie w/c 26.5.08
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Re: Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 3
« Reply #599 on: Thursday 01 May 08 00:12 BST (UK) »
Remembrance weekend is already booked for my boys and girls... :-[

Whitsun..ummm....Brings to mind the song "Dancing at Whitsun"...Quite appropriate actually...

It's fifty long springtimes since she was a bride
But still you may see her at each Whitsuntide
In a dress of white linen and ribbons of green
As green as her memories of loving

The feet that were nimble tread carefully now
As gentle a measure as age do allow
Through groves of white blossom by fields of young corn
Where once she was pledged to her true love

The fields they stand empty, the hedges grow free
No young men to tend them or pastures go see
They have gone where the forests of oak trees before
Have gone to be wasted in battle

Down from the green farmlands and from their loved ones
Marched husbands and brothers and fathers and sons
There's a fine roll of honour where the maypole once stood
And the ladies go dancing at Whitsun

There's a straight row of houses in these latter days
Are covering the downs where the sheep used to graze
There's a field of red poppies, a wreath from the Queen
But the ladies remember at Whitsun

And the ladies go dancing at Whitsun



It's all about the village ladies dancing the morris, as all the men have been lost in WW1..(only 50 long summers as it was written in the 60s...) so as to continue the traditions

This is how Womens Morris started....


C'est cinquante longs printemps puisqu'elle était une jeune mariée mais vous pouvez encore la voir chez chaque Whitsuntide
dans une robe de la toile blanche et des rubans de vert
aussi verdir que ses mémoires d'aimer

Les pieds qui étaient bande de roulement agile soigneusement maintenant aussi douce une mesure que l'âge permettent
 par des plantations de fleur blanche par des champs de jeune
maïs où par le passé elle a été mise en gage à son amour vrai

Les champs qu'ils se tiennent vides, les haies n'accroissent libre
aucun jeune homme pour les tendre ou les pâturages disparaissent
voient qu'ils ont disparu avant où les forêts d'arbres de chêne sont allées être gaspillées dans la bataille

 Vers le bas des champs verts et du leur a aimé ceux a marché des maris et les frères et les pères et les fils
il y a un rouleau fin d'honneur où le mât s'est par le passé tenu et les dames vont danser chez Whitsun

 Il y a une rangée les maisons blanc en ces derniers jours couvrent les bas où le mouton employé pour frôler il y a un champ des pavots rouges,
une guirlande de la Reine mais les dames se rappellent chez Whitsun

 Et les dames vont danser chez Whitsun

Il est tout au sujet des dames de village dansant les morris, comme tous les hommes ont été perdus en longs étés de WW1..(only 50 pendant qu'on lui écrivait dans le 1960s...) afin de continuer les traditions C'est comment "Womens Morris" a commencé....
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 3
« Reply #600 on: Thursday 01 May 08 00:17 BST (UK) »
Good evening all,

Sorry I am late  but I just finished translating the latest posts in recent days.

Do not worry me to set a date, for my part I can not conceive of going to Liverpool without Annie, I'll wait as long as it takes, and like Mair I'll be spiritually with you if you decide to do a ceremony in the weeks ahead.

Michel

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Re: Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 3
« Reply #601 on: Thursday 01 May 08 00:26 BST (UK) »
Here's a (poorly mixed) version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGMNc8DEb8Y

The cadences on the last line of each verse are a bit odd...but still a good effort...

(for the technically minded...should be a IV-V cadence not the VI-IV it seems to be...)

You can hear it here...

http://www.last.fm/music/Maddy%2BPrior%2B%2526%2BTim%2BHart/_/Dancing+at+Whitsun
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 3
« Reply #602 on: Thursday 01 May 08 00:36 BST (UK) »
Song now has translation in French....(see above!)
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.