tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post63935670928125203..comments2023-10-17T12:05:26.540+01:00Comments on Razor-blade of Life: Z isn't having a good dayZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-72928519437258569182009-12-15T06:57:17.015+00:002009-12-15T06:57:17.015+00:00Oh my manners - thank you for the explanation! I&#...Oh my manners - thank you for the explanation! I'm sorry. It was a very long night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-52314437462687847942009-12-15T06:56:06.974+00:002009-12-15T06:56:06.974+00:00It's based on the Te Deum laudamus and via emi...It's based on the Te Deum laudamus and via emigrants came to Northern America. The English version is given as "Holy God, we praise thy name". No first choice for a funeral, but a kind of multipurpose weapon ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-25430800078396643682009-12-14T22:25:14.565+00:002009-12-14T22:25:14.565+00:00Sorry Mago - All Things Bright and Beautiful is a ...Sorry Mago - All Things Bright and Beautiful is a children's hymn, once popular but now only remembered fondly by a few. It's often chosen for funerals because the people involved remember singing it at Sunday school, quite possibly 70 years ago or more.<br /><br />The Old Rugged Cross is another old favourite that I don't much like.<br /><br />Großer GOtt wir loben Dich isn't one I'm familiar with, even in translation, I'm afraid, but it rather better hits the mark. Many people aren't churchgoers and their families choose their favourite music. The minister may try to lead them another way, but most would accept that a funeral is a very important rite of passage, that just-bereaved people aren't always entirely rational and that it's usually kinder to let them do what they want.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-70895237014789430542009-12-14T14:23:47.447+00:002009-12-14T14:23:47.447+00:00Beautiful insight into a strange culture. I gently...Beautiful insight into a strange culture. I gently ask for some explanations: What is "All things B&B" and what is "The Old RC"? Here the organist normally plays something like "Großer GOtt wir loben Dich" ... "Highway to Hell" is not a common choice and few communities would accept. I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-58014531397110108102009-12-14T12:59:40.526+00:002009-12-14T12:59:40.526+00:00Thank you, Dave. You may have saved my reputation;...Thank you, Dave. You may have saved my reputation; I was going to continue with something a little more robust.<br /><br />V3.<br /><em>The loo seat's cracked and rusting,<br />And won't stay upright long. <br />Beware, O man, too trusting!<br />It</em><br /><br />I have to go out now.<br /><br />It seems to me that The Old RC is beyond parody.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14227767014123557100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-56218311220118078072009-12-14T12:19:08.941+00:002009-12-14T12:19:08.941+00:00What the hell, absolutely. Mind you, you're yo...What the hell, absolutely. Mind you, you're younger than me. I suspect you'll see me out, 4D.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-8923024777409523472009-12-14T11:54:48.325+00:002009-12-14T11:54:48.325+00:00Can I book you for my funeral?
Not sure what '...Can I book you for my funeral?<br /><br />Not sure what 'Anarchy In The UK' will sound like on an organ but what the hell!....;-)DILLIGAFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16520650650468676361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-21107473208415109012009-12-14T11:52:58.911+00:002009-12-14T11:52:58.911+00:00Resist anything but temptation, darling.
Rewritin...Resist anything but temptation, darling.<br /><br />Rewriting my speech. Feeling slightly more in control, except for this carol service business.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-40092257611105803492009-12-14T11:41:51.668+00:002009-12-14T11:41:51.668+00:00Carry On, you say. . . ooh, the possibilities are ...<i>Carry On</i>, you say. . . ooh, the possibilities are endless!!<br /><br />(I'm tempted, but I'll resist)I, Like The Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423569600315825506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-62361543328583618022009-12-14T11:30:54.528+00:002009-12-14T11:30:54.528+00:00I love you all. Carry on.I love you all. Carry on.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-40657931827072389882009-12-14T11:28:34.729+00:002009-12-14T11:28:34.729+00:00Sorry, too many quites there. Make it 'the la...Sorry, too many quites there. Make it 'the landlord's very grumpy'.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403853324345062446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-39879363610489817802009-12-14T11:27:38.082+00:002009-12-14T11:27:38.082+00:00The porridge is thick and lumpy.
The mattress is t...<i>The porridge is thick and lumpy.<br />The mattress is the same.<br />The landlord is quite grumpy<br />But the bedbugs are quite tame.</i>Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403853324345062446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-72657754422934876492009-12-14T11:20:32.730+00:002009-12-14T11:20:32.730+00:00Oh no, carry on as you are, Christopher. I had th...Oh no, carry on as you are, Christopher. I had thought that an expectation of the entire hymn was too much to ask for, so I'm gratified to find that you have got well into verse 2.<br /><br />I am demanding, of course, but I am also entirely reasonable. The Old RC can wait.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-70386763511952685362009-12-14T11:17:33.454+00:002009-12-14T11:17:33.454+00:00You're so demanding, Z. I'd got as far as ...You're so <em>demanding</em>, Z. I'd got as far as V.2:<br /><br /><em>The porridge is thick and lumpy.<br />The mattress is the same:<br />No joy in - </em><br /><br />and now here you are asking us for something else. I don't know...Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14227767014123557100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-26145661963491545402009-12-14T11:07:10.835+00:002009-12-14T11:07:10.835+00:00There's been some pretty strange heavy metal m...There's been some pretty strange heavy metal music and some mawkish boy band stuff played on CDs, Another organist was asked to play a Rolling Stones number a few years ago, but now we've got a fairly firm policy that if you want anything unusual, you're welcome to have it but please provide the CD. I rather like the thought of the Sugar Plum Fairy though. <br /><br />04, Dave. It's all right, I'll get Ro to sort it out. I can manage in the meantime and when I'm less agitated I may even work out what to do.<br /><br />I'm not even trying, Christopher. There's a level of pressure beyond which I'm not prepared to put myself. It's not fair on the girl either.<br /><br />Now can you all rewrite The Old RC? It starts <i>On a hill far away</i>, if you remember.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-76219702097764265172009-12-14T09:19:01.527+00:002009-12-14T09:19:01.527+00:00....I spark when I get in!<i>....I spark when I get in!</i>Roghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09780409453528524865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-61235263134765670682009-12-14T09:01:07.176+00:002009-12-14T09:01:07.176+00:00All things bed and breakfast,
With evening meal th...<i>All things bed and breakfast,<br />With evening meal thrown in.<br />All sheets made of nylon...</i>Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403853324345062446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-30811584807191819872009-12-14T08:57:36.997+00:002009-12-14T08:57:36.997+00:00Oh, Z. How tiresome, but I'm sure you can busk...Oh, Z. How tiresome, but I'm sure you can busk something for your guest singer. And I bet she'll want to sing it in a different key from the sheet music. <br /><br />Strangest thing to play at a funeral? I was asked once for The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.<br /><br />I shall be going about all day trying to complete the quatrain<br /><br /><em>All things bed and breakfast,<br />With evening meal thrown in...</em><br /><br />-unless somebody else does it for me.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14227767014123557100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-65183223749916967582009-12-14T08:35:58.493+00:002009-12-14T08:35:58.493+00:00Which version of Word? Not that I'm really go...Which version of Word? Not that I'm really going to suggest one can sort it out long-distance.<br /><br />All things bed and breakfast put a whole new slant on the hymn.<br /><br />In parenthesis may I add ).Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403853324345062446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-45540136630026478092009-12-14T07:44:12.239+00:002009-12-14T07:44:12.239+00:00I hope you slept well, dear Z
(I'm fairly sur...I hope you slept well, dear <b>Z</b><br /><br />(I'm fairly sure that the Word doc size issue shoud be easy to sort out, but it's so long since I've had anything serious to do requiring Word that I can't think what the solution might be)(good luck with the speech)I, Like The Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423569600315825506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-67817099465542600892009-12-14T04:49:32.507+00:002009-12-14T04:49:32.507+00:00What is the stranges thong you have been asked to ...What is the stranges thong you have been asked to play at a funerallomhttp://anewwayoflife08.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com