tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post2298122812833704010..comments2024-03-29T07:54:24.161+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Feet to walk to ScunthorpeOr to do the ootchy-kooRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-63025441975920498102015-08-26T06:58:00.742+01:002015-08-26T06:58:00.742+01:00Blonde Two: Not surprising really. Since that trem...Blonde Two: Not surprising really. Since that tremulous day when I first met you both, you've ceased to be people and have become a brand - world renowned. Like MacDonalds, Brasso and Marmite. But beyond the executive limousines, the executive loo, the American Express credit card and the free tickets to Glastonbury there is the uncrushable desire to express yourself. My felicitations on "storm nymph" and "trotters".<br /><br />Crow: You're suggesting my feet act independently of their master. It's quite possible. Very occasionally, when putting on my underpants, I try the unsupported plunge - ie, first one foot then the other. It rarely works cleanly and I womble dangerously. My feet, neglected for four-fifths of a century, are finally calling in their dues.<br /><br />As to the Dukas piece, I took against it. In trying to arouse interest in music at my primary school, my teachers misguidedly thought we should be exposed to pieces which "told a story". But alas even Beethoven slipped down a couple of notches when he tried such a work with The Pastoral Symphony. Kids respond to good tunes and positive rhythms and years were to elapse before I came upon such a work (also by Beethoven but this time the Fifth) and then I was away with one of the loves of my life.<br /><br />My feet may well be posing, however. Glancing at the computer keyboard and saying to each other: "We could do this."<br /><br />Ellena: Golden years? Well, there's something heavy in my legs but I always thought it was lead. But I thank you for the thought.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-64726824625178041032015-08-26T02:00:08.155+01:002015-08-26T02:00:08.155+01:00Your Golden Years have come at last. I think of yo...Your Golden Years have come at last. I think of you dear RR and fill my glass. Santé!Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-45422299373401714672015-08-25T15:45:23.006+01:002015-08-25T15:45:23.006+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-56081127957192809922015-08-25T15:45:15.359+01:002015-08-25T15:45:15.359+01:00Your feet look like they posed for Mickey's sh...Your feet look like they posed for Mickey's shoes in the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Did they?The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-60768513768473697392015-08-25T12:07:16.097+01:002015-08-25T12:07:16.097+01:00In The-World-of-Blonde, hair is cosseted, feet are...In The-World-of-Blonde, hair is cosseted, feet are neglected. Hence I have the tresses of a storm nymph and the trotters of a lizard (and that is on a good day!)Blonde Twohttp://twoblondeswalking.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-75107998071373208282015-08-25T11:35:45.084+01:002015-08-25T11:35:45.084+01:00Rising to the bait is a fishy feint; you'd be ...Rising to the bait is a fishy feint; you'd be better off insisting you were never going to swallow itRoderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-20960088441721925952015-08-25T10:03:44.427+01:002015-08-25T10:03:44.427+01:00I refuse to rise to the bait, RR!I refuse to rise to the bait, RR!Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-91484029075581902492015-08-24T15:51:01.232+01:002015-08-24T15:51:01.232+01:00Avus: Following my experience bi-focals are for th...Avus: Following my experience bi-focals are for those whose cerebral lobes long since ceased to communicate with each other. "Two Brains", if you like, but both much, much smaller than the standard issue.<br /><br />Lucy: I needed to check Birkenstocks but they don't apply. Chances are they would reveal I am a life-long support-hose wearer and thus - according to the views of most Western women - utterly devoid of sex appeal. I think Tom should be taxed further about Bresslaw. He may well have been author of a privately published volume of poetry, Ode to the Dead Sea Scrolls, but I'm not sure that's sufficient evidence.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-18114607674234862212015-08-24T12:58:47.631+01:002015-08-24T12:58:47.631+01:00Try Birkenstocks?
Funny, we were recalling that s...Try Birkenstocks?<br /><br />Funny, we were recalling that song the other day, having not thought of it for years. One of those occasions when the parody is more popular and better remembered than its source. Tom tells me Bernard Breslaw was a clever chap, though I'm not sure on what he bases this assertion.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-19352160218247355432015-08-24T09:40:12.336+01:002015-08-24T09:40:12.336+01:00I needed general specs at 40 and for a while they ...I needed general specs at 40 and for a while they suited, near and far. As I motorcycled and was involved in historical re-enactment I also took to contact lenses, which were so convenient that I wore them all the time. Eventually I needed reading glasses so went for bi-focals - continuing with the contacts with a pair of cheapo specs for close work. I could have had vari-focal contacts but I tried them and the resulting vertigo decided me against them. <br />Contacts have not been needed for a number of years now (regretfully) and I have recently made Specsavers a tad richer with new bi-focals.<br />Like you, RR, I am finding trainers more comfortable for "wooden" feet and tingling legs.Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.com