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but have neglected my own good advice underpants demand a strategy if you buy a dozen pairs simultaneously as i foolishly did several years ago the elastic in all twelve pairs will fail simultaneously at cologne s christmas market i sensed the failure as my pants ceased to be two legged and became a pseudo kilt hanging down my thighs beneath my trousers sadness followed after buying a replacement three pack at cologne s primark super cheap clothing i discovered that interim dieting had shrunk me from xxl to xl and the new pants hold on my waist was uncertain strategy schmattergy non christmassy christmas news 2 to practice sustained notes i sing the traditional welsh song all through the night because it s simple and dates back to my childhood i didn t bother with a score and sang from memory sleep my love and peace attend thee all through the night guardian angels god will lend thee all through the night soft the drowsy hours are creeping hill and vale in slumber steeping love alone its watch is keeping all through the night the first second and fourth couplets in italics have the same musical structure the third bold face is musically different and higher but not impossibly so it presented a difficulty which i ve idiotically lived with for months days ago i bought the score found that the in soft the drops a tone and the difficulty disappears except for my bruised ass where i ve kicked it walter maynard by roderick robinson at december 30 2016 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels procrastination tuesday 27 december 2016 instead of reindeer christmas brings incompatibilities adjustments and the unforeseen i m sitting in the car in hereford s county bus station professional bleeder s bus from luton on the other side of the country is over an hour late but mobile phones have helped cut my wait down to a manageable 15 min rain has been spitting without conviction now it s getting heavier as the huge national express whale of a vehicle swings into the station gobbets of water are forming on my windscreen smearing the view into oblivion i rush out to guide pb back to the car back home i m forced to change my sodden chinos heck why not put on my pjs and my dressing gown the family group of seven zach is upstairs fiddling with his new computer thingie is playing dilemmas if you were forced how would you choose between two arms and four legs or four arms and two legs which is preferable being burned alive or drowning the rest all much younger are complaining at the level of the central heating thermostats are screwed down and in zach s case a window is opened next morning the heating refuses to come on after a panicky twenty minutes the reason is traced to a switch marked central heating obscurely located and never previously used which cuts off system power no blame only relief the rest moves on to other relatives pb a teacher stays she s become an opera buff and we organise ourselves to watch das rheingold first of four operas forming wagner s ring cycle fifteen hours of dvd viewing no go the 60 boxed set bought months ago is for blu ray players instead bryn terfel john the baptist gets the chop in strauss s salomé lots of good stuff happens of course but it s less interesting to write about by roderick robinson at december 27 2016 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels philosophy wednesday 21 december 2016 union door to door carol singing is rare these days a victim of uncharitable pragmatism sung warnings gave way to a bell tinkle or a knock which had to be answered leaving the resident face to face with a pair of ill tuned teenagers in effect begging we wish you a merry christmas we wish you a merry christmas etc now both bell and knock are ignored in the pious hope it s not the police for those who pursue the old tradition i am available as a soloist with a repertory of one the tune is familiar and the libretto s sentiments are unchanged but there is a political twist intended as an indirect fraternity with those who recently suffered in berlin click here above as a more direct gesture daughter occasional speeder gazes out from our cologne appartment at the twin spires of the cathedral which overlooks another innocent christmas market by roderick robinson at december 21 2016 14 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels music s importance saturday 17 december 2016 future loss dass ich so traurig bin heine that i am so sad sadness ah there s a thing look i won t be deserting j brahms l van beethoven r schumann j s bach r wagner g f handel p hindemith r strauss k weill tunesmiths c ludwig b fassbänder u lemper p schreier df d f wunderlich w kempff w backhaus a s mutter w furtwangler h von karajan e jochum musicians m schumacher s vettel e degner h h frantzen vroom vroomers t martin j voigt pedallers h schmidt a merkel presidents d bonhoeffer modern martyr w heisenberg physicist g grosch cartoonist der spiegel muckraker a durer p klee h holbein daubers b brecht f schiller w g sebald h h kirst t mann g grass scribblers or the pollmeier family hattingen ruhr with whom i stayed in 1953 but the political connection which i cherished will be lost just back from cologne where i grabbed lapels and asked if watching great britain shrink into little england would be a sad experience yes definitely said the dortmunder i met in a bar see pic yes said the lady at the tourist office yes said the waiter at the chocolate museum yes said the lady on the next seat at fruhstuck who happened to be an amsterdam academic but you get the idea i went to bed that evening warmed by drink and rhine borne affection by roderick robinson at december 17 2016 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels friendship tuesday 13 december 2016 aye lads are like that my worst journeys an occasional series that she agreed to a dinner at leylands lane the stiffness of it she her brother i and laid out cutlery all foreseen mother bringing in plates while i am booted for rock on an empty road up in the dales miles to go too many of them mother smiling artificially at this girl who means so much to me mother concerned at my youth my inexperience that i might be hurt boots clump on untrafficked tarmac as i stride out painfully futilely there was a refusal ah how that hurt now this this unexpectedly formal meal was she simply curious my calves ache i m walking too quickly and it s pointless nearer to her yes but it s pure theory i will be late wanting to read the titles of books on our shelves but surely she wasn t that interested late which can mean dead the late lamented would i prefer that in a bid for sympathy ash blonde hair figure no i can t think about that a sharp regional tone of voice well suited for criticism inaudible over the clash of knives and forks on my mother s chipped crockery imagination s a bitch isn t it i walk on into a mist swallowed up by defective memory somehow the gap between the dales road and leylands lane was bridged in time and anticlimactically i know only that we met foregathered sounds appropriate and there was crisp meaningless talk of the meal which had seemed so inexplicable it only exists in the form i imagined it not a single image now extant an adolescent fever reduced to a faint uneasiness by roderick robinson at december 13 2016 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels locomotion saturday 10 december 2016 zzzzz facebook has interpreted these lines from messiah for me then shall the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing prejudiced i ve ignored facebook but i needed info from this service so i signed up what could go wrong suddenly it was like a very bad novel threatened rr saw his whole life scroll before his eyes how could i have left such a huge cyberspace footprint why this huge cluster of devonians ah yes because of her and him joe an optimistic male face the departed half of a known partnership a vaguely familiar first name but attached to a cocker spaniel one of vr s painting pals the owner not the dog all wanting to be friends but what about this sultry demimondaine from las vegas a link left unguessed assorted and unknown herefordians my brother a married couple i regard as dodgy both my daughters an nz farmer and his wife lovely people for the first time i understood the absorption of smartphoners in the supermarket on buses near an untouched pint of beer perhaps on the toilet plugged into a huge family which was expanding continuously friends to thousands in a to and fro of persiflage i felt curious but resolute facebook discouraged deactivation but i ticked the box left this modern tower of babel buzzing by roderick robinson at december 10 2016 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels conversation friday 9 december 2016 if wishes were bikes a motor bike s attractions lie in its very nature no clutter just an engine two wheels a frame a seat and controls as a result bikes have a favourable power to weight ratio eg my car develops 112 kw and weighs 1180 kg whereas the admittedly hairy chested honda fireblade sports bike develops slightly more power yet only weighs 15 of the car guess which has the better top speed and acceleration a bike has superior ergonomic logic car speed is controlled with the foot bike speed with the more sensitive hand it s the other way round for gear changing but a car gear change moves through an h pattern whereas the bike s changer moves up and down always in a vertical plane and may be three times as quick quick gear changes make an engine more responsive to prevailing circumstances cars are steered manually through a complex linkage which now demands power assistance a bike is steered via small intuitive movements of the rider s body usually assisted by road camber a bike is intrinsically unstable adding risk which in turn adds appeal in the end though a bike is fantastical bought as pure indulgence and used selectively it has its points but a car is superior where the family vehicle must earn its keep apart from its obvious flaws a bike can undermine parental obligations i last rode a bike in the seventies a velocette as illustrated though less clean i chafed at its antiquity would have preferred a bike that was more demonstrably beyond my control anti bikers would say that was a death wish pro bikers eternal optimists would contrarily say it was a life wish i am clearly far too old to ride again but the urge is still there well buried like many men who ve also felt that urge i suppose by roderick robinson at december 09 2016 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels locomotion wednesday 7 december 2016 gliding s preferable sips simple inexpensive pleasures an occasional series this post is not about butter and or bread it s about my personal attitude towards buttering bread margarine has a brief walk on walk off part and can be dealt with quickly during and immediately after ww2 margarine hard g or soft g may have been smeared on bread in our household i wouldn t know it may have been unpleasant to taste i wouldn t know that what i do remember is that margarine smeared bread carried intense social stigma only cads and those living below the poverty line ate it aged about eight i was allowed to spread my own bread long before the introduction of sliced bread proof of moral degeneracy according to daily mail readers or microwaves i didn t enjoy this task applying rock hard butter to roughly hacked bread resulted in a plateful of crumb covered greasy balls yes there were techniques but adults weren t telling and don t let s talk about sticking butter under the grill one always left it there too long toast became even more popular since it better resisted spreading i think but cannot be sure i took the line of least resistance and gave up bread and butter for several decades marriage seemed to coincide with the ready availability of spreadable butter that was also palatable our favoured brand has a sick making name lurpak but we re not slavish kerrygold above was on offer the bread is polish and is one of the best arguments for retaining eu freedom of movement no one has written an ode to spreadable butter and i don t intend to start no doubt there are atavists who swear by intractable butter me i swear at it spreadable butter has removed a minor irritation which cumulatively might have driven me to the grave by now let s laud lurpak by roderick robinson at december 07 2016 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels nutrition saturday 3 december 2016 pro or anti here s a dilemma should i sing who is sylvia in english or german for brexiteers it s a no brainer having been told via the word of god ie the daily mail the song was by shakespeare who despite a foreign sounding name came from the midlands it s gotta be like we all speak innit however the setting is by schubert admittedly he was an eu native and therefore to be isolated yet his setting not only fits the german translation but also the original english which is quite clever and schubert died young and therefore deserves brexit s tendency to be maudlin words or music the choice cannot be resolved and richard strauss alas another non brit wrote an opera called capriccio to prove the point as a treacherous reactionary remoaner i m happy to sing both who is sylvia an sylvia but in doing so despite rusty german i saw there were textual differences so i asked my great friend and super linguist rouchswalve whose impossible to pronounce blogonym i shorten to rw zs the bracketed letters standing for zu schwer or in brexit too difficult to re translate the german here it is and as a tribute to her skills and friendliness i shall break my normal 300 word limit for tone deaf posts who is sylvia o say that fields of nature should praise her beautiful and tender i watch her approach proven by heaven s grace and traces that all are devoted to her is she beautiful and good too like gentle childhood charm refreshes to her eye rushes cupid where he heals his blindness and whiles in sweet peace for sylvia sound o tune for lovely sylvia s honour she exceeds every charm by far which earth can grant for her garlands and chords of strings by roderick robinson at december 03 2016 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels songs newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom search this blog about me roderick robinson hereford united kingdom newspaper and magazine journalist in england and the states renounced west riding birthright in 1959 retired 1995 view my complete profile blog archive 2026 13 june 5 may 2 march 1 february 3 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