A few days ago I reblogged a post by @harrison-abbott from @oldshrewsburyian. The post contained a link to a recording of a Schubert string quintet - which was glorious. It got me thinking that I might actually have a recording of it on vinyl because when my dad died (many years ago) I inherited his classical records. I've played some favourites many times but it's years since I've gone looking through the whole lot. And on Friday, when I tried to look for the Schubert, it was impossible to find anything - the records weren't in any kind of order except for the few I play regularly. So, I decided to do something about that.
Here are all the records taken out of the sideboard where they live - a mixture of dad's classical, my classical, and mine and my husband's pop, rock, folk, jazz etc.
One of the things I found quite moving was that there were a few examples of where I'd bought a recording of a piece that I'd learned to love as a child by dad playing it, so now I have my copy and his copy. Smetana's Má Vlast is one example, and here's another:
It turns out that I don't have the Schubert string quintet, but I do have several other Schubert recordings including this one:
And here they all are, back in the sideboard - one side for classical, one side for all the other genres, both sides now in alphabetical order.
Oldshrewsburyian alluded to morseverse in her tags, and I have to say, spending the afternoon sorting through the 1970s records of someone I loved who has since died certainly made me feel a touch Lewisian!
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•have a shufti (at something)
(British English, informal) to have a quick look at something •
According to a Martin J Pitt on Quora: “Spelled shufti it means “look!” in Arabic (from past tense of shaf) and was picked up in the Second World War by soldiers such as my father. It is what pedlars would say when offering goods such as dirty postcards, or various article of doubtful genuineness. I actually have his Egyptian phrase book from the time.”
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DCI Endeavour Morse + DS Robert Lewis in 'Service of All the Dead', Inspector Morse (ITV, 1987).
"Lewis said nothing more. He'd worked with Morse many times before, and treated his outbursts rather as he had once treated the saddeningly bitchy bouts of temper from his own teenage daughters. Nevertheless, it still hurt a bit."
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Sometimes I think about how proud Morse would be that:
a) Roger Allam has some opera training and is still a massive opera and classical fanboy
b) Kevin Whately's daughter Kitty is a professional opera/classical singer (and a v good one!)
I think he'd like both Shaun Evans and John Thaw too (and would be psyched that Thaw's second marriage was to a Quaker!), though he might be freaked out by how many serial killers Evans has played. But Allam and Whately, especially the latter? Oh that would make his *year*. :-)
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“Academia is cool and sexy until I’m expected to do work.”
-Endeavour Morse (at university).
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wouldn't it have been something if E. "Pagan" Morse and F. "Spooky" Mulder had ever met! they in all likelihood would have hated each other, but the snark off involved would've been epic and ridiculous <333
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bit of homework (plural bits of homework). (Britain, slang) meaning an attractive woman.
Synonym: piece of homework
Tbh, I’ve always had a thing for Jakes, too.
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