What a lovely video El 
Maybe not so lovely if they had gotten any closer 
@El Loro posted:A BBC collection of photos by 4 Northern Ireland landscape photographers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...ern-ireland-58447962
A couple of those photographs look like they have been painted...unreal 
Some stunning places to visit and capture the moment.
By the look on the fox's face I can imagine how blisteringly cold it was there
A short article about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on the Performing Rights Society website:
https://www.prsformusic.com/m-...el-coleridge-taylor/
The PRS was formed to collect copyright money from performance of music to pass on to the composers etc and came about partly as a result of the discovery of the poor finances of Colerdge-Taylor's estate after he had died.
Before my mother married she worked for the PRS. Her work was to calculate how much money was due to be be paid to composers etc. She was part of a team. The PRS operates throughout the world. She was responsible for the calculations relating to one country. I don't remember if it was Brazil or Argentina. This was in the days before computers.
@El Loro posted:A BBC collection of photos by 4 Northern Ireland landscape photographers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...ern-ireland-58447962
stunning photos EL -love the fox one
@El Loro posted:
aww lovely video EL
night EL slim moonsieee
Good morning everyone we're expecting sunny intervals today, clouding over later. Good to see you back Moonie.
Enjoy your day everyone 
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Early morning fog has just about gone here, fairly sunny day, forecast high of 21°.
Nice to hear from you, Moonie
I hope everyone has a good day
Thanks El 
I shall pop in and out occasionally to make sure your okay 
A sunny start to the day but itâs clouding over now 
Have a good day everyone
@El Loro posted:
A short article about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on the Performing Rights Society website:
https://www.prsformusic.com/m-...el-coleridge-taylor/
The PRS was formed to collect copyright money from performance of music to pass on to the composers etc and came about partly as a result of the discovery of the poor finances of Colerdge-Taylor's estate after he had died.Before my mother married she worked for the PRS. Her work was to calculate how much money was due to be be paid to composers etc. She was part of a team. The PRS operates throughout the world. She was responsible for the calculations relating to one country. I don't remember if it was Brazil or Argentina. This was in the days before computers.
That's a great achievement for a person of colour back then....to be considered as popular as John Lennon or Paul McCartney and yet not have the assets behind the fame is quite shocking. I can see why the PRS was formed/needed
A responsible position for your mother, interesting too I can imagine.
@slimfern posted:That's a great achievement for a person of colour back then....to be considered as popular as John Lennon or Paul McCartney and yet not have the assets behind the fame is quite shocking. I can see why the PRS was formed/needed
A responsible position for your mother, interesting too I can imagine.
That was her favourite job and she would have continued other than getting married and moving away
Her second favourite job (before she went to the PRS) was at a greeting card company which was very chaotic in the way it was run
@slimfern posted:That's a great achievement for a person of colour back then....to be considered as popular as John Lennon or Paul McCartney and yet not have the assets behind the fame is quite shocking. I can see why the PRS was formed/needed
A responsible position for your mother, interesting too I can imagine.
No connection between Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (the Rime of the Ancient Mariner) other than his mother named him after the poet. It's thought that the hyphen was down to a printer's error.
@El Loro posted:That was her favourite job and she would have continued other than getting married and moving away
Her second favourite job (before she went to the PRS) was at a greeting card company which was very chaotic in the way it was run
Marriage has a lot to answer for 
Greeting card shops are fun places, I've spent many an hour routing for a card and have been known to laugh out loud at the odd one 
@El Loro posted:No connection between Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (the Rime of the Ancient Mariner) other than his mother named him after the poet. It's thought that the hyphen was down to a printer's error.
A common mistake.
My MIL is a genealogist, the number of family trees she has shown me where names have been mis-spelt throughout the years for one reason or another. I love to listen when she tells a story of a family history via their tree...fascinating
@slimfern posted:A common mistake.
My MIL is a genealogist, the number of family trees she has shown me where names have been mis-spelt throughout the years for one reason or another. I love to listen when she tells a story of a family history via their tree...fascinating
My mother had a relative who was obsessed with their family history. She would go round the country to churches looking at their baptism and wedding registers and listing anyone with their surname. From time to time she would report her findings with lists of the people she had found. My mother had never asked her to do that. The surname was not exceptionally rare and there is no reason to think that they were relations.
@El Loro posted:My mother had a relative who was obsessed with their family history. She would go round the country to churches looking at their baptism and wedding registers and listing anyone with their surname. From time to time she would report her findings with lists of the people she had found. My mother had never asked her to do that. The surname was not exceptionally rare and there is no reason to think that they were relations.
My Dad has visited some of the places found in our family history...
Here is a will going back somewhat.....I love the detailing of his gifting ...makes me giggle
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night EL slim Moonnsieee
Good morning everyone it's a cloudy day again today .
Enjoy your day everyone
Two films which I've never seen and I've no intention of watching as they are of zero appeal to me.
"Heartbreak Ridge" (1986) which is a war film directed by Clint Eastwood.
"Hacksaw Ridge" (2016) which is a war film directed by Mel Gibson.
I wonder if people get the two films mixed up though the films have no connection with each other.
(question on Eggheads the other day was about who directed one of those films and Eastwood and Gibson were 2 of the 3 people named)
Interesting point El Rolo - is it all war films then?
Two I have no interest in watching are . . . The Human Centipede (disgusting idea) and Brokeback Mountain (for obvious reasons LOL)
Oh and the remake of Dune (hated the original) and they're touting a remake of the Body Guard possibly featuring Rhianna - no thanx
@El Loro posted:Two films which I've never seen and I've no intention of watching as they are of zero appeal to me.
"Heartbreak Ridge" (1986) which is a war film directed by Clint Eastwood.
"Hacksaw Ridge" (2016) which is a war film directed by Mel Gibson.
I wonder if people get the two films mixed up though the films have no connection with each other.
(question on Eggheads the other day was about who directed one of those films and Eastwood and Gibson were 2 of the 3 people named)
Two films I've not seen either El...
With Heartbreak ridge being a place battled for in the Korean war and where the character (actual person) that Eastwood played, earned his medal, one would expect the film to be centred around sed war.....but is actually about Grenada
Hacksaw Ridge is the rather touching true story of a pacifist who's stand against taking up arms yet saved many lives showcases the futility of war and aggression - the ending is quite moving.
@Saint posted:Interesting point El Rolo - is it all war films then?
Two I have no interest in watching are . . . The Human Centipede (disgusting idea) and Brokeback Mountain (for obvious reasons LOL)
Oh and the remake of Dune (hated the original) and they're touting a remake of the Body Guard possibly featuring Rhianna - no thanx
Saint, I don't like war films as such.
Don't watch modern horror films. To anyone who doesn't know what that centipede film is about, don't try to find out as it's beyond disgusting.
Haven't seen Brokeback Mountain.
Didn't like the original film of Dune and didn't particularly like the book, never got round to reading the sequels.
Didn't like The Bodyguard and disliked Whitney Houston's character.
@El Loro posted:To anyone who doesn't know what that centipede film is about, don't try to find out as it's beyond disgusting.
Haven't seen Brokeback Mountain.
Didn't like the original film of Dune and didn't particularly like the book, never got round to reading the sequels.
Didn't like The Bodyguard and disliked Whitney Houston's character.
Not seen any of them....and won't now....on recommendation not to
Will say that Whitney Houston had a wonderful voice...not necessarily a fan of all her songs though.
@slimfern posted:Not seen any of them....and won't now....on recommendation not to
Will say that Whitney Houston had a wonderful voice...not necessarily a fan of all her songs though.
As you say she had a good voice. In the film her character she played came across to me as not a nice person.
Brokeback Mountain is a film which you should read about first before thinking about watching it.
Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi will star in a movie adaptation of Alan Bennett's last play.
The veteran actor will appear together in hospital drama 'Allelujah!' in an adaptation of the 87-year-old writer's most recent stage production from 'Call the Midwife' creator Heidi Thomas.
The story is set in the geriatric ward of a Yorkshire hospital, the Bethlehem, which is threatened with closure, with the 'Skyfall' actress portraying a former librarian, who is now a patient on the facility's Dusty Springfield ward, while Derek will play a former headmaster who has also been admitted to that area of the medical facility.
Jennifer Saunders is said to be in negotiations to play a ward sister obsessed with the patients' bladder control, while Julia McKenzie will also be part of the cast as a former child soprano who was known as 'the Pudsey Nightingale'.
I shall look forward to seeing this
Like his plays.
@El Loro posted:As you say she had a good voice. In the film her character she played came across to me as not a nice person.
Brokeback Mountain is a film which you should read about first before thinking about watching it.
I've read the plot for this on Wikipedia. It sounds really sad, so no, I won't be watching it.
@slimfern posted:Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi will star in a movie adaptation of Alan Bennett's last play.
The veteran actor will appear together in hospital drama 'Allelujah!' in an adaptation of the 87-year-old writer's most recent stage production from 'Call the Midwife' creator Heidi Thomas.The story is set in the geriatric ward of a Yorkshire hospital, the Bethlehem, which is threatened with closure, with the 'Skyfall' actress portraying a former librarian, who is now a patient on the facility's Dusty Springfield ward, while Derek will play a former headmaster who has also been admitted to that area of the medical facility.
Jennifer Saunders is said to be in negotiations to play a ward sister obsessed with the patients' bladder control, while Julia McKenzie will also be part of the cast as a former child soprano who was known as 'the Pudsey Nightingale'.
I shall look forward to seeing this
Like his plays.
I do not like Jennifer Saunders. Years ago I saw her and Dawn French in one of their sketches where they made sarcastic snide comments about someone who was not a public figure. They named the person and the job that person did and their comments were about his name and his job. That person was my brother. Anyone who knew my brother and saw the sketch would know they were talking about him. My brother never saw the sketch and luckily was out of the country on holiday at the time and I never told him abut the sketch.