Buongiorno Judith!
Your message of 23 Feb:
>Why do people who like history, languages and baroque music live at the
>opposite end of the world.
I might ask you the same question! According to the map affixed to my
study wall the centre of the world is where the International Date Line
runs, so that New Zealand is just about in the centre, while Oz is just
over to the left a little. The UK....well, it features twice! top left-
hand corner and top right-hand corner - miles away in any event. Which
one do you live in I wonder? (Depends whether you're Labour or Tory I
suppose.)
Perhaps we shall be able to influence the grandchildren to listen to some
of the old music (actually my own interest extends as far as Mozart and
Joseph Haydn - but not much farther). When I was at school music meant
singing jolly English songs - you know the sort of thing:
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea-ee
Silver buckles on his knee-ee
He'll come back and marry me-ee
Bonnie Bobby Shaftoe (!)
Too frightful! However, one evening after lights out (I must have been
about 12 years old) one of the masters went over to the music-room and
began to play the piano: gosh! the most fantastic music came wafting
across towards the house; I knew then that music could be wonderful and
that there was something better than English songs and the hymns and
psalms we used to sing in chapel on Sundays. It was many years later
before I could put a name to that piano piece: it was Mozart's "Turkish
March". Why were we not introduced to real music as children!
>Tom persuaded me too.....and I am not a granny as far as I know! I have
>recently retired (very early) from running my own business.
Good for you! There's got to be more to life than working. I've since
heard from Tom, and the position is that there's still a fair bit of work
to be done before we can actually get to grips with Granny - if I can
put it that way. But I understand that it won't be too long now.
_You_ could probably help the kids to start up and run their own businesses!
We need to ensure that they can read and write first of course 8-)
Soon,
Tim
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