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Happy Birthday Dai
Topic Started: May 6 2013, 08:58 AM (1,050 Views)
caissier
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Many happy returns Dai !!
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Mobson
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Happy Birthday Dai...hope you have a good one... <bc> <cheers!> plus <bubbly> of course <seeya>
Edited by Mobson, May 6 2013, 07:57 PM.
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Norm Deplume
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Many Happy Returns dai. Have a nice one!
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<pweeee> <pweeee> <pweeee> <pweeee> <pweeee> <pweeee> <pweeee> <pweeee>

..................... <candlescake>
Edited by caissier, May 6 2013, 10:41 AM.
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Mobson
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<happy> Oooooh new smileys...like those - lucky Dai!
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Happy Birthday, dai. <pres> Take care blowing out all those candles. <bc>

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Mobson
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Yes please be careful...there are so many domestic accidents these days.... <wink>
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dai Cottomy
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Thanks for your kind wishes, folks. A very enjoyable day with a party of eleven Cottomy family members in the house for Birthday Lunch. Cake and candles (no conflagration, Mobs) and bubbly. The Cotswold gang are overnighting, and the rest returning to their various abodes. The Grim Reaper checks his diary, shrugs his shoulders and puts it back in his pocket.
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RUMBABA <bubbly> Happy birthday to Dai, Happy Birth Dai Today!
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Another year over.....Keep up the good work... <bc>
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dai Cottomy
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Thanks Rum and Mad. Off we go again. <tati>
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dai Cottomy
May 6 2013, 02:57 PM
A very enjoyable day
<ok>

Hope you got lots of nice <pres> dai

Happy Birthday! <bubbly> <bubbly>



May- Cee started a thread for you as well

http://s4.zetaboards.com/Radio4forum/topic/9876163/1/
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dai Cottomy
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Thanks, Becky.
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dai Cottomy
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Thanks, May-Cee.
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May-Cee

Cheers, dai (and Becky!)

I had to rush off as soon as I posted; only saw later that caissier and I were posting at the same time.
Hope you had a swell day anyway.

Actually, I was thinking of you last night when I was playing Mussorgsky.
Nothing sinister! I just remembered, when "Night On Bare Mountain" came up, that you nominated it on a Halloween Music thread a couple of years ago.
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Mobson
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To celebrate your new age, you have a new avatar Dai - prey tell it's story...(if you want to that is)
Edited by Mobson, May 7 2013, 01:31 PM.
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dai Cottomy
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It's called Henri Rousseau's Dream - inspired by Henri Rousseau, (known as the Douanier) - the self-taught French painter who created whimsical jungle scenes, even though he never actually travelled to a jungle!

I thought that a tiger would be a change from a bicycle!

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rumbaba
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I'm still seeing the bicycle
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dai Cottomy
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May-Cee
May 7 2013, 10:17 AM
I was thinking of you last night when I was playing Mussorgsky.
Nothing sinister! I just remembered, when "Night On Bare Mountain" came up, that you nominated it on a Halloween Music thread a couple of years ago.
Yes, it's particularly suitable for Hallowee'n as it was originally written as a tone poem with a Witches Sabbath as it's theme. Although it is credited to Mussorgsky, the version that we are familiar with now was revamped and orchestrated by Rimsky Korsakov. Mussorgsky's origninal was never performed during his lifetime.

In 1940, Walt Disney included it in his animated film "Fantasia" when it was adapted by Leopold Stokowski, and combined with Schubert's "Ave Maria" to illustrate the defeat of the profane by the sacred.

My favourite piece by Mussorgsky is "Pictures at an Exhibition.

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rumbaba
May 7 2013, 03:06 PM
I'm still seeing the bicycle
Give it time.
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becky sharp
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rumbaba
May 7 2013, 03:06 PM
I'm still seeing the bicycle
I saw the tiger but it has now returned to the bike!
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Mobson
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Not this one then..... also called The Dream!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_-_Il_sogno.jpg
Edited by Mobson, May 7 2013, 03:45 PM.
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becky sharp
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No,not that one... <whistles>
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Mobson
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<laugh>
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dai Cottomy
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Mobson
May 7 2013, 03:40 PM
Not this one then..... also called The Dream!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_-_Il_sogno.jpg
Not the same title Mobs, mine's called Henri Rousseau's Dream....shows a bloke riding a tiger.
Edited by dai Cottomy, May 7 2013, 03:52 PM.
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Mobson
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Look what I found for you Dai!

The Jungle Line

Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
Through I-bars and girders, through wires and pipes
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
Through huts through Harlem through jails and gospel pews
Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixie blue
Through savage progress cuts the jungle line

In a low-cut blouse she brings the beer
Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear
Those cannibals of shuck and jive
They'll eat a working girl like her alive
With his hard-edged eye and his steady hand
He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines
And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band
He hangs it up above the jungle line

The jungle line the jungle line
Screaming in a ritual of sound and time
Floating, drifting on the air conditioned wind
And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in
Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke
Coy and bitchy wild and fine
And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats
Charging chanting down the jungle line

There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb
There's a poppy snake in a dressing room
Poppy poison poppy tourniquet
It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
And metal skin and ivory birds
Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines
They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge
Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line

By Joni Mitchell
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Mobson
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In this link you can hear her sing the first four lines to a jungle beat!

http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=47
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