2010 YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread.

[David Nicholson]

Don't they say "Every dog duck has his day

[David Nicholson]

Just spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon on a local civil disobedience project.

Supermarket giant Tesco, who have a mammoth 24 hour open store three miles away from my village, have taken over a former tyre fitting depot in the heart of the village and converted it to a Tesco Express open 0600-2300 seven days a week. There is already a small supermarket in the village and a good range of local shops and all of these are now under threat and many will not survive the level of competition they are going to get.

Today was opening day and a group of us made sure that the small car park was constantly full of non-shoppers and even managed to delay one of Tesco's delivery vehicles. It was done in a great spirit of "community" and, although there is only one winner-Tesco-we simply made our point. I shall never use the new store but in spite of me I'm sure it will be very successful, and the rest of the village will suffer.

[David Nicholson]

The football fans amongst you, especially those who follow struggling teams, might like the article in the Link below. The author, or so he tells me, has an incisingly analitical footballing mind

 http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/5997/38/

[Brian Ellis]

For those of you who enjoyed Kritl's post about the opera singers in the Jean Talong market, here's another festive one (oh dear I seem to be getting into the swing of it already!)

[TheOnionMan]

That's a good one Brian, put a smile on my face.  Happens to be one of my favorite pieces of music too, as I'm sure it is for many people.

[Maggi Young]

We watched a TV programme the other night about a project to organise a clog-dancing flash mob in Newcastle... it was great!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11930057  for a brief story and video of the performance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wmy5q/Come_Clog_Dancing_Treasures_of_English_Folk_Dance/   for the i-player one hour programme (  this will not be available  for long, I fear.)

[ranunculus]

We watched a TV programme the other night about a project to organise a clog-dancing flash mob in Newcastle... it was great!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11930057  for a brief story and video of the performance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wmy5q/Come_Clog_Dancing_Treasures_of_English_Folk_Dance/   for the i-player one hour programme (  this will not be available  for long, I fear.)

Did it feature the famous Britannia Coconutters from Bacup ... just three miles up the road from us?  (and please refrain from any comments such as; 'That explains a lot!")

[Maggi Young]

It did indeed... or at least another related programme certainly did.... about the history of folk dance and clogging presented by the Unthank sisters.

[Colin]

Re folk dances Maggie - Ask a former Morris Man - Frazer Henderson - about it!!!!!!!!

[Maggi Young]

Oh aye, he's another enthusiast is he?

Morris dancing, clog dancing and clog morris are all quite popular up here.... though I'm not sure how much there is still going on.... some years ago there were lots of groups active.  I'm not moving in those "circles" now.....

[johnw]

For those of you who enjoyed Kritl's post about the opera singers in the Jean Talong market, here's another festive one (oh dear I seem to be getting into the swing of it already!)

Brian

I'll be expecting the Berlioz Requiem at the Bank of Nova Scotia one of these days.

johnw - +9c

[Brian Ellis]

I'll be expecting the Berlioz Requiem at the Bank of Nova Scotia one of these days.

Let us know when its happening

[Brian Ellis]

We watched a TV programme the other night about a project to organise a clog-dancing flash mob in Newcastle... it was great!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11930057  for a brief story and video of the performance

I liked the disappointed looks from the crowd when it was finished, showed they enjoyed it

[David Nicholson]

For those of you who enjoyed Kritl's post about the opera singers in the Jean Talong market, here's another festive one (oh dear I seem to be getting into the swing of it already!)

Lovley. Something for the Huddersfield Choral Society to aspire to.

[David Nicholson]

It did indeed... or at least another related programme certainly did.... about the history of folk dance and clogging presented by the Unthank sisters.

I watched it too, a thoroughly good programme. The Croconutters from Bacup were excellent Cliff. The hightlight for me was the section from Saddleworth with the locals insisting that they were, and always would be, part of Yorkshire.