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Miscellany
Jun. 13th, 2018 10:57 pmIt seems that *four* women from my college were Damed in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2018: Emma Thompson (a contemporary of mine, we never met but I saw her perform in a revue called Women's Hour, bald); Sue Owen (economist and champion of gender equality and LGBT rights); Stella Manzie (for her work in public service and local government) and Professor Mary Beard (for services to the study of Classical Civilisation).
Go Newnhamites!
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A post on MetaFilter alerted me to Slip Coaches, sadly—or, perhaps, mercifully—a thing of the past, having ceased during the year of my birth. Apparently, trains on British railways would uncouple carriages while in motion and allow them to come to rest in local stations while the express train rolled happily onward. Amazing.
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Princess Fluffykins managed to conceal herself in the kitchen when I thought it safe to leave the room. (Beast had Warcraft this evening and had not cleared away the supper preparations as he usually does.) I was alerted to this by the clatter of the cheese grater hitting the floor… my cats adore cheese, and Sable followed me into the kitchen. Soon, both of them were nomming grated shards from the floor.
It's interesting, having cats.
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There are about fifty churches in Norwich. Legend has it, a church for every Sunday of the year, not sure whether the count includes the two cathedrals or not. A lot of the churches are no longer functioning as churches, but still. And because most of them are 'wool churches' they are generally rather handsome. I visited one today, St Stephen's, which has Sunday services but otherwise functions as a café, as we're having a concert in it early in January, to usher in our chorus's 40th anniversary year.
We'll also be singing in the cathedral - *the* cathedral, rather than the RC one, a mere Victorian newcomer - next month. Should be fun! The local press group have decided there should be a Norfolk Day, which seems to be designed mostly to encourage Norfolkians to buy newspapers, but the cathedral is doing an all-day concert, different group every half hour, and we will be on at 8.30pm.
Go Newnhamites!
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A post on MetaFilter alerted me to Slip Coaches, sadly—or, perhaps, mercifully—a thing of the past, having ceased during the year of my birth. Apparently, trains on British railways would uncouple carriages while in motion and allow them to come to rest in local stations while the express train rolled happily onward. Amazing.
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Princess Fluffykins managed to conceal herself in the kitchen when I thought it safe to leave the room. (Beast had Warcraft this evening and had not cleared away the supper preparations as he usually does.) I was alerted to this by the clatter of the cheese grater hitting the floor… my cats adore cheese, and Sable followed me into the kitchen. Soon, both of them were nomming grated shards from the floor.
It's interesting, having cats.
*
There are about fifty churches in Norwich. Legend has it, a church for every Sunday of the year, not sure whether the count includes the two cathedrals or not. A lot of the churches are no longer functioning as churches, but still. And because most of them are 'wool churches' they are generally rather handsome. I visited one today, St Stephen's, which has Sunday services but otherwise functions as a café, as we're having a concert in it early in January, to usher in our chorus's 40th anniversary year.
We'll also be singing in the cathedral - *the* cathedral, rather than the RC one, a mere Victorian newcomer - next month. Should be fun! The local press group have decided there should be a Norfolk Day, which seems to be designed mostly to encourage Norfolkians to buy newspapers, but the cathedral is doing an all-day concert, different group every half hour, and we will be on at 8.30pm.