It has come to my attention that Mr Mags is no longer taking the responsibility of hosting Sunday Music seriously. Sometimes Sunday Music turns up on a Monday, or worse, Tuesday. THIS IS JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH. We need consistency. We deserve better. We need to be able to come together at regular intervals to reflect; to think about the week ahead, behind, above, beyond, and last Thursday. Mr Mags is NOT fulfilling is duties as proprietor of the event, so I am staging an intervention. From now on I will be the hostess with tea and crumpet on a Sunday; I will select an appropriate tune; I will say something fitting about the philosophy of baking products, or knitting, or the battle of Hastings. It will all happen HERE. ON A SUNDAY. EVERY SUNDAY.
To begin my reign, I bring you this:-
And now let us reflect, and hope for a peaceful week ahead.
Tea and crumpet…what? just ONE crumpet to share among all of us? And before anyone says that crumpet, without an article, means another kind of crumpet…the same response applies. Our name is legion and we are many…
Oh dear, I seem to have got in a bit of a bugger’s muddle, don’t I?
I shall just go back and play your music again…
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Dinah – Hmmmm, you raise an interesting point. I will ponder it. Probably best to just listen to the music and ignore my ramblings. It is still early here.
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Wot, just one crumpet, no coffee, no cherry bakewells, no peppermint Aero? Such spartan fare isn’t quite ticketyboo. And the promised commentary on the Battle of Hastings hasn’t materialised. Most disappointing. However, the popular ditty still hits the spot after so many years. “You choose your leaders and place your trust, As their lies wash you down and their promises rust” Indeed.
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Nick – Sadly this tune continues to be relevant, whichever decade it’s played in.
All I can say is that I have a very big crumpet. And there will be butter. Why didn’t I just lay on the scones and ignite the debate about what goes on first – jam or cream?
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But please make sure it’s proper clotted cream. None of yer plastic squirted-out-of-a-can stuff.
Oh, wait! I suppose Elfin Safety say you can’t have clotted cream now? Back to your big crumpet then.
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We still have clotted cream, Dinah!! I think the squirty stuff is banned in Devon and Cornwall though.
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I share Dinah’s misgivings about the singularity of the crumpet, and suspect a wilful act of linguistic devilment. All the same, jolly nice with Jam.
Hmm, Bakewells and crumpet … why is a little bell ringing at the back of my mind?
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Mr Batarde – Cos you’ve got a crush on Joan???
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Didn’t Barry Humphries (in his Edna persona) call her the thinking man’s crumpet? Or was it Frank Muir?
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Investigation reveals that it was Frank Muir, Dinah.
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Just The Jam? What about Cream, and
And while we’re at it…
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Oh phooey, mucked up a link there: the second one should have been
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Never mind, Mr Auty, I have given you an edit. I DO like Binnie Hale!! I imagine this is how Mitzi sounds when she is asking her maid of works, Carmen, for a beverage. I will gloss over The Scones, with icing sugar.
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A.P. Herbert wrote it for a tea ad on telly! Oh! the things that pop up when I come over here!
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Years of smoking in my youth has scuppered any chance of a successful singing career I sound more like Lemmy than Binnie Hale. Saying that though, I once sang a rousing rendition of Stand By Your Man at the Bay Horse many years ago I could see the audience covering their mouths with their hands, tears in their eyes and their shoulders shaking, overcome with emotion.
Do you pronounce scone ‘scone’ or scone?
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HERE are some song facts for you, Dinah.
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My voice has the same effect on an audience, Mitzi! I bring them to their knees! It beggars belief that I haven’t been offered a recording contract.
I used to say ‘scone’ as in cone, but recently I’ve switched to ‘scon’ as in on. I don’t know why?
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Obligatory Cream reference.
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Indeed! I was ready and waiting, Mr Lax!! This Cream tune puts me in mind of the film Still Crazy about a legendary fictional band called Strange Fruit. Have you seen it? It has its moments! And features the wonderful Bill Nighy – he has the best scenes!
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P.S Is Mr Mags okay? I haven’t seen him about for a while, I hope this is because he is having fun travelling to his favourite places.
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I have not seen Still Crazy. Thanks for the tip!
Likewise, I have also lost track of Herr Mago. Like the proverbial Lost Comment, he could turn up anywhere!
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Good to see that he is glowing!
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Cripes! Sunday Music on a Sunday?? I thought I’d have another two or three days, yet. I’m not prepared. I’m not prepared!!
* starts to comfort-eat the butter curls for the absolutely enormous crumpet (but doesn’t even look at the butter stick for fear of another Infomaniac House of Beauty “incident”) *
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Mr Devine – Yeah, let’s try to NEVER refer to the butter stick incident – after all, it was nothing that a light dusting of talcum powder couldn’t cure. Ahem.
Please be prepared next Sunday, Mr Devine. I am under instructions from Jon to provide sequins and baubles, so you have been warned. That is all.
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I shall root out my Disco Diva attire this very instant, then!
Well, perhaps not right this instant as I’ve got to finish typing this…
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I am thinking more ‘show time’ than ‘disco’, but we shall see.
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Going underground – taking the tube, hiding from the authorities, hiding from social media, hiding from the news, spelunking? So many connotations.
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I know, Bill! I will be hiding from the news this week, that’s for sure….or will I? Or will I just be staring at it totally agog? Probably.
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I have risen to the challenge… Jx
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Jon – Very sparkly! I will have to up my game next Sunday, I have already begun my quest.
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EY !
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Mr Mags – Well this is what happens when you go AWOL – expect takeover bids!!!
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This is not a “bid”, but a fully grown coup d’etat !
*wipes crumbs from his vest*
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THERE WERE WARNINGS IN THE WEEK PRIOR!!! Which, I believe, permits me carte blanche or even, carta blanca, to do what I like.
AND, I can still show my European credentials in italics!!!!!
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Warburtons do extra large crumpets I remember the advert with the muppets, I like cheese spread on mine, fresh from the smeg.
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Mitzi – It seems that your fresh smeg has distracted you from my Binnie Hale comment above *sniggers like a pantomime villain who has stolen a prize winning goat from the village fete*
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This whole comment section sounds like a draft of the Downton Abbey movie.
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Thank you, Mr Peenee! I have obviously gone up in the world as my comment box used to read like a script from a Carry On.
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wait, wait, WAIT!!!!! Hold on, Missy! Seems that everyone is the WHOLE WORLD has decided to change things around and I am L O S T! As in, we still haven’t found a new nest and we’ve turned into couch surfers (ok, we have dibs on guest rooms in our krewe’s homes, but still…) ANYWAY, I don’t have a thing to blog about, I just plugged in my MAC and now I’m playing catch-up with all y’all AGAIN! *sigh* xoxox
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You have a post right there, Savvy!! Sounds like you have plenty to blog about – house hunting!!!
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all this giant crumpet talk has made me hungry and lose my thread *wanders off to find toast* xxx
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I shall meet you in the kitchen, Lulu, as I feel much the same.
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What I wouldn’t give for a giant crumpet… X
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Sadly we will have to make do with toast, Eyrl!
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