Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

ONE MONTH TO GO!!!!!

Are you excited then?

Oh, and why goldberry?

Great Plum wrote:Oh, and why goldberry?

Merry dol dillo, I'm Tom Bombadillo!

Of course we're excited! It's deps!!!

Is that an obscure Tolkein reference... (call me a philistine if you must but I only read the Hobbit - and I couldn't make head nor tail of that!)

Great Plum wrote:Is that an obscure Tolkein reference... (call me a philistine if you must but I only read the Hobbit - and I couldn't make head nor tail of that!)

Okay, Plum, you're a philistine.

But surely you must have noticed all that Hey dol stuff previously from Josh? Tom Bombadillo is a sort of eccentric forest keeper who sings to the trees. Erm, I have to confess I have had my own particular tune tucked away in my head for that song since I was 12... someone please tell me I'm not alone!

Well. Tom is a character in LOTR and Goldberry is also a character in LOTR

OMG. Can't believe I missed you on msn today Josh!. . Grr. I was at the cinema seeing Transformers. Total rubbish if you are actualy looking for anything remotely looking like a plot but it had really good effects and it was robots beating each other up


You might just have to pick up that phone. I have been deprived of phone conversations this Summer

I had an awful dream last night, CH related. . It as so scary since I was sitting in the dining hall and I'd taken my jacket off for some reason and left it on the table while I went to the kitchen area. I heard a scream and came back to see my Jacket drenched in something. I'm really worried. Has this gone too far and is now invading my dreams. HELP!

Ajarn Philip wrote:Tom Bombadillo is a sort of eccentric forest keeper who sings to the trees. Erm, I have to confess I have had my own particular tune tucked away in my head for that song since I was 12... someone please tell me I'm not alone!

In the late 60s there was an LP of Donald Swann singing Tolkien songs - I can't remember the details except for 'The road goes ever on'. Perhaps you heard the record?

gemmygemmerson wrote:I had an awful dream last night, CH related. . It as so scary since I was sitting in the dining hall and I'd taken my jacket off for some reason and left it on the table while I went to the kitchen area. I heard a scream and came back to see my Jacket drenched in something. I'm really worried. Has this gone too far and is now invading my dreams. HELP!

It wouldn`t have been CUSTARD would it??

Um. I don't think is was custard but more like entire liquid leftover bin

Katharine wrote:

Ajarn Philip wrote:Tom Bombadillo is a sort of eccentric forest keeper who sings to the trees. Erm, I have to confess I have had my own particular tune tucked away in my head for that song since I was 12... someone please tell me I'm not alone!

In the late 60s there was an LP of Donald Swann singing Tolkien songs - I can't remember the details except for 'The road goes ever on'. Perhaps you heard the record?

Never heard it or of it, but would love to - I presume that is the Swann as in Flanders & Swann? Mud, Sweet Mud? Takes me back to my childhood - my father loved them! But I remember the line "The road goes ever on", from memory it's a poem by Bilbo Baggins.

Come on, Josh, help us out here!

Ajarn Philip wrote:

Katharine wrote:In the late 60s there was an LP of Donald Swann singing Tolkien songs - I can't remember the details except for 'The road goes ever on'. Perhaps you heard the record?

Never heard it or of it, but would love to - I presume that is the Swann as in Flanders & Swann? Mud, Sweet Mud? Takes me back to my childhood - my father loved them! But I remember the line "The road goes ever on", from memory it's a poem by Bilbo Baggins.

I bought the record as a 21st present for a friend at college and presume it was new then, which is why I say late 60s. AFAIR all the songs were from Tolkiens poems. Would a google search find it?

Yes it was the Swann of Flanders & Swann. We went to see them once in about 1960. We had a box near the stage and at one point my father (an OB) laughed loudly at some joke - he was perhaps the only person in the whole audience to do so. Michael Flanders looked up at our box and said, 'It is nice to know we have an educated gentleman in the audience tonight' (so is that what CH prepares you for?!!!)

Katharine wrote:Yes it was the Swann of Flanders & Swann. We went to see them once in about 1960. We had a box near the stage and at one point my father (an OB) laughed loudly at some joke - he was perhaps the only person in the whole audience to do so. Michael Flanders looked up at our box and said, 'It is nice to know we have an educated gentleman in the audience tonight' (so is that what CH prepares you for?!!!)

Strange coincidence. I used to love chairing Music Halls and remember once using exactly the same line! (Occasionally. To anyone kind enough to laugh at my jokes. Maybe not very often then.)

I THINK (I have not checked) that I probably have all the Flanders and Swann records (not CDs or DVDs or anything.. just plain old records) because I inherited the entire musical collection (both recordings and sheet music) of my godmother, and she and her partner were F and S fanatics.
The records are stashed away in a box somewhere, upstairs.
If anyone thinks that they might like something from F and S, I would be prepared to get the box out, have a look, and see if there is any way of recording from an old fashioned record onto e.g. CD?
Kerren

Bless you, Kerren, but I know what "a box upstairs somewhere" means, and I'm not so interested I'd put you to that kind of trouble!

Well I do know EXACTLY where the box is.. in the cupboard in my tiniest bedroom (otherwise pretentiously known as my 'study' - ha ha!). It would be no trouble to find the box, or even to play the records (I deliberately retained my old record player..... with its link to a cassette recorder). What might be more challenging is to record tracks onto more modern formats.. e.g. cd....
Kerren

Seriously.. if anyone wants me to do the research from the box in my cupboard, I would be very happy to do that!