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| Thanks, Gary. For "Milton Keynes soon" please read "Milton Keynes blinked and missed it." Perhaps we'll get to Northampton in July. |
Reply #2721. May 18 11, 6:57 PM
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You are welcome Lesley,They do add dates so may be worth checking the site again in near future
Reply #2722. May 19 11, 1:31 AM
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| lesley153
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Meanwhile - I've just been to a concert by a local orchestra and singers. "Brigg Fair" (Delius), "Serenade to Music" (Vaughan Williams) and "The Planets" Suite (Holst). Nice.
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Reply #2723. May 21 11, 3:28 PM
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All-English concert, right?
I knew we wouldn't see the end of the world today. I've been informed by Vera Lynn and others that there'll always be an England.
(((Lesley)))
Reply #2724. May 21 11, 3:39 PM
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Or, at least, some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. I wonder if Brooke was prophesying the Federal State of Europe.
Thank you for the (((()))). :D |
Reply #2725. May 21 11, 3:54 PM
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Lochalsh
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Where are my manners? You're welcome, Lesley!
Reply #2727. May 21 11, 7:31 PM
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Nice easy weekend, brain on slow setting. Jonathan is in the middle of his finals - cue scary music and bitten fingernails.
Yesterday I went to my nice English concert. Today I did a stir-fry. Jonathan does them all the time, and he's done them for me too, but it's my first. Very delicious and gingery, and he congratulated me on cooking real Food. Remind me to ask him what I've been feeding him for the last twenty-odd years. :$
I also misjudged my audience and made a grown man blush.
A few weeks ago, one of the men at the cardiac exercise session was running round the hall, and took my hand so I had to run round with him. I said it was the best offer I'd had all week, and someone else said if that was my best offer I needed to get out more.
Today, a strange man, my sort of age group but wearing a cardy, asked if I'd like my windows cleaned. He told me when they'd make their first call, how much they'd charge and how often they'd come, and I said it was the best offer I'd had all week. He went very quiet for a few seconds, then said he didn't know how to respond to that, because it was so long since he'd chatted a woman up, he'd forgotten how to do it.
This was not the effect I'd intended! He's single, wishes he wasn't, and seems to be a pleasant version of Merv. I'm still not learning! |
Reply #2728. May 22 11, 5:43 PM
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Lochalsh
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Will the sprog be getting a degree soon? Will there be an academic ceremony, with everyone robed and gowned and, in some cases, hooded?
Lesley, I know how it is to be constantly pursued. On the one hand, it's flattering, but, on the other, it can be confusing. :)
Signed,
Lochalsh, the Semi-Beautiful Dreamer
Reply #2729. May 22 11, 7:05 PM
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Degree? I really hope so. Ceremony and robes? Ooh yes. Hoods? not sure!
Being constantly pursued is a curse. :( |
Reply #2730. May 23 11, 5:52 PM
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I wouldn't know
Reply #2731. May 23 11, 7:35 PM
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Lesley, in the U.S., hoods (down the back, not over the head!) are worn by candidates for advanced degrees or by faculty who already have those degrees. I was just curious about academic regalia where you are, although I know it's all variations on a theme. (I'm a pedant; I shall now put myself to sleep.)
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Yes, we're cursed. What a burden we cute ones bear!
Reply #2732. May 23 11, 8:22 PM
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Certainly I can identify with your Window Cleaner designate Lesley............bit like a dog chasing it's tail really.....you catch it and have forgotten what to do with it!
Luckily having been happily married for the past 15 years, resurrecting such long forgotten social.......er........"skills"?, are not an issue.
Nice to know we have such "chaste" ladies in our midst though!
Reply #2733. May 24 11, 12:54 AM
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Hoods are certainly part of academic dress in the UK. The University of London's hoods are silk or stuff lined with white and with a border/piping in the colour denoting the degree level and discipline. My university's hood is lined with bright scarlet red and is much flashier. But not as flashy as some of my friends who have fur or those with PhDs/DPhils with red/yellow/blue gowns and more ribbons than a maypole!
"Stuff" is the term used, by the way, for the material gowns and hoods are made from if they're not silk. :)
Reply #2734. May 24 11, 5:10 AM
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Chaste? interesting take on No Interest, No Choice!
I had no idea what their garb is like, so I researched a bit. Imperial College broke away from London University in 2007, and they've now got their own academic dress, although people who started their degree courses while the college was still part of the U of L can still wear U of L dress to receive their degree awards if they want to.
The Imperial gowns all have some purple in them, as a tribute to Mr Perkins, who invented mauveine. I don't know what the gowns are made of - black "stuff" probably - but the hoods are part-lined with white watered silk, with a purple edge, and the neckband is grey for engineering. I'm sure there are people who recognise different designs, just as people who move in Old School Tie circles recognise school ties.
There are some purple gowns, and hoods of many colours, but not at this stage. I shall be happy to see him wearing any gown of any colour!
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Reply #2735. May 24 11, 1:05 PM
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Looks they they just adapted the London design, which is quite sensible of them - a small difference but not enough to make a startling change from one era of graduates to another.
And as they don't wear hats, I don't need to give you my proven advice on how to keep a mortarboard on the head rather than the floor. :)
Reply #2736. May 24 11, 1:30 PM
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Lochalsh
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Not that I've ever spoken at a university commencement....
Reply #2738. May 24 11, 2:04 PM
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flopsymopsy
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"Not that I've ever spoken at a university commencement..."
I've been spoken about at one... took me years to live that down, lol.
Reply #2739. May 24 11, 3:02 PM
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| lesley153
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"And as they don't wear hats... "
I wonder who made that decision - I thought part of the fun of graduating was spending a month's rent on a "square" that you can all throw up in the air at once.
"Not that I've ever spoken at a university commencement...."
Not that I've ever been to one. :)
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Reply #2740. May 24 11, 3:09 PM
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