Away we go-go!

 Phew! That was a jam hot week wasn't it folks?

It probably was not the best of weeks for thinking about and starting on the task of sorting things out for LG Camp which is actually going to happen given it was cancelled twice with covid and it's associated restrictions preventing both the travelling and staying together under one roof during that time.

It won't be as previous ones have for a number of reasons such as concerns still about infections if we were likely to to any visitor attractions with high numbers as in England we have a good number of the under forties yet to have their second vaccination apart from those  that won't have any.  

No doubt there will be a chore chart or similar to help make light work of what it takes to get a self organized event happen in a fair way and we have a provisional schedule but their should be some things for people to do creatively apart from going on walks, quizzes' or sitting out and play.

See you next week!

BP round up

This week things may be a little slower  and less deep than usual in that I'm preparing to be away  at LG camp which should be fun checking everything all off on lists so I have what I need without taking the kitchen sink with me while melting as this is being typed in the sun, keeping well hydrated.

It also means a bit more time spent on one site where much of the discussion and planning for this in the bigger sense takes place which does take me a bit away from other things of necessity.

It is also worth my mentioning that it does effect stuff in the period I'm away not just Tumblr and the Music Site but blogging so I'll see if something can't be set up to run although I won't be around to post links and all that..

Most people know what my favourite all time tv show is - and it's run for over sixty years - and until 2011 there were year books (later annuals) of which this one shows then current presenters Matt Baker, Konnie Haq, Liz Barker and I think Simon Thomas.

Lindsey with Henry the dog.

On last Thursday one of the current presenters Lindsey Russell left after a eight year run starting in September 2013 with Barney Harwood after a audition followed by show audience vote.

May 2018 saw her undertake a challenge flying with the Red Arrows, taking control for herself and this is the one thing she says was her favourite, learning a lot about herself from it plus Piloting a hot-air balloon across the Arctic, Climbing mountains with the Swiss Army and Interviewing David Attenborough.

There wasn't just the usual wall of post from the shows young audience that included letters drawings, paintings and crafts connected to her but another great big wall too.

She had some challenges to do such as fastest getting changed into Cricket Whites in which she set a new record of just over 38 seconds adjudicated by Guinness the records people and identifying by touch three objects in boxes.

She was presented with a Blue Peter Gold Badge by Richie Driss who was the presenter who joined just after her and took under her wing for a period.

Tributes were paid by Radzi, Katy Hill and Konnie Huq amongst others including some children views from the Blue Peter Fan Club which is online and after a competition she went up as the credits rolled in a hot air balloon over the studio at Salford's Media City to a crowd of school children cheering and waving.

It was sad, these things just are but she was brilliant.

On posts elsewhere

There will be no doubt other stuff going on when this post is set to be published however that may turn out and that's why I tend to do things a bit in advance.

I'm not really much good at that on social media having never really got the hang of scheduling posts so whenever I'm doing something that may involve being away from a keyboard given my cellphone is not "smart", then you can expect no posts.

And that's before you take in the disinclination to with off colour messages and people with pretty disgusting everyday morals that try to interact with you with the time it takes to block people and sadly file reports too in extreme cases.

I'm working on a new style of posting that I might enjoy more as I find the constant discourse and tension tends to take me away from the very reason I made an account in the first place and that seems to be working out much better.

I should be able to log in and just feel like making posts rather than agonizing over how that might seem to one group or other so long as they're decent.

That's the thing going forward.

Bruch and classical music

It is something of a dull day as I write this with much rain so I'm listening to some music startingwith my 1994 disc of music from The Last Night of the Proms, that evergreen series of concerts of classical music for all, final night.

Like much else that too was impacted by Covid but touch wood we should be able to have a near normal season this year unlike last which full orchestras and soloists.

Recording new performances too has been impacted so new releases have drop off a little but recently I did get a brand new disc from Alpha Classics.

Max Bruch is a composer whose works outside of his famous Violin Concerto I had not explored.

This is packaged in a Digipak, a mixture of thick card with a glued in plastic well to hold the disc.

This disc covers string works which is an genre I do enjoy listening to and here we have two Quintets and an Octet on a generously filled disc performed by the chamber players of the German broadcaster WDR's symphony orchestra.

That picqued my interest and although this is a regular cd, it is very well recorded sounding like players playing live responding in real time to each others playing.

I really enjoyed it as sometimes when you've played say a lot of Mozart and Beethoven, hearing something very different is appreciated.