thursday dodging the triffids

[briantrumpet]

Morning all. One Grad Session done. Three more to go today. It's gruelling. Currently on Ceremony 10 of 17.

Hot and stuffy and sweaty and airless.

View from the back...

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Four in a day is gruelling. We did it for a couple of years, and there is still the odd day like that if needs be. But it feels like a conveyor belt. Bon courage.

 

[briantrumpet]

At least they've hired in some air conditioning here... I guess not an option for Bath Abbey.

 

[PhotoNic69]

I do the ceremonial music with a brass ensemble... entertaining stuff before, with everything from Dancing Queen to a Gabrieli Canzona, then the grand processions in and out. People seem to really appreciate having live music, and being live it means I can paper over any cracks in timings with none of the audience knowing. My OU MA gown and hood aren't too silly, at least as far as gowns and hoods go.

We had an organist Peter King that used to do our music at the Abbey. We had a very stuffy, snotty VC and occasionally he'd play Entrance of the Gladiators (also known as the Clown Music) on the leaving processions just to annoy her!


View: https://youtu.be/_B0CyOAO8y0?feature=shared

 

[PhotoNic69]

Four in a day is gruelling. We did it for a couple of years, and there is still the odd day like that if needs be. But it feels like a conveyor belt. Bon courage.

Yes, this seems to be the new norm! Set-up and one on Monday evening followed by 4 days of 4 ceremonies per day! It's only going to get to be more as there are more students the last two years so next year we might be going 2 weeks!!

 

[briantrumpet]

We had an organist Peter King that used to do our music at the Abbey. We had a very stuffy, snotty VC and occasionally he'd play Entrance of the Gladiators (also known as the Clown Music) on the leaving processions just to annoy her!


View: https://youtu.be/_B0CyOAO8y0?feature=shared

Exeter actually commissioned a brand new piece of music for my brass ensemble for the Diamond Jubilee of the founding of the university... the composer did a brilliant job of composing it to my brief (not too hard for student musicians, must be in eight bar chunks that we can repeat as required). My sense of humour kicked in for the music the students process out too, as they get Liberty Bell, mostly as it's best known as the Monty Python music. We don't have the raspberry though.

 

[Webbo2]

Evening
Started off with a bit of rain here then went scorchio. I was planning a rest day after yesterdays 63 alpine miles but Mrs W had other ideas and marched herself, myself and grandson Cameron 2 miles down the hill to the lake. I was then forced to play catch stood up to waist in a lake fed by melted glacier water. Fortunately another English lad called Ted turned so Cameron got a mate to play with and I could lay inthe sun.
The two miles back up the hill to Chalet in full sun was like the retreat from Mafeking.

 

[Stevo 666]

Morning peeps. Day of work as I celebrate becoming a sexargenerian today. Feeling a little low as both my parents had passed before they reached 40. Never mind. Family around later for a few beers. Family under pain of death if any surprise parties sprung on me. The lads jokingly said there was a dwarf stripagram ordered so to stay at home. Weather decidedly damp here at the moment. Builders next door have been given a rocket by me and the neighbours for not reading the plans properly. Luckily I spotted there cockup before they'd done to much brickwork.

Whoops, missed that in all the graduation goings on yesterday.

HB Oxo.

 

[Badger_Boom]

When all of these reprobates graduate do any of them think "you know what I to be...? A H&S advisor!"

If any of them utter something along those lines please just punch their face, as hard as you can right in the face.

Why the punch. Preventing your fellow humans from being killed in preventable accidents or by incompetent bosses is a fairly laudable career choice.

 

[oxoman]

Whoops, missed that in all the graduation goings on yesterday.

HB Oxo.

Cheers Stevo. TBH wasn't feeling it yesterday. Today's outlook is better. Twas feeling sorry for myself, happens occasionally.