John Duncan
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Luckily, the emergency services were on hand:Covenanter said:PPS I hear that Boeing had to burn in those ferrets they used to put the wires in their aeroplanes.

Luckily, the emergency services were on hand:Covenanter said:PPS I hear that Boeing had to burn in those ferrets they used to put the wires in their aeroplanes.
Agreed: in my chorister days, the annual dread of having to fling wide those gates yet again had one hankering for a spot of JSB's finest Passiontide offering into which to get one's teeth.Covenanter said:Sadly he lived long enough to write "The Crucifixion" which I had to sing in several times (before my voice broke) and which is surely one of the most tedious pieces of music ever written.
Continuing to play a very straight bat I see.Andrew Everard said:I believe that Stainer suffered a very similar fate to that of the recently deceased actor James Gandolfini: neither could be described as having died at their own hand.davedotco said:His description of the fate that befell the composer Stainer, at his own hands no less, stays with me to this day.
My sympathies to you both.Andrew Everard said:Agreed: in my chorister days, the annual dread of having to fling wide those gates yet again had one hankering for a spot of JSB's finest Passiontide offering into which to get one's teeth.Covenanter said:Sadly he lived long enough to write "The Crucifixion" which I had to sing in several times (before my voice broke) and which is surely one of the most tedious pieces of music ever written.
Apparently even Stainer himself dismissed his piece of torpid Victoriana as 'rubbish'