Peggy's Mundane Thread

Good win by Raiders today 89 to 73 away to Glasgow Rocks

Got a bleddy cold. It hasn't stopped me doing anything much, though.

Watched two films this weekend. One of them wasn't a war film.

Downton Abbey's a right old laugh tonight.

Homeland for me

Cut some cooking wood today, my saw survived until it was tine to cut the last batch; olive wood. My saw and my arm are now retired for the night. New saw blade on the shopping list.

Made three and a half gallons of cider today, juice was lovely and it should end up at about six per cent, hope it's ready for Christmas.  

Jean Toussaint is coming.

knecht wrote:

Jean Toussaint is coming.

To the Chapel? Christ on Penny-farthing, - if my old man was still with us he would be queueing at the door for tickets, a month ago!! Another one of his Jazz heroes. Probably his biggest hero.

Coincidently, didn't Toussaint attend Thelonious's institute of Jazz? It all ties-in nicely. It maybe time for my inaugural visit to the Chapel, even only to see what my old man saw in this jazz saxophonist malarkey, Oh and a pint or two, of course.

I suspected you'd be interested. For someone who's purported to not be interested in jazz! ....... Maybe the man's for turning!

If you want the great Mr Toussaint you better move quickly - we're almost sold out.

And, I know there's another saxophonist on here because we've exchanged pms, the great man is actually running a work-shop so you better sign up for that one.

knecht wrote:

I suspected you'd be interested. For someone who's purported to not be interested in jazz! ....... Maybe the man's for turning!

If you want the great Mr Toussaint you better move quickly - we're almost sold out.

And, I know there's another saxophonist on here because we've exchanged pms, the great man is actually running a work-shop so you better sign up for that one.

Well, it's not that I'm not interested, Knecht. It's more along the lines of jazz being rammed down my throat since an early age, due to my dad's love of the stuff. So like it or lump it, it's in my genes. I think I rebelled at an early age, when I first heard the Sex Pistols.  

I admit, I do like some of it. The stuff I tend to find my feet tapping to, is usually swing or rag-time. Admittedly though, and a little embarrassingly due to my father's interest, I know very little about jazz. As I have matured in years, my love of Blues has grown to the extent (according to wifey) of obsession, as was my fathers obsession to all that jazz stuff.

Each to their own, and no, I have no intention of attending a saxophone workshop. I'm going to stick (as I have painfully have for more years than I care to remember) to learning the pentatonic blues scales on my old man's Rickenbacker 360 he left to me. I can see why he stuck to Sax and the ivories now!! To date, I'm still crap!!  

knecht wrote:

I suspected you'd be interested. For someone who's purported to not be interested in jazz! ....... Maybe the man's for turning!

If you want the great Mr Toussaint you better move quickly - we're almost sold out.

And, I know there's another saxophonist on here because we've exchanged pms, the great man is actually running a work-shop so you better sign up for that one.

Will that be a sort of behind closed doors session where one man teaches another man how to blow? I suppose you have to learn how to do it somewhere unless you just get better with practice  

You could do a Jackson Jeffrey Jackson. "I don't blow, I suck" Grrrrrrrrrreat!

Chingers wrote:

You could do a Jackson Jeffrey Jackson.  "I don't blow, I suck"  Grrrrrrrrrreat!

"Tune? This is jazz.....!"
Nice




And jello, the workshop suggestion wasn't aimed at you. There's another shrinking violet on here who has a sax for their own private entertainment. I'm sure they just need encouragement. (Actually there's someone else also but that would mean they have to take a long trip to get here.)

knecht wrote:

Chingers wrote:

You could do a Jackson Jeffrey Jackson.  "I don't blow, I suck"  Grrrrrrrrrreat!

(Actually there's someone else also but that would mean they have to take a long trip to get here.)

Tringy?  

Ahem. Music (of whatever nature) isn't really mundane, is it?

Back on track, then. My cold appears to be clearing up. Thanks, probably, to my consumption of some twelve of my five a day so far today - and there's still teatime to come.

Ok Mundane it was a murky morning here and has now brightened up. I expect it to get dark later.

Is cider one of your five (not you Peggy, I mean in general)? Or does it contain no nutritional value?

I had a nap earlier. Now I'm raring to go after I've sat down to have a cuppa and a couple of biccies.

And Peggy, some people would call jazz mundane .... or worse!

Used to be one of mine, but not allowed nowadays by my medication, if I partake of any alcohol I fall over.

pepsipete wrote:

Used to be one of mine, but not allowed nowadays by my medication, if I partake of any alcohol I fall over.

One of my brothers would claim that was the whole point.

Did I say 7 gallons?

Closer to nine, though would be a brave man to get to bottom of bottle

My dog keeps shaking his head. I think there's a bug in his ear.

Jake Bug? Interesting taste in music. Isn't he coming to Plymouth soon?

knecht wrote:

Jake Bug? Interesting taste in music. Isn't he coming to Plymouth soon?

Due to popular demand, he's extending his UK tour by playing 5 nights in a row in some crumbling old church in Calstock. 

I like Jake Bugg. His music's also played a part in making that Peaky Blinders so good (apart from the accents).

See? You've got me doing it now. Tut.