Brrr! Here in the southern hemisphere it’s the winter solstice. Can I perhaps already sense the days getting longer?!!
Listen to the music HERE!
Weave a Web
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Brrr! Here in the southern hemisphere it’s the winter solstice. Can I perhaps already sense the days getting longer?!!
Listen to the music HERE!
Weave a Web 
It’ll be with sadness that we hand summer back to you. It’s been glorious so far. Can we keep the sun a bit longer please Bruce?
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This past week we have seen more sun than we did all last summer! Very few vegies – no tomatoes, cucumbers, few beans… So we’re hoping for a good one!
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Vegetables and fruits doing well here in the northlands: tomatoes, runner beans, courgettes all progressing. Harvested gooseberries yesterday and white currants are just about there. Spent most of the year in the garden so far which is why 2017 has felt a truly wonderful year. All very best wishes. Simon
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And good wishes to you too, Simon!
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And here I sit at the poolside. Stay warm!
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Who said I didn’t have a heated pool!!!
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What a lovely orange sky. Thanks Bruce.Loved the music too.
The pink Camellia in our garden is in bloom and the Magnolia buds will soon display their white, pink and mauve……we’ve had some glorious weather in Sydney recently…..I love Sydney winters….but then the long summer evenings on the deck…ah! they’re another thing!
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Thanks Shubha. We’re also having some really good winter weather – frosty in the mornings though!
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A suitably moody piece. Don’t take our sun 🙂
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Thanks, Derrick – I am under strict instructions from Simon Johnson (occasional blogger far north of you) not to steal your summer!
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I tried to gauge your mood in that piece of music. It is as if you are closing in on to a long awaited joy. Summers are scalding the subcontinent.
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I’m always either too hot or too cold. Am currently wearing 4 layers of clothes with the heater on!
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Our visitors from Pune left 2 days ago and they enjoyed the winter here
Uma Shankar Ji, when are we going to see your post for June please
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Thanks for the remembrance, Shubha ji. At the moment, I am confusticated and bebeothered. But it should pass.
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A nearly perfect musical interlude–I think the lack of a fife in the instrumentation is keeping the piece a handbreadth from perfection.
It’s AC35 in Bermuda (just outside my window, in fact) and the Kiwis have won 4 races–the Americans, 0. The competition continues on the weekend.
Go Kiwis.
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Thanks you for supporting the winning cheating team! Oh to have a view out the window like that!
The absence of the fife was intentional; its inclusion would so humiliate all other composers that the world would fall silent with bashfulness. I guess that’s fife.
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Which reminds me: I always loved It’s a Wonderful Fife, the old Frank Capra film.
And I think your intentional omission of the fife was on second thought brilliant. Sure Andrew Lloyd Webber would have had the fife all over the place. There’s nothing as soothing as the fife to cover the botched melodies of the musical theater genre.
Yes, I see the Kiwis practicing every day. Did I mention I live by the sea?
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I presume if they’re practising and you live by the sea then it’s not rugby, although it sounds a little fishy.
I don’t actually know the Frank Capra film, although my father was also called Frank so I might be related.
Certainly the fife is a good way for Lloyd Webber to disguise the melody when a tune comes from Puccini.
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Make sure you wrap up now Bruce, you might catch a fever in all that heat…
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The problem with winter here is that it’s cold, and we don’t have the joy of snow!
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I like the briskness and urgency of the world moving toward the light in this piece. It’s a downhill slope, you turning toward the light and us rotating away.
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Thanks Lisa. The earth turns a lot faster than I thought it used to!
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