Oh no! Golf on television...

Ha, I love coming in here and just having a nosy, because the rate of thought-jumping is rather high It makes me laugh!

Had visions of a cavalcade of VW Golfs gallavanting over the greens at Augusta, a bit like the taxicabs at the end of Carry On Cabby!

It's well known on the forum how much I dislike TV golf, clavicembalo

This is golf:

1) Shot of golfer
2) Shot of sky
3) Shot of ground
4) Go back to 1) . Ad infinitum...

And Formula 1?

Car. Vrooom.....vrooom.....nnyyeeeeaaaarrrr.....straight, corner, chicane ...... straight, corner, chicane .....

Although I think you beg to differ.

It's a bit quicker than golf

Now, what about a mixture of the two?

When cars make a pit-stop, the driver gets out and plays a certain number of holes of crazy golf before getting back in the car and driving off again.

Or, five laps in the car, two in the helicopter (they've all got one - at least you'd think so when they visit Silverstone), back in the car .....

would the BBC buy the rights to that?

"I can't listen to too much Wagner, I start getting an irrational urge to go and conquer something"-I have NO IDEA who said this originally but my dad just wandered in, chucked a Wagner cassette at me and walked out...I'm absolutely decked

Sounds like one of Woody Allen's.

I'm sure that in one of his films there's a large lady in one of those Viking helmets singing opera.

EDIT: Yes! "I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."

That sounds about right, he's rather a fan of the odd bit of Woody Allen

Woody Allen plays the clarinet

Woody-clarinet...I see the connection! (Unless it was made of plastic...... )

Sorry, I'm in a ridiculous mood tonight, I've been eating apricots and they send me up a wall

Jazz clarinet and rather well, if I remember rightly.

He is extremely good, and well worth listening to

What is a weather prophesisor? What happened to Miss Ross?!!

I've been missing a long time, clearly...

Welcome back Matthew. Surely just 'prophet' is a more concise word that 'Prophesisor'
You know very well what happenend to Miss Ross, please continue to look after her !

I'm so bored...

I'm at work, I've got lots and lots and lots to do, but as is so often the way, it's all out at testing.
8 things in testing. 1 thing that I can't start until one of the things in testing is finished. 1 thing that I can't start until after that. And 1 thing I can't do anything with until someone who is on holiday comes back and gives me the information I actually need in order to carry out her request.

I just know they will all come back at once and need amending immediately, but in the meantime here I am just sitting at my desk, looking at the sunshine, wondering how to fill up my day between now and home time...!

If you have access to a radio then there's David Sedaris on Radio 4 at 11.30 am, then on Radio 3 jacques Loussier for an hour, starting at 1 pm. They'll get my day going with a swing!

If I'd brought my headphones I'd be catching up on podcasts and listening to the radio...but I didn't (and I'm in an open plan office).

However, the Baen Free Library has come to my rescue with a free book to read

Thanks for posting, Mr Sharp M. I've missed you!

I've jsut volunteered to make two not-fruit cakes for a wedding next Saturday.

I've never made a non-fruit cake in my life

Going to be a fun weekend with trying and tasting, my colleagues are probably going to like me come Monday morning when I turn up laden with my experiments that need eating up...

You got out lightly! A friend of mine offered to make "a cake" for an informal wedding buffet. This has now morphed into 8 large (non-fruit) cakes for tomorrow, apparently she has a team of 6 icers lined up for tomorrow morning, a couple of banana cakes in the freezer and got up and started baking at 6am this morning before work. She has been bringing in her experiments for a couple of weeks to general appreciation. Not that there is a lack of cake in our office anyway, in fact there wan't a cake-free day this week!

sounds like an interesting week at the office, TSax

I don't know what the etiquette on posting two consecutive posts on the same topic is....

The forums seem awfully quiet tonight!

Ssssssssshhh. You'll wake people up!

sorry, guys!

Snoreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Did someone say something??

I am bored. Basil and Kate are watching the golf and will be until it's over. For me it's like watching paint dry.
Can't play piano or flute because little Jen is asleep and I'll wake her.
Think I will go to bed and read my book.

But not if you play a lullaby

This sounds like a plan...know any Brahms, TheOldLady?

I can learn.
BEv

Came across the musical term sciolto for the second time in 24 hrs, never having met it previously!

Once in a piece of piano music by Manuel Ponce and then fuga sciolto in my reading-up on Bach's 48.

got to love a bit of Brahms!

I like watching sport generally, but I'm with you on boring sleep inducing golf...

My random thought was that it really smells of paint in here! Not that I'm watching it dry - we just happened to paint our sitting room yesterday...

Do you think they paint the 'greens'?

Imagine getting most of it done then running out of paint and finding that they've run out of that particular shade!

Might add some gloss to the event or rsult in a matt finish!

My hair is really short. It feels weird.

Same here

It's weird that we both spontaneously decided to cut our hair on the same day. I forgot that mine would curl more now that it's shorter, it's gone a bit shorter than I intended. It has dried really quickly though, which is nice.

I need a haircut...

Well, I used a pair of scissors for mine.

What are you waiting for?

Hmmm I'm beginning to look like Beethoven......might make me attractive to DC though.
But it will have to wait until Friday now for a cut.

Good point (as was yours, Flossie), well made! Though I dread to think what a mess I'd make of my hair if I tried to cut it myself...

I don't think mine's entirely straight, but as I wear it in a banana clip or plait most of the time it doesn't really matter.

I guess Barry doesn't really have that option

Invest in a set of clippers

*tries to picture Barry wearing a banana clip*

Do you suppose there's a National Haircut Day? Today could be that day!