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Robin Heaney
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Christmas No 1
18.12.2008 at 11:26:43
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Dear moderator,

I apologise for this presumptuously inappropriate use of your website, but I desire to crave a boon.

Might I urge all of your membership to rush to the cybermalls and download Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah, to prevent the X-factor winner's tonsil rattling desecration of this elegantly fragile lament from becoming the Christmas number one.

Do this and Saint Cecilia will be rejoicing in the great celestial concert hall. Saint Jude might be needed though!
  
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Reply #1 - 18.12.2008 at 11:50:43
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Hello Robin

How are you? Your use of the English language is, as ever, priceless and I'm sure that there'll be much support for your request; iTunes for ever!

However, why are you not a member of the FCA??

Best wishes

Jan
  
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Reply #2 - 07.01.2009 at 20:32:50
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To put one brick upon another,
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.

But to sit with bricks around you
While the winds of heaven bawl
Weighing what you should or can do
Leaves no doubt of it at all
  
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Reply #3 - 07.01.2009 at 20:52:40
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Profound - as ever Huh
  
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Reply #4 - 09.01.2009 at 10:02:00
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So, Robin, we've established that you've dropped a few more bricks since we saw you last - but that doesn't answer Jan's question.  Believe it or not, many of us would love to hear your repertoire of rustic ditties once more!

            Best regards,

                             Mike
  
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Reply #5 - 09.01.2009 at 11:13:29
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Yes Robin, it's about time you joined the FCA, I thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas get-together. I still remember Belize and smile !!!! We last met at Bentley. Are you still a qualified sprout picker ? ?

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Reply #6 - 09.01.2009 at 11:39:40
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Yes Robin, it really is time you joined us and gave us the full benefit of your extensive repertoire! Look forward to seeing your membership application.

Mike

  
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Reply #7 - 09.01.2009 at 11:48:46
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Philip Larkin certainly wrote a great deal of insightful prose, but 'rustic'? Maybe that's just the fond way we think of Robin and his ability to come out with an apposite quote, just when it's needed.

I support wholeheartedly the exhortations for you to join the FCA, Robin; please do! Smiley

Jan
  
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Reply #8 - 12.01.2009 at 11:03:28
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Embarrassed It's a very kind invitation, but you will know from my days in the branch that I was possessed by a lethargy that gunpowder would struggle to energise - idleness in excelsis! I doubt that I would be likely to attend any meetings.
It's customary on these occasions to illuminate the moment with a sparkling aphorism, but since my cupboard of originality is bare, I will let Thomas Gray speak for shrinking violets everywhere:

              Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
              And waste its sweetness on the desert air.


My very best wishes and a happy new year to you all   -   keep on rockin' in the free world!

RCH
  
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Reply #9 - 12.01.2009 at 13:46:42
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Pity, because:-

         "When people come together, flowers always flourish - the air is rich with the aroma of a new Spring."

                                                                    Jesse Jackson
  
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