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Good morning everyone 

Sunny spells with light breeze today. It rained overnight which was good for the garden.

Moonie, I’m glad you got a bit more sleep last night 

Squiggle, Ros and I were talking in the Springwatch thread last night about the power of nature to lift the spirits and the return of my blackbirds certainly lifted mine 
El, my window cleaner appeared this morning.πŸ‘πŸ»
Have a good day and stay safe, Buddies.

Yogi19

Good mornng everyone

 

Cooler here than recently. Fairly cloudy. May get showers later.

 

I voted for the first photo, the one with the cherry trees in blossom, as there are quite a number of cherry trees along the road going past the church. Can be quite colourful when they are in blossim but not the quantiy shown in the photo.

 

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro

Just had a client ringing me about the grants. I had to let him down (not that he was that hopeful), Back when the grants were announced I had looked at all my clients and been in touch with them if I thought they were eligible. He's semi-retired and his self-employment income has been less than his pension income which is why he can't get a grant. I said I would have been in touches ages ago if I though he could and it would have been a bit sadistic of me to get in touch with me (without them asking me) just to tell them they wouldn't get a grant.

He also said that someone had told him this morning that they had been able to get a Β£10,000 grant. I said that's because they would have a business property subject to business rates and he doesn't have such a property.

El Loro

Paperhouse was a 1988 British film about a 11 year old girl who is bored and lonely but finds solace in an ill and dying boy whom she can visit in a dream world  that she drew in her exercise book.
It's not a horror film as such, it's too dark to be considered a fantasy film, it's not really a film for children as parts of it are disturbing. I would give it a 15A certificate if such a certificate existed.

One can watch the film for free if you have Amazon Prime. About 45 minutes in there's a scene with the girl trying to find a drawing that she threw away. Lasts over 3 minutes and in shortly after 48 minutes the scene ends with something which lifts the film out of just being another film to being something great. Film as a whole 6/10. That scene 10+/10.

El Loro

For those of you interested, BBC article today on the Royal Opera House's first post-lockdown performance later this month.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-52920423


Also mentions the radio and television programmes later this year marking the 250th anniverary of the birth of Beethoven.


Also mentions various operas to be made available on iplayer from opera houses which have had to close down. Among them will be Barber of Seville (Rossini) from Glyndebourne, Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten) and The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) from Garsington, and a performance of Opera North's La Traviata (Verdi) filmed from backstage.

El Loro

Pierre Beamarchais was a French playwright who wrote 3 plays referred to the Figaro trilogy,
The first was The Barber of Seville which Rossini amongst others made into his opera.
The second was The Marriage of Figaro which Mozart made into his opera.
and the third was The Guilty Mother. That has been made into an opera by Darius Milhaud in 1966 but is rarely heard of. I found this little snippet of it:

El Loro

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