Lockdown blues
Oh Hun. I’d walk a mile in your shoes to to feel your pain. Unless they’re crocs of course…………
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The Beginning
It all started in Church Street in 1975. We still rehearse in Church Street at the West End United Church. Arnold Jones Fred was cycling along Church Street in Wolverton when Arnold drove up alongside in his car and wound down his window. “I’m thinking of starting a Gilbert and Sullivan Society. You wouldn’t like…
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Hebe in HMS Pinafore
The Name is Bond – Jessie Bond By the 1890s, Jessie Charlotte Bond was at the peak of her G&S career. She was the leading mezzo-soprano in all of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most famous Savoy operas. She had starred in shows from HMS Pinafore to The Gondoliers, each time creating new roles with more and…
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Ring a ring of roses
A plague on your roses? “Ring a Ring o’ Roses” or “Ring a Ring o’ Rosie” is an English nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe It…
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Cartoon – Crocs
Oh Hun. I’d walk a mile in your shoes to to feel your pain. Unless they’re crocs of course…………
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Poem – stuck inside
Twas the beginning of the year, the decs had been put away New diets had been started, to get beach ready for the holiday Then Uncle Covid came to visit, and cast our plans awry Schools and pubs were closed down and parents began to cry At G and S we were poised, to…
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Armenian spiced cake
We were all worrying about our comeback date during lock down. Here’s our take on dates and cake…
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The first Frederic – Llewellyn Cadwaladr
Allow me to introduce you to Arthur Dendy. No, not the towel-toting galactic traveller. That was Arthur Dent. Arthur Hyde Dendy was the upright, uptight Birmingham barrister who transformed Paignton from a place famous for little more than growing cabbages into a flourishing seaside resort. Arthur owned hotels, ran the local paper, introduced a horse…
