Recall the 1960s when the songs of Gentleman Jim was on everyone's lips.
An old Christmas card
White Christmas
Some more songs
Gospel
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Monday, December 23, 2013
Seven year Kids and beer.
BEER - BY SEVEN YEAR OLDS...
A handful of 7 year old children in Australia were asked what they thought of beer.
There were some interesting responses, but the last one is especially touching!
'I think beer must be good. My dad says the more beer he drinks the prettier my mum gets.'
-- Tim, 7 years old.
'Beer makes my dad sleepy and we get to watch what we want on television when he is asleep, so beer is nice.'
-- Melanie, 7 years old.
'My Mum and Dad both like beer. My Mum gets funny when she drinks it and takes her top off at parties, but Dad doesn't think this is very funny.'
-- Grady, 7 years old.
''My Mum and Dad talk funny when they drink beer and the more they drink the more they give kisses to each other, which is a good thing.'
-- Toby, 7 years old.
'My Dad gets funny on beer. He is funny. He also wets his pants sometimes, so he shouldn't have too much.
-- Sarah, 7 years old.
'My Dad loves beer. The more he drinks, the better he dances. One time he danced right into the pool.'
-- Lily, 7 years old.
'I don't like beer very much. Every time Dad drinks it, he burns the sausages on the barbecue and they taste disgusting.'
-- Ethan, 7 years old.
'I give Dad's beer to the dog and he goes to sleep.'
-- Shirley, 7 years old.
AND THE BEST RESPONSE:
'My Mum drinks beer and she says silly things and picks on my father. Whenever she drinks beer she yells at Dad and tells him to go bury his bone down the street again, but that doesn't make any sense.'
-- Jack, 7 years.
A handful of 7 year old children in Australia were asked what they thought of beer.
There were some interesting responses, but the last one is especially touching!
'I think beer must be good. My dad says the more beer he drinks the prettier my mum gets.'
-- Tim, 7 years old.
'Beer makes my dad sleepy and we get to watch what we want on television when he is asleep, so beer is nice.'
-- Melanie, 7 years old.
'My Mum and Dad both like beer. My Mum gets funny when she drinks it and takes her top off at parties, but Dad doesn't think this is very funny.'
-- Grady, 7 years old.
''My Mum and Dad talk funny when they drink beer and the more they drink the more they give kisses to each other, which is a good thing.'
-- Toby, 7 years old.
'My Dad gets funny on beer. He is funny. He also wets his pants sometimes, so he shouldn't have too much.
-- Sarah, 7 years old.
'My Dad loves beer. The more he drinks, the better he dances. One time he danced right into the pool.'
-- Lily, 7 years old.
'I don't like beer very much. Every time Dad drinks it, he burns the sausages on the barbecue and they taste disgusting.'
-- Ethan, 7 years old.
'I give Dad's beer to the dog and he goes to sleep.'
-- Shirley, 7 years old.
AND THE BEST RESPONSE:
'My Mum drinks beer and she says silly things and picks on my father. Whenever she drinks beer she yells at Dad and tells him to go bury his bone down the street again, but that doesn't make any sense.'
-- Jack, 7 years.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Once in Royal David's City
"Once In Royal David's
City" is a Christmas carol originally written as poem by Cecil Frances
Alexander. The carol was first published in 1848 in Miss Cecil
Humphreys' hymnbook Hymns for little Children. A
year later, the English organist Henry John
Gauntlett discovered
the poem and set it to music.[1] Cecil
Alexander, meanwhile, married the Anglican clergyman William
Alexander in 1848 and
upon her husband's consecration became a bishop's wife in 1867.[1] She
is also remembered for her hymn All Things
Bright and Beautiful.
Since
1919, the Festival of Nine
Lessons and Carols at
the King's College
Chapel Cambridge has begun its Christmas Eve service, with Dr Arthur Henry Mann's arrangement of "Once
in Royal David's City" as the Processional hymn.[1] Mann
was organist at King's between 1876–1929.[2] In
his arrangement, the first verse is sung by a boy chorister of the Choir of King's
Chapel as a solo. The second verse is sung by the choir,
and the congregation joins in the third verse. Excluding
the first verse, the hymn is accompanied by the organ. This carol was the first recording that
the King's College
Choir under Boris Ord made
forEMI in 1948.[3] Among
others who have recorded it are Mary Chapin
Carpenter, The Chieftains, Daniel O'Donnell, The Mormon
Tabernacle Choir, Petula Clark, Jethro Tull, Sinéad O'Connor and Sufjan Stevens.
BOOGIE WOOGIE - email jksw
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
"O Little Town of
Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol. The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church
of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. He was inspired by visiting the
Palestinian city of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote
the poem for his church and his organist, Lewis Redner, added the music. Redner's tune,
simply titled "St. Louis", is the tune used most often for this carol
in the U.S.[1] but
in the British
Commonwealth, and sometimes in the U.S. (especially in the Episcopal
Church), the English hymn tune "Forest Green" is
used instead. "Forest Green" was adapted by Ralph Vaughan
Williams from an
English folk ballad called
"The Ploughboy's Dream" which he had collected from a Mr. Garman of Forest Green,Surrey in 1903.[2][3] Adapted
into a hymn tune, it was first published in the English Hymnal of 1906.
Another
version by H. Walford
Davies, called "Wengen" (or sometimes just "Christmas
carol"), is usually performed only by choirs rather than as a
congregational hymn. This is because the first two verses are for treble voices
with organ accompaniment, with only the final verse as a chorale/refrain
harmony. This setting includes a recitative from the Gospel of Luke at the
beginning, and cuts verses 2 and 4 of the original 5-verse carol. This version
is traditionally used at the service of Nine Lessons and
Carols in Kings College,
Cambridge.[4]
William
Rhys-Herbert included
a new hymn-tune and harmonization as part of his 1909 cantata, Bethany.(Wikipedia).
A loaded gift - email from jksw
A man gifted his wife a diamond
necklace for their anniversary.
The wife didn't speak to him for 6 months.
Why? Was the necklace FAKE?
Nooooo! That was the deal :)
************************************Cleaning fruit
Friend of mine forwards this to me and
I (should) treasure it very much(if I was a fruit eater)because I (really) don’t know how to clean fruits nowadays; I
mean how to wash away the chemical on the fruit. (That’s important!)
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