The Last Post ...
And so, all sorts of concerts under out belt for our third year, Dorset for Singing met under the watchful eye of The Dinner Ladies, Slurped down Ed's barely legal punch, and sang, oh how those people sang! I think even late comers settled in fast and had a good time, and when you tube gave up for the night, they still kept singing. In fact, some of them may still be there!
Some of the events of the night must remain unblogged, at least until i have taken legal advice, and the words of Rachel's last song will not be published at all!
Have a good summer dear choir, remember I love you, and try to be good. Might see some of you at the oasis, for a frothy one XXX
Showing posts with label social knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social knitting. Show all posts
31 March 2011
Karaoke, Crisps, and Coke ...
Yes we at DFS know how to party and so that's what we did, raising a good £100 for our chosen charities in the process and hearing from a few new talented singers who took a turn at grabbing our mike. And that's about it really. Things are much quieter for us when Ed has his mouth around his nosh!
If you are very good, I'll get you an Easter egg, otherwise have a lovely break and I will see you on the 28th!
Yes we at DFS know how to party and so that's what we did, raising a good £100 for our chosen charities in the process and hearing from a few new talented singers who took a turn at grabbing our mike. And that's about it really. Things are much quieter for us when Ed has his mouth around his nosh!
If you are very good, I'll get you an Easter egg, otherwise have a lovely break and I will see you on the 28th!
15 july 2010 - the choir social ...
The choir social was well attended and the singing was mostly excellent. I don't know what they call that game on the xbox 360', but at least I remembered the appliance, and it provided perfect background to our eating, drinking and talking.
Sorry it took me so long to fill you in on all the happenings. If you weren't there you totally missed out, on a whole smorgasbord (nice spread, Jenny) of tasty delights and a cornucopia of karaoke. Sorry about the big words, its going to be the last blog for a while, and to be honest I am still feeling the effects of whatever it was Ed put in his glass bath full of punch. There was enough to bath Ruby in, and he stood in the foyer making the glasses very full indeed ...Jenny let me help cut bread, so sorry if it was wonky/smaller than some one else's bit...
Bonus - every item on the sweet trolley was chocolatey! and I had about 5 things in the end ...
I do hope Jack got home OK, but after seeing him in action licking butter wrappers clean of butter, I wouldn't have taken him over the speed bumps in my car...
BEST PARTY QUOTES ...
"well, it's off the internet ... so ... you can blame the internet!"
"Lovely Spread Jenny!"
"He's not usually allowed to do that ..."
"I do feed him, honest!"
This Bog post has been approved by the management. It's their fault its so late.
Sorry it took me so long to fill you in on all the happenings. If you weren't there you totally missed out, on a whole smorgasbord (nice spread, Jenny) of tasty delights and a cornucopia of karaoke. Sorry about the big words, its going to be the last blog for a while, and to be honest I am still feeling the effects of whatever it was Ed put in his glass bath full of punch. There was enough to bath Ruby in, and he stood in the foyer making the glasses very full indeed ...Jenny let me help cut bread, so sorry if it was wonky/smaller than some one else's bit...
Bonus - every item on the sweet trolley was chocolatey! and I had about 5 things in the end ...
I do hope Jack got home OK, but after seeing him in action licking butter wrappers clean of butter, I wouldn't have taken him over the speed bumps in my car...
BEST PARTY QUOTES ...
"well, it's off the internet ... so ... you can blame the internet!"
"Lovely Spread Jenny!"
"He's not usually allowed to do that ..."
"I do feed him, honest!"
This Bog post has been approved by the management. It's their fault its so late.
9 february 2010
The Pub-Party
Agenda, and (525,600) minutes …
1 Easter Concert
The format of the last concert was deemed very successful, with perhaps a few more soloists next time, but it is interesting how differently we have done things each time. There will definitely be no YMCA so you can stop learning it now and put your feet up. This leaves us with 10 new choir songs … and we will have a live band too, with nothing taken from our charity kitty to pay for them.
We will have tables seating as well, but no bar, only tea coffee and soft drinks, and this will be ongoing so as to avoid half-time queues and hopefully sell a few more drinks and raise a few more pennies. We talked about bringing you won bottle, but I’ve crossed it out again, this is to stop people laughing throwing things at Ed’s bottom.
We will look into three possible ticket outlets, I will approach the new Portland Arts Centre, and we will also try the new bakery in town and Jezebels Jewels.
Dress code will still be blue, with perhaps the chance of red clothes for Christmas time, for a festive flavour. Yummy!
To help raise more money we want members tins of caviar and chocolate eggs, so that we can group donations into baskets and have a raffle which will be drawn discreetly and displayed for folk to collect on the way out, at home time. Can anyone make those chicks that are knitted around crème eggs?
Of course we can still have our words on the screen. Just please, don’t stare at it like you will be shot of you look away. And we have seen the DVD so we know who you are. Glance around the room, smiling as you sing, and the audience will never know!
2 General Choir Stuff
We generally sing, and keep, songs that work with us as a group. There were requests for carpenters, show tunes, and Morning Has Broken, which isn’t a hymn but gets used as one. We still keep brainwashing Ed to let me sing la-la-la-la-laaaaaa … or I’ll settle for “honey honey” in my mellifluous tones!
Choir will still start at 7, with the FREE warm up from 6.45, and notices at 7 to be fair to those getting here then. Any thoughts on getting Dave to take some nice smiley photos for our publicity? Using a proper camera of course. And do let us know if you enjoy the blog.
Agenda, and (525,600) minutes …
1 Easter Concert
The format of the last concert was deemed very successful, with perhaps a few more soloists next time, but it is interesting how differently we have done things each time. There will definitely be no YMCA so you can stop learning it now and put your feet up. This leaves us with 10 new choir songs … and we will have a live band too, with nothing taken from our charity kitty to pay for them.
We will have tables seating as well, but no bar, only tea coffee and soft drinks, and this will be ongoing so as to avoid half-time queues and hopefully sell a few more drinks and raise a few more pennies. We talked about bringing you won bottle, but I’ve crossed it out again, this is to stop people laughing throwing things at Ed’s bottom.
We will look into three possible ticket outlets, I will approach the new Portland Arts Centre, and we will also try the new bakery in town and Jezebels Jewels.
Dress code will still be blue, with perhaps the chance of red clothes for Christmas time, for a festive flavour. Yummy!
To help raise more money we want members tins of caviar and chocolate eggs, so that we can group donations into baskets and have a raffle which will be drawn discreetly and displayed for folk to collect on the way out, at home time. Can anyone make those chicks that are knitted around crème eggs?
Of course we can still have our words on the screen. Just please, don’t stare at it like you will be shot of you look away. And we have seen the DVD so we know who you are. Glance around the room, smiling as you sing, and the audience will never know!
2 General Choir Stuff
We generally sing, and keep, songs that work with us as a group. There were requests for carpenters, show tunes, and Morning Has Broken, which isn’t a hymn but gets used as one. We still keep brainwashing Ed to let me sing la-la-la-la-laaaaaa … or I’ll settle for “honey honey” in my mellifluous tones!
Choir will still start at 7, with the FREE warm up from 6.45, and notices at 7 to be fair to those getting here then. Any thoughts on getting Dave to take some nice smiley photos for our publicity? Using a proper camera of course. And do let us know if you enjoy the blog.
26 november 2009
Term one week nine!
On your marks, get DORset ….
Ed was at the clavinova compiling a list of songs and picking our brains for ideas. Michael was nowhere in site, but we had Dave in attendance of course.
This was our longest practice ever, and was a very good idea, as finishing at roughly 8.45pm gave us enough time to sing 14 songs, laugh at Ed’s cheesy jokes (I mean it, they were REALLY cheesy), and have a break too.
The evening passed by in a blur, probably because May opened the bar at half time, and we were warned not to slur our words. Michael, Carol and Catherine did arrive, and good job too, because M’s laptop often fills in when the school PC goes on strike!
We are getting lots of complements from Ed, about our tone, which is good now, and we are singing a lot of songs which require LOTS of energy and power…at this years concert, we will have been practicing together for over a year, so we cant get the sympathy vote we had at our first concert when we had only met nine times!
I wasn’t choir blogger in our first term together, having followed a friend to Dorset for Singing, and joined at week 4. In January when days are short and nights are long we will start practising again, and I will have my choir blogger first birthday. Perhaps May will open the bar, again!
Have a GREAT WEEK, keep singing, and be in the hall ready for the concert at 6.30 please, mince pies in hand. Does it matter if they have toddler finger prints in them? Cat xxx
On your marks, get DORset ….
Ed was at the clavinova compiling a list of songs and picking our brains for ideas. Michael was nowhere in site, but we had Dave in attendance of course.
This was our longest practice ever, and was a very good idea, as finishing at roughly 8.45pm gave us enough time to sing 14 songs, laugh at Ed’s cheesy jokes (I mean it, they were REALLY cheesy), and have a break too.
The evening passed by in a blur, probably because May opened the bar at half time, and we were warned not to slur our words. Michael, Carol and Catherine did arrive, and good job too, because M’s laptop often fills in when the school PC goes on strike!
We are getting lots of complements from Ed, about our tone, which is good now, and we are singing a lot of songs which require LOTS of energy and power…at this years concert, we will have been practicing together for over a year, so we cant get the sympathy vote we had at our first concert when we had only met nine times!
I wasn’t choir blogger in our first term together, having followed a friend to Dorset for Singing, and joined at week 4. In January when days are short and nights are long we will start practising again, and I will have my choir blogger first birthday. Perhaps May will open the bar, again!
Have a GREAT WEEK, keep singing, and be in the hall ready for the concert at 6.30 please, mince pies in hand. Does it matter if they have toddler finger prints in them? Cat xxx
tuesday 20 october 2009
The pub meeting, number two
A nice small group of choir members bought drinks and snuggled up together in the spa pub, it was nice to see some new members come along with offers to help and eager to find out more about Dorset for singing.
We discussed our room change, notably from the music practice room to the hall, in some ways its big, cold has us spread out, but it does fit us all in now. This week though we have to squeeze back into out old room, as the hall is in use. Choir still remains flexible on where you sit, which is great for little folks like me who don’t fit into any particular demographic at all, even when it comes to voice range.
This Thursday the whole choir will have the chance to say whether we should all simply wear blue as our uniform, and any shades of will do. Unless there’s a mass vote for orange, which I doubt. I have a suspicion that the naughty corner are still hankering after a set of polo shirts, so that they can be seen as proud choir members wherever they may wander. They could get back to me with numbers if they wish, I spent some time in the polo shirt shop last summer …
The edits of our Christmas and summer concerts are available now, and will be for sale by an ordering system and a pound from each going to starlight. £3 for Christmas and £5 for summer, please.
A concert, which may be recorded, may take place in late January or early Feb, at All Saints Church, Portland, when everyone has gone flat after Christmas. It will be a live recording; so don’t come if you have a cough. Just kidding.
Our concert on the 3rd December will cost £2.50 for adults and £1 for children, as at out summer concert. No burgers this time but it was thought that choir members could hand out mince pies during an interval … when they are supposed to be having a break. We talked about possible outlets for tickets since Ed no longer has a shop in town, and came up with a few ideas to follow through. Remember to bring your bit of paper with your charity suggestion for this year, and yes, keep singing!
A nice small group of choir members bought drinks and snuggled up together in the spa pub, it was nice to see some new members come along with offers to help and eager to find out more about Dorset for singing.
We discussed our room change, notably from the music practice room to the hall, in some ways its big, cold has us spread out, but it does fit us all in now. This week though we have to squeeze back into out old room, as the hall is in use. Choir still remains flexible on where you sit, which is great for little folks like me who don’t fit into any particular demographic at all, even when it comes to voice range.
This Thursday the whole choir will have the chance to say whether we should all simply wear blue as our uniform, and any shades of will do. Unless there’s a mass vote for orange, which I doubt. I have a suspicion that the naughty corner are still hankering after a set of polo shirts, so that they can be seen as proud choir members wherever they may wander. They could get back to me with numbers if they wish, I spent some time in the polo shirt shop last summer …
The edits of our Christmas and summer concerts are available now, and will be for sale by an ordering system and a pound from each going to starlight. £3 for Christmas and £5 for summer, please.
A concert, which may be recorded, may take place in late January or early Feb, at All Saints Church, Portland, when everyone has gone flat after Christmas. It will be a live recording; so don’t come if you have a cough. Just kidding.
Our concert on the 3rd December will cost £2.50 for adults and £1 for children, as at out summer concert. No burgers this time but it was thought that choir members could hand out mince pies during an interval … when they are supposed to be having a break. We talked about possible outlets for tickets since Ed no longer has a shop in town, and came up with a few ideas to follow through. Remember to bring your bit of paper with your charity suggestion for this year, and yes, keep singing!
12 may 2009 - also Cat's Birthday !
The pub-party
Session 1, 12th May
In a bid for democracy and something Ed referred to as ‘social knitting’, the new pub-party met in The Spa for the first time, and plan to try and do this at least once per term. All choir members are welcome, but the jokes might be a bit ruder than Thursday nights. Jenny looked at me sternly, and told me to write a blog post for this night too! Ed said he didn’t want to be a dictator.
We talked a bit about a slot for performing at The Rectory garden party, Preston, and provisionally pencilled in 12 noon for that. We need to agree on our dress for that event, and are aware that there is a loose 50’s theme for the event. Rolling entertainment runs from 11am till 3pm of half hour slots not yet allocated. We will bag one for choir and one for Ed himself. Who is going to roll Ed?
The most time was taken up discussing our concert on the 11th July. We decided on tickets at £2.50 for adults again, and £1 for children over 5 years, and will sell BBQ food and drinks at a very reasonable price. The event will begin at 6pm and our raffle will be drawn at 8.40, with bundled prizes instead of lots of individual drawings. Carole Anders will take charge of gathering lots of goodies. We need some good, headed paper in order to go begging for donations. I will approach Wessex FM much earlier and use my super powers to get us some mentions.
I fed back to the group about my recent trip to Stylish Stitches, with samples, ideas and pricing, but we do need the input of the whole choir, so will mention this to them, but now we have a cost im mind, and may well be able to subsidise uniform. Jenny thanked me for enquiring about embroidered thongs.
We are still looking for a big fancy venue to sing, to publicise ourselves, and the special song ‘starlight’. Pretty Sherbourne Abbey is out, so we are looking at alternatives like Wimbourne and Christchurch. I bet we end up at Christchurch. I promised to tell May why that bothers me, perhaps at the next social knitting?
Everyone seems happy with our new 6.45 start, and we would all quite like some faster songs too, if only to watch the Naughty Corner get all out of puff again! They should really make good use of their pelvic floors and bellies.. For singing power, I mean!
The issue of charity to support will be brought up in September, perhaps voting on a new charity for next academic year, and could include more publicity if we do.
AOB consisted of the best rendition of Happy Birthday I have ever heard, nothing like a party with a bunch of luvvies! And we finished up at 9pm, as you can see we did a lot of talking! Thanks for my card, and the first beer I had in about two years … you know who you are XXX
Session 1, 12th May
In a bid for democracy and something Ed referred to as ‘social knitting’, the new pub-party met in The Spa for the first time, and plan to try and do this at least once per term. All choir members are welcome, but the jokes might be a bit ruder than Thursday nights. Jenny looked at me sternly, and told me to write a blog post for this night too! Ed said he didn’t want to be a dictator.
We talked a bit about a slot for performing at The Rectory garden party, Preston, and provisionally pencilled in 12 noon for that. We need to agree on our dress for that event, and are aware that there is a loose 50’s theme for the event. Rolling entertainment runs from 11am till 3pm of half hour slots not yet allocated. We will bag one for choir and one for Ed himself. Who is going to roll Ed?
The most time was taken up discussing our concert on the 11th July. We decided on tickets at £2.50 for adults again, and £1 for children over 5 years, and will sell BBQ food and drinks at a very reasonable price. The event will begin at 6pm and our raffle will be drawn at 8.40, with bundled prizes instead of lots of individual drawings. Carole Anders will take charge of gathering lots of goodies. We need some good, headed paper in order to go begging for donations. I will approach Wessex FM much earlier and use my super powers to get us some mentions.
I fed back to the group about my recent trip to Stylish Stitches, with samples, ideas and pricing, but we do need the input of the whole choir, so will mention this to them, but now we have a cost im mind, and may well be able to subsidise uniform. Jenny thanked me for enquiring about embroidered thongs.
We are still looking for a big fancy venue to sing, to publicise ourselves, and the special song ‘starlight’. Pretty Sherbourne Abbey is out, so we are looking at alternatives like Wimbourne and Christchurch. I bet we end up at Christchurch. I promised to tell May why that bothers me, perhaps at the next social knitting?
Everyone seems happy with our new 6.45 start, and we would all quite like some faster songs too, if only to watch the Naughty Corner get all out of puff again! They should really make good use of their pelvic floors and bellies.. For singing power, I mean!
The issue of charity to support will be brought up in September, perhaps voting on a new charity for next academic year, and could include more publicity if we do.
AOB consisted of the best rendition of Happy Birthday I have ever heard, nothing like a party with a bunch of luvvies! And we finished up at 9pm, as you can see we did a lot of talking! Thanks for my card, and the first beer I had in about two years … you know who you are XXX
2 april 2009
Table for 40 – our dinner at Enzo’s!
I arrived at the restaurant just before 7.15 and was pleased to find a good handful of choir members had already arrived, and sat down near some people I didn’t know. I think I knew them pretty well by the end of the evening!
Ed had given his apologies, he had another engagement, and probably a good thing too as it would ruin his diet that he has been so carefully adhering to. Jan pointed out how much cheese we were eating!
After getting some drinks, and everyone seemed to have arrived, Michael handed out a quiz, 25 real names of singers. This was great fun, getting people arguing and trying to tap Michael for clues. The naughty corner pooled their efforts, and Michaels Mum won the chocolate egg (suspiciously), and then gave it to Michael! But we gave him a round of applause for organising such a lovely evening and at fairly short notice too.
The food was delicious, with lots of choice from a ‘specials’ menu and we munched our way through three courses in between asking each other the answers to the quiz. May was given the biggest tiramisu I have ever seen; I wish we could have photographed it! We told May to leave at once; she had obviously ‘pulled’ one of the nice Italian waiters!
We didn’t sing much, just a few short rounds of dum-dum-diddley, and some songs from Carol and May, and it was nice to but more names to faces that we see every week at choir. I do hope we can all meet up again, perhaps one day even what the video of our first concert, and see how much we have grown. Thanks also to Enzo’s for being flexible and giving us a great dinner.
Have a happy Easter everyone, from Cat, the Blogger xxx
I arrived at the restaurant just before 7.15 and was pleased to find a good handful of choir members had already arrived, and sat down near some people I didn’t know. I think I knew them pretty well by the end of the evening!
Ed had given his apologies, he had another engagement, and probably a good thing too as it would ruin his diet that he has been so carefully adhering to. Jan pointed out how much cheese we were eating!
After getting some drinks, and everyone seemed to have arrived, Michael handed out a quiz, 25 real names of singers. This was great fun, getting people arguing and trying to tap Michael for clues. The naughty corner pooled their efforts, and Michaels Mum won the chocolate egg (suspiciously), and then gave it to Michael! But we gave him a round of applause for organising such a lovely evening and at fairly short notice too.
The food was delicious, with lots of choice from a ‘specials’ menu and we munched our way through three courses in between asking each other the answers to the quiz. May was given the biggest tiramisu I have ever seen; I wish we could have photographed it! We told May to leave at once; she had obviously ‘pulled’ one of the nice Italian waiters!
We didn’t sing much, just a few short rounds of dum-dum-diddley, and some songs from Carol and May, and it was nice to but more names to faces that we see every week at choir. I do hope we can all meet up again, perhaps one day even what the video of our first concert, and see how much we have grown. Thanks also to Enzo’s for being flexible and giving us a great dinner.
Have a happy Easter everyone, from Cat, the Blogger xxx
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