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Omnia mutandur, nihil interit
Aug. 15th, 2013 08:52 pmVia my parents, two photos of two kids standing in the same spot on Serifos 26 years apart.
( All things change... )
( All things change... )
Echoes of the past...
Jun. 28th, 2013 01:27 pmA handful of reminders of things past: dusting off a document last revised in 2006, on which I'm listed as the maintainer even though I don't think I actually wrote it; searching for some facts and figures and finding something rather good dating from 2004, which I now think I ought to update with the latest information; the gradual realisation that the new consultant sitting a couple of desks down from me is actually the same one who briefly borrowed some of my spare desk space back in Bracknell in, I think, 2002...
My very first CD
Aug. 4th, 2010 09:56 pmDiscussing musical firsts this morning — ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doctor_squale has just made his first purchase from iTunes — we got to talking about the first CDs we ever bought.
My first CD was Karajan's 1981 Berlin Phil recording of Holst's The Planets, which I didn't exactly buy — I was seven — but rather cajoled my parents in to buying. It may seem like a slightly odd choice, but I can still remember exactly why I wanted it. I'd heard part of Mars at school and been utterly astonished by it. I asked my parents about it was amazed to discover that Mars was just the first part of a suite and there were six other planets still to be discovered.
Sadly I don't seem to have it my current iTunes library. I do have a recording of The Planets, but it's Simon Rattle's Berlin Phil set from 2006 which has the distinction of including both Colin Matthews' Pluto and some themed companion pieces by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Matthias Pinscher, Kaija Saariaho and Brett Dean. I think the Karajan must still be the shelves in Coventry, waiting for me to import it. Next time I'm back there, I'm going to make it a priority.
doctor_squale has just made his first purchase from iTunes — we got to talking about the first CDs we ever bought.My first CD was Karajan's 1981 Berlin Phil recording of Holst's The Planets, which I didn't exactly buy — I was seven — but rather cajoled my parents in to buying. It may seem like a slightly odd choice, but I can still remember exactly why I wanted it. I'd heard part of Mars at school and been utterly astonished by it. I asked my parents about it was amazed to discover that Mars was just the first part of a suite and there were six other planets still to be discovered.
Sadly I don't seem to have it my current iTunes library. I do have a recording of The Planets, but it's Simon Rattle's Berlin Phil set from 2006 which has the distinction of including both Colin Matthews' Pluto and some themed companion pieces by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Matthias Pinscher, Kaija Saariaho and Brett Dean. I think the Karajan must still be the shelves in Coventry, waiting for me to import it. Next time I'm back there, I'm going to make it a priority.
Kelpies in the dishwasher
May. 28th, 2009 10:39 pmBear's post about centipede powered dishwashers spurred a sudden memory: that dishwashers aren't powered by centipedes but by dangerous kelpies that lurk in the depths.
Initially, I couldn't remember where this fact had come from. But after dredging around in my memory, I managed to come up with a book and a few half remembered characters — a hero called Coriander, a dangerous but lazy cat called Mistigris and something about a furnace dragon. With these, I was finally able to trace the story to The Kitchen Warriors by fabulous Joan Aiken.
And now, thinking about it, I can remember more and more of the details of the stories. Something about Coriander having to pick a flower that puts people to sleep, confronting a vacuum cleaner monster determined to swallow him whole, diving into the freezer and pulling the nose off a troll — because everyone knows that it is a troll's nose that prevents him from feeling the cold — and accidentally waking the kelpies sleeping in the dishwasher.
I wonder if I still have my copy somewhere. I probably do. I'll have to search for it when I next visit my parents, to see if it's still as wonderful as I remember...
Initially, I couldn't remember where this fact had come from. But after dredging around in my memory, I managed to come up with a book and a few half remembered characters — a hero called Coriander, a dangerous but lazy cat called Mistigris and something about a furnace dragon. With these, I was finally able to trace the story to The Kitchen Warriors by fabulous Joan Aiken.
And now, thinking about it, I can remember more and more of the details of the stories. Something about Coriander having to pick a flower that puts people to sleep, confronting a vacuum cleaner monster determined to swallow him whole, diving into the freezer and pulling the nose off a troll — because everyone knows that it is a troll's nose that prevents him from feeling the cold — and accidentally waking the kelpies sleeping in the dishwasher.
I wonder if I still have my copy somewhere. I probably do. I'll have to search for it when I next visit my parents, to see if it's still as wonderful as I remember...
