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#Post#: 16788--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: March 23, 2020, 9:20 am
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Straying equally far off topic: with Germany now "repelling
boarders" it seems certain that the trip I had booked for
May,starting in Hamburg and finishing in Wroclaw but based
largely in Saxony, will not be able to take place. This is a
shame, as I had particularly been looking forward to an Oberliga
fixture on May 10th, which offered the unusual chance to take a
short river crossing by ferry en route to the ground.
Anybody already bored out of their wits might relish the
challenge of identifying the venue in question, but I imagine
most folks are too sensible to care.
#Post#: 16799--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: March 24, 2020, 2:24 am
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Sad, perhaps even sadder, but not bored. It means I can get
some physical exercise refurbishing my bathroom and with the
closure of our Church building some mental exercise helping
workout how to put services online. Our first effort can be
seen here -
HTML https://youtu.be/AHmCduvsB7Y
Meantime, I note that there are a few ferries shown as crossing
the Elba in Hamburg and that Union Tornesch were to play on May
10th.
#Post#: 16800--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Ref Watcher
Date: March 24, 2020, 4:17 am
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--- Quote from: JCFC link ---
>
> Straying equally far off topic: with Germany now "repelling
boarders" it seems certain that the trip I had booked for
May,starting in Hamburg and finishing in Wroclaw but based
largely in Saxony, will not be able to take place. This is a
shame, as I had particularly been looking forward to an Oberliga
fixture on May 10th, which offered the unusual chance to take a
short river crossing by ferry en route to the ground.
>
> Anybody already bored out of their wits might relish the
challenge of identifying the venue in question, but I imagine
most folks are too sensible to care.
>
--- End Quote ---
I am not (yet) bored enough to wade through all the Oberliga
fixtures to come up with an educated case but one possibility
that came to mind was Bremen. I recall the Weserstadion being
accessible by ferry. That's not so far from Hamburg, although a
considerable distance from Saxony. Do Werder have a junior team
playing at Oberliga level?
Sorry that you're missing out on Wrocław; it's stunning.
If you have not been before I would thoroughly recommend
rearranging this trip when possible just for that.
#Post#: 16802--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: March 24, 2020, 5:04 am
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Nice ideas folks, but...
Hamburg was only a one-night stopover, arranged when flybe
folded and I could no longer fly to Hannover, so neither
suggestion is valid. On the day in question I would have been
staying in Leipzig, though the game in question would have been
in a neighbouring Land, though still accessible using a
Sachsenticket on the trains.
I have been to Wroclaw once before and share Ref Watcher's
enthusiasm for it (though again this was to have been a
one-night pre-flight stopover.) Gdansk, however, is the
favourite of the Polish cities I have visited, but curiously I
did enjoy Lodz as well, though I'm not sure why!
#Post#: 16809--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: March 25, 2020, 4:45 am
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A marvellous window, Microscopist, but I missed the louse, which
was originally seen in church, was it not?
#Post#: 16949--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: April 2, 2020, 1:16 pm
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The ground that would have been reached by way of a ferry
crossing was that of Askania Bernburg in Sachsen-Anhalt. A
glance at the map suggests that the crossing would have been 50
metres, if that! Cost, 1 euro each way, the modern equivalent of
"per tuppence, per person, per trip." Some other time, all being
well!
#Post#: 17217--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: April 19, 2020, 5:59 am
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--- Quote from: JCFC link ---
>
> A marvellous window, Microscopist, but I missed the louse,
which was originally seen in church, was it not?
>
--- End Quote ---
Today's offering from Alloway features, in the tailpiece, part
of my favourite window.
HTML https://youtu.be/7S4Z_9njl7o
This window is a tribute of a husband, William Houldsworth, to
his wife, Sara Abercromby. In the clip her qualities are
related to various women from the Old & New Testament. A
further attraction to the window comes higher up the window
where there are two enigmatic quatrefoils each figuring eleven
characters, some of which can be deciphered but many seem out of
place in a Presbyterian Church in 1891.
But this window also forms a link to my home village (as was) of
Reddish. The cousin of the Alloway William Houldsworth, also
called William Houldsworth, was a mill owner in Reddish and his
name is still attached to numerous places in Reddish and on his
retiral he moved to Coodham, near Symington. Whilst my mother
as young women worked in one of the other mills (Gregs) in later
life when the Houldsworth Mill had become a mail order
distribution centre she did work there. So whenever I look at
this window it reminds me of Reddish.
Meanwhile my BLFG is now in receipt of a letter requiring her to
stay at home for the next twelve weeks, "shielding"! Ah well,
at least we should be able to get priority for supermarket
deliveries although we have been quite fortunate so far and we
do have a little bit of wilderness garden. I do really feel for
those in flats, especially those with young children.
On a different note I did have a recent birthday and my daughter
sent me a framed black and white photograph signed by Dennis
Law. It shows him in City strip looking a bit distraught and
with Mike Summerbee putting a comforting arm round his shoulder
whilst a couple of "fans" appear to be abusing him. A few years
ago City invited fans to contribute their favourite City moments
to a booklet called "Keeping the Faith". My contribution was
selected for publication and if I recall correctly came next to
a contribution from Don Revie, and it described this moment.
Oh, and a louse? In Alloway, surely not?
#Post#: 17222--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: April 19, 2020, 9:04 am
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I don't know which button to press here. "Informative"
certainly. "Like" as I enjoyed the service, but "Sad" too at the
BLFG's shielding decree. The Young Lady Of My Acquaintance is
under a similar regime, having retired to the Midlands three
weeks ago to stay with her brother. If her (and his) experience
is anything to go by, you may be in for an outburst of tidying
and clearing. I hope that all goes well.
I noted at the end of the service that the text of the hymn read
"Hail him as thy chosen King" while the singers seemed to be
saying "blessed King." I was not familiar with either, having
always known the phrase as "matchless King," and one of my early
work colleagues used that term whenever he required a light from
somebody (not me!)
#Post#: 17226--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: April 19, 2020, 9:57 am
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Thank you JCFC, the hymns have been taken from Alloway services
recorded between 2013 and 2017. For part of that time hymn
words were printed on the Intimations sheet and the poor souls
who had to put the words up on the screen had to wait until the
intimations sheet was prepared before knowing which words would
be used. The words on the intimations sheet did not always
follow those in the two main hymn books, I think being copied
from the internet. Consequently for a number of hymns (and
particularly carols) there is a database with several different
versions which sometimes differ by only one word, as in this
case. Consequently matching the words now can be a bit
difficult, The other hymn today also did not use our hymn book
words but was sufficiently different from early on in the first
verse as to allow the correct version to be found. In the case
of "Crown Him with many crowns" CH4 459 uses the word
"matchless" whilst Mission Praise uses the word "chosen", I'm
not sure where "blessed" came from but obviously that was put up
on the screen at the time..
#Post#: 17246--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Bakis
Date: April 20, 2020, 12:24 pm
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Hymns with two basic versions are always likely to cause
confusion, but from the sample of books on my shelves with one
exception both those that have the Matthew Bridges original
(basically Anglican) and those with the Godfrey Thring
adaptation (basically Non Conformist) have 'matchless', as does
the BBC Hymnbook version which is a bit of both with some
variants of its own. The exception is the Baptist Church Hymnal
of 1933, which has 'chosen', so the difference is of long
standing. You will deduce that my collection does not include
'Mission Praise'.
The use of screens and captions for online services does bring
to the fore the quantity of minor variations that exist even in
well known texts. Relatively recent attempts to achieve gender
neutrality, welcome as they are, have tended to increase the
problem. Perhaps the answer is to avoid screens.
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