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At that point, though, it will take less rubbing to do the job.
That is sufficiently tight to make the valve secure in the case, but it will not compress the felt. Google obviously thought so too, since they went and bought the company so its especially nice to get it for free.
Then, when you press the valve down hard while playing, you get a metallic sound because the felt is no longer resilient enough.
Spray it on, let it dry, and buff it off. If they corrected these last two issues I'd buy one like a shot.
Spray it on, let it dry, and buff it off.
Includes Suite for Baritone by Don Haddad, Andante et Allegro by J. Smith, Electra III by Leonard B.
Be creative - it can work.
It will be really interesting to see how Google changes after this.
Obscure books on the web, yes, great idea, cornflakes, no - at least not from amazon!
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The two are companions to each other: Power Players, and Finesse Players.
Little, Little Norway by Leonard B. Falcone, and Lazy Lullaby by Donald C. Then, when you press the valve down hard while playing, you get a metallic sound because the felt is no longer resilient enough.
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It also features many great cartoons!
It is a great resource for the student or teacher.
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Obscure books on the web, yes, great idea, cornflakes, no - at least not from amazon!
Last minute sniping on ebay has obviously passed them by.
Smith, Electra III by Leonard B. However, some methods that have been used work on some people. This is one of the finest concert bands in the world, and the selection if from their album of holiday music titled Light One Candle. These guys don't do much time sensitive stuff do they.
Little, Little Norway by Leonard B. It also features many great cartoons! Obscure books on the web, yes, great idea, cornflakes, no - at least not from amazon!
That deserves a blog post!
Indeed it did. And now it has one.
Children's TV in Britain in the noughties is superb. Far better than the “golden age” of the 1970s. I mean, Bagpuss and The Clangers are obviously works of genius, but the average quality of kids TV 30 years ago was far lower than today. The BBC offer two channels of kids TV : CBeebies for pre-school kids, and CBBC for older kids. Being the proud parent of two pre-schoolers, I'm a big fan of CBeebies. Let me summarise my top 11 shows.
Tikkabilla
This is an updated version of Play School, featuring the clock (Tikkabilla, Tockabilla, Tikkabilla, Tock, What's the time on the Tikkabilla clock?), and the windows (round, square, and arched). It has two presenters, often Justin Fletcher and Sarah-Jane Honeywell. These two tend to appear in many CBeebies programmes. They both have very expressive faces, and are often wearing an enormous smile. Justin has very small teeth. Sarah-Jane is has blonde pigtails, and is a cross between a 30 year old woman and a 7 year old girl. They have a third presenter who is a small purple dragon-creature-thing called Tamba. It is not explained why Justin and Sarah-Jane live with Tamba. Justin, Sarah-Jane and Tamba frequently sing songs, and dance. Things are good, in the Tikkabilla house.
Sometimes, Justin and Sarah-Jane are replaced by other people, including an incredibly thin man called Paul Ewing. Tamba is the one constant. I think Tamba may actually own the house. So, where do Justin and Sarah-Jane go when they are not in the Tikkabilla house?
Higgledy House
Probably to Higgledy House (Words to theme tune: “Higgledy Higgledy House! Higgledy Higgledy House!”). This is where Justin and Sarah-Jane live when not presenting Tikkabilla, though without Tamba. Tamba's absence seems to lead Justin and Sarah-Jane to revert to savages, and they are always trying to kill each other, get one up on each other, or otherwise be generally unpleasant to each other. Tamba is a benign and calming influence. Everyone needs a Tamba.
One other thing to note is that Justin and Sarah-Jane never actually talk when in Higgledy House, preferring to communicate via facial expressions and the medium of mime only. One possible theory is that Tamba is asleep upstairs, and they are trying not to wake him/it. Another possibility is that the entire house is in a vacuum, and therefore they cannot make any sound. Perhaps we will never know the true secrets of Higgledy House.
Something Special
Another programme featuring Justin Fletcher, but this is a solo show without Sarah-Jane or Tamba. (Worthwhile noting that Justin also does lots of the links between shows - it is sometimes possible to watch children's Tv for an entire day without seeing a single Justin-less show). In this programme, the multi-talented Mr Fletcher signs the entire show (“Hello! Looooook!! Fingers!!!!! You Sign!!!”). Actually, there is another person featured in the show : Mr Tumble. Mr Tumble is Justin dressed up as a sort of clown thing. Mr Tumble does stuff whilst the voice of a young girl asks him questions (“What's that Mr Tumble? Are you making a sandwich Mr Tumble?” and so on).
Balamory
What's the story in Balamory? Wouldn't you like to know!!! The innuendo in the theme tune suggests that Balamory is a hotbed of sin, but sadly nothing of the sort ever seems to occur. Balamory is a small Scottish island, where the climate and the sea air seems to have sent everyone rather simple. Miss Hoolie (“Here is Miss Hoolie to tell us a story”) is the local childminder who runs Balamory Nursery (cue song : “Everybody everyone, come along and join the fun! Laughing! Glueing! Copying! Jumping! Painting! Make a funny face!”). Every day, someone from Balamory pays her a visit. It might be PC Plum, Archie (the strange inventor person who wears a kilt), Josie Jump (who only ever wears a yellow track suit), or Penny Pocket and Susie Sweet. Whoever visits will have some sort of problem, and Miss Hoolie will suggest who in Balamory might be able to help. They then have to decide which house in Balamory to go to (cue song: “Red House, Yellow House, Blue House, Green House, Pink House”). Around this time, we normally lose interest and have a nap.
Big Cook Little Cook
Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small run the best cafe in town. Each day, a customer comes in, and Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small make a themed picture out of food (this is what passes for cooking in pre-school land). So, when the fireman comes in, they might make a firemans helmet out of an apple and a grape. You get the idea. Oh, and Little Cook Small has a wooden spoon, which he rides about on, and goes to see the factory where seaside rock is made.
For some reason, Tosha is quite keen on this programme.
Teletubbies
You've seen this, right?
Fimbles
Can you feel your topknot twitching? Can you feel your fingers tingling? Can you feel your nose wrinkling? If so, it could be that you are feeling the Fimbling Feeling! (Either that, or you've just been snorting cocaine). Basically, three Teletubby type creatures (Fimbo, Florrie, and Baby Pom) who live in a magical world. Each day, one of them gets the Fimbling Feeling, and sings a little song, then runs off and finds an object. Much hilarity with said object then ensues. The Fimbles are friends with an annoying frog called Rocket, a big fat northern bird, and a purple and green stripey mole who rolls about all of the time. His name is Roly Mo, and he is the adult figure in the Fimbles' world. He mostly exists to read them books (and he has his own subterranean library). He also has…
The Roly Mo Show
…his very own spin off show, in which he reads several books. He lives with his niece, Little Mo and two rat things called Ugo and Meego. For some reason, even though Little Mo, Ugo and Meego are free to wander in and out of Roly Mo's hole, they never seem to meet the Fimbles. However, Rocket appears in both shows.
Becky and Barnaby Bear
Becky: I'm a girl
Barnaby: And I'm a bear
Together: And together we make the perfect pair!
Actually, no they don't
The Shiny Show
I'm starting to get bored of writing about kids TV now. Oh well. Let's carry on. Essentially a strange sort of quiz show thing, where a dog, a cat, and a monkey quiz each other and win forks and spoons. Altogether now…. give yourself a shiny!
Tweenies
Is by far the most irritating thing ever invented. Mind you, it does feature Justin Fletcher providing the voice of both Jake (the orange Tweenie with a yellow mohican) and Doodles the dog.
If you would like to know any more about these shows, then you'll find Wikipedia has entries for most of them. I think you'll find mine somewhat more authoritative though. Oh, and if you are Justin or Sarah-Jane (or Tamba) and you have found my page by googling for your name, I think you all deserve knighthoods. Please sign the guestbook!
I read a disturbing report recently - far more disturbing than all of the literature about glaciers melting due to global warming. Since Peter Jackson's epic production of Lord Of The Rings was filmed in New Zealand, the country has been a mecca for fans of the film, many of whom have taken a piece of rock / gorse etc visible in the film as a keepsake. On the face of it, this seems fairly harmless, but such is the fervour of the Tolkien enthusiasts, that New Zealand is losing its land volume at the rate of 1.2% per annum. This is far greater than the loss of glacial volume (22% over 40 years). Some parts of the country are actually being eroded at a far greater rate - experts predict that by 2050 the North Island will have disappeared entirely.
Some skeptics have argued that the erosion we have seen does not form a long term trend - the interest in LOTR peaked around 2003, and we should expect to see the rate of erosion also decline. However, Peter Jackson has also since filmed the blockbuster King Kong in NZ, and other studios have followed suit (see Narnia, The Last Samurai etc), each with their share of potentially devestating cinema tourism.
We must act now if we are to save New Zealand. Peter Jackson is about to start work on Halo, The Lovely Bones and The Dambusters. Any one of these could be filmed in New Zealand. Please write to Peter Jackson c/o Wingnut Productions and urge him to make his films somewhere else. Like Slough.
Last Friday, my mum went to a funeral. On the same day, totally by coincidence, I updated my friends reunited profile** . But the two things combined in my mind, curdling like orange juice and fish oil in some sort of septic tank, and out came a fully formed business proposal.
Friends Reunited (for those that don't know or cannot be bothered to find out) is a site mostly targeting 30-somethings, eager to discover what their old schoolchums are up to. You know the sort of thing “got married! had some kids! bought a house! did the washing up!”. Some 20-somethings and 40-somethings also use it. Teenagers don't use it (too busy txtng thr frnds n dnldng frm myspc), and besides which, they are have probably only just left school, and half of them have been served with asbos and have been banned from using the Internet. Old people don't use it because by the time you get into your 70s, almost everyone has gotten married, divorced, had kids, bought a house, lost their job, married their cat, etc etc. All of these things lose their novelty once you hit retirement age, and you stop wondering what other people are doing with their lives.
Which brings me on to my fantastic business idea.
What do old people wonder, when they think about their contemporaries? I'll tell you. They think “Ooh yes, I remember Ivy. I wonder if she is dead yet?”. My proposal is to assemble a huge index of elderly folk, together with their status viz a viz being alive (or otherwise). Income would be via a hefty advertising revenue from funeral directors (where else on the Internet can they advertise?), old folk's homes, and the makers of Gentleman's Relish (which is a mysterious anchovy based concoction that hasn't been made since 1953 but is still a mandatory feature in the fridges of the elderly).
So, there you have it. Stick that up your Dragon's Den.
*Rather disappointingly, the domain name has already been taken
**I can confirm that you cannot use the word “bollocks” on Friends Reunited