Notices by Laura Ritchie (lauraritchie@mastodon.social), page 6

@Downes I think I'll think up a few pairs that mix very established styles or particularly progressive sounds - Sex Pistols, Epic Rock Ballads, Pet Shop Boys.... with the idea that people would have to understand the underlying components in order to swap them out - style, instrumentation, harmony, texture... it's a really great idea you had ;)

@Downes I may well use this as an exercise for my 'structures and politics of rock' class next Sept. (it was the one I inherited at very short notice last (this) year, and when given the choice of remove it from the curriculum options (e.g. no non-classical option) or I keep doing it - I said I'd keep on with it.

Great fun homework project :) ...could be in groups and they have to perform one aspect live. :D

@dansup challenge accepted! I'll figure it out (I might not be quick, but I will!) :) I have an IFTTT account...

Thanks for the super-quick reply!

@paralithode I hope you find rest and that the alone is full of light breeze, bird song, and something comfy under you.

Ourselves without blame, yes please.

Thank you for being here.

@dansup is there a way to get my pixelfed account to post to this mastodon account? I know I can post to here and then my mastodon account can boost it, but can I post directly to here?

fed my sourdough.

(waiting)

dough tomorrow!

@Downes one day when you visit here you can geek out over the old stuff. :)

@Downes all registered - as to place and I think they were documented in some way- I know there was a move to excavate one grave under the main floor of the church (believed to be a King's daughter from 1015) but it was thought to cause too much disruption. There's Roman stuff everywhere here...

Before this church, there was a wooden monastery, and a Pagan site before, so there is bound to be untold volumes of history in that ground.

@Downes Indeed. There were 30kg of bones. Makes me wonder why there were people just buried at the edge of the building. I think it may have been much earlier than 1600 - about 2 miles away they just found a rabbit that changed the date of rabbits in this country by 1000 years... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/rabbit-skeleton-roman-remains-arrival-species-invasive-fishbourne-palace-a8874376.html

Heaven knows, but it certainly gave me a new perspective on life and death and it felt right to put them in a purpose-made place.

maybe we can convince a cat from somewhere in the village to just visit us sometimes. Actually having a cat would make me sneeze so much, but I love cats.

love cats <3
#IDoWantACat

@compostablespork <3 yes, indeed. <3

@dadegroot @lauraritchie I was supposed to plant them about 3 months ago!! glad this one turned up!

@dadegroot what a lovely lady and a lovely smile she has for you.

@sikkdays a few words, a jotting in a notebook - something to hold on to or to remind you another day - when maybe you will have time. Process happens at its pace sometimes.

Hope it was a good thing.

(poem continued, see earlier toot in thread)

What matter if the hands of time have lain
Upon your body, as they have on mine,
War's wasted years, the waiting and the pain,
Shall be the rock on which we build again
Our newer wedded love, more true, more fine.

Hears that, in war, for love have known no ease
From love, shall joy and beauty gain in peace. (poem by John Phillips)

-It was a beautiful wedding. 2/2
#smallstories #smallpoems

Today my son and I sang in the choir for a village wedding. Bride, nervous and beautiful, hair up beaded headband and lace dress. She was well over 70, her first wedding. She had a poem read that was written by her father, titled 'For Audrey Mary 1944'
If at the end I find you still the same
In faith, in love, as when you took my name
For yours; if still your gentleness and charm
And truth and simple kindliness remain,
Then from this war we shall have had no harm. #smallstories 1/2

I woke up to the grey mist on the field. Trees mostly still bare, but smaller plants bursting despite the lack of sun. This quiet morning, I am rested. I slept. Slipped into sleep and rested for the first time in a week. -culminating with a full day of 7 different repeated music workshops simultaneously rotating across all the years in a school (my students were great) and with that done, I slept and slept and slept until I woke up

ready to breathe in the weekend.
#thisday #smallstories #sleep

@paralithode I hope the pain eases and that this dip is short. May the lightening days and all the new leaves that come with spring lift you.