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HELLO FORKERS - DECEMBER 2018

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Yes, I’ll probably have forgiven him by then😇
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited December 2018
    I've just been to our local garden centre but was driven out by the AWFUL cover versions of xmas faves. 
    There were 3 girls on the checkouts, chatting as we left , so I said. " god, how can you listen to this, it's hideous" they just laughed. 
    "whose idea was it take some perfectly good songs and really, really feck them up?"
    they laughed some more.
    I'm having a cuppa then off to check the storm drains. 
    Plumber booked to have a look at the boiler before we go. It tripped out AGAIN  yesterday evening.
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Your ears must have been burning, doc  ;)
    Hang on in there. Love to you and Moira. Think I forgot to say that to you earlier x
    I've been sorting some lovely little industrial looking metal lampshades I got the other day. Yet another thing that should have been fairly simple...but wasn't  :D
    Cranberry sauce made. Nice and tart.
    The sun's getting through now, but it's finding it tough, and the fog keeps rolling in. The little bit at my back door is the only place that's had it for a wee while. The garden is currently still minus 2. 
    I think it's cheaper if they play covers, Hosta. Always dire, like those compilation albums, which used to be covers, and even had well known folk on them before they were famous, like Elton. 
    I need some lunch. Anyone got anything spare?
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fairygirl said:

    I think it's cheaper if they play covers, Hosta. Always dire, like those compilation albums, which used to be covers, and even had well known folk on them before they were famous, like Elton. 

    It was all "traditional stuff" I can't imagine were under any copyright done in a terrible a cappella  barber shop styleee. Just wrong on every level
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    As far as I know, play fees go to the songwriter, not the artist.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Merry Christmas 🥂 & Happy New Year Everybody 🥳
  • There's fees for using the song (these are due until the writer has been dead 70 years) ... and then fees for broadcasting an artist's recording, including playing it to your customers) and of course the more famous the artist the higher those fees are ... so it's cheaper to play a nobody's recording of a very old song.



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours too, GWRS. Are you having a traditional sort of day or something different?
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
                         

                                     
    I know how you feel Gardeners Boy. I’ve done lunch for 6 adults and 5 children. Will be 10 adults and 9 children tomorrow, not counting the 2 babies. I shall go and keep Dove company - off to make a large chocolate mousse.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Im finished and sitting on the sofa listening to Carols from King’s.  :). Everything that has to be done has been done and the kitchen is clean and tidy. 

    But you you wouldn’t believe it ... the other shelf in the kitchen fridge has collapsed now!  It’s not even got much on it ... most stuff goes in the big garage fridge. OH thinks he can make one good shelf out of the two broken ones ...  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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