 sj |
||
|
||
Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010
|
|
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: JennyO Date: 06 Sep 10 - 09:50 AM Refresssshhhh! |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: JennyO Date: 05 Sep 10 - 06:27 AM Hi again Charlie. I managed to get onto the internet at the B & B we are staying at (they gave me the wrong code yesterday) so I'm logged in here now, but there's no PM from you. I did send you one a few days ago. Best day(s) for us would be just after we leave Bromyard next weekend, so Monday or Tuesday the 13th and 14th. Anyway, we can talk details in a few days. |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: GUEST,Charley Noble Date: 05 Sep 10 - 03:51 AM JennyO- Probably the best time to hook up is when we're in North Yorkshire, starting Friday. Cheerily, Charley Noble, packing up in Greenwich |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: GUEST,JennyO Date: 04 Sep 10 - 02:37 PM Hi Charlie. It might be a couple more days before I can see your PM. I'm at the Wail and only have internet on my phone. I'm not logged in here and when i tried, it said I had the password wrong. When I get back on my laptop on Monday I should be right, cos my computer remembers it. |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Sep 10 - 02:18 PM Judy and I just spent a nice afternoon motoring in and around Greenwich with John Hills and his wife Vera (of Elsie's Band). They both used to live around here and we revisited some of their favorite haunts: the old pub on Blackheath, Carleton Hall(?), several large parks with lovely flower beds and deer, and there was time for lots of chat about songs and singers. Yesterday, Chris Roche drove in and picked me up for a visit to the Chatham Dockyard and we spent a splendid day climbing around the BIG SHED (testing its acoustics), climbing aboard the Ganet (a victorian metal warship), viewing the incredible rope walk (1600 feet of it), the lifeboat exhibit, and the other museum exhibits. All the while there was a running commentary, sometimes focused on what we were looking at but more often ranging around the world to other ports, ships and singers. What an amzing place, and how it must have teemed with workers in its time. Tomorrow we take the train to Wimbledon to meet with one of Judy's friends, one she knows because of their mutual interest in watching eagle webcams. The next day we collect our rental car and head North to Stockport (just south of Manchester) where I have a spot with their folk club gathering, and where we'll be staying nearby at the Navigation Inn. This is great fun! Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 03 Sep 10 - 02:42 PM Hi Charley, Gerry called me this evening, he can't make saturday cos he is on a school field trip but he is back sunday afternoon and hopes to catch up with us at the Golden Ball, he is adamant that he is not going to ever play again, retired completely. Pete |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Sep 10 - 03:13 AM Here are a few more notes about our Museum visit with regard to C. Fox Smith: We now have a better photo of Cicely as a young woman, and one of her as a girl of ten or so. We also found one likely unpublished poem of the "Billy Magee family" titled "A Meeting" which starts "In from the sea, Lone as could be, Who should I meet but Billy Magee" which doesn't seem to correlate with our existing inventory. There were also some interesting correspondence (not as much as I would like) and many more reviews (some very interesting) and copies of short stories that were published in newspapers. There were no manuscripts of poems on the scale of what Danny Macleod has. I was hoping for more. We didn't go through every folder they had but probably sifted through the ones that I am primarily interested in. The other folders are primarily research materials such as ship's logs, biographical notes relating to various mariners, and a few other miscallaneous things. No journals or diaries. Alas! The staff at the Museum were very helpful but if you want to look at something it takes several business days for them to retrieve it from their off-site warehouse. One searches their inventory of files on-line in advance. We checked out: FXM/14, FXM/16, FXM/17, FXM/19 and FXM/20 I was working with shantysinger Chris Roche. So we went over everything twice and both of us photographed the more interesting bits. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:25 PM So much good ale, so little time! We did put in a full day at the Maritime Museum, sifting through their collection of C. Fox Smith material. Found some very nice contemporary reviews of her works, some photographs that I've never seen, and a few that I've only seen rendered as photocopies of photocopies. There were also a few miscellaneous poems that need to be checked out and some short stories. Alas, no personal journal. Chris Roche was working with me. So we got to check over everything twice, and had excellent conversations over lunch and dinner. Tomorrow Chris has kindly invited me for a ride over to Chatham to check out what's left of the old naval shipyard. Saturday I may even get a chance to wander around a few old corners of Greenwich! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: GUEST,Ebor_fiddler Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:06 PM Beware of Southern "beer"! (Pete can explain). (Singed) A FRIEND. |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: GUEST,Charley Noble Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:18 AM Not a single murder last night at our hotel. Not even a scream! However, I had the strangest set of very vivid dreams, including one in which an engineering experiment went terribly wrong and the entire lab building disappeared in a flash of light! What could it all mean? The banjo appears to be in good shape, except someone at customs evidently retuned it. We stepped across the street and had a couple of dark drafts at the Old Rose & Crown. The King's Arms is down the street but we haven't found the Ship yet. The doubledecker buses are here in full force as are the Dr. Who phone booths. The nautical gift shop from which I bought my Bob Roberts CD ten years ago no longer carries any sea music. They did have a generic rack of World Music. We visited the site where the Cutty Sark is being rebuilt but couldn't see much through the plastic. We had a lovely seafood and pasta dinner at the Beachcombers. Contrary to popular rumor not all sea food in the UK is deep-fat-fried. We'll probably go back there again. I'm all signed in a the Maritime Museum for research today and should have a lovely time sifting through their C. Fox Smith collection. I only have general descriptions of what is in each box and I'm looking forward to sifting through it all. Weather looks great for the week! We've had our breakfast and the coffee was acceptable. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: maeve Date: 01 Sep 10 - 08:01 PM Have a great trip. Maeve |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:54 PM welcome to old blighty young man |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:27 AM We are safely resident in Greenwich after a blessfully uneventful flight, and an adventurous transit via the tube from Heathrow to Greenwich. We're going to relax for the rest of the day. We're all set for housing in Fleetwood but thanks for the offer. JennyO- we'll get back to you via PM with regard to meeting in Yorkshire. Cheerily, Charley Noble and JudyB |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: My guru always said Date: 31 Aug 10 - 04:45 PM Safe journeys & good luck at Greenwich! |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Date: 31 Aug 10 - 12:26 PM Hi Charley - the way Ron describes it you'll be around on the Wednesday evening for a general blether at The Steamer & Thursday for a wee trawl around the vicinity with Ron & Ross taking in places of interest (which are of course legion) before The Steamer on the evening. I could link up on the Thursday with Ron & Ross, with a few suggestions for places that might interest someone such as yourself, such as the old trawler hulks on the estuary (tides permitting & stout footwear an essential!) and of course Skippool Creek... |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: sciencegeek Date: 31 Aug 10 - 12:21 PM Charlie, you and Judy have a safe trip and loads of fun... as much as you can stand! |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Barb'ry Date: 31 Aug 10 - 11:45 AM Would love to meet up - can offer you both a bed near to Fleetwood if you would like to stay - perhaps we will get down to the Steamer when you're there. Barb'ry |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: JennyO Date: 31 Aug 10 - 10:29 AM Hi Charlie and Judy! I'm in the UK now with my new husband, Rob, who I met through Mudcat. I've been looking at your itinerary, and trying to see if our paths will cross anywhere. We'll be at the Wail this weekend, then Bromyard next weekend (10th-12th), then heading back up to Aberdeen where we are presently living. It looks like you might be somewhere in Yorkshire during the week, so wondering if we could catch up with you on our way back - maybe Monday 13th. We could go that way if it's possible. I'll send you a PM, tho you might already be on the plane. |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 31 Aug 10 - 08:33 AM This time tomorrow we should be at Heathrow, hopefully not meditating on where my banjo might be. We're packing a pair of computer notebooks and should be able to update this journal as we go. Cheerily, Charley Noble and JudyB Maine |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Aug 10 - 08:16 AM Peter- I think we'll fare fine. Who needs coffee when there's so much good ale! Wow, are we together. We've just finished backing up our computers onto an external hard drive which we'll transport today to my mother's farm. Now we need to provide detailed instructions to our cat-sitter, on how best to comply with Tilahun and Teji's demands while we're away. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 30 Aug 10 - 05:04 AM I ran the crap Brit coffee thing past Jo, she said "yes we do, and they do crap tea" Anyway we have a cafetiare and a machine that does pods and somewhere in the cupboard a perculator and a filter do-hicky. If we really get desperate I will build a fire in the back garden and stick a can on it! |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 30 Aug 10 - 03:34 AM We have three indian restaraunts around bishy road.......... Fire down be-lo-w o o o Fire down below |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 29 Aug 10 - 11:35 PM I thought I heard the Ol' Man say. "There's coffee on the stove-oh-oh-oh, There's coffee on the stove! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: ChanteyLass Date: 29 Aug 10 - 10:25 PM The UK has Starbucks now, but alas the last time I was there I saw no Dunkin Donuts. I'm too working class for Starbucks. |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 29 Aug 10 - 08:23 PM We may just bring our own coffee beans and chew them! Of course we'll probably never get them through customs. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 29 Aug 10 - 03:59 PM I am no judge of coffee I drink de-caf latte with sugar in it! |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Ian Hendrie Date: 29 Aug 10 - 07:19 AM Restaurants, cafes and coffee shops do all manner of indescribable things to ground coffee in the UK and manage to make it taste awful 90% of the time. The popularity of the French cafetiere shows that the British are at least trying to get away from 'instant' coffee. But what's the preferred American method? Do you still use the metal can hanging over the camp-fire? |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 29 Aug 10 - 06:59 AM Weather or not, I see it's a case of pack everything we can, assuming there's any room left after we pack CDs and songbooks. Then, once we're in the UK: We opens the pane and pops out the flame. Just to see how the wind do blow. Here in Maine it continues to be a bright and warm summer, with a major rain storm every other week. Judy and I got out in the boat the other day and saw at least 12 ospreys, two parents and their two fledglings doing barrel rolls and nose dives around their nest by the boat landing. We also saw a majestic pair of eagles perched on the top of a pine tree across the cove. Someday we ought to spend three weeks vacationing in Maine! Time to make breakfast! Oh, do they still brew coffee in the UK? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 29 Aug 10 - 04:35 AM Also Saturday afternoon, there is a mini beer festival at "village Bishy Road" pubs, The Swan & The Slip Inn. Bishy road is a very trendy shopping area & dining area these days, it sorta happened around us! When we first moved into the area 30 years ago 75% of the shops were boarded up and most of the area had just recieved a reprieve from the bulldozer (inner ring road dual carriagway been cancelled). Anyway we might take Charlie and Judy there, we were asked to perform so maybe we could all do an afternoon slot or just busk on the grass bank if the weather is good . Weather is up and down, sou'wester probably not needed but a berghaus maybe. It is still quite warm and moist here or as the irish might put it "soft". |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Aug 10 - 04:50 PM "Fishing waders," check! 5000 Morris Dancers! Sounds dangerous. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: The Borchester Echo Date: 28 Aug 10 - 11:51 AM Weekend 3/4/5 September: 5000 Morris Dancers at the South Bank. All free. |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: bradfordian Date: 28 Aug 10 - 10:27 AM And don't forget your fishing waders; the river Ouse is prone to bursting its banks ;-) |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Aug 10 - 10:03 AM Here's a link to the type of "mackinaw" we could bring: Click here! We realize that the word has many meanings and may confuse some on the other side of the Great Pond. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Aug 10 - 09:58 AM Packing and re-packing! We could well spend a year following up all the interesting leads and invitations that have been coming in but we only have a little more than three weeks. How's the weather? Should we be bringing our mackinaws? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 26 Aug 10 - 01:15 PM Oh forgot, hazel & linda - Friday night - Tap & Spile and Saturday night at the Golden Fleece, I am sure we can hook up sometime |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 26 Aug 10 - 08:52 AM Peter- Sounds like a snap! We do wonder if our GPS unit would figure out how to get there, "thro the hole in the wall"! Poor little thing might fry its tiny brain. Remind me, the next time you're in Maine, to take you on a boat trip through "The Little Hell Gates," preferably while you're being towed on water skies. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 26 Aug 10 - 06:50 AM Linda, Monkgate, It is quite near Monkgate bar, just outside the walls, nestles between the GUM clinic and St Johns College, as for directions, find The Minster, with your back to the Rose window take the main road left (walking, blocked to traffic) keep walking (150 yards) thro the hole in the wall (Monk bar)strait on thorough the traffic lights pub is 50 yards on the left. It isn't far from M&S but lordy the windy streets of medieval York. Up parliament street towards St Sampsons Square, turn right on to church street, straight on to Goodramgate, turn right at the cross keys, straight on thro afore mentioned hole in wall, the rest you know, it is not the quickest but the easiest to give directions! The Golden Fleece, of course, is opposite the side door of M&S on Pavement Peter |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 25 Aug 10 - 04:44 PM "where is the Tap & Spile in York?" We'd like to know that as well but probably Peter will guide us there. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Linda Kelly Date: 25 Aug 10 - 01:51 PM Just so we know the details where is the Tap & Spile in York and when are you planning to be there? just direct me from M & S or any other large retail outlet-I'm bound to know where they are! |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Pistachio Date: 25 Aug 10 - 10:38 AM It so happens I'm meeting my son for lunch in York on the 11th...so that may well tie in with saying hello. I'd bring Linda too. Don't know how long we can stay? (PM to Stallion!) Re: 15th in Hull - I'm on a course, cycling around Beverley !! (don't ask) but would love to dash over about 4 ish..... in the car if that's not too late (Les?) (PM to Les!) Hazel. |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 25 Aug 10 - 09:00 AM The nice thing about our visit to York is that we'll be there about 10 days, enough time to connect with a whole lot of folks and also see some of the countryside and shore. I do hope that folks find out about the C. Fox Smith workshop that Jim Saville and I are coordinating at the Otley Festival; it is not featured on the Festival Website and it's unclear to me how anyone would find out about it except by word of mouth. Here's the location and time again: September 18th, Saturday 2.30 pm, Black Horse Public House - Upstairs Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Linda Kelly Date: 25 Aug 10 - 06:13 AM Mmmmm....... Will check with H. |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: stallion Date: 25 Aug 10 - 03:28 AM Anyone wishing to come on Saturday 11th, if you want to have a sing and play you will be more than welcome, find a way to get in touch PM me but it would be nice to know how many we are catering for. Linda & Hazel, you wanna come? might be able to find you a bed? Peter |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Aug 10 - 08:20 PM Linda- We would love to meet you and swap a few songs. You might be interested in some of our Nova Scotia fishing songs. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Linda Kelly Date: 24 Aug 10 - 07:04 PM We have a gig on 15 Septe Les but if I can cadge any time off work and can drag Hazel to Hul we may be able to pop in for a quick one! |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: GUEST,Jim Jack from Fourum Date: 24 Aug 10 - 06:24 PM Not responding to this thread, Charley - sorry but trying to contact Bradfordian from posting on 19 August, but have only just come across inputs in 2002!! Have posted a couple of info items on the Gunnerside Gill thread if Bradfordian still interested. Happy listening! Have a good trip to UK Charley!
-Joe Offer, Forum Moderator joe@mudcat.org- |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Aug 10 - 06:17 PM We've had to drop plans to attend the Black Lion session with Max and other London Mudcatters. Thursday, September 2, has unfortunately gotten too busy in Greenwich. I'm also looking forward to the singers session at Cecil Sharp House on Tuesday, September 21, 8 pm. This will be the best chance for me to connect with London Mudcatters. Looks as if we'll be basing ourselves in a nearby hotel in Camden Town for several days. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 22 Aug 10 - 10:17 AM Thanks to the good work of Jim Saville (aka ShantyFreak) the details of our C. Fox Smith workshop at the Otley Festival have been nailed down: September 18th, Saturday 2.30 pm, Black Horse Public House - Upstairs Upstairs is the old Otley Folk Club meeting room, spacious and with fair accoustics. The location is good too, very easy to find. What we'll present are poems composed by Cicely Fox Smith (1882-1954), and songs based on such poems. There will also be time for questions and discussion. I'll bring copies of my Sea Songs of Cicely Fox Smith songbook as well as CD's. Few people have done as good a job of creating nautical poems from the stories deep-water sailors tell as Smith has done. And over 70 of her poems have been recently recorded as songs, not all of them having to do with the sea. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:23 PM Thanks, Les. I love a good book store. Last time around we got to spend some time sorting through books at Hay-on-Way in Wales, the place where all used books end up! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
|
Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to UK September 2010 From: Les from Hull Date: 21 Aug 10 - 02:19 PM If you get time, check out Maritime Books, 66 Royal Hill (near the NMM) for a great range of new and secondhand books. |
| Share Thread: |
