freda going to UK

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: SussexCarole
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 02:36 PM

Had a great time song swapping with Simon a few years ago outside Towersey Barn. It's a small world..thanks to Mudcat!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 11:34 AM

Giok, my work number is 020 8547 7458 - hope to hear from you.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 09:08 AM

i had quite a long chat to rhymin' simon tonight - he said to say hello to anyone who remembers him - he mentioned micca and sussex carole in particular..

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 07:30 AM

Yup, will send you my mobile No by PM, and you can give me yours.
Giok.
What the hell, it's 07739 464742.
[No heavy brething folks!]

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 05:27 AM

Giok - fancy meeting up for a drink if you're around Surbiton/Kingston on a day that I'm here at work ?

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 06:21 PM

Andy....I will see who we have staying that night anbd will get back to you asap....if not we will see you at Towersey.

Khatt

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 03:35 PM

Well thanks Jacqui, I'll be visiting in Surbiton, Addlestone, Whitton, Capel, and Marlow, to name a few. Dates a bit fuzzy, but it'll be from 3rd Sept onwards.
Giok

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: fiddler
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 03:21 PM

Looks busy Freda, there is a good chance we can get up to the Lion on 22nd being Sat IU don't have to rush off to work the next day - Khatt Micca - floor space?

Anyway thats two weeks away yet!!!

If not I open the Towersey camp sites at 1200 hrs Thursday!!!!

Excited?

CU soon

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 02:40 PM

Giok - I trust that you will be putting your itinery on the 'cat before you go. If you get down to the London area you'll be in for a warm welcome.

Freda - I've heard some nasty rumours about the real identity of nurse ratched!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:47 AM

thanks, scooby - enjoy your grand tour, Giok, but make sure you look over your shoulder.. i may be on my way but that nurse ratched...

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:15 AM

Have safe journey Freda,hear about your antics when you get back.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:05 AM

Well avoided Freda, I'm setting off on 1st September in my new motor home, for an English grand tour, you look to have timed your escape well.
Giok

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 10:41 AM

hi jacqui and charley - yes, I'll have one for you!

and Dave, I'll be hanging out in the barn quite a bit, so see you both there, if not earlier! (still determined to meet avril betts if i can!)

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 10:37 AM

I'm planning to get to The Black Lion on the 22nd - Linda (Essex Girl) will not be getting back from Spain until much later that night so I'll have plenty of time before I have to pick her up from Gatwick.

We might be able to make Sharps - I assume it will be at "The Exmouth Arms" that evening as CSH shuts for August.

We will also probably be turning up at Towersey - but only for the Barn and Pub sessions.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 10:27 AM

Freda-

Happy landings!

Lift one for me at Sharp's.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 10:23 AM

Looking forward to it Freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 10:14 AM

hi catters

i looked at my first post to this thread, which was a hope that i could meet with some of you here and there. it has turned out much better than that - i now have some plans and points of contact, and have spoken on the phone to micca and to jacqui.

I'll be at the Black Lion on the 22nd, 3-5, at Herga on the 23rd, Sharps on 24th and going to towersey on thursday 26th, returning to austria on wed 1st september.

monday 23rd - Wed 25th are free during the day, with a possible trip to oxford to see clean supper on one of those days..

clean supper - are you going to towersey? and rosie wells - please pm me if you read this!

see you next week, micca n cat, and jacqui in two weeks!

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 02:46 PM

;~)

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 02:14 AM

.. well, i was thinking that too, but thanks Charley!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: jacqui.c
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 02:08 AM

From Freda's posts I think that should be be gentle dear Freda with Europe!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 09:23 PM

Looking forward to hearing your adventures!

Be gentle with dear Freda.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 09:05 PM

only 12 days now before I leave, and am getting Very excited!

fred

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 26 Jul 04 - 11:17 AM

Bridgnorth is the same w/e as Towersey, lovely town, festival in a school - but that means the dancing is inside on a proper floor and the concerts are in a big margquee &/or an auditorium. It is on a chrming steam railway which connects to the mainline trains at Kidderminster Station.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 26 Jul 04 - 11:04 AM

Hi everyone

i have been pm'd by catter Clean Supper (the wonderful songwriter, Paul Spencer, an aussie in Oxford, in the hope we can meet up. we are both on-leave members of Solidarity Choir) i am trying to persuade paul to come to towersey - if night i'm going to try and go to oxford for a day, if there is a day. So LadyJean, your hints may come in handy. paul, you have to get your ticket soon if its to be towersey.

i had a very whacky dream last night - i dreamnt i was at towersey and my name was Muriel Twithington (shades of Hyacinth Buquet!!)

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 11:41 AM

that sounds great, jacqui, thank you, tho I'm not sure which night you mean, (was it 31st?) but thank you anyway!

pms have been flying and now i know I'll be staying with micca & khatt, going to Herga folk club on Monday night (23rd aug)- and Tuesday Night - to Sharps. on Wednesday I will be taking the train to towersey with Catsphiddle and micca and coming back on the 31st, i think.

people have been very kind, don't expect to much, I'm pretty quiet in real life and will be happy to listen and enjoy your music.

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 11:19 AM

Freda

I'm free that weekend and can pick you up from Stanstead and offer you a bed for the night.

If anyone knows of any music around Hertfordshire/Essex/North London that night - let us know.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 10:54 AM

Stansted takes about 40 minutes to get to from ours by bus or by car, it also has a good rail link ...Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport if that is any use to you Freda.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 09:54 AM

That's great news, micca, thank you again! I just bought a new back pack today. my old one, over 15 years old, literally fell apart on me on the street. glad it did it here and not in some street in Shanghai (I have a stopover there for one night in the way! - Pu Dong?)

I have just listened to my daughter's message again, it was quite intelligible. just my brain, late last night, wasn't computing! I'll be passing through London, on my way to Austria, on 16th August when I arrive at Heathrow at 11.50. I'll be travelling the next day from Stansted at 9.20 am to Klagenfurt (Austria)where I'll stay for a week. then I will be arriving at Stansted airport on Sat 21st at 1.50 pm', via Ryan Air. I can get a bus or train there to somewhere closer, I'm not sure at this stage where Stansted is, apart from it being in London. I'm booked to go back to Austria (for the wedding) on September 1 at 9.20 am from Stansted again.

I'm putting all this in in case anyone of those who offered to put me up are near Stansted for those two overnighters. Otherwise, I'll have a loud alarm & be up early to travel that way, I imagine there'll be shuttle buses from Heathrow.

So, is there any music in London on a Saturday night? (21st August?)!!

Micca, Catsphiddle, Leadfingers & Moses, I'll pm you all individually now that I have these times. Jacqui - is Stansted anywhere near you?

and i will have to polish off my vocal chords - I'm looking forward to sitting in a room, surrounded by voices and harmonies - and to meeting whoever of you I can!

best wishes

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Micca
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 06:20 AM

Freda, Good News, Your Towersey ticket has arrived!!!!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 10:03 AM

Hi LadyJean, thanks for your kind wishes and suggestions. My daughter has left me a garbled message telling me flights to and from London from Klagenfurt, so by tomorrow I hope to have them translated and confirmed with her, and to have worked out my actual times of arrival and departure from London.

Yes, you were right Giok, I won't be going north this time. I'm very much looking forward to it all, however, and to roaming about here and there. My potent memories from last time are - hydrangeas and strawberries - the australian copies are mere cardboard, compared to their British versions.

i'll post again tomorrow

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: LadyJean
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 12:48 AM

Have a wonderful trip. Should you find yourself in Oxford, Pitlochry Woolens has very nice sweaters etc. very cheap. As everyone will tell you, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Dorothy L. Sayers did their drinking at the Lamb and Flag. The Trout serves excellent food, and they have a lovely view.
Should you find yourself in London, have a nice drool at the costume collection in the V and A.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 06:24 PM

see you in the barn kitty!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: jack halyard
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:29 PM

For god's sake, you poor bastards, don't let her sing the one about Lorena Bobbit. It's totally disgusting, immoral, dispicable and its only redeeming feature is it's funny. Make sure she doesn't lose her books and don't let the fact that she left her camera at home fool you, she's a closet-or at least handbag-lid-sketcher and they're all fearsomely accurate sketches. Unfortunately she's left a number of her more useful minders back here in Oz, so it's uncertain what may happen- particularly to Tony Blair.( perhaps I shouldn't mention him in the same context as Lorena Bobbit.) anyway, people of Britain, you have been warned.   Jack Halyard.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 03:47 PM

We will be in our usual place in the Barn at Towersey with Freda this year! See you there Kitty!!

Khatt

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 03:10 PM

Rats - Micca and Khatt only seem to come to Herga when I'm away....

More likely to see you in the barn at Towersey?

Kitty

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 10:00 AM

that's great jacqui!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 09:57 AM

that would be good for me too - haven't got to Herga yet and may not have much more opportunity to do it!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 09:35 AM

Herga on the 23rd sounds good. Micca and I haven't been for a while so we might come over too...it will be good to see everyone there again!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 08:14 AM

I have just had a pm from Moses, who has suggested Herga on Monday 23rd - this sounds good to me, and I think George and Herga Kitty may be there.

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 07:45 AM

thanks everyone - Kate and Ruth are wonderful singers, El Greko. but if there's a night between 20th - 25th inclusive, so far as i know, all of those evenings are free.

and I will be thumbing a lift to Towersey, as well, if you can't fit me in the boot of your car, Khatt and Micca, (if you have one!)

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 07:05 AM

England will never be the same, go freda!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 06:49 AM

George

Freda's hoping to get to me as well - maybe we can arrange a meet up that suits everyone.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:42 AM

Ah well, Kate & Ruth at M'Head is out then...Have to think of summat else.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:32 AM

We will be going to Towersey on the morning of Thursday 26th August asa usual..see everyone who is going there!

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:31 AM

Freda....we have booked your Towersey Tickets and they should arrive shortly!! See PM from Micca!!!

Looking forward to meeting you next month!!

Khatt

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:20 AM

Guess who is on at Maidenhead on the 26th Aug, Freda: Ruth & Kate from your neck of the woods! I'll certainly be going there. Moses - you should hear those ladies! So - if freda is staying with you then, I could pick you both up and go there - or something.

Just a thought.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 05:10 AM

Wonderful Freda.

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 04:03 AM

thanks very much, Liz, for thinking of this. Khatt has let me know about this, & I think they may be booking me a ticket in the next few days!

I am just trying to secure a flight, right now, and have just found a very cheap one that I'm trying to get on to.

and here's a little something for those of you who think australian's have no culture.. whipped it up last night!!

'Twas Christmas day in the chookhouse, and the chooks had been fattened a treat
The men were out back, playing cricket , and the air was a shimmerin' with heat
In the oven a turkey was sizzling, crammed with old breadcrumbs n stuff,
And mum on her feet in the Aussie heat, and Cheryl was up the duff.

And Dad was singing in the kitchen, Red Sails in the Sunset and more
We told him to go to the chookhouse, and to yodel til the chooks all snore
For dad's singing was rumoured hypnotic; twas said it would send you to sleep
For whenever he warbled old grannie, passed out in the afternoon heat

At one o'clock "Come an Get It" screamed mum from the back of the yard
While Uncle Ted and his mates were gambling, and Ted laid the winning card
The spuds were all crispy and fluffy, and the onions were sizzling sweet!
The pudding was boiling in calico, while the plonk was aflowing a treat

we all sat round, joking and whispering, while mum laid out the turkey with style
Dad carved up each slice as we fidgeted, Uncle Ted with some drool on his dial
Then up spoke old grannie, quite loudly, (she was deaf we all knew in one ear)
Saying this year there's going to be changes – and she skolled a full schooner of beer.

Her old grey eyes flashing with anger, as she looked with contempt and then cursed:
"You dare to wish me 'merry Christmas'? You just hear my story first.
Sixty years ago, in the summer, I came here an innocent bride,
With your old grandpa Kevin, I thought it was heaven, but within ten tough long years he had died.

For fifty sad years I've suffered, through bushfires, through floods and through drought
She eyed off old Ted, leaned across to his head, and gave the poor bastard a clout.

Then grannie stood up at the table, as we sat there, all raising our glass
The carving knife high, she saluted the sky, and sliced off the turkey's arse.
I never did like that old parson, his nose will go down a real treat
With a cunning quite perky, she savaged the turkey, and slipped off in the evening heat.

You can all go to buggery, you bastards, while you're at it you can take uncle Ted
Then old grannie turned back, and she farted, then hobbled off slowly to bed.

best wishes

freda

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jul 04 - 03:58 AM

If you want to come to Towersey, let us know fairly soon as we would need to find you tickets, although if you don't want to do the whole weekend, there are day tickets. If you just want to come to the Barn to hear some amazing singing, you may be able to cadge a lift with one of the other Catters who pop in for the day - Manitas being a possible one.....

LTS

Subject: RE: freda going to UK
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Jul 04 - 08:18 PM

Freda-

Looks like you're making some great contacts. Kendall Morse's thread had some pictures posted on what happened on his visit at the Black Lion. Looked like a great gang and lots of fun.

And you can always offer reciprocity from your Sydney neighborhood. Kudy and I have fond memories of the restaurant around the corner and singing in the co-op commons.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble