BS: Joybell.......eh

Subject: BS: Joybell.......eh
From: Alba
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 07:35 PM

Now I just saw your name on a Post a minute ago and then it dawned on me..

HAPPY BIRTH DAY ma Dear.
Hope your Year ahead is full of wonder filled times and your best dreams coming true:>)

Love. Light and Brightest Blessings
Jude

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From: kindaloupehackenweez
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 08:01 PM

Hey Joybell was looking at member photos and seen it was your birthday and thought i'd say. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY". "And many more".

Just imagine: Ned Flanders getting hit on the head with a bowling ball, while Homer was trying to get a frisbee off the roof of Ned's house.

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 08:05 PM

Happy Birthday!

~S~

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From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 08:06 PM

Very merriest of birth days to ya, m'dear. I think you'll find your forties get easier as you go along.

A

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From: JennieG
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 08:09 PM

Happy Birthday Joy! Hope it's a good one.

Cheers
JennieG

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From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 08:15 PM

A birthday song for you that I learned a long time ago:

Today, today, today, today
Today, today is your birthday!
It isn't the elephant's or the bear's.
It isn't the pickle's or the pear's...
Today, today, today, today
Today, today is your birthday!

Many happy returns, Joy

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From: Bobert
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 08:32 PM

Danged, and I allready nemaed my new kitty...

Oh well???

But have a Happy one, Joybell...

Bobert

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From: CapriUni
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 08:47 PM

Happy Happy!

Joy Joy, Joy!

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From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 09:49 PM

Hildebrand, plant a big hug and a kiss on the birthday girl for us!

Maggie (SRS)

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From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 10:11 PM

May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)

Birthdays come, but once a year
Marking time, as Death draws near
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Happy Birthday! (UNH!)

☺

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From: Peace
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 11:52 PM

Happy Birthday to you, Joybell.

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From: Joybell
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 01:09 AM

AWWWWW! Thank you all. It gladens my heart. It was only yesterday I was 16. I'm sure of it. Cheers, Joy

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From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 02:48 AM

You were older than that now...**bg**

Happy Birthday!!

luvyakat

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From: Partridge
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 03:55 AM

Happy Birthday Joy!

love

Pat x

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From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 04:24 AM

Happy Birthday. Wish I could send some of this snow and rain over as a present. Stay safe.

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 04:33 AM

Yes a belated Many Happy returns from Scotland JB.
Giok

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From: Dave'sWife
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 04:54 AM

INKY the cat was just here and he said Happy Birthday JOYBELL. Honest, he really did. He then went out to play with his new girlfriend, bootsie the Tabby Point Siamese.

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From: Joybell
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 05:22 AM

Snow! Snow! I'll swap for sunshine.
Thank you Inky! Maybe he'll make little cats one, two, three, four, five and you can do a verse about Bootsie and Inky, Dave's Wife.
So many wonderful friends. I'm so lucky. Cheers, Joy

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From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 08:36 AM

fooey, can't get on for a day, & I find I'm late for sending happy birthday greetings

soooo, happy BELATED birthday, dear Joybell

love from Sandra

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From: JennyO
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 08:41 AM

Might as well try here - Mudcat's all over the place at the moment, so I dunno if it will work.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOYBELL!

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From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 10:35 AM

Happy birthday, m'dear. We need to sing together again soon. May the worst day of the rest of your life be no worse than your best so far. See you soon.

Mick

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From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 11:11 AM

Many happy returns Joybell.

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From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 11:28 AM

Birthday greetings from the banks of the Mississippi River and Cape Girardeau in good ol' Missouri. Your visit is remembered with great fondness.             Jim

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From: Joybell
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 03:03 PM

Oh yes Jim. Such a wonderful visit. Thank you Mick and Sandra and jacqui Jenny - you're so clever.

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 04:19 PM

Sorry it's late. Happy Birthday, Joybell.

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From: Snuffy
Date: 25 Jan 06 - 06:05 PM

How did I miss this? Happy birthday,hope it brought you joy.

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From: Flash Company
Date: 26 Jan 06 - 11:36 AM

Can't look away for a minute without missing something! Belated greetings.
How is Robin Hood going?

Brian Q

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From: Joybell
Date: 26 Jan 06 - 03:52 PM

Thanks again everyone. We start rehearsals next week, Brian. Lost our Little John at the last minute so I'm working on a replacement. Someone will turn up. Come on over here and the part's yours. Cheers, Joy

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From: Hawker
Date: 27 Jan 06 - 07:45 AM

HB from Cornmwall, Joybell,
Regards, Lucy

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From: Flash Company
Date: 27 Jan 06 - 09:24 AM

Losing someone as big as Little John is extremely careless!

Brian Q

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From: Joybell
Date: 27 Jan 06 - 05:38 PM

It was wasn't it! I'm waiting for an answer from Oberon. He's even bigger. Over 6 feet. Never lose him. Saw him as King of the Faeries and he's a wonderful fiddler - good for lurking, as Faeries do, and playing accompaniments all the way through. He'd be a natural as Little John though. Light on his feet and would be good for the Morris dance bit. I could play down Oberon's part it's his wife Titania who is more important to the plot.

Hello Lucy.
Cheers, Joy

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From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 Jan 06 - 09:22 AM

Lots of love, dear Joy- even if it's tomorrow where you are, it's still your birth-week and you should keep on celebrating!

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From: Flash Company
Date: 28 Jan 06 - 11:07 AM

A place called Hathersage in Derbyshire has what is said to be Little John's grave in the church-yard. Apparently some excavations in the 1800's produced a thigh bone. the measurement of which varies between 2ft 5inches and and 2ft 8inches dependant on who's account you believe.
That would make him between 7 and 8 feet tall! Tell Oberon to get growing.

Brian Q

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From: Joybell
Date: 29 Jan 06 - 10:35 PM

Thank you Animaterra. Lots of love back.
Brian. Oberon might work better as Little John if the rest of us go around on our knees maybe. Of course as is usual for me I'm concentrating on the legends and the folklore surrounding the characters, rather than facts. A lot is suggested with mime and low-tech trickery. At one point Will Scarlet is narrating the story of the meeting of Little John and Robin. He (she actually) says,

Will Scarlett: It was a very tall man.
Little John: I am a very tall man. (Stands on tip-toe. Looks tall.)

Things like that. What fun. I'm so lucky to have friends willing to do this. Cheers, Joy

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From: Flash Company
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 11:05 AM

Folk club we had locally some years ago used to do the local Mumming Play every Christmas, (St George & the Turkish Knight).
Our St George would have made a great Little John (the phrase ....brick privy.... springs to mind), Best laugh of the evening always came from the intro line which our Father Christmas gave himself (In comes I, Old Fart(h)er Chris-me-aas) Can't think why!
Ah Happy Days!

Brian Q

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From: Joybell
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 06:10 PM

Hooray! Oberon agreed to switch to playing Little John. Should be able to find another Oberon. It's a small part.
I'd love to see a Mumming Play. My cornish ancestors left them behind when they came here in 1847. Pantomimes, being modern at the time of the goldrush, crossed the ocean and were popular here but not the ritual plays. We have Morris Dancers at the folk festivals and Maypole dancing at a Cornish festival nearby, but the tradition has been broken. It must be so different to live somewhere where your roots go deep.
Cheers, Joy