h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/mikado/webopera/mk107.html

and the classic and irritating "Titwillow"

http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/mikado/webopera/index.html

Titwillow is supposedly somewhere in there.

Anyway, I was reminded while wandering through that website that "Iolanthe", which I've only seen once on Video, and used to have the second half of on 8track many years ago, has a bit in the finale act where the entire House of Lords has to become fairies in order to save the life of the fairie queen, or something like that.

http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/index.html

Tit Willow is shown as "On a tree by a river" (it goes on ... "a little tom tit, sang 'Willow, tit willow, tit willow', etc).

The Mikako is my favourite too - although saying that it's the only one I know reasonably well. I know Pinafore a bit and I've seen bits from Princess Ida and the Yeomen of the Guard, but not enough to get to *really* like them. Eric Idle makes a particularly good KoKo and Lesley Garrett was delicious as Yum Yum. I went to see the English National Opera doing it, but by that time neither Lesley Garrett nor Eric Idle were still in it. Well worth seeing it was too. I took my ex-husband as a (Christmas or birthday) present. It was just as good as the video - or was that the other way round?

The http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/index.html website is good. Thanks!

I've been incredibly busy this week helping move a store.
The WR works for the Dollar General company one day a week,
unloading truck. She found out about this store moving job and
put me on to her manager. The task will apparently go on into the next week, with the weekend being part of the schedule.
The supervisor is a professional store setter upper from Denver Colorado named Bob. We really get along.

Sounds as if this is a job you'll quite enjoy, Tonsil.

We moved our bulk storage at work yesterday. I managed to miss it as I mislaid my keys at home and couldn't really go out without them. They turned up in exactly the place they should have been - the first place I looked and although I looked several times (inbetween times turning the house over a couple of times and the car at least twice). I actually looked in the pocket I found them in at least 4-5 times before I found them - and the pocket was quite shallow. No idea why I didn't find them first time.

Some spirit didn't want you to.

Possibly - other people said something similar too!

I've had a sore throat for the past few days, so I've been feeling a bit under the weather. Lots of hot lemon and paracetamol. I went home half-way through our Toastmasters meeting yesterday. I did the 'Tip of the Day' - about how to prepare a speech, and beginning with the end in mind - a la Steven Covey.

Paracetamol?

Steven Covey?

I watched a documentary about Charles Shultz, the creator and maintainer of the Charlie Brown and Snoopy strip this evening.
Actually, the damn thing is being shown again as we speak.

I cannot recall having seen a worster documentary about someone I cared about. It pretty much sucks.

I grew up with Peanuts strips and book collections. My father had read them from the beginning.

I have several massive books of early strips and a couple books about Sparky Shultz.

His technique and style were an inspiration to me several times and for several reasons.

To watch a movie that tells me that he didn't enjoy his millions because he was depressed and suffering from panic attacks and that actual angst produced the voices of his characters really isn't very useful to me beyond a certain point.
I mean, if I could find a way to channel my, um, problems, into a million or so, then...
Nevermind.

How to prepare a speech?

I do the damned things off the top of my head.
Tell me how much time I have and I'll deliver.
Tell me how many pages you want and you got it.

Now give me directions to a store I've never been to and tell me to bring back a gallon of milk and a pound of challots... and there's no telling what will happen or what I will return with .

Oops!
Are you unwell?

Sorry Tonsil. Actually, I thought I had replied to both your posts and I'm not sure what happened to what I wrote.

Right now I'm not feeling that well. I've got backache. This office move thing has got to me a bit and I had to fetch little back from school as he was feeling sick and he has been really trying.

That's okay. We have an office worker out on maternity leave (her 8th child) and it is messing up the schedule as two of our second shift people are now having to work first shift and second shift is staffed by warm bodies and third by little ole me.
This, coupled with a major change in the weather, the flip-back of daylight savings time, and the beginnings of my seasonal depression has taken my mind off my aching back and my need for new shoes.

Plus, the cats are shedding again.

Oh, and Shnooks has managed to trash her third cellaphone within this last year. She ran it through both the wash and the dryer last tuesday.
I took over one of my old phones and swapped out the simcard and it seems to work a little. Her new phone and battery are junk.

Uvula was going to see if she could get another phone yesterday and I told her I wanted my old phone back. I have my first cell phone still in my possession. I am now on my third free phone in ten years. Or something like that. I'm with the same provider, although they've changed names three times. It was AT& T wireless, then Cingular, and now AT& T horseless or something similar.

Cellphones dont do well in the wash! I remember many years ago dropping my brother's radio in the bath and it stopped working. He had quite a temper, so I was dreading telling him - but luckily, once it dried out, it started to work again, so I never had to tell him.

Three cell phones and three different providers? (well same provider, different names) - that's quite a thing. AT&T horseless?

There is an old Goon Show gag about the 'horseless wireless'.
I have some of the shows on tape and some of the lingo has become hardwired into my speakage.

I'd forgotten about the 'horseless wireless'. Of course, now it's in context, it makes sense.

Talking about equipment, we have something at work called an MFD - multi- functioning device. It's supposed to print, scan, photocopy and fax - and probably make the tea as well. But it doesn't - not that well. Some functions it doesn't seem to do properly (for instance, whether you can photocopy or not seems to depend on mood) and some it doesn't do at all, because our IT haven't programmed our computers properly. So more properly it should be called a MNFD - multi non-functioning device!

somebody gave me one of those a couple years ago. It is made by Canon and it sits in a corner on top of a 1951 Zenith Golden Throat television I picked up off a street corner years ago.

Oh this MNDF is quite a big beast. I can't imagine it on top of any TV - it would squash it and would overbalance.