Accompaniments to DIY or housework

[whiffey]

If you are DIYing or cleaning the skirtings or dusting, what do you best like as an accompaniment ? I have been finishing the beading upstairs and I had Glenda Jackson reading "Little Women" to me. Lovely and happy, near death from scarlet fever and Islam-free. She sat in the corner saying "were" instead of "where" but in a kindly Hampstead sort of way that utterly disarmed me. She had to leave early because she was worriied about traffic on the M25. I was very grateful, and am left with kindly images of Meg and Jo and Beth and Aunt March.

[cazzz1975]

call me cheesy but vh1 classic is always a favourite of mine

[pussnboots]

Cleaning the skirtings? I just blow the dust off with the vac.

[cruella]

I like to listen to Gerry Rafferty or Josh Grobin

[whiffey]

Gerry Rafferty, Hearts Run Dry, Winter's Come, and most especially Moonlight and Gold.

[cruella]

Better still,
It's easy to talk. Brilliant!!!

[nuoyg]

I love a bit of Blondie!!

[whiffey]

I love you so much, but you're leaving today, somehow we've lost touch, I can't make you stay..... etc.

Yes, brilliant On A Wing and a Prayer.

So many many memories there and skirting boards.

[cruella]

Hope they are good memories Whiffey!

[shaneystar2]

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.It's so dreadful to be poor sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress..........
They didn' t have microfibre dusters though ..poor things ....I have my own version of Aunt March for whom I have to do the odd cleaning job !! But I have to listen to her banging her walking stick on the floor and telling me I have missed a bit .

[nursecarla]

I wish Terry Wogan was on in the afternoons :))) xxxxxxx

[whiffey]

How did Wogan get into this thread ? Not that I'm bothered.

It's RAINING here, and I can't be ar$ed to seek out and add to the really riveting thread I started during the wee small hours about rain.

But having said that, it is still raining here as of 9pm. It's a bit more crinkly poo than it was last night, a bit more like God watering the dahlias than flushing out spiders.

[pastafreak]

Norah Jones or Madeleine Peyroux....luuuuv her voice-like velvet. You should have been down here in south Devon-not a cloud in sight (almost!) and cool and crisp like a day in September.

[raysparx1]

when doing DIY I love listening to some opera, maybe some arias, or my favourites Cavaliera Rusticana, (The intermezzo is the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard) Or Carmen, La traviata, if not opera, a bit of Cat Stevens or simon & Garfunkel, great stuff

[raysparx1]

whiffey for you to relax to.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3CyJExZrR8

[whiffey]

Thank you, that is beautiful, about the only piece of opera, Mozart aside, that I love. It also reminds me of my collecting days - was it ever possible to buy Cavalleria Rusticana without Leoncavallo's Pagliacci on the flip side ?

[raysparx1]

Glad you liked it whiffey, Pagliacci and rusticana, both being very short operas are I believe always performed together, to make up roughly the length of a normal opera, I have seen them both on 3 occasions, performed by the WNO, and I have grown to like pagliacci, I doubt very much there are seperate recordings, but may be wrong, I am off to bed now, so goodnight, whiffey.