Notices by Nigel (nigelharpur@musicians.today)

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@PhoenixSerenity
RE (religious education) where the good and holy catholics would either bore or beat the love of the lord into us.

@PhoenixSerenity I don't know about the US myself but I went to a catholic primary school in the UK in the 1960s. The catholic church had/has some sort of deal with the dept of education. Most state schools are notionally protestant church of England, but I don't think they have any religious education involved. I maybe wrong. At secondary school we did have 'religious instruction' but that was to do with learning 'about' the main world faiths. I'd get rid of it all.

The single I mastered recently is out soon this month. Quite excited!
#newMusic #funk
https://orcd.co/ill-say-yes

@selzero

Sabia!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UejDqqUY-0E&pp=0gcJCUABo7VqN5tD

BREAKING NEWS!

NIGE REMEMBERS TO PROMOTE HIS MUSIC FOR BANCAMP FRIDAY!!

This links (if I have done it right) to a page showing both albums AND my beloved best friend Paddy in his favourite spot. On my face.

#BandcampFriday #music

https://nigelharpur.bandcamp.com/music

Am I wrong to feel a bit disappointed that the Signal messenger was downed by the AWS problems today?

@signalapp
#aws #signal #messenger

Now that I've found where the shop squirrels away my favoured rice (brown, long grain) I did a bit of research. The Chinese name for it translates as 'rough rice' and it's particularly popular in Vietnam where it's known as 'gạo lứt', although I don't know if that translates the same. I tend to cook it so it's quite 'nutty' (around the 35 mins mark) but don't mind it cooked longer/softer (yay variety!)

Hoping not 'old-white-English-bloke-assuming' when I wonder if @PhoenixSerenity can add info?

Just for once I am actually 'ahead of the curve' regarding Bandcamp Friday 😸

I have two albums on offer, for what old Englanders like me might term, "Next to bugger all" and all of the nineteen tracks are available individually for, well, even less 👍😁

I would say my tunes are "Great!" if I was the sort of person that could say such things 🤔😊

Those double espressos don't buy themselves you know... boosts appreciated #bandcamp #music #BandcampFriday

https://nigelharpur.bandcamp.com/album/carnival-for-little-creatures

@nazgul @mhoye very good point and yes, I remember it seemed to just fizzle, which was a relief really bearing in mind what might have happened. The slide into a crime gangs/oligarchy was very sad to see, and again one can't help seeing parallels.

@barnetboy as I stroke my large white cat, on the arm of my 'control chair', before polishing my monocle to perfection... do you mean? 🤔😂

I can't help keep remembering how 'utterly unthinkable' it was (for most folks by far) that the USSR would actually collapse. Even in the weeks before... It did.

Anyone can say 'it was obviously coming'... in hindsight... but I was an aware adult through the 1980s (30 in 1988) and the 'fall' of the USSR just wasn't a topic, certainly not in the mainstream.

#USpol #usa

As a kid trying (failing dismally) to learn French, I never got my head around the gendering of nouns. Coming from a language that doesn't have that it just seemed rather bizarre. However it seems to be a very common practice in languages and I wonder if anyone can tell me if 'most' languages have gendered nouns or whether (like English) they don't?
#linguistics #askfedi

Imagine if you will, an alternate universe that is... Really Nice! Turns out ours is the dark dystopian one (take note #startrek and other #scifi #screenwriters )

I'd walk into a beautiful café bar and find them playing Sphere Of Innocence over the sound system at just the right volume and heh, the espresso is perfect, and free! As is everything else in the café because these things are essential services for a happy and fulfilled population... You may say that I'm a dreamer... 😊

@thanius
It really is extremely unpleasant and of course in the back of your mind you can't help thinking "What if this doesn't go away...!?"

Expect you have all the info but here's a link in case it has something new. I think it was the Epley maneuver I did, reading it now...

https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/benign-paroxysmal-positional-vertigo/management/management/#epley-manoeuvre

@thanius
Scariest bit was when it first 'struck' - woke up, got out of bed (sounding like a Beatles song now 😂) and whoah!! Massive vertigo, room kept moving etc. I must admit I was seriously worried and thinking "Oh shit!"

Bit of net research and reading gave some hope and I really was amazed that the simple exercise fixed it. That was a few years ago and so far not a sign of it since.

@thanius Best of luck, I had it a few years ago and to my amazement the exercise did work - the version that I used was rather less vigorous though... it was on an advice sheet I downloaded from a UK hospital service - too long ago for me to recall now, sorry.

@thanius

"Organic growth over algorithms"

Definitely a tee shirt or a placard 😁👍

Whoo! Finally started my mix-tape for the 2020s! All are tracks that have caught my ear on #radiofreefedi and I will be adding more. Had to limit spend as I'm in 'prudent' mode for a while yet, but I will get to 'round two' early next month and sweep up more tracks by those I reluctantly had to miss out on this time. If I could afford to buy everyone's full albums... I would 😁

#radiofreefedi

And my 'addiction' has resulted in a whole extra £1 a month! 😁

Data allowance on my skinflint-miser's SIM only deal had to be doubled in light of my daily wandering around listening!

*ALERT THE MEDIA! SHOCK REPORT!"

#breakingnews