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How brilliant,Paula. Great.

Joyce DiDonato sings "When I Am Laid In Earth" (Purcell: Dido and Aeneas) YouTube video by Warner Classics

Joyce DiDonato - Dido's Lament

This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station.

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It was, Ewan though I was only worried about the bonus point rather than them losing. Forwards immense and the backs just fantastic.
Beautiful handling for the last French try.

The French XV said goodbye to their dreams of a grand slam in the Six Nations championship, dominated 50-40 at Murrayfield this Saturday 7th March, taken away by the Scottish onslaught. (or thereabouts 😀)

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What a game! If somebody has said France will score 40 points and lose who would have believed that. The Scottish effort and expression from the backs, especially in the first hour was gargantuan. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

I've got no doubt about that, Angela.

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Appreciate I'm ridiculously late to this and only came to it after I read Natalie Haynes' novel 'Stone Blind' but just in case you don't know of it. Eleven series on BBC Sounds to be downloaded. Really funny and informative. If you're not well ahead of me and already turned on to it, get on it now.

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They can't possibly hate 'Hot Rats'. Everyone likes 'Hot Rats'.

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Maybe even a wee bit quicker on a good day BC.
'Get your kicks on the A985, the M876, the M80, the M8 and the A82' does not make a great road song, and two hours doesn't quite make a road movie.

Dumbarton I think, Mark. The other side of the country.

Definitely Ewan.. France have been my second team since I was at school. Since I first saw Jo Maso in fact, but it will indeed be tough tomorrow.
To win we have to take risks with the ball and obviously against France in particular, that can go catastrophically wrong. They attack from everywhere.

Not quite Bielle-Biarrey mind you. 😀
Dupont got the ball from broken play a fortnight ago and after he'd turned to face the Italian try line had a quick shufti to his left to see who was there and once he saw Bielle-Biarrey he just punted the ball into the space behind, certain of outcome.
So good.

They'll have 'sprinkled a little bit of f**king fairy dust over the b*st*rd.' while they've been waiting

Dan'll fight to hold the title though. Never fear.
I think we've still to hear from him on this American shambles but he's there in his corner, banging his gloves together while his corner people, Suella and Robert, put his mouth guard on and wipe his face

I'm not.

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He was waiting for the restaurant, rather than Godot then.

You're going to be Estragon.

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Excellent

Yep, Camus is more mobile round his area and a springheeled jack too, but I like a tall goalie.

Good to hear, Ewan. Really looking forward to it.

Thanks, Mairi. I'm sure I will. I love the Citz. Two or three streets away from where my dad came from so all good.

'And I who have been Virgin and Aphrodite
The mourning Isis and the queen of corn
Wait for the last mummer, dread Persephone
To dance my dust at last into the tomb'
Kathleen Raine.

I'll have Isis, she's got some heavy weight, that Isis.
Thanks.

A publicity photo for the Citizens theatre and a performance of 'Waiting for Godot'. The picture shows the actors, George Costigan and Matthew Kelly in half full length portrait looking directly at the camera. Both are dishevelled and dirty and while Costigan wears a forage cap, Kelly sports a dirty earflap equipped hat high up on his head. A country road stretches out behind them and a clouded orange tinged sky meets the road at the horizon.

John Minihan's excellent portrait of Samuel Beckett. Beckett is sitting at a brasserie table in Paris. There are two coffee cups on the table. Beckett is dressed for winter and rests his right hand on the table. To Beckett's right the brasserie's winter windows let in light and behind Beckett to his left the café's lights shone lighting up a mirror advertising some of what the cafe has to sell. Beckett looks serious, perhaps slightly melancholic.

First visit to the Citizens since the refurbishment for us tonight. George Costigan and Matthew Kelly in 'Waiting for Godot' and since we're talking about big Samuel Beckett, I'm never missing a chance to put up John Minihan's brilliant portrait of Beckett.

Well said.