User talk:Oldfaw

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I've managed to create a new user box (for alumni of Cuths, Durham) - mostly by trial and error, but still haven't quite got the hang of it. Like many other Wiki-things, the "helpful" information is scattered, and not tremendously helpful to novices. Or maybe it's just me being dim. (I'll try again some other time). John Hamilton (talk) 23:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

It is not easy to discover how to correct a license tag if it was incorrectly stated or omitted while uploading an image. I tried (hard) to understand the various guidance - and failed. Then made matters worse by trying to upload the same image again! John Hamilton 16:31, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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1 Excellent work on Wild Boar Fell
2 Hi
3 Ralph Vaughan Williams's Ninth
4 Whinfell Forest

[edit] Excellent work on Wild Boar Fell

I stumbled onto the Wild Boar Fell through the "Random article" link, and I really enjoyed reading it. It's entertaining, well-written and informative. Good work on it. I hope you contribute a lot more. Exeunt (talk) 16:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Greetings from the shadow of Cross Fell Northernhenge (talk) 13:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC).

[edit] Ralph Vaughan Williams's Ninth

I've been listening lately to my far-too-long-neglected Andre Previn recording of this work, and I have to agree (I'm at liberty to admit this here, I think) with this assessment you've recently provided us: "It can now be seen as not just the most powerful musical expression the composer had made since the Sixth symphony - with which it shares the key of E minor - but as one of the most powerful he ever made", except that I don't understand why this couldn't be seen in 1958. (I very much envy your having attended the first performance, by the way. I've attended exactly no performances and don't recall any one ever programmed by local orchestras.)

The 1959 Murray Shafer review I've just incorporated bits from into the article amounts, in my opinion, merely to scarcely disguised prejudice, and I have to admit (only here!) that this amuses me. TheScotch (talk) 06:08, 15 March 2008 (UTC)