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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:42 pm
by huntertitus
Crikey! I was best man at a wedding at Abbotsbury and didn't see any bouncing bombs there - if only I had!
There could have been a photo taken but what wold the caption have been? Shotgun wedding doesn't quite work. Bouncing shotbomb wedding
may be closer. Anyone have an idea for a caption?
Bedtime for me
Up early tomorrow
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:59 pm
by Vonny
huntertitus wrote:Crikey! I was best man at a wedding at Abbotsbury
Was that recently? I grew up a mile or so from Abbotsbury & live close now so I know a lot of people there.
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:28 pm
by huntertitus
It was about 5 yrs ago maybe 4
The groom was and still is a painter who is a true eccentric
He's mad on William Blake and spends his whole life looking for lost art treasures
When he isn't painting
We were forced to walk up to that little chapel on top of the hill to sing Jerusalem
Then we sang some more mostly Victorian hymns and I did a bit of what I used to sing in the CH chapel choir plus some vigorous renditions of Mozarts Requiem, Bach's Matthews and Johns Passion and some anthems
Then the fireman who was an usher went crazy screaming that he would kill the groom as he had always loved the bride
We had to wrestle him to the ground, a not easy feat when you have several bottles of fine claret in your guts followed by several large whiskeys and it was pitch black in the night so you had to disarm a dangerous fireman filled with the madness of a jilted lover by the sound - and he was armed with a very small swiss army knife!
Apparently the noise was so severe that there were articles in the local paper the next day
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:54 pm
by Vonny
Bet that was the talk of the village!
I wasn't living here around that time so I don't remember it at all. My brother will no doubt know all about it
The chapel is St Catherine's Chapel
http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/ ... Photo3.htm - I was up there only the other day
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:32 am
by huntertitus
You should try singing there in the moonlight
In addition to being a beautiful place, the acoustics are wonderful!
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:05 pm
by Richard Ruck
huntertitus wrote:Then we sang some more mostly Victorian hymns and I did a bit of what I used to sing in the CH chapel choir plus some vigorous renditions of Mozarts Requiem,
One of my favourite pieces of music (and not just because of the trombone solo at the beginning of Tuba Mirum.......).
However, performing bits of a requiem at a wedding does seem a bit unusual, to say the least!
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:50 pm
by huntertitus
It wasn't AT a wedding, it was after the usher's dinner the night before and we were perfectly pissed and behaving like adolescents
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:04 pm
by Richard Ruck
huntertitus wrote:we were perfectly pissed and behaving like adolescents
Glad to hear it!
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:00 pm
by huntertitus
You are No 3 in the member list if you go by total number of posts
I think there should be new categories above button grecian
1) should be The Father
2) The Son
which would make you
3) The Holy Ghost
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:41 pm
by Great Plum
Does that make me the son?
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:20 pm
by huntertitus
Yup
Whereas I am probably only the prophet Ezekiel or something
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:46 pm
by Vonny
huntertitus wrote:You should try singing there in the moonlight
No thanks - I don't do singing! The kids like bellowing in there to hear the echo though
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:37 pm
by huntertitus
I think that was exactly what we were doing
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:40 pm
by Vonny
Just have - you've got some gorgeous pictures there.
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:46 pm
by DavebytheSea
Vonny wrote:huntertitus wrote:Crikey! I was best man at a wedding at Abbotsbury
Was that recently? I grew up a mile or so from Abbotsbury & live close now so I know a lot of people there.
Burton Bradstock is close - the clock in the church is the old CH clock from London. It was bought to celebrate Quenn Victoria's jubilee in 1901 (or some such). There is a plaque about it in the church. When I camped there as a 7 yearr old, I was told that the clock occasionally tolled the rising bell and other odd chimings!