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The Once and Future Blog*
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I have started and restarted and re-re-re-restarted this blog post any number of times in the last fortnight and become variously distracted and imbroglio'd** and then at blurglemmph o'clock decided (again) that sleep was possibly more crucial than getting it finished. And in terms of immediate preoccupations late on a Saturday night, like, now, I have another voice lesson on Monday, and it might be quite a good idea if I went to it WITH SOMETHING TO SING, especially since Nadia recently said briskly that I should increase my practise time and never mind that I think that being the Mad Singing Lady out with the hellmob counts.*** A fortnight ago, after this alarming statement, I came home and rootled anxiously through my extraordinary amounts of sheet music, 99.3% of which is pure and unsullied and the remaining .7% is dog-earned, written on, liberally tea†-spotted and only half-learnt. But: Mozart. When in doubt, Mozart.
Which pertains to some of the following. The problem is that both verb tenses and footnotes get a trifle provocative . . . not to say hopelessly confusing . . . when written on the run over a period of time. Even I can become only so disastrously tangential over the course of one evening. . . .
Therefore the following may be even more incomprehensibly non-linear than usual. I know. Mind boggling. I'll wait if you want to fetch smelling-salts (or Scotch) to have at hand before you make any attempt to engage with this misleadingly text-shaped object. Good luck.
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* I am reading H IS FOR HAWK^ and T H White is kind of on my mind.
^ So are you, right? Everyone is reading H IS FOR HAWK.+
+ Which is a very good book. But since everyone is reading it nobody needs to be told to read it. Everyone should be reading MS MARVEL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Marvel_(Kamala_Khan) which is spectacularly wonderful in so many ways. Now, everyone may be reading this too and it may just be that I am humiliatingly out of the loop# but even I had heard of H IS FOR HAWK before I made a pact with Hannah that we'd both read it so we could talk about it and I had not heard of MS MARVEL till I tripped over raving, lunatic mention of it on some drooling feminist blog or other and thought oh, okay. A Muslim kick-ass comic-book heroine? Yep. I'm totally there.
I've just been saying to my monk I am so ratblasted TIRED of the gender wars. And turning Christian has thrown me into a whole seizure of fresh front lines about this since, of course, the origins of Christianity ARE HEAVILY FRELLING PATRIARCHAL and we're still fighting this battle two thousand years later. I don't care what the Ephesian thugs say, or that frellwit Paul##, the head of me is me and not some up-himself bloke.
But if you're a woman in a male-biased society you can't, you know, pass. You're a woman all the time. You're up against it ALL. THE. TIME. When I was younger I had only two settings about this: ON. And OFF. My younger ON was extremely, um, draining, so I would periodically flip the switch and lapse into a black leather, studs and pink All Stars haze of apparent submissive femininity, and if any testosterone dingdong wanted to assume the wrong thing so long as he kept it to himself I would not endeavour to hand him his balls on a plate.### Because it was all going to change, you know? It was going to CHANGE.
This runs parallel to my foolish assumption that by the time I was the age I am now we'd've got the available heroines in books thing sorted.~ My generation of writers was going to sort this. I wasn't too surprised~~ about the initial deluge of OHMIGOD A HEROINE WHO ISN'T WET AND HOPELESS about Harry in SWORD . . . I'm depressed out of my tiny aging mind that forty years later I'M STILL GETTING THESE LETTERS. Or emails. There are more genuine heroines out there . . . but there aren't enough. THERE AREN'T ANYTHING LIKE ENOUGH. And the unconscious—or anyway I hope the doodah it's unconscious—chauvinism about men's and women's writing . . . don't get me started.~~~
But the point is I didn't think the gender wars would have come so not far in the last forty-odd years. I'M BORED. I'M BORED WITH ALL THE STUPIDITY. And I'm driven spare by being dropped about two thousand years back in social-equality time . . . WOMEN IN THE MINISTRY SHOULDN'T EVEN BE A PHRASE LET ALONE AN ISSUE.
Oh, and on the unassailable perfection and clarity of Scripture, here concerning the sacrament of marriage? https://bobcargill.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/biblical-marriage.jpg
. . . At least having just had a state-of-the-world tantrum at my monk I was a little bit extra warm. Afterward I went to the monks' chapel for the Saturday evening silent contemplation before the prayer service. It's the middle of May, it's shirtsleeve weather, I didn't bring my blanket, how cold can it be in shirtsleeve weather, I NEARLY FROZE TO DEATH. Next week I bring the blanket. And the monk who calls me Blanket Lady may rupture himself laughing.
# True
## I should add however that I have a curious soft spot for Paul, ranting nincompoop that he often is. I sure never used to: he and that toadwart Augustine were two of the flaming angels keeping me out of the holy green room. But I empathise with the shock of Paul's conversion experience even if I hadn't been torturing Christians before I had my own shocking conversion experience. I see a lot of his more distressing extremes as overcompensation. I haven't ever killed anybody so I can overcompensate less.
### I also had a black boyfriend. Speaking of passing and not passing. I could at least jam a fireproof lid over my real attitude and put on a skirt and some pearl-pink lipstick. If you're a black man over six feet tall hanging out on the streets of America? Pass? Forget it.
A bit like being a Muslim in a Christian-centric society, perhaps.
~ I'm not going to say ANYTHING about the rest of the arts/media. Film, for example. ARRRRRRGH. And the Tate's summer issue devoted to female artists didn't do a lot for me either.
~~ Beyond the—continuing—surprise that strangers read my stories.
~~~ Looking on the bright side: the current award-sweeping literary phenomenon, H IS FOR HAWK, is written by a woman.
** Including, but not exclusively, such activities as Twitter, texting, emailing, ordering pink All Stars,^ reading, frantically channelling all that sappy riotous green spring enthusiasm in the garden before the leafage takes over and the hellmob and I can't get out of either door without a machete, learning more diabolically frelling methods for handbells, Samaritanning, force feeding the blasted hellhounds, plus long bluebell walks and a curious spasm of concerts. You know how when you book your cultural enrichment programme ahead your diary looks EMPTY? And then suddenly you find you're going to fifty-six performances in eight days. Oops.
+ And while I was at it I bought a pair of turquoise with red and yellow flowers. They were on sale, there was a pair in my size, it was meant.
*** Well, it does count. It's just that it counts in terms of coming home all warmed up and ready to practise rather than wasting a lot of time whining about having no voice and what there is of it sounds like a broken buzz saw. And, unlike singing folk songs and Edwardian parlour ballads to the trees and bluebells, whining is not a good way to warm up.
† And probably tear-
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If I had any sense I'd break this up into two or even three posts. There's enough frelling wordage. But if I do that I'll just not get any of it up AGAIN while I try to tidy up the edges. And fail. So that when I finally do start posting it'll be EVEN MORE CONFUSING.* So don't read it all at once, okay? It'll keep. So will the Scotch and the smelling salts.
* You wouldn't want me to WASTE any of it would you?^
^ . . . Don't answer that. Please.
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I have rung handbells four times in the last forty eight hours.* I am brain fried. I am crazy.**
But it's a useful displacement activity. I also went to an entirely fabulous 'operatic singing masterclass' recently enough for my head still to be ringing like an, ahem, bell: Nadia has mentioned singing masterclasses and festivals and summer schools before that I might be interested in attending as an audience member but they tend to be held in unsuitable places.*** I had all but given up the intriguing fantasy of sitting in the audience at a singing seminar listening to people who can really sing being enlightened and inspired to sing even better and being personally crushed with despair and futility† and swearing to stick to KNITTING hereafter.
Nadia had told me some of the things to listen out for but had also warned me that I wouldn't necessarily be able to hear either what the tutor heard or what changed for the singer. It wasn't going to matter: it was still going to be a delicious and varied concert by a lot of clever skylarks and nightingales showing off like mad. But as it happened I did hear. This was a lot of why it was all so edge-of-seat fascinating. In a lot of cases I could even guess what the tutor was going choose to work on.
And on balance, and surprisingly, it was more inspiring than it was crushing. Probably because the stuff that all these talented, fancy people need to work on is still the same stuff that pathetic, talent-free dorks like me also need to work on. It's all the same stuff. We're all still human beings making music. Even if they are the shiny dancing racehorses and I'm the three legged Thelwell pony.
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* It's all Niall's fault, of course. How the cross-eyed bindlestiff did I get sucked back into this frelling vortex of HANDBELLS? And I'm now contributing to the cacophonous plague: I was talking it up to Vidhya and Ceridwen^ and they were foolish enough to express an interest so Niall and I showed up like a plague of locusts two Saturday mornings bearing handbells and large, toothy grins.^^ Friday evening has been the standard New Arcadia handbell gathering for several years and I used to be a pillar of that community and recently have been becoming more pillar-like again.^^^ Saturday afternoon began as a one off with Niall finding a steady experienced fourth for Spenser and me to ring with, but of course there are no one offs with Niall about handbells.
Sunday evening was demonic. Niall knew I was going to church in the afternoon^^^^ and so he said Mwa hahahahahaha, now, as it happens, Titus and I are minus a third ringer tonight and since you're free. . . .
And so today, Monday, I stayed as far away from all bells and frelling change ringing bell METHODS as possible, right? Right. Yes. Absolutely. I went tower bell ringing. At Glaciation. Haven't been there in yonks. It hasn't got any warmer. And it took me three tries to get through a frelling single in Stedman doubles SIIIIIIIIIIIGH.^^^^^
^ They're significantly younger than I am+ and I was probably trying to convince them that getting old doesn't necessarily mean creeping++ sanity and sobriety+++ and that indeed the pink All Stars are a true reflection of my inner being.++++ Plus bell ringing and singing opera really, really badly. Really badly.
+ As, mysteriously, increasing numbers of people are
++ you know, like fungus
+++ We were down t'pub at the time. Just by the way.
++++ Including the muddy pawprints. SIIIIIIIGH. I have a spectacular new pair of REALLY REALLY HOT NEON PINK All Stars# which I was foolishly wearing today hurtling the hellterror by the river and we met an OBVIOUSLY DANGEROUS OTHER DOG## and in tearing her away from her legitimate prey I received major mud activity over most of one leg of pale blue denim and a generous speckly blast worthy of Jackson Pollock over one All Star. Sigh.###
# I was down to my VERY LAST PAIR of basic Pepto-Bismol pink. EEEEEEEP. Had to lay in a couple of spare pairs in case of accidents.~ The problem with this excellent plan is that there are two Basic Pinks presently on offer on line. So I bought one of each, right? One of them proves to be the Pepto-Bismol. The other one is NEON.
~ Invasions of sneaker-eating aliens, etc. It doesn't do to be unprepared.
## Clearly a sneaker-eating alien disguised as a harmless terrestrial dog. Pav is very clued in about these things.
## But the alien slunk away swearing to lead a virtuous life hereafter and convert to donuts.
^^ It remains to be seen if they're still speaking to me.
^^^ Possibly caryatid-like. I identify with that grim stalwart expression of carrying something too large and heavy. On your head. Learning frelling bell methods, especially in the geometrically-horrifyingly-enhanced handbell version of said methods, is really very like carrying a large building on your head.
^^^^ Because I am stupid and have a big mouth. Usually I go in the evening and it's a funny thing but Christ wins over handbells.+ But this Sunday afternoon was a special 'remembrance' service for friends and family lost in the last year. I was going for Alcestis and it seemed to me only polite to invite Admetus. It never occurred to me he'd say 'yes'. And when I picked him up HE WAS WEARING A TIE. I DIDN'T KNOW ADMETUS EVEN OWNED A TIE. I nearly jumped out of Wolfgang and ran away.
+ Although when the Jesus Is My Boyfriend song selection is at its worst my mind may just drift to Sunday evening handbells.#
# It wasn't The Little Drummer Boy, you know. It was The Little Handbell Gang. I'm not at all sure the baby smiled either. And it seems to me very likely that Mary said Get these people out of here.
^^^^^ BUT I DID IT. It still counts.#
# Edited to add: I've done it since too. So it still still counts.
** Although I believe these two attributes are frequently found in the same trembling zombie-eyed victim.
*** Most places are unsuitable. I don't drive on motorways, I don't drive for more than about forty-five minutes to get to anywhere at all, and I have a hellhound that needs a pee about every four hours.^ Six on a good day. I have the impression that the hellmob goes into a state of suspended animation when I leave them all behind: nothing is going to happen till she gets back. This is useful in bladder control terms. If Chaos is keeping a hopeful/suspicious eye on me as I twitch around the house muttering to myself he will need to go out in four hours.
But this is somewhat limiting. I keep looking at live-opera schedules and homeopathic seminars and sighing heavily. Because I have so little to keep me busy at home, you know. But I am not going the dog minder route again ^^. So I might as well stay home and practise my repertoire. And continue the tragically hopeless quest for a homeopathic, herbal, behavioural or any other multiply-damned remedy that doesn't include either barbed chains or hard drugs, that will make the hellhounds eat voluntarily.^^^
^ Bless his pointed little middle-aged prostate but he made it through the masterclass. They'd frelling printed the frelling tickets wrong: I thought I was going to have just enough time to, you should forgive the term, hurtle back home and let everyone out during the break, but not a hope. I tried to convince myself either to miss the first singer after the break or leave before the last but I was too totally riveted by the show. I told myself that it wouldn't be the absolute WORST thing that ever happened if I came home to a puddle on the floor. Or on the wall.+ I leave them locked up in the kitchen at the cottage: there should be a limit to the amount of damage they can do.
Anyway I arrived home to dry floors++ but Chaos was very glad to see me.
+ Ewwwwww. I can't remember ever noticing that come-ons for house paint ever mention urine resistant.
++ And walls.
^^ ::breaks out in a cold sweat of terror::
^^^ Eat? says the hellterror alertly. FOOOOOOOOD??
† Which is no doubt why I came home and fished out Mozart, since several of the Singers with a Fabulous Future sang Mozart. Knot those self-flagellation straps. More knots. Even more knots. We will have blood.
Hi there ::waves::
Sorry everyone. I'm just so freaking tired.* It's been a somewhat action-packed week/ten days/fortnight/century. The good news is that I haven't knocked Peter over with the car again recently. YAAAAAY. But we've had three lots of visitors** and assorted emergencies.*** And Niall and I seem to be teaching more people to ring handbells.
Also, it's definitively spring. The weather is still jerking us around† but the primroses are flowering like mad—AND MY SNAKESHEAD FRITILLARIES YAAAAAAAAAY—and the early pansies, and the early tulips and there are daffodils and hellebores everywhere as thick as marmalade on toast and it is unmistakably SPRING. So I'm out there frantically potting up little things that keep arriving in the post†† . . . and occasionally I'm also potting up things that I stuck in some perlite because I was REALLY IRRITATED that I or a member of the hellmob or some discourteous frelling typhoon broke off a perfectly good branch of something or other and if I sliced it up in pieces and stuck them in perlite . . . well, they'd die, of course, but at least I'd've tried.
Occasionally they live. I now have five abutilon megapotamicum. If they're happy, they can get to eight foot. The original one—the one that got blown off the kitchen window shelf and snapped off a long limb—is getting on for six foot. It's a terrific plant—it flowers all year. But FIVE of them??? This is just possibly superfluous to requirements.
And now, if you'll excuse me again, I have to go sing something: voice lesson tomorrow.††† I'm supposed to be learning Rachmaninoff's Vocalise . . . but it's in four sharps, and I don't like sharps, and it's all foolhardy lines of unusual intervals—these blasted great composers are so frelling unpredictable—and he keeps flatting and/or double-sharping things that in some cases don't have a black key there anyway AND YOU HAVE TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL THIS STUFF and . . . my brain hurts.‡ I may be leaning on YouTube a little more than I should be. Was that a chromatic scale when you strip out all the persiflage or wasn't it? No. It wasn't. That would be too easy. Quack. Quaver. But possibly the most annoying thing . . . Nadia told me I can just miss out the line with the high C in it—unless it's a C flat which would make it some kind of B, and I occasionally have a high B—and I was wibbling along with YouTube and not thinking about it . . . okay, maybe the singer I was yodelling with had knocked it down a semi-tone or so but I got to the end and thought . . . wait a minute. I sang that line.
Haven't been able to do it again of course. Your body is your instrument. Your instrument is a gibbering neurotic nutso. Sigh. . . .
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* I'm reading a nice restful book^ in which our heroine winds up briefly hospitalised and is driven mad by having nothing to read, and when a sympathetic nurse loans her a copy of HELLO! magazine . . . she reads it as a desperate alternative to ripping her sheets into long thin strips and using broken clothes-hangers as knitting needles^^. And I read this with a feeling of cold deep horror and thought again THIS IS WHY MY KNAPSACK WEIGHS MORE THAN A HELLTERROR. It's my phobia about being trapped somewhere WITH NOTHING TO READ.^^^ And given the number of times Peter has closed his hand in a door—never mind the serious stuff—and we've spent several unscheduled hours in A&E/Emergency, I am not being paranoid I am being practical.
^ THE JANUS STONE by Elly Griffiths which is the second in her murder-mystery series about Ruth Galloway who is a forensic archaeologist. And which are fabulous. Ceridwen loaned me the first one and when I read it in about forty-eight hours+ laughed in an evil and knowing manner, and loaned me the second.
+ despite not being able to read it in the bath because it belonged to someone else and IT WOULD NOT BE GOOD IF I DROPPED IT. I have quite a few paperbacks with curly pages . . . and I barely have a knitting magazine that doesn't have curly pages.
^^ Okay, I made the extreme knitting alternative up, but personally I might have gone for it over HELLO!
^^^ Or knit.+ Granted most knitting weighs considerably less than three paperbacks and a fully charged iPad,++ and I don't think they've started commercial production of ununseptium needles, possibly because they would be a trifle unstable as well as heavy, and my knitting doesn't need any help in instability, but the Scarf as Big as the Universe sure takes up a lot of space. I keep being tempted to take it OUT of my knapsack and finish it at home where it can have its own room+++ but I know this way madness lies. I would just have the 1,000,000,000th unfinished woolly object lying around somewhere for me to trip over in the middle of the night.
. . . But starting NEW woolly objects is fun. Especially during that early halcyon period before you've made any really ghastly errors that you can't figure out how to fix.
+ I actually went to an AGM recently.# WITH MY KNITTING. THANK YOU, GOD, FOR KNITTING.
# Reasons not to join things: the dreadful possibility of an AGM.
++ Note that I take my charging cable with me everywhere too. Just in case.
+++ Mind you in my house it would be sharing that room with 1,000,000 other yarn projects, 1,000,000,000 books and 1,000,000,000,000 All Stars. Plus assorted miscellaneous items.# But the rooms at the cottage, while small, are all larger than a knapsack.
# The miscellaneous-item problem is worse than usual at the moment because the American government in its wisdom~ decided that I had to re-prove that I live here and have lived here for quite some time and so you find salient documentation of ten-plus years ago, especially less than a year after a major house move when everything that CAN be shoved into the back of an attic HAS been shoved into the back of an attic including gruesome old paperwork. My tribulations began with the question which attic?, but more or less climaxed with insane-even-for-me tottering piles of everything all over my office floor at the cottage. Sigh. Which, the adrenaline of panic having worn off, I have no enthusiasm for sorting out and putting away again.~~
~ ????????????????
~~ Putting away WHERE? %
% Er. 'Putting away'?
** NECESSARY HOUSEWORK. NOOOOOOOOO. Failing this activity would certainly be a way of ensuring that people don't come back, but unfortunately anyone who gets as far as being invited to stay is probably someone I want to come back which leaves me in a terrible predicament. I keep trying to teach the hellhounds to pull the hoover. And the hellterror to mop the floor. Nobody does much about the cobwebs. Or the dust.^
^ Ways to Tell What I Am Really Truly Currently Reading: it's not dusty.
*** See *, ^^^, +++, # above
† If I put long johns on in the morning^ I will be hot and cranky at 3 pm. But if I don't put long johns on^^ I will be cold and cranky at . . . 3 am.
^ Oh all right, when I get dressed. There are drawbacks to sleeping in something you can answer the door in, because you can also put your gardening apron and your wellies on and do some gardening—just while your tea steeps, you know. Today this innocent activity led to my realising I was due to ring handbells in an hour while I was still in my nightgown equivalent and hadn't had breakfast/lunch or hurtled any of the waiting hurtlables in this household.
I was late for handbells. Never mind. This fresh victim is catching on way too quickly and will be ringing Surplice Maximillian while I'm still trying to sort out the details of Basic Stupid. Which I have been for the last . . . decade. Siiiiiigh. And Niall is, I fear, only too accustomed to me being late for handbells. He may have a much-punctured dartboard somewhere with my face on it but . . . he doesn't let even lumpy, brain-fogged semi-handbellers escape without a struggle. AND HE'S PUT AN AWFUL LOT OF HOURS INTO ME OVER THE LAST DECADE. I think I'm doomed. No, I know I am. But so is he. However as he throws darts at my face I'm sure he murmurs to himself, If I can teach her to ring handbells I CAN TEACH ANYONE.
I'm a good thing, really I am. Really. I set the standard. Ahem. . . .
^^ When I get dressed
†† More, or sometimes less, suitably attired. Hey, what's wrong with a simple cotton jersey dress with a BLUE HILL MAINE sweatshirt over, a muddy apron and hot pink wellies?
††† Okay, I am now loud. When do I get to the hits the right notes part? I went off and stood in a corner and sang into the wall again tonight at church. I'm assuming God doesn't mind, but the congregation might.
‡ It's not just handbells.
Blurry weekend
I had an appointment with Dentist from R'lyeh on Friday*, the second in a fortnight.** I knew that being pumped full of anaesthesia twice in slightly less than fourteen days was not going to go down well with the ME*** but you want to get it over with, you know? 'It' being death, taxes, anything to do with dentists and being tour guide for the friends of friends of friends who were told to look you up and whose idea of casual chat with a stranger doing them a favour is to complain about women bishops, Obama, and your fashion†/career††choices.
I have therefore spent the weekend in a daze of chemical hangover.††† That no doubt explains why having made it to church, because Wolfgang knows the way, I was actually inquiring about the job‡ vacancies Buck was haranguing us about. Because I'm so fuzzy-minded I can't remember that I already have too much socially engaged yatta yatta stuff to do. There's a meeting tomorrow night about this apparently. Maybe I can forget to go.
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* I now have uniformly smooth grey front teeth rather than furrowed speckly brown ones! Yaaaay!
** We've been bonding over our mutual first ownership of terriers. A Whole Other Life Form, we concur. I got distracted by the 'bull' thing and the grin, and he has a preteen son who wanted his own dog, not a part share in one of the (several) family dogs, and went for a little manic hairy thing. The paw marks on the ceiling take some getting used to as does the robust response to the hearing of burglars at inappropriate hours.^
^ 'Inappropriate' being a mutable term. During socially sanctioned inappropriate hours I'm available to suppress the little varmint. It's when she wants to disembowel the mailperson at 7 or 8 am that I get a little testy.
*** Which is also why I will not have my teeth whitened, and the grey will stay grey. There are chemical sensitivities I don't have to find out all the fascinating details of, and elect not to.^
^ The Appalling Perversities of Bodies. It's not enough that my multiple chemical sensitivities are probably one of the sources and maintaining causes of my ME but my frelling metabolism burns through anaesthetic with the speed of an exuberant hellhound after a frisky young rabbit, so the frelling dentist has to keep slugging more into me. ARRRRRGH.
† 'You could hire a tailor to replace the [disintegrating] lining of your leather jacket^ and wearing Converse All Stars is very bad for your feet.'^^
^ Yep. I could. And I probably will as soon as the lining rots away from the bottom hem, so all the stuff that has fallen through the holes in the pockets and now resides lumpily in the gap between lining and leather starts falling to the ground and being lost forever.
Fortunately my last lot of interesting companions for an afternoon never saw Wolfgang. Wolfgang would have given them life-threatening palpitations. I met them at the train station in Mauncester, guided them to the obvious photo ops in the obvious picturesque bits of town, and put them back on the train again.+
+ You know what really rankles though? That I can never think of anything clever and quelling to say at the time. I just suck it up like a dope and seethe like anything later on.
^^ I'm really tired of being told that All Stars are bad for my feet. I've been wearing them for forty years+, three to seven miles a day for most of that time and my feet are in pretty good shape thanks awfully. Some of the rest of me, not so much, true, but I doubt it's because of lack of cushioning and arch support in my All Stars. The properly-engineered-shoe argument reminds me of the other one that says that you can't just walk three to seven miles a day you have to belong to a gym and have a personal trainer create a specific exercise programme for you. No. You don't. It's not in the contract.
Now some of my best friends belong to gyms, have personal trainers and don't wear All Stars because they hurt their feet. I feel sorry for them about the All Stars++, but it's all what works for you.+++ I have a hellmob. We go hurtling together. It works for us.
+ Yeeeep.
++ Personally I do not wish to envision a life without All Stars.
+++ Although in the absence of gym membership I need to keep ringing tower bells to maintain upper body strength.# Although lifting the hellterror out of harm's way on a regular basis counts for something.##
# Over-ringing does serve a purpose. It also burns calories. Wild Robert, who is built of toothpicks and super glue, can ring the 1,000,000,000 pound abbey tenor with one hand. And does occasionally to be annoying. But rumour has it he doesn't eat, so he doesn't need to burn calories, let alone go home and comfort himself with chocolate after he's screwed up a simple touch of a simple method on a well-behaved modest-sized bell. SIIIIIIGH.
## Chiefly mental anguish.
†† 'Have you ever written a REAL book?'
††† I was supposed to ring frelling handbells again yesterday. I seem to have got myself ambushed into this semi-regular extra Saturday in which Melinda and Niall try to chivvy Spenser and me into ringing quarter peals. Apparently this is what handbell ringers do. They don't just, you know, ring handbells, they get together and rack up stuff they can put on their life list. Quarters. Full peals. Shudder. I told Spenser and Niall Friday night, during our usual, ordinary, low level, lots of wrong notes just-get-together-and-ring handbell session with Gillian or Gemma, that I had been badly dentalled and wasn't likely to be up to much the next day. Spenser said he was chiefly interested in practise and didn't actually care about quarters, which is how I feel about it, and Niall is an obsessive crazy so never mind what he may or may not have said. And Melinda, who seems so normal,^ would already have rung one quarter that day^^ and would probably bear the disappointment of not getting a second.
Well my brain kept blanking out and we kept crashing and burning. As predicted. Spenser and I had swapped pairs of bells too so I didn't even have relative familiarity to plug the gaps. It wasn't all bad: both Spenser and I felt we were getting useful practise.
Now as it happens the monks were holding a bingo night for prospective oblates or something and my usual Saturday night contemplative service wasn't on. I had told the assembled bell crowd that I didn't have my usual time constraints and so of course Niall suggested we have one more crash and clang at the frelling quarter after our tea break. I was already tired and getting stupider with multiple failures. . . .
Yep. We got it. And as I wrote to Alfrick later, God once again proves to have a funny sense of humour.
^ She babysits for her grandchildren! It doesn't get more normal!
^^ One of the Super Surprise Delight Domineering Demented methods. The kind of thing where I can't even read the line, let alone imagine ringing it.
‡ Volunteer. Things like chair-straightener and crucifix-polisher and cable-winder and tea-and-cake producer. But these apparently harmless if time-consuming occupations have fancy names like Dapifer and Manciple and one has the suspicion that the moment one had said 'okay' the task list would turn out to be seven single-spaced pages of deviant Anglican jargon meant to intimidate and enslave. Or they'd have more volunteers.
Footnote meltdown* and bell ringing
Crabbiton, for better or worse, is becoming a fixture of my Thursday nights.** And I was thinking tonight, as I made a complete squishy overdone dog's dinner of a touch of St Simons doubles***, that I'm beginning to remember how much fun bell ringing is, even when you're being hopeless.† I'm also beginning to brandish a tiny amount of autonomy. I have a habit of staying off the bigger bells in any tower however light the ring is overall, where even the big bells aren't very, because I'm such a jerky ringer. Bells are a lot bigger than you are, even the little ones, and you have to ring with grace and discretion or they will get the better of you. You can recover from ringing idiocy by violent yanking to some extent on the littler bells. The heavier the bell, however, the faster it will embarrass a tactless ringer, and genuinely big bells are only rung by good ringers. I am not a good ringer. Crabbiton is a light six but I've still been cringing around front.†† Last week I decided it was time to stop being quite such a little old lady. Okay, so I made another mess of ringing up the six tonight†††, I made a dive for it anyway when Wild Robert called for plain hunt on six. I'd successfully rung a few touches on the five, and plain hunt does require you to move your bell down to the front and back up again but there's none of that dreadful dodging business, I should be able to do this for pity's sake. And while there was a good deal of Wild Robert saying things like 'keep the six moving along', ie go faster, which is hard when you over-pull, which I do, because that's a bigger bell you're wrestling with the inertia of, I did stay in place. And it was weirdly exhilarating, tackling another aspect of my less than fabulous ringing skill,‡ and it made me think about handling, which is a good thing to do.‡‡
So I was chirping cheerfully about this at the pub, about what is essentially relearning stuff I used to know, but in my case, possibly because I'm such a slow learner about most things, relearning is usually a good thing because I learn more the second, or third or fourth or seventeenth, time through.
On the learning of bell ringing however there is only one focus of interest for Niall, and I found myself discussing learning frelling handbells again. He referred to some pronouncement by one of the stars in the handbell-ringing firmament and I made Rude Noises. He is a nasty man, I said, after you and Colin dragged me through a couple of quarters of bob minor he kept asking when I was going to ring a peal. I AM NOT GOING TO RING A PEAL.
There was a silence.
You could ring a peal of bob minor dead easy now, said Niall insinuatingly. Now you've rung a couple of quarters of bob major.
To be continued. I fear.
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* It's because I'm ringing too many handbells. TOO MANY HANDBELLS. MY BRAIN CAN'T TAKE THE STRAIN. AAAAAAAAUGH.
** I drive. Niall buys the beer at the pub after. HE FORGOT HIS MONEY TONIGHT. I HAD TO DRIVE AND BUY THE BEER. ^
^ As I told him however, having first exercised my inner cow by doing shock-horror-flounce, given the amount of driving he's done in support of my ringing progress+ I probably owe him a few beers. 1,000,000 or so.
+ A few weeks ago, for example, handbells at Gillian's house, I didn't know Hampshire had that much back of beyond, and little twisty confusingly-mapped# roads that always have tractors coming at you around blind, one-car-wide corners. Of course this was for handbells. If it weren't for the whips and chains## I could have stayed home.###
# It would almost be worth finally making up my tiny mind~ and buying a satnav~~ to take it out there and watch it weep. I could be wrong, but I bet it would say TURN AROUND! TURN AROUND! GIVE ME STREET LIGHTS AND MOBILE PHONE MASTS! AAAAAAAAAUGH!
~ The money Peter gave me to buy one is long gone on books/music/yarn/All Stars/chocolate
~~Niall doesn't need satnav in pursuit of handbells. He can smell a handbell ringer two counties over.
## Don't let that mild-mannered exterior fool you. Niall is FIERCE in pursuit of handbells. FIERCE. Tigers have nothing on Niall when he has his handbell bag out. And it's always out.~ I have an American friend coming through next week and I'm going to take her tower ringing. It's so, you know, exotic, and she reads the blog. I told Niall about her since I'm hoping to, ahem, rope him into this adventure and his immediate reaction was, is there time to start her on handbells?
~ There are rumours of mysterious disappearances in his part of town and the sound of handbells and moaning at strange hours.=
= Of course in my part of town there are stories of an elderly woman with wild hair and All Stars carrying a series of large lumpy pink knapsacks and accompanied by a series of furry four-legged creatures of the night whom she cajoles with such phrases as, I don't care if you are a stomach on four short little legs you may not eat that . . . ewwww . . . whatever it is, and, I don't care if you're entire males you do not have to pee every five feet I want to get home before dawn.%
% Preferably. This doesn't always happen. Especially lately with, you know, spring looming and longer days and everything. Street Pastors and Sams£ are really ruining my ability to get back out of bed in the morning.
£ Although no one's holding a gun to my head and making me sign up for late shifts. I have a Dr Strangelove hand. It . . . must . . . press . . . late shift buttons.
### Gillian must have a private helicopter pad~. I can't believe she drives everywhere.
~ And one doodah of a private income
*** The frelling bobs are the same simple-minded bobs as for plain bob doubles, the frelling method you frelling started with!! What is my FRELLING PROBLEM!!!!^
^ My frelling problem is that it's a different basic method, so the bobs are stuck into the course line slightly differently. Just enough to derail someone like me who doesn't actually count to five+ very reliably.
+ 'Doubles' means five working bells. ONLY FIVE. Amazing the amount of mayhem a mere five bells can get up to. Apparently there are a lot of us numerically challenged ringers who can't count to five.
† Mind you I'd just successfully called my baby touch of Grandsire doubles and for the second week in a row like I actually knew it or something.^ There are drawbacks to success with Wild Robert around. Hmm, he said, we'll have to teach you another touch.
^ Last week everyone just tied up their ropes and wandered away which is what usually happens at the end of a touch. I WANTED PRAISE. I WANTED PEOPLE TO TELL ME HOW CLEVER I AM. I said this to Niall over our beer afterward. This week there was applause. Led by Niall.
†† Although I don't much like Crabbiton's treble—the littlest bell—either because it's so little I tend inadvertently to try and spring it out of the tower. See: jerky ringer.
††† I GOT MY HAND THROUGH A LOOP OF THE ROPE AND COULDN'T GET IT OUT AGAIN. You can't finish ringing up unless you let all your loops out. So I either had to sort it or undergo the utter humiliation of ringing back down again, extricating myself, and ringing up in Grisly Solitude. I did get my hand out without ringing down, but I was still late getting up with the other bells. Arrrrrgh. Wasn't I saying something about fun? What was I saying about fun?
‡ I survived two plain courses of Stedman doubles with two of the other bells going adrift. This may count more than calling a touch of Grandsire.
‡‡ I was also feeling a little self-conscious because one of the Forza ringers was there and gazed at me as you might say inquiringly, because in theory I belong to the Forza band and haven't been there I think by now over a year. Erm, I squeaked, I've been ringing here lately because it's, you know, casual, and, um, low key. Lots of Grandsire doubles. Only six bells. Rather than forty-seven. Aglovale nodded gravely. Arrrgh. Eeep. I suppose I could turn up at Forza practise some week. . . .
Maybe I should just go bell ringing more often
Wasn't I saying something not all that long ago about having been sort of half-planning without thinking about it, because thinking about it would make me sad, to slip unofficially out of bell ringing? It's not like I'm good at it or, even if I practised eight hours a day every day as if I were in training for the Olympics or Norma for the Metropolitan Opera, would I get good at it.* Nobody is going to miss me beyond method bell ringing's chronic shortage of hands on ropes.**
Okay. That was then. Now has gone rogue and bolted in another direction. I seem to have rung some kind of frelling bells five days out of the last eight. If you wanted to be cruel you could say I've rung bells nine days out of the last twelve. I wonder if heroin addicts feel like this after they've been clean for a while? The old buzz? That fluttering feeling*** behind the eyes† or in the base of the throat?†† The sense of being helplessly ensnared by a grinning, many-clawed obsession. Going har har har har har GOTCHA. Look on the bright side. I don't have to worry about finding a reliable source of clean needles.
I can't even (entirely) blame Niall†††. I went to South Desuetude entirely on my own recognisance. Sonar Fweep was my idea.‡ And I'm sure Old Eden was good for my character as well as my muscular redevelopment, tonight‡‡, after tinkling carelessly on the little light well-mannered bells at Crabbiton for . . . ahem . . . several weeks in a row now. Ringing at Old Eden is ploughing rough tussocky ground. Ah yes, plain bearings. Joy. Creak.‡‡‡
I'M NOT RINGING ANY BELLS TOMORROW. OR WEDNESDAY. Er. I think I will maintain a tactful silence about Thursday. And Friday. And I forget if I'm ringing on Saturday. . . .
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* Any more than singing eight hours a day would make me a Norma. Sigh. At the moment I would probably settle for NOT being late for my voice lesson every frinkblasted week. I was supposed to predict that everyone on my end of Main Street was going to be getting their bathrooms replaced today and there would be epic numbers of OPULENT PERSONAL CARE SPACE REFIT lorries casually half-parked on the margins on BOTH sides of the road so unless you were a very thin bicycle you COULDN'T GET THROUGH?
I am also finally beginning to realise that I have a new(ish) tactical problem. I think I told you^ that as this horrible winter started dragging itself toward spring I let Aloysius^^ put me back on the singing rota at St Margaret's. This means that on my service-singing weeks I'll have spent the last two or three days of that week frantically cramming for service singing, since that week's music director won't have sent out the playlist till Thursday if we're lucky. As it happens I was down to sing this week—that is last night—which was a special service and there were going to be LOTS OF PEOPLE THERE^^^ so I was a tiny bit more anxious than usual that I should have SOME clue about the stuff^^^^ we were performing.
This means however that by late Sunday night, when, even on a non-special-service singing Sunday, I'm exhausted and my mind is full of the detritus that results from classical training coming in explosive contact with Jesus Is My Boyfriend, and I'm trying to reengage with the former the results can be a bit bizarre. Even aberrant. And my voice lesson is on MONDAY. I was singing Panis Angelicus^^^^^ better on Wednesday than I was today. Sigh.
^ ?? One of the things about blogging every day was that I probably had told you things and therefore didn't have to try to remember if I had. Remembering comes under the 'Norma' and 'bell ringing' category of personal excellence, ie Not Going to Happen.
^^ Aloysius is LEAVING. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. . . . Okay, pulling myself together now. I know this happens with curates and I even knew it was due to happen to Aloysius soon but . . . WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. I may be a grown up as a human being+ but I'm a baby as a Christian and Aloysius has been First Contact++ about a lot of stuff.+++
+ And a grown-up twice Aloysius' age, as I may have mentioned before because it haunts me.~ At least I'm only seven years older than Alfrick.
~ I told him not long ago that it was hard sometimes learning stuff from children.# He took this in good part. I'm trying not to believe that he took this in good part because he's a priest, and priests are obliged to take cranky remarks from elderly parishioners kindly and tolerantly. It's in the small print in the Priest Contract: Be nice to the grouches God has blessed you with. You can afford to be nice because you're a priest and you know God will sort them out later.##
# I suspect it's even worse for those of us who were precocious in our own youth. Don't be precocious. It will just make you crankier later on.
## ::ducks::
++ You can't have a father figure half your age, right?
+++ My monks, for example, speaking of Alfrick. I could still be going 'oooooh . . . monks . . . . scary' and driving hastily past the monks' gate, which has a large sign by the turn-in that says WELCOME, if it weren't for Aloysius.
^^^ MAJOR EEEK. Till it occurred to me, hey, the more of them there are the less likely any of them can hear me. +
+ Also we had a drummer last night. Our usual drummer is actually a good drummer which might be considered regrettable in our usual raggedy-andy line up. But any drummer will be wildly over-miked so the rest of us can pretty much do anything we like and no one will know. Maybe I should try singing Bellini.
^^^^ Sic. I am still not a fan of Modern Christian Worship Music.
^^^^^ Corny? Sure. The good kind of corny.
** Or on short leather straps if you happen to ring handbells. I don't know anyone who rings methods on handbells, do you? Especially no one who rings frelling quarter peals on frelling handbells. Which I may have done for a second time recently. On one of those nine days out of twelve. But then I don't know me. I don't want to know me. Crazy obsessed people make me nervous.
*** Which is not about getting your out-of-practise hands tangled in a bell rope.
† No, that's your brain going NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
†† Which is a matching AAAAAAAAAAAUGH trying to get out.
††† I may try.
‡ It was one of Wild Robert's erratic seminars. And I needed Niall to drive that far. There was a motorway involved.
‡‡ Fortunately in terms of mental integrity it was mostly plain hunt for beginners. Nadia just about killed me today.^ In the nicest possible way of course. But Monday is not usually my best evening for an optimum bell ringing experience. And story-in-progress tonight? After, furthermore, last night's heroic service sing? Not a hope. Might as well write another blog post.
^ Niall is not the ONLY Master of Mwa hahahahaha in my life.
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We've spotted Kim in these jeans before, I wonder if Kourtney is borrowing them from Kim? I still love the chain detail on these and it adds a nice delicate touch to the rips of the jeans. Since Kourtney tends to rewear pieces pretty frequently, hopefully we'll see her style these a few different ways. You can buy Saint Laurent online from Net-a-porter.com.
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When I wear blue denim, I tend to go a similar route to what Wiz has gone here by pairing it with a blue shirt. For me personally, I find that lighter blue jeans work best with navy and white tees. It keeps to the ease that a lighter wash lends. What are your favorite colors to pair with lighter denim? You can click here to purchase these jeans from MR.PORTER.
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If nothing else, the EP The Fake Stories About You and Me by the Brazilian indie pop group Pale Sunday is a resounding statement of how far indie music has spanned globally. American indie has gone all sorts of different directions in the past few years, but Pale Sunday play indie as the average passerby would tell you it is: a precocious mood, clean guitar tones, and a kind of coffeeshop friendliness that avoids getting too close to universal appeal. The band does this remarkably well; however, this unfortunately means that The Fake Stories About You and Me, from an American perspective, is far too familiar a release, and to label it anything beyond "high-quality background noise" is difficult. The component parts of this EP are solid: the vocal harmonies are affable and well-executed enough to elicit a Brian Wilson comparison, and about half of these four tracks are catchy enough so as to not be entirely forgettable. But given how little material there is here—at twelve minutes, it's a trifle of an EP—as well as how generic the songwriting is, there isn't a whole lot working in Pale Sunday's favor.
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Aamir Khan, who was said to be singing a rap for his upcoming film 'Dangal' was spotted shooting for the promotional song at Mumbai's Mehboob Studios on Thursday (July 21). The pictures from the sets reveal the actors look as a rapper. Aamir is seen dressed in black paired a long sleeveles
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Aamir Khan dropped in to meet his '3 Idiots' co-star Kareena Kapoor at a studio in suburban Bandra. The two stars were reportedly shooting in the same studio. Aamir Khan was there for a song recording of his upcoming film 'Dangal' while Kareena was filming a TVC for a leading salon chain. It was
Superstar Aamir Khan who lent his voice to the chartbuster 'Aati Kya Khandaala' in 1998 film 'Ghulam' will once again get behind the mic for his upcoming film 'Dangal'. The 50-year-old actor will reportedly do a rap song in the biopic on the legendary wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat. The son
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Apple has shot itself in the foot trying to screw over GOOG this time. This isn't like Siri which also wasn't ready for prime time, but it was more of a toy than a necessity for most. GOOG could whip out an app in a hurry if it wanted, but why not just hand Apple another shovel and let it keep digging?
I own a samsung galaxy s3 and an apple new iPad.
I feel, using both every day, that there are pros and cons in the firmware of both products, but...
Beside the fact, clear to every one that use both, that the samsung-android voice assistant is by far better (much faster, better match, allow to dictate longer on emails and text) than this new version of siri.
Beside the fact that also the google maps are by far better than ios 6 maps, and that I sincerely hope that apple can catch up the gap.
I feel that the apple approach vis-à-vis their customer is pretty high and mighty.
I really do not like a company that erase from my device my personal choice of application, that don not leave me the freedom to choose, once I have bought their device, and that do this only for money.
It' says a lot about the character of the people how drive apple!!!
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The same week as Red Hat announced the GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0, the CentOS community is now out with a public QA release for testing.
I mentioned yesterday RHEL 7 would probably be announced tomorrow and it has indeed panned out. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is now available.
Red Hat was just sending out press invites this afternoon for a virtual event tomorrow regarding "an exciting product" that will be announced.
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Software Collections 1.1, their update of common web development tools, dynamic languages, and open-source databases. Red Hat Software Collections provide newer versions of these key open-source packages than what is offered by default in RHEL while being backed by three years of Red Hat support.
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Since yesterday's public availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 release candidate I have been busy at Phoronix testing out this upcoming release of RHEL codenamed Maipo.
For anyone wishing to try out the release candidate to the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system release, the ISO is now publicly available.
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I wonder if it is possible to filter nearby places with google geo location?
This would be very useful to find your way in a certain fi category.
Something like find restaurant in my neighborhood and select from
one from the list to view in google map.
Is this possible?
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Every couple has at least one quirky hobby. We know one who sings incessantly, another that obsessively collects china, and a pair that raises chickens in the backyard. Its not often that these strange practices yield millions of dollars. Not unless you happen to be Herb and Dorothy Vogel. For thirty years, the couple shared a small one-bedroom New York apartment and collected art from unknowns. After three decades, the place was packed to the gills with works by Christo, Richard Tuttle, and Robert and Sylvia Mangold. Then, in the early 1990s, the couple shocked the world by transferring their priceless collection (five moving trucks worth of paintings and sculptures) to the National Gallery of Art.
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Gardner-Webb beats Big South tourney host Campbell 79-69
Harold McBride and Adonis Burbage scored 18 points each and sixth-seeded Gardner-Webb beat tournament host, 11th-seeded Campbell, 79-69 in the first round of the Big South tournament.
Harold McBride and Adonis Burbage scored 18 points each and sixth-seeded Gardner-Webb beat tournament host, 11th-seeded Campbell, 79-69 in the first round of the Big South tournament.
Jimmy Gavin scored 31 points and Winthrop clinched at least a share of the Big South Conference title with an 87-71 victory over Campbell on Saturday.
Brandon Holcomb scored four of his 10 points and had a key rebound in the final 41 seconds as Radford snapped Campbell's four-game win streak with a 60-56 victory on Thursday night.
Troy Harper scored 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Campbell held on in the face of a late-game rally to edge Charleston Southern 74-72 on Saturday night.
Chris Clemons scored 30 points on 10-of-11 shooting and Campbell set a school home-court record for most points scored in a 110-66 rout of NAIA member Allen University in a non-conference matchup
Troy Harper and Chris Clemons had 18 points each, D.J. Mason added 11 points and seven rebounds and Campbell beat Presbyterian 91-61 on Saturday night.
Chris Clemons had 24 points, Khadre Lane had a pair of overtime 3s and Campbell led the entire extra period to beat Gardner-Webb 89-85 on Thursday night.
Sam Hughes and Dylan Smith scored 17 points apiece and UNC Asheville beat Campbell 81-71 on Saturday to remain atop the Big South Conference.
Tra'Vaughn White scored 20 of his career-high 29 points in the second half and Longwood held off Campbell 80-79 on Wednesday night to end a four-game losing streak.
Elijah Wilson scored 21 points and Coastal Carolina erupted for 67 second-half points and pummeled Campbell 97-68 in a Big South match-up Saturday.
John Brown scored 22 points and grabbed nine rebounds as High Point beat Campbell 73-63 on Wednesday night.
Cameron Jones scored a career-high 35 points on 12-of-19 shooting to lead Radford past Campbell 78-66 Wednesday night.
Aaron Wheeler scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half to lead Charleston Southern over Campbell 82-75 on Saturday.
Lotanna Nwogbo had 19 points on 8-of-10 shooting and Longwood led by double digits throughout the second half to beat Campbell 74-57 on Thursday night.
John Dawson scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as Liberty held off a late run to beat Campbell 55-52 on Saturday.
Tyrell Nelson got to the basket for a layup and a dunk and Harold McBride added a pair of free throws as Gardner-Webb took control in the final two minutes to beat Campbell, 71-68 Wednesday night
DeSean Murray scored 24 points, including two free throws in the last 20 seconds, and Presbyterian held for a 70-63 win over Campbell for its first Big South Conference win on Saturday.
Freshman Chris Clemons scored 30 points, his second 30-plus outing in four games, and Campbell beat Winthrop 90-83 on Thursday in a Big South Conference opener.
C.J. Bryce scored 24 points and UNC Wilmington beat Campbell 106-83 on Monday in the 101st meeting between the teams.
Canyon Barry scored 30 points, including a career-high tying five 3-pointers, to lead College of Charleston past Campbell 86-68 Tuesday.
Chris Clemons scored 31 points, a career high for the freshman, with eight rebounds and Campbell handled The Citadel 101-82 on Saturday.
Troy Harper scored 14 points, and D.J. Mason had 11 points and 10 rebounds to help Campbell beat Johnson & Wales (N.C.) 87-53 Wednesday night.
Dwayne Sutton scored 18 points and UNC Asheville beat Campbell 80-60 in a Big South opener on Sunday, snapping the Camels' four-game winning streak.
Chris Clemons made six 3-pointers and scored 26 points and Campbell won its fourth straight, beating Charlotte 76-70 on Wednesday night.
Chris Clemons hit a 3-pointer with 4 seconds left and Campbell pulled out a 66-65 win over VMI Monday night,
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Lezyne Power Drive XL Front Light - Road Bike Shop
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|Lezyne Femto Drive Front Light
Sometimes being seen is more important than illuminating your own path--think of early-morning urban commuting--so Lezyne designed the work-of-art Femto Drive Front Light to let motorists know you're coming. The LED bulb puts out 15 lumens of steady or flashing illumination, courtesy of two...
Price: $14.99
|Lezyne Hecto Drive Front Light
When you want a simple, lightweight headlight to pop into your bag for those days when you get stuck riding home as the sun is setting, the Lezyne Hecto is the perfect fit. It's clean style is only matched by its convenience and packability. Three long-lasting LEDs are encased in a dome-like...
Price: $34.99
|Lezyne LED Power Drive XL Headlight with Accessories
Low lumen head lights are typically suitable for riding through suburban and urban areas with street lights, but for trail or rural riding at night, you'll need something more substantial. Enter the Lezyne LED Power Drive XL Headlight with Accessories. This little beast produces almost as many...
Price: $114.99
|Lezyne Macro Drive XL 600 Strip Pro Light Pair
Light the way and be seen from all angles with the Lezyne Macro Drive XL 600 Strip Pro Light Pair. Boasting compact designs and emitting eye-catching lumens, these lights mount unobtrusively to your favorite whip to accompany you safely to your destination. The Macro Drive XL 600 front light...
Price: $109.99
|Lezyne Macro Drive XL 600LM Loaded Light Kit
Sometimes, you have to go against everything your well-meaning mother taught you and ride your bike in the dark. Whether you're commuting to work or have to start training rides before the sun comes up, riding without daylight is just necessary sometimes. Give your poor mother some relief and let...
Price: $84.99
|Lezyne Micro Drive 450XL Front Light
Lezyne designed its Micro Drive 450XL Strip Front Light to simplify the process of getting your bike ready for everything from sunset commutes to dawn-lit training miles. The headlight attaches to your handlebars to illuminate the road ahead while ensuring you stay visible to other motorists...
Price: $67.99
|Lezyne Power Drive 900XL Head Light
From grueling 24-hour races to night rides on desolate country roads, the Lezyne Power Drive 900XL Head Light provides brilliant illumination on pitch-dark evenings with its 900-lumen output. High-output LEDs prevent flickering or fading throughout its battery cycle, thanks to Lezyne's Constant...
Price: $99.99
|Lezyne Strip Drive Front Light
Packing five high-output LEDs with a maximum output of 120 lumens, the Lezyne Strip Drive Front Light illuminates broad swaths of road when you're commuting after dark. This lightweight LED light stands up to the task of daily commuting with its weatherproof co-molded construction. Side...
|Lezyne Zecto Drive Front Light
Not every evening or nighttime ride requires hundreds upon hundreds of lumens to light the way. If your commute is a well-lit route, what's more important is that you are seen by motorists. The Lezyne Zecto Drive Front Light is a compact safety light designed for ease of use and maximum...