Adventures in travel and spoons...

[talis_kimberley]

Yesterday was a long day - I'd snagged a gig at the Friends of the Earth Annual Conference at Nottingham, performing at their Friday Green Fair. One lift and three trains later (I was offered a route involving FIVE changes... on a journey one can drive in under three hours. And this is our public transport system? Grrr) I was there, with a huge

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[hierath]

That sounds brilliant. Wish I'd been on that train!

Reminds me of the train I got from Paris once that had a five-piece reggae band doing Bob Marley covers in Frenglish. That was a fun trip :)

[talis_kimberley]

I'm delighted to learn since posting this that it's not an absolutely unheard-of phenomenon for impromptu concerts to occur on trains. What an unreported, random, uncollectable and entirely ephemeral subset of perfomances, though!

Frenglish Bob Marley. The mind, it doth boggle.

[technoshaman]

oh, BRILLIANT! This is gonna get as much audience participation as "Salad of Doom" (which involves forks!)...

What a LOVELY thing to read to start my day!

[ladymondegreen]

We can add the Flash Girls' A Girl Needs a Knife and have the whole drawer.

There's plenty of songs about pint glasses and little brown jugs already, and nursery rhymes give us plates and platters. I suppose we need one about placemats now. Or possibly sporks.

[talis_kimberley]

Heh! Knife, fork and spoon... yes, there's an appeal in that, isn't there? :-)

[keristor]

Oh, oh, you've made me cry with laughing! Only you, dear, that is so totally 'you' and I can just visualise it. Wonderful!

(And you see, if you hadn't had those particular changes, you might have missed it...)

[talis_kimberley]

And that would have been a shame! Serendippity-doo-dah...

[smoooom]

I wish I was on that train.

[talis_kimberley]

:-)

[willibald]

Ah the Spoon Song - more of a tea shanty than a sea shanty.

[talis_kimberley]

*groans*.

Thank you. Nicking that.