Night Night Song From Buenchico

[Buenchico]

Well, if Mamya is going to let herself be beaten by AB's problem with Youtube videos, I suppose that I'd better offer an alternative.

This is one of my favourite songs from the wonderful Reinhard Mey and, I think, entirely appropriate as a 'Night Night' offering here:
http://tinyurl.com/j3ldc29

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry you think I'm being defeatist Chris - it just isn't the same with a load of links to me. Maybe I'm just tired.

Lovely choice from you.xxx

[Buenchico]

I wasn't really being critical, Mamya. (Sorry if you thought that I was). I've just been looking for a reason to post that video for ages!

[Mamyalynne]

I know you weren't Chris ♥

[Mamyalynne]

It's lovely too.

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Mamya.

What, no other Reinhard Mey fans here though?

[gness]

Well there is now, Chris.....no idea what he's singing but he can woo me any day.......or night.... ;-)

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Gness.

It's not easy to make the German language sound beautiful but Reinhard Mey is a master at it.

One more:
http://tinyurl.com/ybzf3qzk

[gness]

He does make it sound beautiful......I took German night class and sounded angry all the time..

Will certainly listen to more.....xx

[Buenchico]

"no idea what he's singing"
and
"I took German night class"

It sounds like your German lessons went as well as my Polish ones did ;-)

[gness]

My tutor died just after lesson four....mind you, Chris.....by then I only knew the German word for wardrobe so it wouldn't really have mattered if he'd lived forever I think.... :-(

He didn't die because of anything I did, by the way......I don't think the incident on the stairs as I was adjusting the upside down Klimt print had anything to do with his death......x

[Buenchico]

At least you got started with the course. I seem to be jinxed with evening classes. Every single one I've ever signed up for at West Suffolk College (20 miles from me) has been cancelled and they decided to stop offering adult evening classes altogether a few years ago at New Suffolk College (10 miles from me).

I usually end up shrugging my shoulders and forgetting about it but twice I've decided to look further afield for similar courses. That's why I had to travel 50 miles each way, to Cambridge, each week to study Polish and, before that, undertake a 170 mile round trip each week to study journalism in Barnet.

[gness]

Wow...you're more determined than I am, Chris....I did decide to learn one new thing every year.....
Most worked...well not the German....and the quilting course I did give up on because the tutor was bonkers and the quilting ladies were odd to say the least..
Robert Burns was interesting and geology for numpties was fascinating.....but the best was massage....that led me into many years of being able to work at home when MrG was ill.....
And of course Sign Language got me promotion when I was at school and I can now eavesdrop.....if that's the right word...on other signers....honestly, some of the sweary sign words are amazing... :-)

[Buenchico]

Massage, eh? No comment!
(Well, I can think of quite a few but I don't want to get myself banned!)

You've certainly covered a wide range of things.

I gave up on the Polish after a year because
(a) it was getting even harded than it started with - and that was bad enough! ; and
(b) because so many people had dropped out that I'd have had to join a course at a different centre (with the same tutor) if I wanted to take it further.

Polish is a pain because every word can have lots of different endings, depending upon where and how it's used in a sentence. Even people's names, and simple things like 'McDonald's', have lots of possible different endings.

The journalism course was tough too but that was only because one of the two tutors withdrew fairly early on through serious illness and the other one dropped out soon afterwards. We actually had several sessions where one of the class taught other members about stuff they already knew about, with no tutor present at all! (I took the class myself one week!) Then the college tried to cancel the course but we all wrote to the college principal, pointing out that quite a few of us were travelling long distances to attend and that there were no alternative courses for us to go to. Eventually the college relented and found a past student of the course to come and pass on what he knew.

It was a very intense course though, covering the content that Colchester Institute offers as a 2-year full-time course in just one year of once-per-week evening classes. That's certainly cramming things in! However I passed my City & Guilds exams in 'Media Techniques - Journalism and Radio Competences' with Distinction, so I must have learnt something along the way ;-)

[davegosling]

I played Human's Lib till I nearly wore the vinyl out back in the day but, over time, less and less until eventually hardly ever at all.

So, when the remaster landed on my doorstep, I whacked it straight in the CD player and the years flooded away. It sounds so good even today.

[davegosling]

Interesting. Didn't show the hyperlink but instead inserted a placeholder where the YouTube video would ordinarily have been...

[Gromit]

When did it brak. I posted a couple of vids yesterday that worked OK.

[Gromit]

Is it just YouTube?

[Gromit]

I suppose one answer is to show the url so that users can copy and paste it into a new wondow. At least that would make it possible for us to talk about the same song. As in below, leave out the x when copying.

[Gromit]

That didn't work. Very odd as it wasn't a live link but text.

h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs

[Gromit]

If you copy the url above and delete the gap between h & t, you can view the link in a separate window.