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[labellementeuse]

1. I've made a couple of posts over at le blog, most of which I imagine will not be of interest to you unless you need a recipe for hazelnut meringues with chocolate sauce. oh wait, you ALL need that recipe, because it is godly, however the content around the recipe is the same as that post about separating eggs I just made, ie way less interesting. SORRY.

2. What IS interesting to, oh, IDK, EVERYONE:

a-mazing.

3. Tonight I went to the Wellington Contra Dance group and it was awesome, exactly what I was looking for - sweaty dancing fun. I had a blast and bumped into a few people I knew (naturally), including an old classmate, my old Physics teacher, and dryadwoman! They do it only once a month though, so I'm on the lookout for other similar stuff - I'd really like a dance class once a week.

4. I realised today it's only THREE DAYS until I can start playing and singing Christmas carols twenty-four hours a day. So SOME QUESTIONS. First off, I know I have some Wellington flisties in various choirs, does anyone know if any of them are carrying on over Christmas? Secondly, what's your favourite Christmas carol? Thirdly, recommend me an album of Christmas music. I already have Bright Eyes and Sufjan Stevens and Jane Monheit and Love Actually. What I really really really want is an album of really seriously bog-standard choral Christmas carols, because as much as reimagined is fun, I frankly want something pure and traditional (i.e. no Snoopy's Christmas although yes I do love it, but I'm looking more for the standards).

Also, I really, really want a nice recording of the carol "As With Gladness, Men Of Old", because it was my school carol and it's lovely and I miss singing it every December. In fact I actually miss it so much I'm thinking about finding out when the QMC Christmas service is and going THAT IS A TERRIBLE IDEA BUT IT'S HOW MUCH I WANT TO SING CAROLS RIGHT NOW.

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[trialia]

Carols, eh? Oh man... Well, I performed several in a choir concert yesterday! *G*

Favourite... hmm. Favourite is hard. The Coventry Carol, which I sang as a duet with my minister and soprano friend Jane at the aforementioned concert, and Berlioz's Shepherds' Farewell is definitely up there, along with Peter Warlock's Bethlehem Down... I Wonder as I Wander and Noel Nouvelet are both gorgeous... and We Three Kings of Orient Are is a childhood favourite. So I have a few. I just love singing them, some of the melodies are so beautiful, whether or not I believe the words. And of course there is Midnight Clear which is a rare example of a carol that was actually written by a Unitarian. *g* Want any of these? Gabriel's Message is fun to sing, too; I sang that together with a friend as an alto-tenor duet at a holiday party last year.

[labellementeuse]

JEALOUS. I need to be in a choir stat, I used to be in them constantly but haven't had one since I moved back to Wellington two years ago.

I would like all/any of those! I didn't know Midnight Clear was Unitarian, that's awesome. ♥

[trialia]

I love my choirs! I'm in one - the Unitarian one - year-round, and another just for Christmas. :)

I shall upload them for you tomorrow, love, as I've got to sleep - getting up early! - but for now I'll point you to the folder that has some of them: http://unfaithful-mirror.net/music/choral/ :)