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Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Congratulations, Clive and Mrs. Clive!

Re Ben Gunn: If you start becoming obsessed with cheese, it's time to worry.
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Clive, what a great day to have as your anniversary! It preserves the notion that a sense of humor is one of the most important things for a couple to have. Congratulations! Since John and I have been cutting each other's hair for about 45 years (and have not changed our hairstyles in that time), we need not fear that isolation will make us unrecognizable to others.

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Congratulations from me, too, to Clive and his best beloved, from another similarly cloistered pair. (I do cut John Corbett's hair, so he at least is presentable. My hair is beyond help anyway.)
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Thank you Clive, for that wonderful image. Stay well.
And big congrats on 50 years!

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Clive,

You're one of the many Sphereans it's been my absolute pleasure to have met personally, for which I'm thankful, especially as you now live some distance away from me and we're not able to travel for the foreseeable future! (I know you're not keen to venture far from home, anyway, these days; I find I'm getting more and more that way inclined myself.)

Many congratulations to you and your wife on your Golden Wedding anniversary... and belated Happy Birthday wishes too. Keep safe and well.

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Thank you for your good wishes, Julie, Susan, Maryann, Mark and Jayne, which I return in the same cordial spirit.

I remember very well meeting you, Jayne, at The Trout just outside Oxford a few years ago – with, among others, David Mason and Rory Waterman (not a name known to many around these parts, I think). And Susan, I remember meeting you in 2003 at West Chester – with many other Spherians (or poets with Spherian associations) – among them, Alicia Stallings, Tim Murphy, Deborah Warren, Carol Taylor (who of course used to do Jayne’s job), Dick Davis, Chris Childers and (unforgettably) Anthony Hecht.

About the Ben Gunn problem, yesterday Irene and I had a conversation with a friend – in our garden and at a safe distance. He was assessing the styles he might adopt. He is my age and has thick, naturally wavy, grey hair that was probably once ginger, and a bushy grey beard. (Mine own hair is grey, straight and utterly undramatic.) He was trying to persuade himself to let the beard grow and then to divide it in a Viking “forkbeard” manner. He comes from Cumbria up on the Northwest edge of England, almost certainly has Norse blood, and is, as well, a tall well-made fellow. I could see him behind an oar or wielding a sword. He is not keen on a pigtail or a “man bun” but doesn’t care for the Full Gandalf, either. Decisions, decisions…

Best wishes to one and all…

Clive
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Hooray, Aaron! That's wonderful news.
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Hallelujah Chorus, anyone?

The Brits here will be very amused by the American r's, I'm sure.

We're getting better at making these virtual choir videos, but they're still a pale, pale shadow of what our full 100-member choir could do while hearing each other!

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Really enjoyed that, Julie.
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