Congrats to
Chris Conway, who is celebrating his
30th CD release and 16 years in show business on Dec.4th, which also happens to be the day before his birthday. See flyer above for details. I believe the cost is £3, or check
The Musician's Web site.
Chris is a fulltime musician in the UK, and is an amazingly talented songwriter, vocalist and instrumentalist. Urban Tapestry was honoured to be invited to be on his Alien Salad Abduction CD...check out the "Alien Jellyfish Song" soundclip on
his CDbaby page for this CD and you'll hear me on flute, Allison and Jodi as backup for Chris. This song is WAY fun to perform; we did it in our cover concert at Filkcontinental in Germany.
The rest of the photos on this page were shamelessly stolen from
his Web site.
Chris enjoys promoting other musicians; visit
Planet Christo Radio to hear him in DJ mode. And if you're not in the UK but want to hear him perform live, come to
FilKONtario next Mar.31-Apr.2nd, where he's the Guest of Honour. The lovely Tanya Huff will be the Filk Waif, and Judi Miller is the Interfilk Guest. Or come to
Consonance (March 3-5, 2006 in Milpitas, CA) where Chris is the International Guest, Guests of Honor: Bill & Gretchen Roper, Interfilk Guest: Marty Coady Fabish, Toastpersons: Puzzlebox.
Speaking of great filk conventions, only two months until
GAfilk! I've decided to contribute a square to the
GAfilk Quilt for the Interfilk Auction even though I have no quilting experience. This should be interesting. Fortunately, Margaret Middleton has promised to give me advice.
Thanks to those with squirrel advice in response to my
Demon Squirrels post yesterday. And the mockery, of course.
:-D
A few of the comments...
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From Chris Conway:"love/hate relationship with squirrels...
remember what the nice lady in the white coat said last time?
hate relationship with squirrels - acceptable
love relationship with squirrels - morally wrong -"
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From Interchange42:"Debbie! No crocuses? We can beat those little b*stards!
Two years ago I planted crocuses, tulips, and daffodils at my sister's for her birthday. Bloody varmint squirrels ate all but the daffs. Anyway I was determined that my sister and her family were going to have spring flowers so I read up before the next fall and found that squirrels hate the taste of blood meal - a nitrogen fertilizer. So I bought it and bone meal and a bunch more bulbs for my sister last year.
We mixed the bone meal into the planting earth, plunked a bulb into each hole, spread a little blood meal in with the earth we placed above the bulbs, then sprinkled more blood meal on top of the soil.
Everything came up this spring - the squirrels stayed totally away - and the place looked fab.
If you're up for it, go buy more bulbs, get the bone and the blood meal, and plant away!"
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From Luisa:"Squirrel problems? Try planting the the crocus bulbs again, only this time inject a little poison into them first. Heh. ;)"
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From Melissa:"After your experience with them, you would think that Eichhörnchen would be more likely to be a swear word these days! :-)"
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From Peter Alway:"The squirrels
will win in the end. Don't even think of revenge. It will only end in tears."
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From Christine/Nella Darren:"I LOVE this post! (And your drawings are so cute you just want to cuddle the little buggers until they beg for mercy... :o))
:o))
And see: Eichhörnchen CAN be a swear word."
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From Rob:"If you have never read this story, you should:
http://www.hftonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16501"
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From Aryana:"That's not nice of those squirrels! I feel with you - on one renaissance fair we had mice in our tent that definitely liked our oat flakes, noodles, bread and stuff. Since then we take tupper boxes with us, although they're not very medieval..."
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From Margaret:"My neighbor at our former place used to dust her fresh bulb plantings with cayenne pepper. I don't know how often she had to renew it, though."
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From Mary:"Have you considered buying more crocus bulbs, planting them, and covering them with cement blocks until spring? That way they would get properly frozen, and the squirrels would at least have less time between when you take up the protective blocks in spring and the time that they actually start growing."
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From Keris:"I read it at first as Einhornchen, which would be a My Little Unicorn. Just as dangerous in a different way *g*...
I used to get mobbed by squirrels in a park in Bournemouth (Dorset, England) when I stopped off there to eat. They were disgusted at my reading material, though (squirrels, it seems, do not approve of SF). And my cousins in Sussex found that the squirrels just stole the entire bird feeder, preseumably to take it apart at their leisure.
Just be glad you don't have the badger mafia as well. They have built-in pin-striped suits and dark glasses, and they run protection rackets. "Nice flower-bed, shame if something 'happened' to it because we weren't fed..." When the humans went away for a month the badgers dug up the lawn in retaliation for not being paid the fruit..."
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