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Jonathan

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Hi everybody. I finally did it! I signed up to MySpace to keep in touch with all you lovely friends.My 'real' blog will still be where I post grown-up stuff *ahem* -- http://jonathanburton.wordpress.com/You'll find a page about My Favourite Things on there, so I won't clutter up this space with too much junk, ho ho.Hoo yes, this is going to be fun.Here are pictures of the Italy trip...
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I'd like to meet:

Hugo... Nightingale, Clover, Mona, Midlife... Sarasara... Orinoco Womble... Inbetwixt... Chrome Toaster and Ouende (though possibly not both at the same time)... UtahChick... CuriousKat... Yebbie!... Terrie-is-so... the guys from FOUND (YES I HAVE!!)...

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...and a Happy New Year!

Having lost my internet and email connection over Christmas, I am now back on line and can belatedly wish you all a heartfelt HAPPY NEW YEAR!I can also post a link to my 'other' blog where you can hea...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:12:00 GMT

revisiting Greenwich Observatory for Kat

This was going to be a message to Kat, but it turned out to too long so I'm making it a blog instead...A few days ago Kat posted this picture from... er... a while ago, and asked if I recognised it.  ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:36:00 GMT

Spring, the sweet spring

Everybody knows the English only like to talk about the weather... But it's been a funny old spring this year, mostly cold and drab, and despite global warming we had SNOW last weekend  but only a co...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:25:00 GMT

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

These guys are hilarious!  Very musical but completely crazy -- I went to hear them on Friday. Read more on my ’other’ blog:http://jonathanburton.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/the-ukul ele-...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:13:00 GMT

in memoriam Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008)

Arthur C Clarke died today, aged 90.  The obituaries all call him ’the man who invented geostationary satellites’ and ’the man who wrote 2001’...Down-to-earth and practic...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:45:00 GMT

Children’s science exam aswers

Thanks to Ellen for these: Children's Science Exam answers. Q:         &nbs p;  Name the four seasons.A:        ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:03:00 GMT

Carpet...

One day in July 2007, it rained.  And rained.  The rain came through the roof, through the ceiling of the upstairs loo, through the floor, and through the ceiling underneath it, which fell d...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:56:00 GMT

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

My very best wishes to all you lovely people for a very wonderful and creative 2008...Lovely to have made the acquaintance of all of you, and I look forward to keeping in touch in the coming twelve mo...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:37:00 GMT

Merry Christmas audio!

http://jonathanburton.wordpress.com/files/2007/12/differentc arolskontakt.mp3 I wonder if this will work.  It's a link to a computer audio file of my Christmas card music (eight movements, 11 minu...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:22:00 GMT

Merry Christmas Card!

Here's my 2007 Christmas Card! It's the first two pages of the (39-page) score of my Christmas carol arrangements for ten wind players  we're still arguing about whether the word is 'Decet' or Dectet...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:14:00 GMT