Hampshire Life: February 2019 (^) 9
APOLOGIES
Our sincerest apologies go to writer Steve Roberts
this month, after his piece on Portsmouth on page
34 of the January issue was miscredited. Read more
of Steve’s work on pg 48 of this issue, where he takes
a look back at how Alresford has changed over the
years.
INBOX
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and clarifications. Your feedback is always welcome.
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HAMPSHIRE
DIALECT QUIZ
TWEETS
TO FOLLOW
Dear Editor,
As a regular reader of Hampshire Life, I
wondered whether you might be interested
in hearing about the Alton Organ Society?
With monthly concerts from October
to May every year and an annual series of
summer lunchtime concerts, the Society
is now in its 52nd year with a steady flow
of regular attendees. The Henry Speechly
organ is highly regarded which means
we pull in top organists from around the
world with national and international
repute such as Thomas Trotter, Oliver
Latry (Notre Dame, Paris), David Hill (a
patron of the AOS), Philip Scriven and
many more. Of more local interest Andrew
Lumsden (Winchester Cathedral), Claudia
Grinnell (Assistant Organist at Winchester
Cathedral), Stephen Lacey, Gerald
Marlow and David Price (Portsmouth
Cathedral) regularly play for the Society,
delighting the audience with their dynamic
programmes.
The Society is committed to bringing
organ music for all and works hard at
encouraging young people to get to
know the organ as an instrument. Our
president, Rev Andrew Micklefield and
his wife Fiona Micklefield regularly bring
children over from the nearby primary
school, St Lawrence’s, to learn a little
about this amazing instrument. We are
always amazed at the distance some of our
dedicated members travel - one gentleman
travels from Swanage each month and
stays in a hotel in Alton.
The organ is due for restoration work
which begins in 2020 and fundraising
has already begun through our summer
series of organ concerts. Considering how
much competition there is in Alton for
evening entertainment, it is always lovely
to see how many people brave the dark
winter evenings to enjoy exceptional live
music. It would be wonderful if we could
be considered for insertion in Hampshire
Life - I hope the above is enough to give
you a flavour of this small but important
local society.
Kindest regards,
Sue Hawkins
altonorgansociety.co.uk
ALTON’S MUSICAL HIGHLIGHT
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- JOBATION
a) A yearning for a thing
one once had but has lost
b) A lecture, a reprimand
c) The making of money
by any means possible - CHOPPER
a) A cheek of bacon
b) The portion of the trunk
of a tree which remains
when the tree is not sawn
through
c) A long stick with shears
for cutting high branches - COATHY
a) Rotten (said of sheep)
b) Warm and intimate
c) Anything very
rickety and unsafe - FLEAD
a) The inside fat of a hog
b) The water of a mill
stream, after passing
the mill
c) Of water: to dash and
rebound in waves
ANSWERS
1b) A lecture, a reprimand
2a) A cheek of bacon
3a) Rotten (said of sheep)
4a) The inside fat of a hog
Adam Jacot de Boinod
was born in Aldershot and
brought up in Eversley,
the home of Charles
Kingsley, and lived close to
Monteagle Lane in Yateley,
where the gunpowder
plot was hatched. He
was a researcher for the
television series QI and is
the author of The Meaning
of Tingo and Other
Extraordinary Words
from Around the World,
published by Penguin
Books. Each month he sets
us a “Call-My-Bluff Quiz”
on our local Hampshire
dialect. Guess the right
answers for the definitions
of the following words: