It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!!

Sea_Shell

Bravepants said:

Sea_Shell said:

Can I briefly de-rail my own thread for a few posts.   I need HELP with an earworm, that’s been going around my head for months!!

Is anyone able to guess this piece of music from my description, as it’s driving me mad and Google is of limited help…I need the hive mind of my Squirrel friends (and most of you are around the right age too).

It’s an instrumental, from the 1970’s (I think).   It starts with just strings, then on the second “verse” soft pad drums and chord synths come in.  It starts with 3 long spaced out notes, and if you count 1-6 quickly with an emphasis on the number 4, that’s the sort of tempo it’s at.

I can't annotate music here but I think the opening notes are (might not be the right key)

E E E (highest note)  DCD    C A  BCCF (low F) BABE (low e) AGAD (low D)

 

It may have been used in an Ad, or on TV somewhere.

In my mind’s eye, I see seabirds soaring over a sailing boat at sunset?!?

 

What do I know it isn’t: (TF = Theme from)

Albatross

TF The Onedin  Line

TF The Deer Hunter

TF Howard’s Way

Eye Level

Hamlet Ad

Milk Tray Ad

 

I also don’t think it’s by:

Vangelis

Jean Michael Jarre

Mike Oldfield

  

So please, any help with this would be appreciated.   I’m not about much today, but please post up your ideas, and I’ll go through them all later.   Let’s hope we find a winner, so I can get some inner peace (and some sleep)!

 

***  If you can post any ideas below, but then once I’ve given you a yay or nay, can you delete your post, so as to not clog up the thread, long term.  I’ll then update the above list with all the incorrect guesses, or crown the winner ***

Could it be "Chi Mai" by Ennio Morricone, from "The Life and times of Lloyd George"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHP9NtSnB0

THAT'S IT!!!!

We have a winner.   Thank you so much guys, I knew you'd come through.

I wonder how close my "pitch" was with those notes I gave?

Bravepants

Sea_Shell said:

THAT'S IT!!!!

We have a winner.   Thank you so much guys, I knew you'd come through.

I wonder how close my "pitch" was with those notes I gave?

Well I have a piano here in my study, I just noodled about with the rhythm a bit and there it was. Your notes were sufficient that I picked it up after the second play through. So pretty good really.

I once had a tune I heard several times in my life and loved it, but for some reason I never found out what it was called. This went on for years! It would play on the radio and the DJ wouldn't say what it was called! It was only when the movie "The Dish" was released that I discovered it's called "Classical Gas" and is by Mason Williams! I was so relieved when I found out what it was.

Sea_Shell

I know that one, we also have this version on CD.
https://youtu.be/GFxiMyfOt78

cfw1994

https://monevator.com/multiple-bank-accounts/

I saw this article & thought of you, @Sea_Shell 🤣👍

Sea_Shell

cfw1994 said:

https://monevator.com/multiple-bank-accounts/

I saw this article & thought of you, @Sea_Shell 🤣👍

Wow, yes, I could've written that!!   But it wasn't me... merely a kindred spirit.😇


In other news, it's the last day of our "cheap" energy deal tomorrow... what jobs can I crack on with and what gadgets need a charging top up? 😉

quirkydeptless

Sea_Shell said:


In other news, it's the last day of our "cheap" energy deal tomorrow... what jobs can I crack on with and what gadgets need a charging top up? 😉

Get all your washing through the machine

 

ian16527

Sea_Shell said:

Bravepants said:

Sea_Shell said:

Can I briefly de-rail my own thread for a few posts.   I need HELP with an earworm, that’s been going around my head for months!!

Is anyone able to guess this piece of music from my description, as it’s driving me mad and Google is of limited help…I need the hive mind of my Squirrel friends (and most of you are around the right age too).

It’s an instrumental, from the 1970’s (I think).   It starts with just strings, then on the second “verse” soft pad drums and chord synths come in.  It starts with 3 long spaced out notes, and if you count 1-6 quickly with an emphasis on the number 4, that’s the sort of tempo it’s at.

I can't annotate music here but I think the opening notes are (might not be the right key)

E E E (highest note)  DCD    C A  BCCF (low F) BABE (low e) AGAD (low D)

 

It may have been used in an Ad, or on TV somewhere.

In my mind’s eye, I see seabirds soaring over a sailing boat at sunset?!?

 

What do I know it isn’t: (TF = Theme from)

Albatross

TF The Onedin  Line

TF The Deer Hunter

TF Howard’s Way

Eye Level

Hamlet Ad

Milk Tray Ad

 

I also don’t think it’s by:

Vangelis

Jean Michael Jarre

Mike Oldfield

  

So please, any help with this would be appreciated.   I’m not about much today, but please post up your ideas, and I’ll go through them all later.   Let’s hope we find a winner, so I can get some inner peace (and some sleep)!

 

***  If you can post any ideas below, but then once I’ve given you a yay or nay, can you delete your post, so as to not clog up the thread, long term.  I’ll then update the above list with all the incorrect guesses, or crown the winner ***

Could it be "Chi Mai" by Ennio Morricone, from "The Life and times of Lloyd George"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHP9NtSnB0

THAT'S IT!!!!

We have a winner.   Thank you so much guys, I knew you'd come through.

I wonder how close my "pitch" was with those notes I gave?

I guessed it from the TV themed clues you gave, although only logged in today after the BHols so was no help at all.

I did buy the 7 inch single when it was released. 

This is another of my favorites from the 1980's or 1990's - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_T9hvwZEA

Sea_Shell

Having just returned from a few days away, so everything possible* turned off in the house, for 3 full 24 hour periods, we still used 1.37kwh of electricity a day (but no gas**), the cost of which (including both standing charges) was £1.17 per day.

So that's an annual cost of £427, or £35 a month, without even being here!!!!  (we're on Eon V12, not the cap)

*only Sky Box, Fridge/freezer plus hard wired items (alarm etc) left on, using an average draw of 57 watts.

** Good job, otherwise we've got a leak!!!

Sea_Shell

End of month figures, down £17,200 from end March 22.

Annual, down £9,700 from end April 21

Pot still at £606,000.

SouthCoastBoy

Think that illustrates how resilient stock markets have been regardless of inflation, war and the prospect of rising interest rates, the question is will it last?