{"id":862,"date":"2020-05-23T19:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=862"},"modified":"2024-03-15T18:35:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:35:02","slug":"i-had-a-farm-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/i-had-a-farm-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"I Had A Farm In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; so a few things came together for today&#8217;s choice &#8211; we have had a week of horn solos &#8211; so today we have lots of horns &#8211; yesterday I mentioned the Wiener Waldhornverein, so I thought I would choose something from them &#8211; what I have ended up with though is the Vienna Horns (who I suspect are members of the Waldhornverein anyway).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I had fun looking to see which video to share &#8211; there are lots of good ones. I was originally intending to choose something bright and lively for today &#8211; didn&#8217;t turn out that way.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in living and working in Wien we made use of the cinema on the Schottenring which was the only one in town that showed english language films &#8211; so we didn&#8217;t get to have much choice as to what to watch (there was one other cinema &#8211; but that showed &#8220;The Third Man&#8221; all the time\ud83d\ude03).<\/p>\n<p>One film that we went to see was &#8220;Out of Africa&#8221; &#8211; if you have not seen the film it is very good, has wonderful photography, lovely music, but is very (VERY) slow and lets say it isn&#8217;t exactly a film that you come to the end of feeling uplifted and go dancing down the street (not that I have actually done that after any film \ud83d\ude01)! (at this point it would be good to tag Chris Clark as I am sure he remembers this film &#8211; but perhaps Dave Thomas remembers the story &#8211; &#8220;I had a farm in Africa&#8230;..&#8221;!!)<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; this works as another peaceful interlude in your day if that is what you need (and it is very good horn playing)<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_lYx6dIKfos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vienna Horns : Out Of Africa<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lYx6dIKfos\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terry Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for this, George. A few comments&#8230;<br \/>\n1. You appear to have a thing about horns.<br \/>\n2. Only two films have made me want to dance down the street, both musicals. &#8220;Sunshine on Leith&#8221; and, more recently, &#8220;Yesterday&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221; is also a standout, but not really for dancing!<br \/>\n3. You appear to have a thing about horns.*<br \/>\n* I realise that 1 and 3 are similar, but it is a biggie \ud83d\ude05<br \/>\nOrrabest!<\/p>\n<p><strong>George R McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not sure what makes you think I have a thing about horns \ud83e\udd14 I&#8217;ll try to do something about it!!<br \/>\nAs for dancing down the street &#8211; perhaps it is true that I have probably never done that after watching a film &#8211; but I was struggling to express exactly how we felt after watching this and I don&#8217;t think our mood could have been further from dancing down the street.<br \/>\nHaving said that &#8211; I seem to remember we had a good laugh about how depressing it was&#8230;.. \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; so a few things came together for today&#8217;s choice &#8211; we have had a week of horn solos &#8211; so today we have lots of horns &#8211; yesterday I mentioned the Wiener Waldhornverein, so I thought I would choose something from them &#8211; what I have ended up with though is the Vienna &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/i-had-a-farm-in-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Had A Farm In Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[84,92],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-film","tag-horns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}