Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

I got it, teamers

[Flay]

Ah! Simeon ten Holt!

[Flay]

So it's Simon Holt for Feet of clay and Boots of lead, and Simeon ten Holt for Canto Ostinato



Now can I go to sleep and be allowed to dream of the next letter?

[Flay]

I'm working today so shall assume victory and pose an I:

The blue-bearded poet and the fairy spent a morning on the water

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So it's Simon Holt for Feet of clay and Boots of lead, and Simeon ten Holt for Canto Ostinato

- better than Mary Poppins, this was "totally perfect in every way"

(Were you thinking what I thought you were thinking - putting an "S" in the last name to make "Holst"? Worth bearing in mind for a later puzzle, perhaps!

Oh - and vinty's Kirklees - Simon Holt was born in Bolton, not too many miles to the West of Huddersfield/Kirklees.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Did you really miss my terrible pun, or is this just an honest and fair minded attempt at inclusivity?

The latter - I should have added a at the start

[Flay]

You are too kind

(Were you thinking what I thought you were thinking - putting an "S" in the last name to make "Holst"? Worth bearing in mind for a later puzzle, perhaps!

Yes I waS

[subcontrabass]

I'm working today so shall assume victory and pose an I:

The blue-bearded poet and the fairy spent a morning on the water

Jacques Ibert composed: Barbe-bleue, Le poète et la fée, and Matin sur l'eau.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Jacques Ibert composed: Barbe-bleue, Le poète et la fée, and Matin sur l'eau.

I was wondering if it was going to be d'Indy, in revenge!

[Flay]

Jacques Ibert composed: Barbe-bleue, Le poète et la fée, and Matin sur l'eau.

Jolly good! Was it too easy this time?

I was wondering if it was going to be d'Indy, in revenge!

Would I be so spiteful?

[subcontrabass]

Jolly good! Was it too easy this time?

Not as easy as some in the past. There was some nicely misleading punctuation.

Now for a slightly more obscure J:

How lovely to be in the dear, dear country, and enjoy once again a harvest in Preston.

[Flay]

Now for a slightly more obscure J:

How lovely to be in the dear, dear country, and enjoy once again a harvest in Preston.

By a roundabout route I find smoke on the water. Any use?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

By a roundabout route I find smoke on the water. Any use?

Or do we need vaccinating?

[subcontrabass]

Or do we need vaccinating?

Looks a good way to go.

[Flay]

Looks a good way to go.

I am totally lost somewhere up the River Ribble....