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Hello, Pigale!
I remember Jacky's win.
He did a solo breakaway of around 200 kilometers to win.
A great achievement!
I love Sagan!
He is one tough cookie!
Yes, I read about the eggs next week.
Exciting stuff!

Hello, Elle!
Right, I'll give the show a miss next week!
The bike race is 265 kilometers long, around 165 miles, so it is on from after 9 o'clock untii just after 4 o'clock, live on Eurosport.
A long hard day in the saddle.
I am going out at 11 and will be back around 12, so I won't miss much of the race.
The golf is in the evening.
Two young English girls going well in it.
Charley Hull and Jodi Ewart Shadoff.
I do not know much about Jodi, but I like Charley.
I will have sore eyes by bedtime, watching the television!

Good morning, Rusty!
Happy Easter!
It seems strange today to have a row of Easter eggs and no small children here to receive them.......
But they will all be here within a few days!
I am glad that you have decided to wait until the commencement of the next showing of "The Voice" before watching.
I think it's a great show.......and I should like you to see it from the beginning and get the full impression, and the hang of what it is all about!
And you may not have to wait all that long.... I think there is a "The Voice: Kids" coming up this Summer.......and that works on mainly the same principle.
I shall tell you if I learn any more details!
Your cycling race will be starting soon.......and then you will be away out with your granddaughters!
A hectic but enjoyable day ahead of you!

Happy Easter, Elle!
I was really wondering if the folk on The Voice were proper singers and not "manufactured" singers?
If it is only "pop" singers I would have little interest in them.
The weather is beautiful here today.
We were threatened with snow, too!
Yes, a good day ahead.
I am ready for the girls, and have made valiant efforts to look fairly kempt.
I shall await their verdict!

Hi, Rusty!
"The Voice:UK" has singers of different musical genres.
Going through to the Final next Saturday are two girls who sing opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8YOX5q360I
It is an unusual show.......and as I have said before, I enjoy the special rapport between the coaches.
You will be able to see samples on YouTube of the various acts, but I think it more fun to watch the show from its initial stages, when there are the "Blind" auditions .
I am sure you scrub up nicely, Rusty !

Hello, Elle!
These girls are "sooper!".
Now, that's proper singing, for me!
Very impressive.
Not what I imagined the show to be like at all, at all!
I shall be in touch later, a bit busy today!

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, weren't the girls wonderful?
They certainly deserved to be through to the Final.
Yes, talk later...have a great time!

Hello Elle and Rusty,

and a happy Easter to both of you.

Just in case you missed this, here is Amira live in 2017, ie aged 13!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1l84UW1pI

Happy Easter to you, too, Pigale!
The "Flower Duet" is also on the YouTube link that I sent earlier to Rusty.
Two of the girls going to be in " The Voice " Final, sang it earlier in the competition.
Have a look and a listen?
See what you think?

Hi Elle,

I already have! This is what prompted me to post the link about
Amira; I wondered whether you and/or Rusty had missed her
singing the Flower Duet. Not easy for a 13 years old to sing in
a duet with an experienced singer, let alone opera!

But yes, the two girls in The Voice made a good job of it. Will they
be in the Finale next week?
The blind auditions are the only part of The Voice I know; Even in
the French version (using the english title The Voice), I have never
been further than the blind auditions. Don't really know why though!