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A Story To Lift Your Hearts – The Military Wives Choir….”They also serve who only stand and wait”… .
The Aged P.com ^ | 01/12/11 | The Aged P

Posted on 12/01/2011 6:28:54 AM PST by sussex

In the gloomy Officers’ Mess of a rain-swept Royal Marines base on a miserable October morning, choirmaster Gareth Malone is chatting animatedly about the importance of encouraging people to sing, when he is interrupted by a very large, rather menacing individual in green Army fatigues. “I just wanted to shake your hand,” the marine says, thrusting out his own massive mitt towards Malone. “My wife thinks you’re the dog’s bollocks” The contrast between the fresh-faced, bespectacled, slightly fogey-ish choirmaster and this gruff giant of British military manhood borders on the comical. Yet the encounter illustrates the degree to which Malone, while making his latest TV project The Choir: Military Wives, has charmed his way into the trust of the soldiers – and, more crucially, the soldiers’ wives – of RMB Chivenor in remote north Devon

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: choir; pimp; serialpimp; wives

1 posted on 12/01/2011 6:29:04 AM PST by sussex
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To: humblegunner; Eaker; Allegra; TheOldLady; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; Larry Lucido; thackney; ...

Just thought I’d ping you folks in case anyone needed their hearts lifted halfway by the small part of this supposedly uplifting story being pimped here by a long time FReeper.


2 posted on 12/01/2011 6:43:05 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: sussex
The Aged P


3 posted on 12/01/2011 6:54:22 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Pimp your blog for hits on Free Republic!)
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4 posted on 12/01/2011 7:06:51 AM PST by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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Gotta keep a good stock of them


5 posted on 12/01/2011 7:12:28 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Pimp your blog for hits on Free Republic!)
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.......and several butcher's aprons.

6 posted on 12/01/2011 7:31:30 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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lol


7 posted on 12/01/2011 8:40:25 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Pimp your blog for hits on Free Republic!)
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