Swanee Kazoo

What could be more appropriate when £1,000 has sailed up the Swanee River than a rendition of Swanee Kazoo. If that is too highbrow for you then here is the score for Commonwealth as purchased by Barnet Council with your money.

Score of Commonwealth

The copyright belongs to Barnet Council so play it all you like if you are a Barnet resident and get your money's worth. You may need to get a few friends round and once the bagpipes start the noise abatement officer will appear - once he/she realises the royal connection, yes Brian Coleman was instrumental in the selection of Tim Benjamin, the composer, the noise abatement officer will sing along.

Yours frugally

Mr Mustard

 

£1,000 - well spent or a waste ?

Mr Mustard didn't expect a DPR to be issued on Friday 23 December, the last working day before Xmas, as the world had largely stopped for Xmas. He checked the computer all the same as he thought it would be a good day to bury bad news. He found 3 interesting DPRs and here is the first one.

1494 Queens Diamond Jubilee Music

Having looked at the website for Tim Benjamin, here, he is at least a proper musician ( I have no gripe with you Mr Benjamin although your website is wrong. Barnet is not the UK's largest authority by any measure ) although he is not sure why we didn't use our own composer, the Deputy Chief Executive, Chief Financial & S151 Officer, Andrew Travers, who scores 1,000 notes a day?

Why at a time of service cuts are we throwing £1,000 at this vanity project? Couldn't the £1,000 have been better spent in ameliorating the worst of the service level cuts.

Mr Mustard has been helpfully supplied with this screenshot of Tim Benjamin's twitter page

Look: Yorkshire!

Barnet must now be the South Riding of Yorkshire? ( and before you feel compelled to write in I know that a riding is a third and thus there isn't a South Riding but let's not let that get in the way of Mr Mustard's little joke )



Mr Benjamin's wikipedia entry is here

Yours frugally

Mr Mustard