spinet

The Advocacy action, which is being sponsored by the Business Advocacy Challenge Fund (BUSAC), is to create a platform for SPINnet members and other stakeholders to dialogue on the issue of minimum standards and its effect on the local textile industry.

[S]he was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinnet; so, at eight years old she began.

And, by the way, don't try and sneak in any of that dreary lute and spinnet music - yeah, all right in its place - you know wad I mean?

At the back of the first floor is a Georgian sitting room, with original paintings and an antique spinnet. Go down the stairs and you find yourself in a recreated '30s saloon bar - complete with old copies of the local paper and plastic Scotch pies.

Chasers Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet and Katie Bell are nimble enough and are ably backed up by Wood and the flame-haired daredevil Weasley twins, Fred and George.

Assuming - and this is by no means clear - that the series is aimed at a popular audience, it might have been especially helpful to provide a short glossary of seventeenth-century theoretical terms to accompany Purcell's opening instructions in Choice Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (pp.