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> What's Made You Happy Today.... ?
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post Aug 21 2011, 02:19 PM
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QUOTE(Czerny @ Aug 21 2011, 03:02 PM) *

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Doesn't something similar happen in the process for making Harris tweed? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)


Having just looked it up - apparently, wee was involved in a lot of traditional dyeing until they discovered other mordants (I think that's the stuff that sets the dye in the cloth).
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post Aug 21 2011, 05:31 PM
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Riding pillion behind Alpha Male Jazz Cat on his beloved ancient Honda (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

Never felt so free in all my life...

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post Aug 21 2011, 06:30 PM
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My friend has just told me that she's passed her ATCl with 93/100!
She tried to do it a few years ago but was too ill, but now she's done it, and she's getting married later this year - go girlie! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Aug 21 2011, 06:40 PM
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QUOTE(Bagpuss @ Aug 21 2011, 06:31 PM) *

Riding pillion behind Alpha Male Jazz Cat on his beloved ancient Honda (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

Never felt so free in all my life...

Biker-Bag xx


AWWWWWW!!!!!!!

You biker chick, you (praps you need to change your profile pic (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) ).

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post Aug 21 2011, 09:05 PM
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A perfect day, really. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Began with a lie-in; then packed a picnic and en route to destination called in to old dad and OH fixed up his digi-box thingy.

Drove to cliff-top bird reserve and walked along the headland path in gorgeous weather. Ate picnic looking over huge limestone cliffs and down at gannets, herring gulls and kittywakes (sp?)
We carried on to a vast, beautiful, almost deserted beach with perfect sand and no painful pebbles to hobble over. Had a paddle in the clear blue sea and then walked back - about 8 miles altogether.

Watched the Verdi Requiem during dinner, which rounded things off nicely.

*sigh*
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post Aug 21 2011, 09:44 PM
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Speaking to my husband who is actually seems quite happy considering he's out in the middle of nowhere in Zambia and way out of his comfort zone!

Um.... having fun in the hot tub with my kids


finding accomadation next door for our ex-lodgers, so they'll still be near us but not in our house!


Not a bad day really considering I was feeling a little lonely this morning!
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post Aug 21 2011, 10:43 PM
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This morning I sang the treble solos from Schubert's Mass in G in Lincoln Cathedral! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Aug 21 2011, 11:01 PM
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QUOTE(Floss @ Aug 21 2011, 11:43 PM) *

This morning I sang the treble solos from Schubert's Mass in G in Lincoln Cathedral! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


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post Aug 22 2011, 07:40 AM
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QUOTE(Czerny @ Aug 21 2011, 03:02 PM) *

QUOTE(corenfa @ Aug 21 2011, 02:43 PM) *

QUOTE(andante_in_c @ Aug 21 2011, 02:41 PM) *

QUOTE(corenfa @ Aug 21 2011, 02:35 PM) *

I have learnt that if you want to use woad to make dye, you have to ferment it and wee on it.

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I hope that piece of information comes in useful sometime. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I doubt it ever will! The reason it was even on GQT at all was that a lady said that she wanted to plant traditional dye plants to dye the wool that she spins (blimey, she really must be into this self-sufficiency thing), and she asked for some tips on how to grow them. The panelist said that she might want to not tell her neighbours what she was up to, as kings & queens used to ban woad fermentation from taking place near any highways that they might be travelling near, because it stank so badly.

Doesn't something similar happen in the process for making Harris tweed? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)


'Wee' finds uses in all sorts of processes, even today. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Church bells are cast in moulds made from a mixture of horse dung, straw and clay. The moulds are baked dry in an oven, and any cracks are filled with a thinned down mix of the above! Apparently, the ureic acid in the horse dung is important to acheive the correct tempering of the alloy used to cast the bells. Having been to Taylor's Bell Foundry in Loughborough to see our new Treble and Second cast I can assure you the smell is something else! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ill.gif)

My happy is having just returned from a brilliant week's holiday, which included all the usual things plus steam trains and being locked in to a veeerrrry large ecclesiastical building (after hours) with only a four manual Willis and a pile of organ music to pass the time. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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post Aug 22 2011, 12:21 PM
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A 1st lesson with a lovely 11 year old. He's just passed his G1 but had to stop lessons with his previous teacher due to changing schools. Today was a trial lesson - I hope he becomes a regular.
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post Aug 22 2011, 03:02 PM
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Going to the lunchtime Prom. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Violamum was only on holiday - not a victim of moastal erosion. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Aug 22 2011, 08:33 PM
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QUOTE(tonedeafmum @ Aug 22 2011, 03:10 PM) *
Violamum was only on holiday - not a victim of moastal erosion. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


YAY!!

For me... I am in Kent staying with kids with a friend. Spent the afternoon, putting the world to rights, drinking tea, watching her adorable kitten play!
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post Aug 22 2011, 09:02 PM
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QUOTE(Floss @ Aug 21 2011, 11:43 PM) *

This morning I sang the treble solos from Schubert's Mass in G in Lincoln Cathedral! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Excellent. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif) I'm really pleased. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Aug 23 2011, 07:18 AM
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My viola is sick and in hospital (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

She's in the hands of an award-winning luthier and I'm beyond excited about getting her back because she's going to be fabulous (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


Hurry up Thursday..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif)




Oh.. and hubby is on holiday from work and although we're just at home we're having a wonderful time with long dog-walks and daytrips and going out for lunch and just having fun (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

Oh, oh, oh ... and a new gallery has taken four of my paintings for their current exhibition ... and will be taking two to LONDON in October!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


Sorry, I'm just having a bit of a happy-fest at the moment (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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