OK...I'll pick something more interesting to talk about then!!!

You may scoff, but you would've got lynched! (I know people who know people... )


Huzzah!


In one day??!

Netball?

Um...

It's not that I mind the rain as such, it's the fact that it brings the slugs out

I don't mind slugs as much as snails. Don't you just hate that ominous crunch on a dark night as you step on one tempted out by the rain?!

I thought slugs were just snails that hadn't paid the rent and had therefore been evicted?

But stepping on a slug in the dark when you have no shoes on is not much fun either (for you or the slug)

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I don't mind slugs as much as snails. Don't you just hate that ominous crunch on a dark night as you step on one tempted out by the rain?!
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Couldn't agree more. I stepped on TWO getting out of the car last night, so then off to bed feeling quilty...

I think I'd rather step on a snail than a slug.

Is that not snailcialist?

Slugs could be a bit slippery to step on and you might slip over

At least with snails the shell will help provide some friction so much safer

I was thinking more along the lines of slugs would squidge along over your foot, which would just be disgusting lol

But snails are much nicer to pick up by the shell, whereas slugs are not something I have any desire to touch. And snails are far more satisfying to lob over the fence, you can hear them clatter through the trees on the other side which doesn't happen with slugs.

Yes, I too always lob snails into next doors garden, but I always squash slugs !

Hmm, what to do first...

sort out handbell music, battle with student finance idiots, recorder practice, fiddle practice, get dressed, brush teeth, lunch...

hmm

get dressed, lunch, brush teeth (you might as well just do them after lunch at this point!), student finance, recorder, fiddle, handbell music (you can sort the music when you're tired but wouldn't be able to practice so well).

Lol. thanks.

So far it's been fiddle with viola (fiddle in the sense of muck around, not the instrument), try playing viola with violin bow and violin with viola bow. Have come to the conclusion that they seem to sound best with the bows swapped round. Now, will probably contemplate having lunch.

I seem to have passed 6000 posts without realising it.

That's a lot of posts, sarah!

So far today I've practised clarinet, got showered, had lunch, tried out a new book of tunes and found it's too hard for me and now I'm going to play some more. I've got things to do but my excuse is that I'm waiting for a package to arrive.

This is a test post, using my iPod...

So far today I have eaten a chocolate muffin, showered etc, spoken to skylark, sung some duets and eaten some custard.

I'm curious as to the separation of the first and last statement which would appear to naturally go together...

I agree!!!!

it worked!

I dont have any problems posting with my iPhone, but it is a bit fiddly. Most of the time I post from my laptop, but sometimes at night I can't be bothered booting up , so I usually have a look at latest posts before I go to bed, and sometimes do an occasional post on it.

I was quite surprised how comparatively easy it was to post something via the iPod, though I agree, it was a little fiddly...

Well, I think both your methods are nicer than those of someone I know - she always puts salt on the poor creatures.

Perhaps I'm not aware of treading on slugs (as, unlike an earlier poster I don't go out without shoes in the dark!), because it always seems to be the snails I notice!

Dad painted the bathroom

Without telling me that he was doing it tonight

And I didn't get to say goodbye

Goodbye to the paint?!

Ditto...??

I understand.

I'm sitting in a half-dismantled old music room, and the new music room is still the sitting room, albeit with new walls and floor and the piano moved there. Sometimes it's hard to let go...

We are clearing out my late mother-in-law's flat, making preparations to sell it. My brother-in-law lives up that way, and is currently on gardening leave, so he is doing the bulk of the work, the star.
Yesterday, he was clearing out the garage - it contained loads more empty boxes [anything that ever came in a box, keep the box], three broken lawn mowers, and lots of other bits of rubbish.
At the very back of the garage, he came across a shoebox. Opened it up, and it had layers of tissue paper on the top. Ooooooooh, what long forgotten gem could this be?
So he unwrapped the tissue paper to reveal...the complete skeleton of a hedgehog. Clearly it'd been tucked away to hibernate, and the completely forgotten!

We found it terribly funny in a terribly sad kind of way. Actually, I think it must have never woken up from hibernation, otherwise it would have at least tried to nibble its way out of the cardboard box/tissue paper, so that's a bit less sad than it being trapped and forgotten.

Big Brother has been axed by Channel 4

Thank God for that!!!!

One more series next year, then that's it. Forever.

Only in the sense that it's not on Channel 4...

It will be aired by another channel unfortnatly (Channel 5 perhaps?)

That's a pity. Perhaps no-one will want it, and it will still disappear forever...

Oh fgs.. another piece added to the backlog Started playing the first page this morning, now I want to learn it all... 7 pages though At least it's *relatively* easy and isn't a Beethoven Behemoth.

Hopefully this means we've reached the bottom of the barrel, but I have a sneaky suspicion someone will stir the sludge at the bottom and come up with something even more banal.

Now, why did I agree to having a go at the bassoon part in our holiday orchestra thingy, when they say you have to be grade 6 or above? I only applied to play the clarinet there because my friend persuaded me I'd be fine. I wasn't. Then, it turned out there wasn't a bassoonist, so guess what my clarinet teacher suggests?
They are trying to contact some people who might actually be able to play it - but personally I think it's all impossible - even the 2nd clarinet parts! All the demisemiquavers make me actually look like this (red in the face )
(The pieces are Gershwin - An American in Paris, and Bernstein - Overture to Candide.)

Both these pieces are glorious, but agree, they are a bit tricky, particularly the Candide...

I've got 40 fairy cakes in the oven...

That's a lot of cakes! Are you having a party?

Did you use real fairies? Did you have to gas them first or did you cook them alive?

I did some baking this morning - choux buns, last time I made them they were perfect. This time they turned into a stodgy horrible mess (I think it's probably do to the different temperature control in my dad's state of the art fan assisted oven and my temperamental old fashioned gas oven). The buns ended up in the bin - I've now got a mix of whipped cream, raspberries and white chocolate that I prepared as a filling to find something to do with.

Chocolate and raspberry mousse?

Oh goodness, I'm neck-and-neck with Barry-Clari!

I think I'm going to play it safe - something like scones, or shortbread biscuits made a bit special by the decadent topping.

No! Some friends are coming over tonight. Recipe said it made 24...not quite sure how I got 40 out of the mixture



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Choux buns can be very temperamental. I made profiteroles once and had to make them twice as the first time they were just flat. We have a gas oven too, I was amazed when I first used a fan oven! No turning it on twenty minutes before you want it.

Could you use that filling as a filling for a sponge cake?