Wonders if Barry woke with warm feet...........

They must be medium-rare, I'd imagine.

Is that one of the X buses? there are a few of them that head through York. Not sure if First now does a service that runs to Leeds and I seem to remember seeing somewhere that an Adult day Rover (£3.70) can now take you as far as Leeds on the First system. Could be worth looking into .... though it may have been a short term promotion ... or indeed I could just be wrong!!

Sorry I won't be joining you for pizza this time...

I think it's the X64 that goes to Leeds for £5 return, but the last one leaves York at 6pm. I can't remember the numbers of the Coastliner ones

I find this website useful when journey planning

that's great - thank you

You are very welcome

The things that wash up on the "beach" round here... there's an inflatable doll down there today, much cause for hilarity in the office. We're wondering if it has crabs.


Someone must have had a stag do or something and dumped it in the Thames...

haha, I went to a prom in the summer with a group of friends and we basically did that luckily we were near the front of the queue
Yep, it's mainly groups who have done well in the Music for Youth National Festival, lots of different genres, last time I went we had everything from orchestras and brass bands to pop/rock. I think you might be able to see the lineup on the Music for Youth website.
Yep, last time we had fireworks (inside!) and balloons, though apparently this time we're getting little lights rather than hats and flags at the end But it should still be good, Land of Hope and Glory and all that
I'm really excited too!

I know that it must just be an optical illusion, but I'm sure that this smilie looks larger than this when they are put next to each other.

Good luck! It's just as bad when my brother has lots of 13 year old friends round to sleep over!

OMG I'm playing in the Hampshire massed piece too. I agree, it is pretty interesting. I personally am in great awe of the drama people. Seriously, I was laughing so hard at rehearsals on Wednesday that I almost fell over

And the ballet to heavy brass - what is that about?

Don't suppose anyone knows any tricks to getting cheap flights anywhere? I'm a bit down, and want to get away for the weekend, to visit a friend in Belfast, but all the flights seem prohibitively expensive. I looked at ferries, but they didn't seem much better really.

I'm very thirsty, and off to get either a glass of apple squash (with only 2 calories per glass! but probably a lot of bad chemicals... ) or a bottle of water. I can't stand drinking water from a glass, don't know why, it makes me feel sick

Wow, coincidence! lol I know, really, some people just shouldn't be given a microphone... and yeah... but I thought the little girl doing the ballet stuff on her own was amazing

Stress of group work and essays taking their toll?

Unfortunately most flights advertised as cheap are almost impossible to get at that price once you add on all the extra stuff like taxes etc

I've got my 2 weeks off booked now, starting on the 16th! hurrah... tonnes of piano practice, and doing whatever else I please

That's definitely a factor. Made a total idiot out of myself in a seminar the other day. It's more friend stuff though, to be honest. I don't want to moan, if I got into it even a little bit, I'd have to explain a whole thing, but I seem to be growing apart from my friends here. I never see them, because we all have so much work, and since i don't live with them, I don't really have that connection. I'm kind of getting lonely. Can you hear the world's tiniest violin playing just for me?

Somehow I've managed to stay close with a couple of friends from home though, so I want to visit them. I looked at cheap flights, which were like £16 or something, and then it added tax and it was suddenly up to hundreds!

All the hard work won't last forever, there will be breaks. Try not to let it get you down.

Flights are ridiculous these days unless you book in advance... I've had several plans scuppered this year due to prices flying through the roof!

EDIT: I seem to be living in some sort of time warp. People across the road seem to think it's still November the 5th and are letting off fireworks?

Where will the knitted character be this week?

My friends were moaning in Physics on Friday that they've spent all week watching TV just to look for it and haven't found it!

Just seen this, that's a pity - but it'll be good to see you at the gig again

I was teaching my sister to sing the notes of C major scale, and after G she sang H. Aaah... I think she knows now, though!

*should really come on here more often*

Nicki! good to see you posting again!

Aw, Luce! If you ever feel like doing something, even just having a cup of tea and chat, call me or something, if you like! I get pretty lonely sometimes too, tbh... and my friends from home seem to have forgotten me already. *tiny violin starts playing again*

You need to find two more lonesome people and you'll have a little string quartet!

You'll both be fine It's all part and parcel of the uni experience, I guess! I hope things seem a bit brighter for you both soon!

Aww thanks. Same goes, and I'm sure I will take you up on that at some point.

I'm sure your friends haven't forgotten you. *hugs*.
Out of interest, what is the tiny violin playing for you?

Your tiny hand is frozen?

If my printer breaks now, at least I have the insides of the programmes printed...

Many people were wearing poppies last week. I have 30mins ago just walked down Horsforth High Street, and now they mostly have disappeared, certainly there are far less on view. Yet today is Armistice Day !
I guess that as most churches this year had Remembrance Services last Sunday (they are always on the Sunday nearest to Armistice Day), people went to church and then removed their poppies. !
We have just observed 2 min silence in our office.

I was walking around there yesterday

My office is at 8, Kerry Hill, just off the High St. I can sometimes be found in the Town Tavern at 1pm or so ! (as Skylark well knows !)

Jeepers... Fiona and I are proper coming to Headingley soon!!

Haha! F#m had best watch his back, eh Matthew?

It's Horsforth now (a couple of miles or so away), we moved from Headingley three months ago !
But if you're around this way at all mid week, I'd be happy to buy you a drink whether Headingley or Horsforth

That would be lovely, thank you. We will try to take you up on that at some point. (And return the favour, obviously.)

I don't know how this happened, but according to the statistics, I've posted more items today than BC! Must go and sit down in a darkened room........

I was wondering earlier, and I think someone on here whould be able to answer, if you have a concerto, eg. for clarinet, do you have a clarinet in the orchestra too. I would assume that you wouldn't and the only clarinet would be the soloist, but it's been puzzling me all day.

My printer says it's run out of blue ink.

I've written Celeste's name on the programme in blue : and it's printing it in a nice shade of blue.

The printer is lying

I think, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, you only have one soloist but you'd have more than one clarinet. The 1sts, 2nds, 3rds, would play in the orchestral bits but none would play with the soloist



Mine lies frequently (or rather my old one did before it gave up altogether) it tells me my ink is empty and I still print like 100 more pages or something.

I think it's so you spend more on ink but what a waste!

There will nearly always be orchestral tutti clarinet parts as well, yes. The same goes for wind bands : I've got a piece for solo clari and wind band on the go at the moment, and there is a solo part, plus tutti 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Depends - earlier concertos wouldn't have any in the orchestra, more modern ones may well but it is probably safe to say the orchestral clarinet parts are unlikely to be terribly exciting. I played in an orchestra accompanying the Debussy Premiere Rapshody where to keep ourselves awake the other clarinettist and I swapped parts every bar during the rehearsals to avoid terminal boredom!





again Barry answers just before me!

What wind band piece are you doing?

You did add the bit about earlier concerti though!



Sing Sing Sing. Benny Goodman. Top B. A very long top B.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggg
ggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I hate that top B!

Great fun but to project over the band I played it with meant by the time I got to that note my lip was rather dead (esp as it was at the end of the 1st half of the programme) I split it sooo many times. Our current MD is suggesting we should either do that again or maybe the Artie Shaw sometime next year.

Oh I'd love to do the Artie Shaw at some time

Glad you feel the same about the top B CJB!

WOW!!!! I wouldn't even know the fingering for the top B anymore!! I learn't those top notes at 18 but then haven't really played much above top G (thankfully)

If I get a chance, I'll show you on Saturday Dawn

Thanks Barry I could probably look it up but don't see me playing it any time soon anyway

All the best for Saturday. Next time I speak to you it'll probably be after hearing you play. I'm looking forward to it. safe journey.

Thanks Dawn : see you soon!

If you do the Artie Shaw concerto, let me know and wherever you are, I'll try and come! It's one of my top favourites and I'd love to hear a live performance of it