Where I woke up.

to the county where you woke up




I've been happy pootling around North Yorkshire today. Found a good hardware shop in Bedale

We have had a near perfect day. Drove gently to Beverley whilst listening to radio 3 (Beethoven's tempest comparisons, Claudio Arrau reviewers choice!), instead of the usual thrash. Spent an hour wandering round the market and having an 'al fresco' lunch in the very warm sun, before enjoying the final recital of the Chamber music festival. The Cropper/Welsh/Roscoe trio played 2 more Beethoven trios finishing with the Archduke. I've heard them play this 3 times now and it just gets better & better, the 3rd movement - andante cantabile - is "simply the most glorious movement in all of Beethovens chamber works", quote from Moray Welsh. Still can't get it out of my head.

Being out in the sunshine most of the day, with the kids and also catching up with an old friend.

Had a piano lesson this morning, preparing for the Devizes Eistedfodd music festival in November. I'm playing 'Auschwung' from 'Phantasie Stucke' by Schumann, which i think is on the diploma list with the first piece, so will probably do the piece for the diploma as well.

Also, i love the cold weather, and it's been cold with lovely fog all over the fields next to my teachers house today!

Jacob.

for hardware!

The highlight of today... Probably Evensong. (Don't tell Matthew, I don't think I was meant to be quite so enthusiastic about it. )

i love hardware stores, i havent got a clue why, i find them very interesting!

Me too! There's a lovely one in Wadebridge, which is a mixture of everything you could possibly need, and some odd vintage things as well. The counter is made up of half an old car, and if you look up at the walls, there are old motor bikes and other odd paraphernalia hanging about. It's a bit of a mess, but all the better for that, I think.

I'm happy today because my new nephew arrived at twenty minutes past midnight today. But the best bit is that he is ginger - so he matches his older brothers! (If he hadn't have been ginger there were serious discussions about returning him under the 14 day money back guarantee!)

Awww....

See you later, Auntie Onion!!

A good rehearsal - Oboe/Recorder/Piano. And the sun is shining.

A very long ( ) but extremely helpful PM. I won't name names but you know who you are! Thank you x

V.g. lunch in office canteen today - coley sautéed with lemon on couscous. Nice to know that fish from sustainable stocks can taste good.

And I managed to play the top Cs in my (tenor) part of The Lone Ar-ranger...

great news onion!

I had a 6 year old pupil for her second lesson. We looked at E,D and C on notation and we learned to play them (without hitting the G sharp key). Then we were looking at some easy pieces with just these notes in and I was singing them to the pupil, naming the letter names as I joined. She was following the music...... BUT THEN.... she began singing the letter names with me. I backed off and she led... she was sight singing accurately at 6, in her second lesson. I was very impressed.


Maybe I'm just feeling happy as I thought I deserved 2 glasses of wine after I taught til 8pm tonight.

what a lovely thing to happen for you

good today: Sibelius/ laughing at some old emails/ phone contact/helping a friend/ prospects of a great weekend - all good

I have been invited to play second oboe in the French equivalent of a County music teachers' symphony orchestra

that's good
what music will you be playing?

A very successful concert

The powers of medicine

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Today my lecture took place on the beach - luckily it was sunny although windy and I'm very happy because my dictaphone still worked despite the breeze

It's an interesting experience having a lecture on the beach

was it really 3.48am that I got a text...
it seems a bit of a blur now, but it's there on my phone makes me happy

Nothing.

Going to the dentist

I didn't get panicked beforehand, my dentist turned out to be as nice as he always is, I have to go back to have a filling but I don't mind because it was just a virtually stress-free event, which was a very pleasant surprise!

Goind to Madrid!! leaving from work in about 30 minutes!!!!

It's Friday!

Woke up tired and grumpy and a little stressed- husband away and I had to get one child to someone's house to get to school at 7:50am and another was off to the London Festival of Gymnastics and needed to be somewhere else 30 mins later, with packed lunch and tea etc etc.....
I opened the curtains and there wasa beautiful sunrise.... It was stunning and made me smile...
A lovely start to the day....

Dentist said i had perrtty amazing teeths =)

That line never works...

Kids had a half day at school and we had fish'n'chips outdoors for lunch, yum - naughty but nice!

My grade 5 songs are more or less, give or take a bit, memorised

course it did.

It spurred me on to buy a big bottle of coke =)

... which will contribute to tooth decay as quick as anything

i had alot of coke today!
We should form a club

What's made me happy today?...

Painkillers.



I fell off a gate yesterday and twisted my knee and jarred my back (which has damaged discs).

Now I feel all warm and fuzzzy and my sore joints feel hot and comfortable...

think I'll go for a snooze....

hope you are ok Lottie.
today: a trip into the City, minimal shopping but coffee and sandwiches with a friend... bought some scented candles for someone else too.
Nice

I have a non-practising 12 year old pupil... fairly beginnerish- Gr 1 standard. We've had zero practice this term.... until this week. I found a simple version of the titanic them tune. She practises.
I smile.
Today, I found her out a copy of Making the Grade Gr 1. We play the Theme from East enders, supercalifragilistic, Love me Tender.... we play other music from that book, (working on tongueing, slurring and breathing) and she leaves saying 'I'm definitely going to practise this week, I LOVE these pieces'. I smile again.

a nice pm in the morning from someone

a hug from a friend

and this evening, two hours on the phone with a friend

was that me perchance?
or did you get a nicer one?

when was the biscuit better taken ?
think I've seen and heard it all now

I can now play the piano for twenty minutes before having to get up and move around!

that is sounding like an improvement DC good for you

It is...thank you!

well, it is good
and time you had things going well for you

Thanks..it looks like my niece is improving too.

that's good news too....

That's good news, DC.