When ready to mate, female cats and dogs release a pheromone (volatile hormone) which male dogs can smell miles away. It sends them wild with passion!

Cue for Essex girl jokes?

I still have pricks of conscience about having our dog done when she was little. She was a cross between a labrador and bull Mastiff - both excellent family dogs - but having a crowd of dogs turn our garden into one almighty orgy one day was enough!

But I didn't realise then what a marvellous dog she'd become. I'd love her to have puppies. Too late now.


Steve

Getting some bows on trial with a view to buying one made me happy.

I dislike retail therapy because I then see my bank balance and wish it had not gone down since I had gone shopping.

Odering a very pretty hardback copy of the Well Tempered Clavier after my teacher said yesterday I should be able to manage the first prelude

This addiction HAS to stop

A super Saturday morning's teaching - piano. All pupils turned up inspite of the fact that some of them have different school holidays from me and might therefore have forgotten to come. Everyone had achieved the aim I had set for the week except for one little boy who had spent his practice time writing in the note names of a copy of his brother's music because he wanted to play it too. The difference of 4 grades had not seemed an obstacle!!! When I gently pointed out that though I appreciated his enthusiasm it would be a while before he could actually tackle something like that he got the point and promised to work hard at his sight reading!

The other thing that made me happy was that my favourite cat, spayed the day before yesterday, got off my bed at lunchtime and managed to walk downstairs, tail in the air - and she hasn't tried to pull out the stitches.

You should be able to sight-read it tbh. The rest, unfortunately, isn't as easy!

My piano teachers (and everybody elses tbh) confidence in me is much higher than my own I keep looking at these pieces and thinking "never in a million years" whereas he's saying "right you'll be fine for grade 3 in the summer, let's give exam pieces a rest for a while

I'd say listen to him Definitely get hold of the Anna Magdalena Bach Book as well.. I know I keep on about it but it really is a great buy and well worth getting as it's a good introduction to the style

What Grade 3 pieces are you doing?

Got it this was why Well tempered clavier came up in conversation. I'm doing probably the Sandre "Go to sleep" and Mike Cornick "Waltz in F". Not sure on list A, possibly the Clementi (another v good buy btw )

I got my hair done! What do you think?



I haven't had a fringe since I was about seven I like it though!

I love my violin. Even though I can't really play her.

You can do a lot better than some....

Yes, but I'm still pretty rubbish!

I know that I'm probably doing fairly well for the length of time I've been playing - but I can hear in my head exactly how I want things to sound, and they don't sound like I want them to when I play them.

Very nice, Stephie! The main thing is that you like it, because feeling good about how you look gives you extra confidence.

Nothing to do with music!!!

I wired up the street lights and interior lighting for the Swiss mountain village on the model railway. The street lights among the pine forest and autumn tinted trees on the track leading to the village looks really effective - even if I say so myself.
It's taken me A G E S to work out the wiring - I'm such a non-electrician!
........as well as being a sad old geezer for "playing trains"

Don't care!!

(ps - just bought a gadget for making the "gas" lamps flicker in the town centre...........oh, you saddo you!!

Got a decent amount of practice in for the first time in ages.

We've got a gig next weekend (Valentine's day) and we've spent the last couple of weeks rehearsing with a new pianist. It's sounding pretty good, if we keep it up it will be another good gig which will make me very happy at about this time next week!

I'm definitely getting myself a great train set to play with when I eventually retire Ever since I saw "Beetlejuice", I've wanted one

If you enjoy it, who cares!

Oh, and I have a huge tub of Haagen-Dazs

Playing a duet today in Cardiff. I really enjoyed it.

Are you going to show us the train set now? I like proper train sets.

Getting a new dress for a gig I'm going to next week (although my dad told me I looked like "an Amish lady of the night"-possibly a little short for what he thinks I should wear )

.. a lot of painting. Very happy.

Spring was definitely in the air today - wonderful after so much wet and grey weather

Exactly! And thanks.

Today, I'm happy because I went shopping and bought a load of clothes for going to Malta!

Getting through a Very Big Four Days...

I have a new great-niece! Born yesterday; mother and baby doing well.

Hoping to get up to see her in March (they live at Hebden Bridge, so it's quite a trek from here).

Oh my goodness congratulations! That's so exciting! Are there any name ideas? (If you'd rather not say, that's fine. )

I'm happy because I've been feeling down lately because I hadn't been hanging round with friends as much as last term. This weekend, I stopped waiting around to see what other friends were doing, and went out with people I don't know that well from one of my choirs. I went to dinner on Saturday and out to watch a French-soc film tonight, and it's been great, and I've made some great new friends. In between activities I've actually had phonecalls from the other friends apologising and offering real reasons for not being able to get in touch with me and do stuff. So I'm happy.

Congratulations, BM!

Her name is Charlotte Sophia - very Hanoverian!

Glad you've had a good weekend and made some new friends.




Thanks, DC!

Congrats BerkshireMum!!

my new best friend would be sleeping over tonight=)

My husband bought me a rail simulator game for Christmas. It's got Oxford to Paddington line (with modern traing), York to Newcastle (with 1970s stock - oooooh, Deltic!), and Bath to Templecombe (with steam trains).
It's good fun - and using up far too much of my time! I don't think he'd dare start me on real model trains

Good to see you posting on he happy thread Maizie The trains will take your mind off other things. Hm, that might be something I'd like a go at, I used to be a real train/steam engine enthusiast in my youth - but that was ages ago !

I had a lovely 4 day weekend .... that made me smile but now at 1pm I have my 5 hour dance class.


Oh and today - I get my assesment results for dance semesther 1 - ahh!

Managed to finally get round to doing a little running repair which was needed on one of the small show greenhouses at work. (Easily pleased, aren't I!)

The fact that I will be in Malta this time tomorrow

Good luck! Hope you've done well.

A very good second-last-before-exam clarinet lesson - except that in one of my pieces, I don't seem able to breathe properly...

I enjoyed listening to it!



Many congratulations!

Finally ditched the non-branded 'student' rosin that came with my violin outfit, and upgraded to some nice Hidersine rosin instead. Much happier

Spending the day with my little sister, sharing laughs over a sushi lunch and buying trollbeads in summer colours.

Congratulations, BM.

Emma, that sounds like a great day!

Getting a couple of birthday cards in the post cheered me up today. Not that my housemates would let me open them... meanies.

Friend getting my tickets for Avenue Q next Friday for the start of what should hopefully be a great weekend :-)

That's a very enjoyable musical...enjoy!

All together now..

"The internet is for, internet is for, internet is for...."

Having a really fab day at work experience, and a ballet "masterclass" when I came home

I just put lots of Kate Rusby songs onto my mp3 player now I can't wait to leave for my lecture.

Getting back on this site after a long absence.

Boro have won a match.

sister, sushi and trollbeads - perfect

I went for a walk with friends this morning - a realy up-hill-and-down-dale ramble, and we got back before the snow fell