Hope tomorrow is better, Sol.

Hope things improve for you.

Oh dear...so sorry to hear this...

Two of my favourites.


It's not a lack of rhythm per se. A lot of them are syncopated, and that works fine if you have drums to keep the beat and the guitar strums clearly. It doesn't work when you just have a piano, flute and singers.




Congratualtions to both of you.

Is it a BSc next, Maizie?

Maizie and Tixylix, huge congratulations to you both!!

Solari, hope you are feeling better today.....

My happy (for yesterday), is that daughter is home, and the squabbling, winding each other up, etc is back between the kids. LOL just the way it should be!!

I echo the congrats above. Squabbling. A good word. My two boys (19 and 16) are staying with me for a few days.. eating me out of house and home... and yes, squabbling.

I am refusing to get them Indian or KFC Take-ways, and today (assuming the weather is still warm) I plan to do lemon and Aspargus Risotto- http://theideaskitchen.co.uk/cook/recipe-f...recipe/?rid=213 It'll either go down a storm.. or bring on a storm!

I've then promised to give some more lessons to my eldest on electric guitar. He's very much a basic beginner... and (oh dear!) wants me to show him how to play the opening guitar bit to Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water!

I want to keep his enthusiasm asnd interest.. but.. honestly!

So it's a sort of link between good good and music... If Risotto be the food of music play on (or something!)

Sorry about that, one of my "mates" is being a monumental idiot and has really stitched me up. I'm absolutely livid about it... I've calmed down a bit now but it's just one more thing to deal with that I don't need.

Bleh, sorry to drag everything down...

It happens to the best of us, Sol. Hope today is better.

Congratulations to Maizie and Tixylix

I hope things sort out for you Solari.

Hope you manage to get it sorted soon.

Erm happy for yesterday was discovering my car (Daimler) has a light up clock Sure all you with modern cars probably have this already? LOL!

A job offer although they lowered the money on offer by 1/6th!

Congratulations!!

My cat

I came in from a bike-ride first thing (before it got too hot) and she promptly sat on the towel I'd chucked on the bed to use on myself. She is obssessed with towel, she just looooves it. So I found another towel, while she had a snooze for a couple of hours.

Then she came out in the garden with me when I hung out some washing and watered a couple of plants at 10am.

Now, it is approaching lunchtime. She has come indoors, come up to the office where I am working, and is making all the noises and movements appropriate for 'I need a fuss'. On paying her some attention, she moves towards the door. If I stand up, she's halfway down the stairs before I reach the door!

She wants to go out in the garden (the door is open, I'm not stopping her), but more importantly she wants to be taken for a walk in the garden. So a noon lunch for me, to be eaten in any shade I can find in our garden.

Somebody does need to let her know she is not a dog sometimes (At bed time, she now follows my husband out of the room when he says "come on then doglet!")

I really wanted the job but they really are going to pay me peanuts. I may have to use my charm to get a quick promotion or pay rise.

Congratulations! I think its better to have a job, even on a lowish salary, than no job! That was my philosophy in accepting pay below average. That and the fact that an average exists infers that someone has to be earning less than it!

You can always keep looking for jobs after you start, should you want to find something more (financially) rewarding.

Congratulations! Agree with the above, especially if it is something where the experience you gain will be worth higher pay later on. I have been in this situation before.

Ditto! and many congratulations on landing a job.

My daughter was recently head-hunted (after only 3 months in her current job, which also pays peanuts).

She went along for the requested interview and was offered the post there and then, and asked for a day or so to think it over. They were offering a few more peanuts than her current post.

She realised she likes the company she works for, isn't ready to move on, and so she decided to stay where she is for the time being. What it did, though, was offer her chance to talk to her bosses, get some feedback on how she is doing so far, and discuss the possibility of other opportunities within the same company, before she made that decision. So handy all round, it seems. Plus great for us to see, despite the odd moan on the phone, how much she's enjoying her current post.

Good luck with yours, Violin Hero. When do you start?

They are taking references and then will contact me with a start date. Was told it would be this month so outgoing person can train me up. The job is as an IT administrator, very much a junior entry level role. I really think I am worth more as my last role paid significantly more but will just have to aim for promotion ASAP!

Congratulations. Now you must make yourself absolutely indispensible to them so that they can't refuse to give you a rise! Hope it all works out well.

I had to check that it wasn't I who had posted this Our cat has just done exactly the same thing as she wants to be escorted into the garden to help me bring in the washing!

Her 'dog' thing is bringing a piece of paper for you to scrunch up and throw, for her to retrieve, many times, until she changes tactic and drops it into her water bowl

it's just started raining

seeing some proper old fashioned harvesting going on.... and oh yeah... and am about to go out to a BBQ!

Clarinet quartetting

Yes, congratulations ViolinHero! Just what I've been waiting to hear
Show 'em what you're made of

I will do once I start. There has been a slight issue with references as some of my referees have managed to get the dates I worked/ studied with them incorrect and one wasn't available when the company tried to contact them. Once it is sorted then I can get a start date and start earning peanuts in my new job, but every has to start at the bottom end of the scale sometime!

Just had a fb message from my teenage son who is away at World Scout Jamboree. He has very long, curly wild hair that he has refused to cut, It is extremely messy- school despair of it! When is force him into the barbers, such a tiny bit comes off! He doesn't brush it- it's his rebellion (and a lot more palatable than drugs or drink!)
His message said his unit members are cutting his hair tonight! Hurray! I jokingly gave the unit leader permission before he left! I probably won't recognise him when he comes back!

Lots of lovely Ravel at the Proms.

He probably thought you'd be absolutely horrified!

Mines the same - obsessed with towel esp. the belts of towelling dressingowns. She has just come in looking like a drowned rat and shaken herself dry just like a dog! She is now meowing at me to stop the rain...one day she'll realise its only hosepipe rain I control.

getting my grade 6 theory result finally.

Well was it good ??

well yeah. i've already posted it in the theory forum. I got a pass (74) which isn't that bad for me. i predicted i would get between 70 and 80. I had a cold and a headache whilst i was doing the exam anyway.

Meeting Andante in C for lunch : )

Meeting maggiemay for lunch.

The sun is shining (but there's a lovely breeze keeping the temperature down), it's Friday, and...... I'm going camping after work

Have fun camping Louise!

I've had a pupil today who is in possession of her lovely new Bliss/ Leblanc clarinet that she bought with the aid of a grant she received by auditioning! She was very excited about it and so was I!
It looks beautiful and sounds lush!

I have wondered about the Bliss clari : do keep me updated

A chilled day at home and across the road in the pool

An 8.5 mile cycle, a clean house, and a whole chicken waiting to be cooked for dinner!!! This makes me a happy (but also very tired!!) badger!! Days off are great!

Mrs has just put a chicken in the oven, then gone out with her mother. I have to keep and eye on it and take it off if theyre not back!

It is Friday. The sun is shining. I have a lot of fruit in the fridge which is going to be the best fruit salad ever.

I've got to try one of these legendary corenfa fruit salads one day...

My recipe doesn't include anything sour.. leave out the oranges and green apples. I like the combination of cherries, nectarines, berries + various sorts of melon. I also like dousing it with cream, but it's pretty good without it too.

What's made me happy today?

Getting married yesterday and getting the same surname as my two lovely children!

Congratulations!!

What happy news. (The nearest the Forums gets to confetti)

Ooo! Many congratulations, Catey!

Many congratulations!!

Well done you! Congrats...

Wishing you an amazing future.....


I have one of my children home now.... YAY.... get another back tomorrow and a niece for a week. DS comes home next week...