mmm maybe....I'm just a little worried that if he goes he may not come back! He's thinking about it - and has the same worry, I think...

Now then Dave, less of the "burning desire" right now if you catch my drift. Not the best choice of words.

Original post amended jod. I hope we're still friends!

Language, f#m!!!!!!!!!!!

I lost my bleeding key when we had the radiators replaced.

To the poor members who have no heat, you are welcome at mine. My house is positively roasting hot with my boiling blood!!!

Re-reading that has made me laugh! Feel much better now!

Bristol Road. A38M, M6, M1 junction 18. Daventry railfreight. And all without the lovely Sarah Walker on the radio to console me.

Enough to make anybody scream

Yes better I think thanks Jod! Just fed up of being taken for granted, not listened to, etc. (What a whinge...) I'm a stubborn and reliable sort who just puts up with things and keeps going. But I think I need to start saying 'no'. Could be fun. Will look forward to the piano students new year concert on Saturday instead.

I know where you are coming from there, but hey, I am a mum, it comes with the territory. I needed to get the ambulance chaser thing off my chest too. I thought it was in such bad taste.

Still onwards and upwards. Cat is still doing better, and life is looking up.

One day I'll get everything pointing forward at the same time. Enjoy your concert.

BTW I've learnt to say 'no'! Someday soon I'll be listened to. That'll be even better

Got logged out of the forum for some reason and have spent over 24 hours waiting for the 'within 10 minutes if not instantly' e-mailed password. In the end resorted to going through ancient e-mails to find out what I did last time this happened and actually found the information I needed. I expect I will now receive the e-mail with my password details It's not that I have anything I need to post, I just don't like being told I can't

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I hate crying because I'm always unsure when I'll stop. I hate being deprived of music for too long, it keeps me sane.

AAAGGHHH! I can't play note, rest, note rest and variations of the same properly. My brain knows how but my tongue and breath won't cooperate.
I'm sure I could do it once.
The perils of tweaking technique!

I know where you're coming from... I feel as though I am currently incapable of playing anything but scales and two-part Bach. At crotchet=80 or slower. I feel like the centipede who lost track of his legs. Can't work out how to move my fingers right.

Based on my profession I would have thought I would have managed to set up some 2.1 speakers within an hour but no still causing some issues. The issue is I can get one speaker working fine but when I get 2 working togther there is a slight crackly noise coming from both speakers!

Never never delegate. It is the most over-rated activity in the world.

Just spent hours and hours tonight (which I should have been spending with my visiting sister) re-doing something which someone else at work messed up.

My New Year's resolution to be less of a control freak has now gone out the window - along with the diet.

Bed now.

Sulking.

And fat.

My kettle's just gone bang.

I'm going to have to go out and get a new one before I can have a cup of tea.

Sunday opening can be such a great thing.

and saucepans

I did consider using a saucepan, but then thought that I probably won't get much of a chance to go out and buy a new kettle before next weekend, and didn't fancy having to boil water in a saucepan all week.

There's a cookshop 5 minutes walk away, so it was an easy task to get a new one.

Having had a full day yesterday, I had to go shopping this morning as distinct lack of comestibles in the house cooked lunch, carried on plate, walked into lounge and threw it all over the floor

How on earth did that happen? Never done that before...

Oh, how annoying for you! I hate it when that sort of thing happens. I remember one Christmas spending ages making a large mince and apple pie that I thought was going to do 5 of us for two days' puddings. Unfortunately, on taking it out of the oven I managed to drop it into a large bag of shopping which was waiting to be put away when I'd done the pie - smashed glass and bits of pie everywhere, plus ruined shopping bag! Amazingly, although the pie dish had smashed against them, neither of the bottles of red wine in the bag were broken - otherwise the mess would have been even worse.

I hope you had a nice lunch eventually.

Eventually, thank you

I'm now going to make a batch of either chilli or Bolognese for the freezer - can't decide which at he moment!

Just make sure it gets as far as the freezer without being deposited on the kitchen floor!

This is really not a good New Year.



I keep getting health issues thrown at me - two more last week. Instrumental practice has had to be completely abandoned - even demonstrating things in lessons - as it gives rise to so much pain that the next day I begin to wish I wasn't here. Hospital referrals are looming, and poor OH is having to do everything for me. Don't think I can cope....

(Sorry, this post should have come with a health warning.)

So sorry to read this, Misterioso. I hope the hospital referrals help. It's so frustrating to be held back by poor health when your spirit is desperate to get on with things. Let's hope that the doctors can sort you out soon.

Misterioso..

Can I have an Aaaaagggghhhh for the whole of 2012 so far?! Car crash last week, my Nan had a cardiac arrest last Tuesday (but fortunately pulled through) and I've just had another epidural for a prolapsed disc and it hurts Really hoping things will get better from now on.

Sorry to hear that

Hope 2012 improves soon.

Ouch! (for the car crash and the prolapsed disc)
Really pleased Nan has pulled through, although that must have been really awful at the time.

Is the epidural one of lignocaine and a steroid? One that is going to make you feel like the area is on fire for awhile then allow all the inflammation to settle, then with luck allow the disc to shrink back to place?

I've had a couple of these in a bursae in my left hip. I fell off rocks on Mackinnon's Beach on Mull and since then have been plagued with bursitis in my left hip on top of my fibro. The injection is heaven for the first few hours, hurts like blue murder for about 36 hours then lasts for about 6-9 months.

With any luck yours will last longer.

The hip is currently blue murder without the injection. This will teach me not to scramble over wet granite boulders, and that maybe, just maybe, the broken leg would have been the better option.

Take care Appasionata. I do hope you are feeling better soon.

Aaaaagggghhhh

I want MORE opportunities to play my beloved viola

I did play in the local orchestra but had to give up last year because I was spending evenings visiting sick mother in hospital/home (it always coincided with orchestra night )

I was due to re-join tonight but we're having something delivered and it could arrive any time up to 9pm It's going to take two of us to move it through the house so if it doesn't arrive by 5pm I miss ANOTHER orchestra night

But I want to play in ANYTHING... chamber music, duets or a quartet etc... I just want to PLAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY

Oh I so hope you can get some sense out of the medics and get on with what you want to do very very soon.


Here's hoping things are now on the up for you xx

Bad things can come in threes - I hope things now begin to improve for you and your luck is better!

Thanks everyone, especially you Jod for your good wishes. My back is feeling a bit better today, although I can't decide if it's due to the epidural, or starting fentanyl patches. Either way, it feels better at the moment. Still only managed to sleep till 4am though. Jod - it was Bupivacaine (local anaesthetic) and steroid. The last one didn't work at all, but hopefully it will this time. I hope your hip is feeling a bit better too.

Just off to visit my Nan at the hospital. She's also on the mend, but can't stand up yet, so I think it's going to be a while before she can go home.

A

MNW's post was in response to a post from jod that has been swiftly removed - so it looked a little out of context now AH iit's amended now

I merely said 'A' as in scared 'A'!

Still waiting to be deleted...

So was mine.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

This is all getting Too Much.

I agree. I have started pressing the report button more frequently these days.

Congrats on your 10,000 posts Cyrilla!

Congrats on your 700 posts, LizzieT!!!!

I didn't notice!

Have you lost your "g", Cyrilla?

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Group hug, anyone?

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slaving over a hot stove I've missed an excitement

Sorry - I read that as 'shaving over a hot stove'.

Funny place, I thought.

If you meant you missed excitement here, I think you had the better deal.