Name: cheeble
Age: 18
Occupation: Music Student and Choral Scholar at Christ's College Cambridge, JCR First Year Rep, Christ's College Music Society Treasurer, CUMS1 Resident Optimist and Generally Lazy Useless Person Living Off A Student Loan And Doing No Work (and that's such an important job that it warrants capitals for every word)
Status: Been with boyfriend for a year and three days, lol, it's a long-distance relationship: he's in Newcastle, I'm in Cambridge
Instrument: Violin, viola, pianoforte, organ, French horn, recorders, guitar
Favourite Place: India
Would love to...: Make people permanently happy
Saying: "I see, said the blind man, waving his wooden leg as he ran down the street"
I'm wearing: thin, as are all my jokes

Name: Ian
Age: 38
Occupation: Development chemist
Status: Married
Instrument: Piano, guitar, bass guitar
Favourite Place: Cortina d'Ampezzo (or anywere with snow really).
Would love to...: be able to change my handle to ianporsche
Saying: Please can I have a Porsche
I'm wearing: lab coat and safety glasses




One fine day in the middle of the night
2 dead soldiers got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other

A paralysed donkey came riding by,
Kicked a blind man in the eye
... can't remember the rest of the next verse, grr!

???




I agree with those folks ^^^ that Iceland sounds a great place to visit. Was planning to go with a friend a while back (we had grand plans of visiting NY via the Shetlands, the Faroe Isles, and Iceland ) but it didn't work out in the end!

Google says:
One fine day in the middle of the night
2 dead soldiers got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other

One was blind and the other couldn't see,
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"

A paralysed donkey passing by,
Kicked the blind man in the eye,
Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,

A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came to arrest the two dead boys,
If you don't believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!

just reminded me of the one my granddad used to say all the time when i was little...

I went to the pictures tommorrow
I took a front seat at the back
I bought a plain bun with currants in
I ate it and gave it them back

I turned a straight bent corner
To see a dead donkey die
And when I took out my gun to shoot it
It was [sounds like 'bo-legged' but i don't think that exists] in one eye

ok, so apart from wrecking the last line (i can't think of the word that fitted - it always sounded like bo-legged, but i'm not sure if that's a word!)
oh well, thanks for bringing back the memories! i'll have to remind him of it next time i see him!
hoxie
x

Oh, I meant "31.66" . I forgot that a point in English is used for a comma in the French or Dutch system, and vice versa... So I'm not that old after all...

I did wonder. To English eyes it looks like you're not sure if you're 31 or 66, or that you are somewhere in between!

Probably a compliment to your English that I forget it's your 3rd language and didn't figure out it was intended to be a decimal point.

bow-legged is a word. it's a term applied to legs that have an abnormal amount of space between the knees when the legs are placed together. often happens to horse-riders. can cause some problems but generally isn't too much of a bad thing.

It was Christmas day in the workhouse
The snow rained thick and fast
A bare-footed girl, with shoes on
Stood sitting on the grass

oh ok! thanks! still doesn't make sense (that's the point i suppose!), nice to know my hearing wasn't too bad!

Name: Jane
Age: 18 inside, 50 something outside (there must be some mistake, surely...I'm never THAT old )
Occupation: P/T University Tutor; P/T Student; P/T webmaster; F/T housekeeper (grrr!); P/T Puppy cuddler
Status: Married
Instrument: Violin
Favourite Places: Temple of the Mackaws, Uxmal, Mexico/ Prague/ In a concert hall listening to live music
Would love to...: Pay off the mortgage and become full time doing what I want to do.
Saying: "Don't think about it...DO IT!!"
I'm wearing: Crag-hopper trousers, Abbey Road T-Shirt, and fleecy top, all covered in dog hairs!

Caesar entered on his head,
A helmet on each foot.
A sandal in his hand he had,
His trusty sword to boot.

Actually - you can make sense of that one (no you don't need me to tell you how I'm sure) and I sometimes use it to teach phrasing

Name: Daley
Age: 17
Occupation: Student
Status: Single
Instrument: Piano, Guitar, Vocals in no particular order
Favourite Places: Can't say, this is a family board!
Would love to...: Stop hearing jokes about my name
Saying: "Mais quoi de neuf?"
I'm wearing: black socks, blue jeans, Jack Daniels boxers, navy t-shirt and a black collared-shirt.

Name: benson.... for all internet purposes
Age: 16
Occupation: student
Status: Single
Instrument: violin, viola (only just though), piano (not officially)
Favourite Places: muizenberg beach (only in the water though), heathrow airport, aeroplanes that will be in the air for a long time, oxford, london, cityrock climbing gym
Would love to...: do lots of things right now but can't argh
Saying: don't have one...don't say much anyway
I'm wearing: ancient jeans, blue golf shirt, blue zip up top

Name: Soph
Age: 14
Occupation: Student AND paper girl
Status: Single *cries*
Instrument: Piano, flute and guitar
Favourite Place: Home Sweet Home
Would love to...: Be perfect, change poverty and global warming
Saying: "You go to school to practise, practise makes perfect, and no ones perfect so why go?"
I'm wearing: nothing! no jeans A* top, and everything.

Name: Dacapo
Age: Adult
Occupation: Teaching accompanist, conductor of elementary orchestra for adults
Status: Married
Instrument: Piano, flute (not much these days), viola (inadequately), recorders
Favourite Place: probably British Library music reading area
Would love to: Have a clean, tidy house and a better organised garden and not be absent-minded
Saying: I've mislaid ......
I'm wearing: yellow polo shirt, beige fleecy lined trousers, cream fleece


Some years back there was a series of animal photo posters with captions. There was a lovely picture of some sort of great cat, maybe a panther, with a very superior look, and the caption "I used to be conceited, but now I'm perfect".


How about amending that to "I can't do it yet"...

Name: Josh/Trellis/EvilAdmin (depending on who you ask)
Age: 15
Occupation: person who goes to school
Status: single
Instrument: violin
Favourite Place: haven't seen enough of the world yet
Would love to...: Grow taller!
Saying: Damn you all! or **** off if I'm in a bad mood!
I'm wearing: something

Name: Kate
Age: 34 although mentally 16
Occupation: Currently working in a horrible call centre, looking for something better and more appropriate.
Status: serious relationship
Instrument: voice, piano, violin (when I get back to it!)
Favourite Places: Wales (my home). Want to go to India one day too.
Would love to...: Go to a Conservatoire and study music full time, be a professional dancer.
Saying: "What has age got to do with anything?!?!?"/ "you're as old as the man you feel!"
I'm wearing: FCUK long sleeved T-shirt which did belong to my boyfriend's brother (but he left it here when he stayed and I stole it, mwahahahah!) and pink and white check pajama pants! No shoes/slippers - being barefoot is bliss.

Name: benjaminja
Age: 25
Occupation: primary school learning support assistant (we take classes while teachers sit at their desks sending text messages whilst getting paid six times as much as us)
Status: single
Instrument: violin, viola, recorders plus teeny tiny bit of piano if I'm feeling brave
Favourite Places: York, Brighton, Cornwall, France... haven't really been many places.
Would love to...: find something to devote my life to
Saying: absolutely
I'm wearing: grey roll neck with a hole in it

I love Muizenburg! I learnt to surf there!

Name: chocolate dog (real name: anonymous......... not telling......)
Age: not yet 21 again, but not too far off either.....
Occupation: pianist and piano teacher, 'mummy' to the real chocolate dog
Status: married
Instrument: piano (used to also play and teach the flute, but not any longer)
Favourite places: home, also Ribble Valley (where I grew up), Japan, Switzerland (high up in the Alps!)
Would love to:
Saying: Fingering!!!! (in lessons) and STAY!!!!! (to cd)
I'm wearing: well that would be telling, wouldn't it.

Name: Jen
Age: 19
Occupation:Student
Status: Single
Instrument: Flute, recorder, singing, keyboard.
Favourite Place: Edinburgh I love it here
Would love to...: Grow taller! And be better at flute!
Saying: "I haven't got a scoobie!"
I'm wearing: Jeans, shirt and jumper!

that's strange - i am busy learning to surf there did you enjoy it?

Name: no prizes!
Age: 50-something
Occupation: lifelong student, freelance music teacher, choir nut
Status: Married; mum to two grown-up children and a cat.
Instrument: Organ, piano, voice, recorders
Favourite Places: Kyoto, Arizona, Dunk Island (Aus)
Would love to...: make better use of my time. Tidy up!
Saying: "why is it only me who knows where things are?"
I'm wearing: Black jeans, blue and white stretch top, grey fat-face sweater.

Bridget?

- sorry!

darn it - I thought I'd kept that a secret!

Name: Firebird (I'm anonymous but I'm also known as Sim for a net name)
Age: Teenager
Occupation: Student
Status: Single but judging by the number of people I've been accused of liking you wouldn't think so!
Instruments: Horn (main instrument), Bass steel pans (for fun but I'm not too bad), Voice (not really classically trained [modern vocal lessons] but get pulled into it - usually sing soprano but suspect I am a mezzo), Piano (Grade 3 but lacking in technique!)
Favourite Place: Rather fond of London and Newcastle but also adore France.
Would love to...: Own a triple Horn, get a better high register, go onto music conservatoire, play the oboe or cor anglais (and the list goes on!)
Saying: "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." (I'll find a better one sometime...)
I'm wearing: A brown top, black fleece with French Horn brooch, jeans, black boots, treble clef pendant, silver twist bracelet, silver ring with a little rose on.

I didn't even know such a thing existed, but that truly is a thing of beauty, that! lol!

*wants to play French horn....* oh well, one day when I'm stinking rich...

Well, now I know what to do if I ever need to get rid of a Horn! How much do you reckon postage would be?

Hehe!

I have NO idea. A lot, at a guess. How much does a horn weigh?