You mean you spurned 'Sugar Baby Love'?

This is doing the rounds with all my doggy friends and forums and it's just BRILLIANT!!!!

After half term, my friend wants to teach me the French horn in return for me teaching her the bassoon, although neither of us will have instruments around to practise on between lessons... I think our Saturdays will be more gossip-and-play-piano mornings than proper music lessons!

I need to do a speech next week, but I seem to be incapable of pronouncing the word "appropriately".

Then I suppose you will have to pronounce it "inappropriately."

I'm sorry, but you can't have an easy flute Pink Panther without also having a cornet and a Lexus :-) and we will MAKE you listen to Asterixia as well!

But Felicity is better than Asterixia.

I have suggested to my daughter that if she does have serious difficulties in her aural next month she should lick the examiner's face.

I found out how to change the colour of my computer sticky notes.

Computer sticky notes?

Yep. Saw them when I was chez sbhoa. They're very good

Just had a message on Internet Banking from the head of HSBC Communications - his surname is "Say".

A lovely case of nominative determinism

I am seriously considering applying for a job. Talk me down, someone.

Why? Just because you're applying for one it doesn't mean that you have to take that job, should you be offered it.

I?ve been my own boss for 6 years, and that?s the way I like it, but this would give me the opportunity for some more day time work and I could cut some of my after-school hours. Not sure how I would take to being back in harness though! Haven?t written a cv in 10 years, it?s all a bit strange and very different to my previous line of work. Hmmmm??..

You will be unpleasant to your current daytime students because you will be more stressed. Assuming your not getting rid of your devoted tutees!

Said with feeling ?? ; )

Yesterday I posted off my end of module assessment for my current OU course. This is - theoretically, at least - my last OU assignment/course. Assuming I pass, I will be awarded a degree.

I'm already wondering just what I'm going to do with myself on Sunday (and, this week, Monday too!)

I seem to forget that there are over 100 books sitting on my 'waiting to be read' shelf which I've been promising to make headway on once the OU is 'finished'. And that I have plenty of music practice to be done that hasn't been being done lately because I've got too much going on.

Instead I am viewing OU courses I might do to continue the astro/physics stuff I studied a few years ago (starting October, or January). Or pondering the idea of Grade 6 theory. And so on...

500 posts! Half way to 1000!
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*Once again, looks for non-existent Like button.*

I remember that feeling from the end of my degree. The project was submitted and suddenly all the things that were so appealing whilst every waking moment had to be spent on physics. The only thing that remained appealing was clari practice but I couldn't do any of that as I lived on campus with a strict no playing instruments in bedrooms and I couldn't afford the fee to gain access to the 2 practice rooms for non music students.

Congrats on finishing your ECA.

Come on mods, provide us with a 'like' button

Hear, HEAR!!!!

My new baby boy* has made my week! He's totally adorable. He was in an adoption centre and had been for weeks, no-one wanted him. When he was very, very little he escaped and was found in a rabbit enclosure. One of the rabbits had bitten his face, and he had an abcess. He's had to have lots of medication and treatments, and was 'advertised' as being very timid, very nervous and unable to eat much dried food.

I fell in love with him, and brought him home this afternoon. He attacked a honey stick (dried fruit and seeds covered in honey) with vengeance, had a wee sleep and then got to run around for the first time. He's lovely and cuddly too and comes to you when you hold your hand out.

*He's a hamster.

Considering a different career path... hamster tamer?

I can see why you love him, hes like mwl1 !

Hurrah for adopting nominals!! They can give you great pleasure (not that non-adopted, i.e. bought ones don't!) One of my more recent acquisitions is soooooo timid, I think she has extremely poor eyesight, even by the standards of a pink-eyed rat. And the other day while I was cleaning the cage and some were visiting me to "help", I was talking to her and only belatedly realised she had come to join the fray and be talked to

How?

Only Joking. I was just thinking that for you he's lovely and cuddly and comes to you when you hold your hand out ! I dont know if he would attack a honey stick though.

That's made my day!

Just heard my first ever piano teacher died last week...
Not seen her since I left Crieff 11 years ago, and hadn't seen her much before that due to changing teachers, but still a bit of a shock...

sympathies, muzikalbadger

It can come as a shock.

I had a different sort of shock in relation to a previous piano teacher of mine a few years ago.
I was reading the local paper and discovered he was residing at Her Majesty's Pleasure for offences against young boys who would have been the same age as his own children at the time.
I only went to him as an adult student.

Liking the 'Boris bikes'...

My descant recorder is called Boris.

The new(ish) cycle hire scheme in London, Flossie. Nicknamed 'Boris bikes' after the current mayor.

You can tell where I don't live, can't you.

My bike is Clara.

A 'Clara' bike hire scheme in Flossie land?...hmm...I wonder?...

No. She's mine.

and I take it that 'bike cloning' is out, too...

I really want a cat.

Floss has a hamster, so what can't Flossie ever live somewhere where she can have a cat.

There's a few virtual cat games around the 'net. I know it isn't the same, but...

I want a cat that will climb onto my lap and purr and give me cuddles and snuggle up next to me.

...so even putting a virtual cat game onto a laptop, and placing said laptop on your lap won't cut it then...

Nope. I want a real cat that breathes and walks round the house and jumps onto chairs and comes to say hello.

I'd pay good money to hear a cat say 'hello'. Most cats I've come across say 'meow'

But in all seriousness, hope you're able to get a cat sometime, Flossie

I asked for that didn't I...

I'm sure that there must be a cat somewhere whose meow sounds kind of like 'hello'.

This is the best I can find, Flossie...

This isn't saying 'hi' but it IS the sweetest thing I've ever seen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw4KVoEVcr0&sns=fb

Aww. I want it, and I'm not normally a big fan of Tabbys, but she's kind of silver and gorgeous, and so affectionate looking.

Did anyone in Lancashire feel this earthquake?