Just had a junk email entitled 'Would you like to find your sole mate?'

Sounds a bit fishy to me...

I feel there should be a pun with supicious here...

Subfishious? Arousing supiscineon?

I'm too tired to make it work. Will leave it to someone actually good at these things!

Maybe you should mullet over Barry. This opportunaty might have some potenchial!

haha - no, I think it might turn out to be a bit of a heel.

But we shouldn't carp about it!

My German and French orchestra friends have left

My orange ice lolly is in fact strawberry.

Anyone like to join me for a spot of rioting in Denmark Street, with the aim of breaking in to the Early Music Shop................

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...I feel up for a spot of luting

"why piccolo profession like music?
for the lute of course..."

(not mine, but I can't remember where that came from)

one of my facebook friends just posted that it looks like everyone stayed home watching their new HDTVs and we ought to send the TV Licensing people after them (anyone who's ever had any communication from those people should know how good they are at smelling when someone's got a new telly..)

I know that the latter is sort of dark humour, but today it has really been nerve-wracking, and it's not derogatory to anyone (except maybe the TV Licensing people) so I hope that it is OK.

ooh careful Maizie you might get in trouble for flippancy.

I suggested the same thing earlier to a musical colleague, but she said she would rather go to Libertys.

When I heard there were riots in Croydon my first thought was of Just Flutes' safety

It was untouched, thankfully, although Richer Sounds across the road was ransacked.

Sadly I hear that one of the leading lights of the British Flute Society lost all her belongings when her flat was set on fire.

I'd already pointed out how bad at looting I'd be as I'd want something specific and get caught browsing.

Hadn't thought of it as a way of securing the boys new instruments before. However I would not stoop that low. Immoral, Unethical Illegal

The Mr Men are 40 years old today .

Mr Happy
Mr Sad
Mr Angry
Mr Sleepy
Mr Hungry etcetc

Oh ! enough of this nonsense !

When I was tiny I used to love the Mr Men books. I remember the excitement when Daddy came home from work with a new one. I always assumed that they were ancient classics of pre-school literature and the Little Miss books were poor additions to the set (I think I 'got' feminism at about 11!) purely added much later to address the gender balance. It was only in the last year or so I discovered that we started reading them just before the 2nd lot were published in 1976 and Dad was going out and buying them for me pretty much as soon as they were published.

I had complete John Mouse (also Roger Hargreaves) and Mr Men. They were bought when I was about 6 and the great thing was I could read them to myself rather than always need somebody to tell me a story!

Loved the Mr. Men when I was small, and, dare I say, I still love them now.

Favourite when I was small was Mr. Happy, but I feel rather more affinity these days with a different Mr. Man...

Mr Small and Mr Bump were my favourites - the current range of Mr Men merchandising has given several friends an excuse to buy me Mr Bump things.....and as an accident prone soul the Mr Bump bruise soother has been used many many times!

barry-clari, you are of course Mr. Yay

Connie Fisher will not sing 'Maria' part anymore because her vocal range is much reduced after suffering congenital sulcu vocalis.

Glad to see nobody took me seriously and EMS is in one piece.

I do quite fancy a lute though (no clue how to play one, can't afford one, don't have time anyway...but I do know the correct term is 'lutenist', not 'luter' )

A shame there's no such Mr. Man

No-one's guessed which Mr. Man I'm actually thinking of...

Well there is a "Mr Clarinet" - but he's a serial killer. Is there something you think you ought to share with the group, barry-clari?

Is there a Mr Bounce?

Where's 'Mr Clarinet' from?

A thriller novel, set in Haiti, a judicious Google search shows...

Thank you b-c, but did I guess right?

I'm usually quite good at practising no matter what else is happening, but somehow the nonsense of the last few days has killed that stone dead. Haven't touched piano since Sunday and don't feel the slightest desire to.

Oh, it's done it to you, too, corenfa...

My desire is very slowly coming back. Will probably practice tomorrow, and hopefully that will get me going again before my rehearsal with pcf on Saturday...

Actually, you've helped convince me that I'm not totally bonkers for feeling this way

Hope you get your mojo back soon.

It's quite understandable. When, like in your patch as well as mine, you think there'll be people along to wreck your neighbourhood, music practice does sink well down your priority list

And I hope your mojo comes back soon, too.

Thanks.. I thought that I had been more worried than I ought to have been, but today I found out that some flats above a shop got torched last night. I'm glad it wasn't worse than that. The fire brigade and the cops stopped it soon enough.

It's also been a hard time at work, so I guess it's all combining to have this effect. Oh well. I've taken a week off before and not lost much, so maybe I will use the time to rest and think about other things. I've been feeling like my brain's overtaxed due to thinking too hard at work.

I think I'll go and sit in the bath

It's been a tough time for all of us in the areas that have seen unrest, and worrying is natural, corenfa. Hope you manage to get some rest, and enjoy your bath

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Thankyou

No.

Mr Sleepy should be sleeping




I haven't practised anything for ages either. It seems pointless when I probably won't ever have a lesson again and playing just reminds me that I won't be able to. I think my violin might move behind the sofa so that I can't even see her.

I too find that at the moment I am motivated less and less to play the piano, havent played since last Sat though I played organ on Sunday. I have this problem that not being a professional, I play a huge variety of repertoire, but only ever learn something to 80-90% standard rather than a full performance standard. Each time I sit down I play something different , and have just ordered some new stuff (Janacek and Bruch). The same will happen to that.

It may be pointless now- however, I took seven years off any sort of music at all. I think if it's really there, it will come back eventually - no matter how long it takes. Sometimes we just need the time to do other things. While it's great to be so totally into music that you never go a day without it, sometimes it's also good to explore other things.

Hope your mojo comes back too.

There isn't anything else to explore because everything needs money, and that's an ingredient I'm unlikely ever to have.

Fair enough - hope things look up for you soon. In my case, the exploring actually took the form of professional improvement for my job - so I was fortunate that that didn't really cost anything, just a lot of reading and learning much of which could be done over the internet or on the job itself.

The Daily Telegraph today has a special offer on an award winning claret CHATEAU DE BARRY !

Making music is free if you have the equipment (just don't break any strings).

Just a thought, and sorry if it's really stupid one, but would it be financially viable to sell one instrument to finance lessons on the other? Just until things ease up a little? Or maybe teach the one you are most competent with? I do sympathise - money is very tight for us and lots of other people too just now.

Just discovered that an online personality I had always pictured as a rather camp young man is actually a woman. Definitely not going to be voting in the best looking male/female awards this month.

I'm almost certain there was just someone in the garden at my university absentmindedly walking along while playing the recorder...

Microsoft Word thinks that 'welfare roles' should be 'welfare rolls'.

Are they like toilet rolls or bread rolls?