Yep was gooooood been asked to do Christmas Eve as well, 7:30 to 9:30pm at a posh golf club, not sure what to do...

Sounds like a good opportunity, Louise

mmm, I suppose it is, and they are paying the band a decent amount and feeding us too...

There is your answer, then...

Took over five years to become a "virtuoso" on here!

Yes, will send them an email and see what is happening.



Congratulations

Well done!

Today, me and my helpdesk colleague are both wearing baby pink coloured shirts. However my shirt is double cuff and his is single cuff.

User support staff really do have great fashion tastes!

It appears that violinists and strings are not a lot different from clarinettists and reeds.

Neither are cellists and strings, sbhoa...


Neither are cellists and strings, sbhoa...

I'm seeing double...

Posted that via my mobile phone, which is not the best. At anything...

Ah, I thought it was just the forum gremlins again

Mark Cavendish is BBC Sports Personality of the Year

Isn't it amazing how in the last few years, the UK has got very good at cycling sports, and how many more people I see generally cycling in the UK...

an entire random site... http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

well deserved too

Apparently I remind my mum of Gareth Malone. I'm hoping that's a compliment

The figures for the top ten are in the Daily Telegraph, he won it by a mile, with nearly half of the phone votes.

I dont think I will be on line very much over the festive period, so I wish all of you

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

And the same to you, f#m. Enjoy your beautiful granddaughter, and I hope you and your daughter have some time to play Christmas music together.

Never come across this one before:

While shepherds washed their socks by night
Whilst watching ITV
The angel of the Lord came down
And switched to Sky Sports 3

I seem to remember the last line once being 'and switched to the BBC'...

Same here Barry

Yeah I remember the 'BBC' one but now it seems the Lord's angels have been bought out by News Corporation and conversations between the shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem are being illegally (by Gods' law) tapped.

Having a 'I'd like to do some teaching' moment.

Will have probably changed my mind by the end of the day.

My second random thought is that my long notes are boring.

What makes me crave mince pies at Christmas and dislike them the rest of the year?

You'd be very good at it, Nicki...

I just think I'd be a bit rubbish at explaining things, even though I have good ideas.

My phone gave me a Christmas present of death - its alarm waking me up in time to put the goose in was the last use I got out of it.

I think you'd be good. Perhaps you can use me or one of my pupils as a guinea pig sometime...

Poor victim!

I'm being tempted to get a Kindle......

I like mine and I wasn't sure.

that's good to know. How easy are they to use? downloading books etc?

I love mine...

Very easy.

You have to link it to an Amazon account then you can either order books directly on the kindle or order on computer or phone and the books will download next time your kindle connects to wifi (or 3G if you have that sort.

MrCJB and I bought one to share as a Christmas present to each other. We are now arguing about who's turn it is and are contemplating getting a 2nd one.

All these good reviews.......

Am now very tempted to use some of my Christmas money......

Might just be worth browsing the Amazon store to see if some of the books you would like are available yet on Kindle.
There are a lot on and I think it's increasing but some things are not yet.

Mrs thought about a Kindle but in the end I had to stump up for an iPad. They can of course also be used for reading books

The difference for reading for any length of time is that the kindle is easier on the eyes and is not affected by sunlight shining on the screen.

And if you buy the cover with the light in it you can read in bed without disturbing your partner. I love my Kindle and I've only had it a few weeks. It has to be easy to use as I am a technology idiot - but I haven't had any problems so far - except that when I tried to download via my computer using a site other than Amazon my computer wouldn't recognise the file type used for Kindle. I haven't solved that one yet.

Also, being out of the UK I only had the choice of buing my Kindle on Amazon. com or Amazon France. I wasn't allowed to buy it on Amazon UK. I opted for Amazon. com because the French site didn't have the model I wanted and in any case the Kindles were more expensive. They were actually advertising the model without the wireless connection as being the most up to date one. The problem is that now I can't Google on the Kindle. Apparantly this service isn't available in France - well at least not on my Amazon.com Kindle account . I don't know if anyone else has any suggestions about that?

I'd only use the internet on the Kindle in dire need.
It's a moderately useful feature but far too labour intensive to bother really.

Is there any proof of these two men ever being seen standing the opposite way around?...

I'll demonstrate my disconnection from "popular culture" Who are they?

We have a microwave! (Haven't had one for at least 12 years).

Ant and Dec. Ant's on the left

Thank you for the clari-fication I've heard of the names, not sure what they do....

tv presenters

Yes.





But not for a very very long time.