It was slightly tongue-in-cheek to call it a treat, but only slightly! I've been dying to start some new scales but didn't dare do it before my exam in case I got mixed up in the exam... bear in mind that I'm the founder of the I Love Scales Club

You need to get out more, Saxfan !

just a random thought or comment that's all. On the cosmos of the Forums... hadn't you noticed? you don't have to sit here for more than a few minutes to check it out

Would people have used expressions such as "concrete proof" before concrete was invented?..

interesting ....
and 'foolproof' has probably been used for thousands of years!

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Translating American College Ramblings into British University Jargon is difficult even when you are in one system and have a reasonable knowledge of the other.....

I saw a programme not so long ago which contained the old BBC 1 blue/yellow 'globe' symbol.

You see, that's when a logo was a logo...

Not a mass of things all going different directions and causing epileptic fits???

Correct

Just a nice blue/yellow slightly blotchy globe symbol, with a voiceover saying 'this is BBC 1'.

None of your tacky live action logos then...

Sounds great... *imagines what it was like*

...and there was the 'school dots' before schools' programmes. Which we used to watch in the school 'television room', at a specified time (hardly any mass-produced video players then...)

Our class used to make silly noises each time a dot disappeared.

Older forumites will probably remember the school dots...

Found them.

The School Dots

Aaah, those were the days...

Fair enough....

In 1980/81, that was high tech

It did also have music playing underneath...

I'll take your word for it

This older forumite barely remembers TV in school at all! I do remember colour TV coming into people's homes in about 1970 though!

For O-level, our set Dickens book was "A Tale of Two Cities", and we were taken to the cinema to see it - I think Dirk Bogarde was starring. We were always told to watch stuff on TV at home for homework: Cathy Come Home, Romeo & Juliet with Hywel Bennett as Romeo (half the girls in my class swooned over him and he didn't do a thing for me!). Then we'd have to review the wretched things for the next homework!

Those were the days indeed - and I can't say I've missed them!

You ought to have seen the computers we had in school.

Do you have a television which picks up Ceefax? That was the standard of the graphics. It took a long time to load programs. From cassette tapes...

We had to use them in 1st year Science!

During a reed workshop one day my oboe teacher said that he originally decided he wanted to learn the oboe because in France before the television programmes started again in the afternoon there was always the same piece of music played by an oboe. All his other pupils looked at him blankly and said "What do you mean before the programmes started?"

No breakfast television then...

I got very excited when we got a fourth television channel...

The oldest computer I've seen/worked with was a laptop in the school science department, running windows 3.1 I think. 'Cept it didn't really run windows very well, so I switched it to DOS mode. Then realised that I couldn't use DOS because everytime I asked it for a list of files they zoomed off the top of the page and no scroll bar!

Looking at the dots Barry-Clari mentioned, I thought to myself "That's strange, weren't they in black and white?"

Realised later that they were in black and white because we didn't have a colour telly....

I've just discovered you can sort PMs by clicking the header at the top of the column!

It's only taken me nearly two years to make that discovery

I never noticed that before either...you learn something new every day!

I lost a friend a few months ago (as in, she stopped speaking to me). I miss her and have no idea what went wrong.

Now I don't know whether to just call it a day and forget her, or keep up gentle contact hoping she'll maybe tell me one day All I want to do is apologise ... if I did anything wrong!

Why is it that when you think you know how something feels, and that it can't feel any worse, it always manages to?

Lottie - For what it's worth (not much probably) I wouldn't give up if I were you. If you haven't done anything out of the ordinary then she ought to see sense at some point. Then again, I suppose if she can behave like that, you maybe don't want to persevere. Sorry, not much use.

There are some lovely cards around these days (in our local Tesco for instance) which cater for this type of situation. How about sending her a card saying you've missed hearing from her and is everything all right? Worth a try, and it puts the ball in her court.

My eyebrows are going grey..

Eyebrow pencil??

Yes I'll have to resort to that I expect ..my right eyebrow is greyer than the left..

The maximum number of characters you can use in your profile is 50,000 so my profile could be 10 times longer than it is already

Today I decided not to let myself be bullied.

Good. Don't let the turkeys get you down.
Bev.

I finished my Nephew's 18th birthday present yesterday.

But it's three weeks late

He must think I'm a hopeless Aunty

Nah.. he'll be pleased to have a late present - it makes the birthday last longer. Is it a painting? If so, I bet he'll be really pleased to have such a personal gift - it's a whole lot better than another tankard or gift voucher.

There's a dettol (I think) advert at the moment which says that in 24 hours one bacteria (it's bacterium, actually, and it grates every time they say it) can turn in to twenty seven million (or some other large scary number). It then goes on to tell you that wonder-product kills 99.9% of bacteria.

So, take my kitchen counter. Let's say it's virtually sterile with a mere 1000 bacteria on it. I wipe it down. There will be one bacterium left. 24 hours later, I have the scary twenty seven billion.

I am immune to such silly advertising tactics!

Has anyone got a cloth please! I've just nearly choked and spilt coffee all over myself when I read another thread!

The one in which the UK's reputation as a tolerant nation is being put to the test

As you can see, I've stopped the marking, and being bored am trying a tactic related to the above mentioned thread. Hope it doesn't get me barred from the forums/fora whichever's correct, because it's all been done with the best of intentions.

I wonder if anyone will spot it?

..Can we still do the randomness thing on here?

I'm eating pitta bread with taramosolata

and yay for not being able to spell the names of pink greek dips!!


and also today, me and two friends did background string trio music at a Conservative Association do, and they had a huuuuge garden with a swimming pool and a mini-bar, and chicken with yoghurt & grape dressing, and salmon mousse, and courgette quiche, and we felt very special and important and it was fun

*daily dose of randomness: now satisfied*

Arrgghhh!!! I have my grade 7 piano exam tomorrow!!! I am soo not ready for it!!

Good luck, you're probably more ready for it than you think

Good Luck... hope it goes well

Thanks I hope so ...

hope it went ok


just love your sig.

Needs to flute practice but has lack of motivation

Have you got anything you're working towards Nicki?

a wonderful feeling today except for being pestered a bit by flies and other bugs...
they just keep coming at you in this weather - would be good to return them to whence they came


here's a strange coincidence: I have been talking to 5 different friends today all with the same name! well one is slightly different but only slightly.
nice people mostly... not all on here

Yesterday was one of the worst days for hayfever that I can remember for a long, long time...

Ironically, that is sort of the problem. Currently playing 3 Boehm studies, though not really looked at those, the Chaminade and the Gaubert Fantaisie. All lovely, but are at the top of my technical ability. So really have to improve technique, but just get daunted and end up not playing


Hope it's better today!