I thought it was done as a preservative.

Glad your enthusiasm has come back What flute do you have?

Perhaps doing some theory e.g. grade 1 may help you to read music much better?

1 ly is 3x10E8 x 60 x60 x 24 x 365.25 metres, approximately....9.4 x 10E13 km I think.....

Is it safe to come out now?

Hey ! you still around ?

Bliss

Thought you'd snuck off!

Yes, I'm still around.

I stopped posting for a while because someone who doesn't like me posting was getting upset and it seemed to be upsetting everyone else.

Hello you Good to see you posting again

I can't imagine who would mind you posting.

ABSOLUTE BLISS!!!

Calm, peaceful, cheerful, supportive...and I'm so glad that forumites who had been scared away have come back.

Isn't it great? can it last? *holds breath*

I hope so

Shhhh - don't tempt fate!

I was just looking at the Top Overall posters list. Both Cyrilla and I have joined the top 10 this week.
There are two posters who used to be very regular still above us, Sarah-Flute and Oddball. Anyone know what happened to them as they are not deregistered.

There are four over 25,000 posts, then six of us between 10,000 and 17,000.

Goodness! Wasn't aware of having posted more than usual!

Sarah is still struggling with her health but posts quite a lot on facebook. As for Oddball, I have no idea...

Sarah posts on fb. (ed) oh sorry! ; P

Feeling very mischievous today, what naughtiness can I get up this afternoon........

From Emma Johnson's Web-site;

January 2012
Emma's new recording with John Lenehan of the two Brahms Sonatas will be released on the Nimbus label on April 30th. Brahms wrote his sonatas at the very end of his life and these beautiful works are essential to the clarinet repertoire. Having played these pieces many times in concert, Emma now feels ready to commit her interpretations to disc. Also included are Mendelssohn's exuberant Clarinet Sonata, written while he was still a teenager, and Schumann's Fantasy Pieces.

Really looking forward to this new addition to my Clarinet CD collection, when it comes out.

Regards, Peter.

Ooooo, something else to add to the list.... Thanks for the tip off

My log fire just isn't playing the game.




Wonder if the logs are damp




I'm cold!

Oddball still posts regularly on Facebook too.

Ok thanks, of course I don't know their names on FB

I made a fruit crumble to serve 6. There are two people in my household. Last night I had one portion. This morning at least two thirds had been eaten. How many calories did my housemate consume over night?

I just, out of interest, looked at the top 20 posters of all time on here, and happily most are still posting regularly. Aside from the aforementioned sarah-flute and Oddball though, we have Rosemary7391, Soph15, crazy_purple_piano_freak and sarah123 not posting now, and of those four, I only know the whereabouts of sarah123 (working hard at uni)...

This sounds like a GCSE maths question.

I dreamt I qualified as a pilot last night

I guess that makes flying your dream job

*groans*


not at all actually, just the thought of flying terrifies me!

Have you never flown, Louise?

I like flying, what I don't like are airports. So much faffing...

When I was little I went to Spain with my nan, I don't remember it but have photos of me looking very happy I wouldn't have a clue what to do in an airport except for asking where the exit is

Once, just once, I'd love to answer the standard start-of-office-day question of "what did you do at the weekend?" honestly...then I could see the look on their faces when I said that I spent Sunday afternoon doing calculus. Through choice. Fun fun fun

I can identify with that All of that

Somehow, corenfa, I imagined it might be you who'd reply to that

Why calculus?

Though yes seeing the expressions would be fun

Oh dear!

:but is secretly pleased:

This reminds me of one New Year's Eve when for reasons I won't go into my husband and I with our son were staying in my brother's house on our own. As you can imagine, it wasn't very lively for BerkshireSon, and as he knew he would have GCSE mocks on return to school, he decided to do a GCSE exam paper. He said he couldn't wait to see the look on his friends' faces when they asked him what he'd done on New Year's Eve!

Because this year it's an OU maths course that I'm doing. And today was the first calculus stuff - remembered the very beginning bits, but it soon got in to uncharted territory

Hope you continue to enjoy it, Maizie!

I had my own version of this a couple of weeks ago... my answer was "making a 3 foot tall giraffe"

it's for my soon-to-arrive niece/nephew....... and I also made an elephant

For anyone who wants random maths stuff (or random computery stuff, or random physicsy stuff, etc), http://ocw.mit.edu has oodles and oodles of course notes and some video lectures.

If it's any consolation, I offered yesterday to re-write an organisation's constitution so that they can register as a charity.... Fortunately, I've done it before... you'd think I'd know better

I've had to turn my heating off because my electricity bill has shown that it's too expensove to run.

Ok Maizie I'll stick you back into the Barking category.......the thought of you sitting down to do calculus purely for the fun of the calculations put you at least as far out as Dagenham East

Which course are you doing?

(I can't take the mickey, I've spent the whole afternoon attempting to write a melody and accompaniment for my current OU course, and think some calculus might have been more successful)

You too?

Anyone would think there is a TMA due in next week

Ahh, those were the days... A214.....

MST121 - Using mathematics. A few years back I took the level 2 astronomy and planetary science courses, and really enjoyed them. Then they announced the level 3 follow on astro courses - which I'd love to do. The recommendations are that you have level 2 astro, physics and maths courses - and I only had the astro. So I looked at the level 2 physics and maths courses, and then decided to start with a level 1 maths course to cover the basics, as I only did AS level maths (and A level physics), and that was 1994.
So next year should be level 2 physics, the year after level 2 maths, and then after that I might be brave enough to try the level 3 courses...

Of course, if the funding changes change again (and again and again and again) and I have to pay the new full price, then the mysteries of the universe will have to be put aside; then I reckon it will be the mysteries of higher-grade theory I attempt then!

We had no power this morning well, some things were working, radio and one of the spot lights in the bathroom, nothing else

and the computer at work has logged me in as invisible.... What is going on?