Poor Baz. I feel your fear...

latest favourite food - a whole avocado sliced, drowned in garlic oil, with salt and pepper. Satisfies all my cravings for salty garlicky stuff and isn't too bad for me (err, I hope)

Well one of the new pupes I met today (age 10) did a g1 theory paper for me....and got 19! Erm the exam is less than 2 weeks away. I think I have my work cut out with 3 lessons to go. Eeeeeeeeeeek!!

Jubilee Ma'amite

Have just discovered that it is possible (for sponsorship) to abseil from the Forth Bridge. Oooooooooh...

I want some!

Oh, PRICELESS!!!!!!

Me too, yum yum

Well you can count me out of that one. I'll hold your coat.

I'll hold your hat...

Conversation with another mother this morning - consoling ourselves that at the end of a day it's so easy to feel you've achieved nothing if you haven't ticked something off The List. So she had the bright idea that we mothers "do" Maintenance - ie if we weren't there to do the things we do for the family in general chaos would ensue.

So by the end of today, as well as teaching 6 lessons I shall happily think of myself as having done "Maintenance". Good thought. Am going to adopt it as a philosophy of life.

Good thought!

And of course brings to mind that story which I'm sure you've heard: dad comes home to a chaotic, dirty house, with rubbish everywhere and the three kids running riot. Dirty washing up piled in the sink, dirty washing all over the floor, toys absolutely everywhere. Concerned, dad goes in search of mum and finds her reading in the garden.
'What on earth is going on?'
'Nothing!' (with a smile) 'Everything's fine'.
"But the mess and muddle everywhere - why?'

'Oh, well you know you always say you wonder what I do all day?

Well today I didn't do it'.

Excellent. Might put that into practice one day as well (not just at the moment - suffering A2 stress, and finals stress (long distance by phone and fb))

I have a Hibiscus plant on my window sill. It's a stringy, woody plant that some people would have thrown out I'm sure but very few weeks for the last couple of years it opens one glorious large bloom in the most gorgeous red-orange sunsetty colour - each one the size of my palm! Each flower only lasts one day then closes, withers and falls off and after a while another bud forms.

I've been waiting with bated breath this week because it has FIVE buds all at once!!!

Today it has THREE blooms open It's SO beautiful!!!


(I know I should paint it but I don't paint flowers... although I have in the past )

Perhaps you should now

I have one of those plants - agree, the blooms are gorgeous (but short-lived!).

I think "La Folia" (and anything based on it) must be my disfavourite (unfavourite?) tune ever...

There are a few different Radio 3 presenters who do the overnight programme - I've been wondering idly why I hadn't heard one of them lately, thought someone was on holiday.

Then I read this http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/crime/b...ge-7807574.html

I have a hibiscus in the border along the garage wall. It comes into leaf OK and buds but it doesn't usually get enough sun for the buds to open. It's a north facing wall. Might work better if I moved it to the back gaden which is south-west facing.

Hibiscus is the national flower of Malaysia.

It also makes a tasty Mexican cold drink.

Sounds like good news now

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...e-Zimbabwe.html

Had a fantastic piano and theory session

hmm I have this cheap argos double duvet that I'm chucking to save space in the car and I don't like it because it never stays 'with' the duvet cover, ever, and is too hot (10.5 tog) and I much prefer my battered old single that I never got too hot in, it's perfect! Just read the tag on it and apparently it's 13.5 togs!! do duvets lose togs with age? strange... time to strategically rethink my duvet plans for next year...

I have just removed a Woolworths battery from my alarm clock

I thought Woolworths only made cheap, low quality goods. If a battery lasted that long it must have been a decent battery.

Had been in the clock about a year, finally gave up a month ago but I've only just got round to changing it!

Thinking like a biologist is a lot easier than thinking like a musician.

Reading about the coverage by the BBC of the Royal Pageant etc , and the anticipation of Olympic coverage (and subsequent savings that the BBC will be making on their other programmes) , I'm seriously contemplating buying a few dvds of the "films that I would have liked to have seen, but not been able to get to the cinema to see" recently - just to be able to sit down occasionally to see something I would like to watch.

Wondering why in a competition that specifies unaccompanied instruments so many youngsters (and I'm guessing their teachers) think it's a good idea to play an accompanied piece without the piano part......

Humongously common, that...



The BBC will probably do a good job on the Olympics. Certainly, they'll be better than Channel 4's effort at the World Athletics Championships last year...

Oh, goodness, yes, I remember that - it was truly dire - that poor chap who was trying to anchor it and hadn't got a clue what he was doing...I still come over all hot and cold with embarrassment for him...

Ortis Deley was the chap's name...

Ewww, yes, so it was. Poor guy. I wonder what he's doing now..



I've just looked him up - appears he is presenting on Choice FM (and is a qualified pharmacist )!!!

Bit of a wasted week really. Concerts last weekend, then a day walking in the Lakes on Monday, and ... very little since then. Just wet and miserable.

Orchestra last night, orchestra this morning and that's been it. None of the stuff I intended to do has happened, mostly because of the weather. That and another boring Saturday night in a long line of boring Saturdays.... Boring old TV needs to get out more.

I'm reading a book on anti-gravity, and I just can't put it down.

maps

I think I want to start piano lessons again.

IT'S HELLO_CELLO!!!!!!!!!

The one and only!

I just came across this and thought of Baz Louise...

http://www.fieldcandy.com/

Or, if you'd prefer something a little more solid ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gal...012-in-pictures

I'm 700 words away from the end of my degree.

Love the sheep one.

Hey - you're not dead after all! Great to see you back!


Hang on in there - not long to go.

ooooooooooo

grr BBC iplayer radio keeps freezing. Bet I know why too.

Or the BBC and the European Ice Skating Championships which were held in Sheffield.....

Oh dear! I missed this : did it involve the BBC saying 'look, skaters. With skates on. Cor, that ice must be a bit chilly'...?

No, it involved a few hours on the red button
And highlights one night on BBC2 (I think it was a 5 day thing). I know quite a few people who went and they said it was good. At least I got pictures!