Is it really bad to be a little excited about buying new reeds?
It's not like they are any different to what I'm using.....

did you get your reeds sbhoa?

how far can a seven year old walk comfortably I wonder..............

One of my former colleagues walked her less-than-7 year old all the way up Snowdon ..... . I think child was about 4 or 5 at the time .....

Probably the exception rather than the rule.

I think it depends on how motivated the child is and this in turn depends on what the scenery is like
My two (aged 5 1/2 and 8) once did a 15 km walk and complained that it was too short But much of it included going back and forth across a shallow stream using stepping stones. At the same age they would also complain that a five minute walk to the local shop and back was too far...

Yes, they arrived this morning.

It will partly depend on if they are used to walking any distance.

Why can't the abrsm stick to their results table? I want to know what i got for my grade 7.

What is the point of being able to filter spam e-mails if the filtered e-mails still get through?

I do not require a shed load of viagra, nor do I wish to gamble online.

I wish sometimes that people could just see the good in something and be open-minded.

There's music in the world. That's good.

My breadmaker is messing about, it hasn't mixed the dough TWICE tonight...so my bed time is revised from 10.30to 1.30!! NOT impressed - and it's a double dough for rolls so I cant even let it cook over night!!

This happened to me yesterday, I was using expensive flour, then forgot to put the paddle in, so we had a pan of cooked flour... my mother was not impressed!

You could always buy some rolls from the shop for once - no-one in my family has died of it!

LOL it worked the third time....but the dough came out REALLY sticky. It was an interesting, very messy experience making balls out of it! Normally its just so easy! The dough was making a bid for freedom and really was like something from Alien!!

I didn't want to throw this and buy rolls as we need it early in the morning...and this dough makes 18 rolls that we can't afford not to eat! I'm going to check to see if they have risen enough to finally cook them yet.

I hope you won't be too tired to enjoy them after your 1.30am bed!

LOL they are cooking now...finally! I have to get up 6.45 too!!!

there are too many people stuck in their ways here, change isn't always bad................

Finally got the comment sheet from my grade 7 exam. More details in the Session B exams thread on the adult learners forum

My colleague has been working on a users Blackberry issue for the past four and a half hours.

Some of us are rather partial to a 32' reed or two, especially if it is on high wind pressure.

I wouldnt worry about your exitement over buyng new reeds. If you attended some organists' events you would know what 'sad' really means!

SB

Civil Enforcement Officers are fab yellow stickers are fab too especially when they happen to be stuck on the windscreen of a large flashy car whose owner thought he could park in a 5min bay about an hour ago

Am looking at cheap hotels prices in case of a training course at work later in the year.
If I go to the nearish Travelodge and book a four night stay, it offers me 59.50 per night.
However, if I book four separate one night stays, I can get the saver-rate for one night stays and get the room from 19.00 per night (different rates for the different nights).

I wonder if I book as four separate nights whether I really have to check in/out four times, and clear out of my room each morning and book in to a new one each afternoon...!

I doubt that you would have to change rooms. Its just the way their systems are set up.

I often find that 'expensive' hotels work out cheaper than 'budget' hotels, especially when you consider that Travel Lodge, Premier Inn, et al do not provide breakfast.

(Equally, I have often found cheaper First Class rail tickets than standard for the same journey on the same train, simply because nobody would think of looking at First if they wanted to save money.)

The last time I stayed in London (at short notice) I got a night at the Copthorne for 94 GBP including breakfast. The cheapest Premier Inn, which was further away from my meeting, was 122 GBP.

Try one of the hotel booking websites to see what you can get.

SB

Due to proximity to Heathrow airport, there are no cheap ones nearby! Booking sites explored thoroughly over the past few days (for both late July and mid September stays) reveal that there is one cheaper place but it is continental breakfast in your room, and no dinners. Whereas, the Travelodge can include breakfast and dinner as an extra.

I was given permission to book via work, and pay it myself, because it's a business reason (but my personal choice so I was paying). The cheapest one on our preferred hotel scheme wanted 80 per night, without any food included. And with having to pay to get to the Heathrow bus station in order to then get a public bus to work

Anyway, there website says if you book consecutive one night stays, you can tell the hotel and they'll try to arrange you the same room

Travelodge rates change all the time. You might find that if you wait a few weeks, prices will go down - or up!

At least you know what to expect with Travelodge; we've used them a lot and find the beds very comfortable. That's not always been the case when we've stayed in budget hotels.

Exactly why I chose them. It's not going to be snazzy but all I'll need to take with me is my Kindle and a bag of chocolate raisins and I'll be fine.

Plus, the first set of dates (the ones I have booked, as opposed to the ones I am viewing far ahead for) are during the Olympics, so finding anywhere at a reasonable price was good. As before, I found one place that was cheaper, where I could still get to the office relatively easily (no car when I do this), but that didn't have any eating facilities. So I paid a bit extra to pre-book my two-course-plus-drink dinner with the Travelodge. Like the rooms - it won't be gourmet food, but it will be edible and get me through the couple of days

Possibly the olympic effect? I was going on a hotel based summer school which is usually in June but they've postponed it to October because of price inflation for the olympics.

EDIT: Oops - see you said it yourself.

I was just perusing Google regarding a CD of recorder music. It provided me a link to a thread on this forum from 2007. Which it seems I contributed to, tentatively suggesting the fact that I thought I might perhaps have a preference for baroque music Who knew where that was going to end up?!

I'm fed up of having to splash around like a duck.

It's nice to not have to feel like I HAVE to flute practise. Although, after having a week off, I need to get back practising!

Fruit salad time.

Can't sleep. Can't decide between reading a magazine, taking the dog for a walk (who is deeply asleep, oh and it's raining), doing some work, watching a film or surfing Amazon for stuff I don't need


(It's 4.55 am )

Is the rain going t stay away for long enough so I can go into town and get home without being rained on?

Well, it didn't stay away long enough for me to clean the inside of my car It's throwing it down now.

I also got wet today. I hate rain!

My sheets have just got rained on, but they were fresh out of the washing machine so they were wet anyway.

I have finally decided to download Firefox (my excuse: it's for pottermore)

i now realise that i prefer ie8 over firefox.

This is the first post i've written using Firefox as well.

What about IE9?

i tried IE9. preferred IE8. have stuck with IE8 for quite a while.

Will probably prefer Firefox after a while (got to get used to it first)

Whoever it is in charge of the BBC radio 3 website has screwed up a CSS file

I'd forgotten just how stubborn grass stains under, and around, fingernails can be.................

Have just emailed my husband. He's downstairs

To be fair, he is working, on the phone to someone at this exact moment.
While I'm upstairs working in my office, on a teleconference being trained.

Bet you look up on the computer to find out what the weather is like outside...

My husband has just left to play for a funeral at a crem today - he has to play 'Great Balls of Fire'....

Is that better or worse than 'you raaaiiise meee up'?

Can't decide whether that calls for a or a .

At least it's different. A challenge to the organist perhaps?

I'm procrastinating.

Sinatra's on the radio. Am I the only person in the world who cannot abide Frank Sinatra's singing?...

No, you're in good company with my husband who doesn't like any of that type of singer.