(sorry!)

I'm still pining for flute bands...

I think so, especially if b-c's Northern Ireland plan no.2 works out...

I just bought all the books on my book list at once. It's the scariest thing I've ever done - I've spent more than that amount on shopping trips, but that was when I had no reason to fear debt and poverty!

Only one more full day before I move to university.

Might I just say to all you forumites going away to start University, good luck, and work hard. But at the same time enjoy yourselves. It seems an age since I was at Nottingham ('65-'68), but they were happy days.

Good luck! Where are you going, and what are you studying? Hope you'll let us know how things go.

Thanks f#m and Berkshire Mum. I am going to University of Surrey, to study the MMaths course. Getting scarily close now!

Me too. I really must do all this washing and packing and ...

Have tried to download pic, but as you can probably see, I'm not having a lot of joy at the moment...

Oh P*O*O* (as Baz might say )!

Good luck pianocelloflute. I graduated from Surrey longer ago now than I want to admit! It's a really friendly university though is a LOT bigger now than when I was there.

Just beware of final year students organising post video (ok that shows my age should have said DVD) night walks! When I was there all the accomodation was mixed between 1st and final years. There was a bit of a tradition of watching The Omen then taking the freshers for a walk around the cathedral!

random thought: interesting to see if there is truth in the words of Shakespeare... about evil lives after ....
testing testing

It's strange how a place can suddenly seem so beautiful when you know you won't be seeing it every day any more...

Yes, I was like that when my parents had their outside toilet demolished many moons ago.

theory standing up reasonably well

I really like this thread

I never expected learning the piano to be so much FUN!!!

isn't music FUN

You must have found yourself a great teacher.

what a coincidence...

Probably not so much of a coincidence! Skylark has a fair idea by now of what to look for in a teacher. I expect that she asked all the right questions first.

ah no, I just meant it was a coincidence that I should say "isn't music FUN" not knowing what Skylark had said .. that was all. Then your comment revealed it all
A Random Thought

I am sure Skylark knows exactly what she wants in a teacher?

???

?

Have just spotted the first forum member with a membership number above 40,000...

where?




still blocked no surprises

theory is holding up quite well...
Ed take notice please

Indigwolf in Adult Learner's : member no. 40,008.

to the forums, indigwolf!

keep a note of that while we seek out the other 40,000s

back again!!

now wondering ....

interesting

I should really do some homework...or I could play the piano for a bit...hmm

Play the piano is a better option

I went to Cambridge yesterday.

I didn't go to Brian Jordan, as I can't leave that shop without music in my hand, and I need to play some of the music I have rather than buy more.

I did browse in Miller's, a shop that is usually busy enough that I don't feel any guilt if I leave without a purchase. Nothing too exciting there.

Yet somehow I managed to come out with Musicianship in Practice Vol 1. G1-3.

These fun thoughts about G1 Prac Mus are all back again :eep:

(I just can't wait to take the day off work. People ask me why I take the day off, or 'are you doing anything nice?' - when I have OU exams I don't usually say, but it makes me smile to myself inside when I know I'm doing something completely insane [by their standards] with my day off!)

Today I had beetroot and parsnip soup flavoured with horseradish and ginger

Sounds as if you had a visit from Gert!

I love beetroot. I can buy locally grown organic ones too with the most glorious flavour.

Roasted in a dab of olive oil, or shredded in salad.

I worry about turning pink at this time of year

I did think of Gert when I was eating it!

My last Early Music Shop carrier bag has just given up.
I got one in July 07 when I bought my treble. I then got another one in Nov 07 at the early music festival. One went in to service as 'the carrier bag that lives in my handbag', the other became my work-clothes bag for when cycling to/from work.
And now they have both given up

I suspect that means I need to go shopping

(In case you are interested, the carrier in my handbag is now Lindisfarne Mead, and my cycling bag is appropriately Ben Hayward Cycles [Cambridge]. I went through our drawer of nice carriers, and they were the best I could find...)

A HUGE spider just landed on the wall beside my desk. I screamed slightly and a male came running to help me.

(Shame he lost the spider and the thing is probably still lurking under one of my books, waiting to pounce.)

The good news is it's nearly time for Greenwich again......

http://www.earlymusicshop.com/exhib/exstart.html


So you'll be able to get a replacement.....

Flossie, that is what men are for

and far be it from me to suggest that it was a tactic to "lose" the spider in the hope that he'd be called back again

Call for Merlin another time - he could turn the spider into a.... erm, well whatever you want!

Good job you're surrounded by them...

I'm not! And none of them are as nice as you.

Right on cue