Some sort of fetish for the grotesque, perhaps? I'm sure there must be some sort of 'complex' involving very small men with big noses, silly hats and either Wellington boots or fishing lines.

I bought a tube of smarties and they are all blue. Perhaps that's why the tube itself is blue.

*note to self - don't buy tubes of smarties if the tube is blue, because you know that you like the orange ones best and don't really like the blue ones. Oh, and maybe Poundland wasn't the best place to buy smarties...you should have known they were in there for a reason...*

I moved into my flat 3 years ago, for the first two years at 1800 every day, "When the Saints go marching in" has been played *edit* by someone down the street-on a xylophone. Two weeks ago it changed! Now Scott Joplin "The Entertainer"

Isn't it funny how bread rolls are rolls of bread, yet the same logic does not apply to toilet or kitchen rolls...

I was walking in the wood today with my six dogs. One of my dogs is a black labrador.

I met a couple with two black labradors and all the dogs mingled and chatted happily among themselves.

I bent down and made a big fuss of one of their black labradors, very nice friendly happy dog, and couldn't work out why these people were giving me such a strange look as they walked away.

I was petting my own dog!







I was asking it's name and everything - they must have thought I was a complete lunatic! Or blind as a bat.
(I'm overstudying.. my brain is fried.)

I can't seem to type! And I norlamlly touch tye but it's just gone to pot!

I can't type at the best of times. My MSN 'typing' is laughable for the most part!

I remember you saying that before, Barry! 2 fingers, isn't it?

is it too early to play flute?

Something along those lines, yes Floss



nope

*edits signature*

'Your signature is too long'

*edits again*

'Your signature is too long'

*edits again*

'Your signature is too long'

*edits again*

'OK then, we'll let you have that one'

I leaned into the car to get something out for my Mum. My jumper went up the back a little exposing a bit of skin My dear old Mum said " Beverley, haven't you got a vest on?"
I said "Mum, I haven't worn a vest in 35 years". She was shocked.

You can still buy ladies' vests?!

Why would I want to do that Berk??

You can get tubes of Smarties with just blue or just pink ones in I think



Wonder where that thought developed

I really am bored...I don't feel like flootling or doing anything remotely useful or even baking....

Yep. you have to buy the normal dark blue tube. I like the pink only or blue only though.

Oh, and Liz, just seen your grade 8 oboe result - congratulations. Have you got any recent YouTube videos?

Thanks. No, I can't find a good camera recorder that records well.

I'm sure they once did orange only tubes too...

I love orange smarties! they've always been my favourite.

Same for my OH. I love the pink and pale green.

I've got rather a lot of stuff to take to university tomorrow. My journey will involve a bus trip, a 20 minute walk to the train station, getting on train one, getting on train two and then getting to my house in Durham...

Erghhhhhhhhhh

You don't seem to have been home for very long, Nicki! Hope your journey back goes well. We are taking BerkshireSon back this weekend; he's had a really long break this Easter so is hopefully much refreshed.

Best of luck with your exams (I know it's a little while yet, but you may not visit the forums so much once you're back in Durham).

All the best with that Nicki.

Does this mean little or no Nicki on forum 'til mid June? ...

No, only back for 2 weeks - I am going back early as got more work to do. Does it ever end, no. Hope BS is ok

Thanks for the good luck wishes...

Yep, I'm keeping OK, thanks Nicki

Argh, sorry, your message was posted as I was replying to Berkshire Mum. That was asking whether Berkshire Son was ok, but I hope you're ok too!

Umm, can't guarantee my forum movements until mid June...

No worries, in both cases Nicki!

My inbox is full

If you mean your PM box, then so is mine.

It's full of Leeds and instrument-related information which I need to keep for the moment, and I can't find anything that I can delete from it.

Archive your Leeds stuff! Just make sure that you specify HTML for the e-mail option and it will be sent to you in readable format.

If you want to be sure, don't delete the PMs from your inbox until you've received the e-mail and made sure it has everything you want.

I'm not sure what you mean...

If you look at your messages you will find a menu box on the left hand side. Under "Messenger" select "Archive messages" and take it from there.

WOW

I never knew you could do that Thanks Berkshire Mum

Just wondered does anyone like me find it easier to remember stuff on a certain instrument than others

for me e.g. piano scales=perfect and easy
cornet scales=ok but sound like hard work
saxophone scales= ok but sound hard work again

Also I can remember whole pieces off by heart on the piano but not on the others

Just wondered if anyone else was like this : anyway random!

Does anyone know how to get back PMs archived in excel? I'd done a couple of lots of pms like that before I realised it wasn't really what I wanted to do.

I could do with knowing that too

I don't know (having not even known you could archive PMs!).

Have you tried opening them in excel? Then you might be able to copy and paste the stuff into word.

If you open them in excel you get what looks like what's probably a jumbled version of all the pms in together with lots of '[ quote ]' and <br> etc

Hmm. Next time I'm really bored with work I might try archiving mine into excel and then have a play. It's probably related to a delimiter of some sort.

This is why I ask for emails rather than PMs, particularly for concert stuff. My mac churns out gobbledegook when I've tried to archive in the past, and I wouldn't want all my messages lumped together anyway. If I get a PM about concert stuff, I have to copy it, paste it into a email, and email it to myself so that I've got all the concert stuff in one place. Periodically I check through the concert emails to try and make sure I haven't missed anything. But of course any that I've emailed to myself have my own identification rather than the concert attendee's so it all becomes very messy. And I have to keep on top of it because my in-box keeps getting filled. I really am not just being pedantic when I ask for emails rather than PMs - it actually causes me a lot of unnecessary work Sorry


PS. I should make it clear that I not referring particularly to anybody who's posted above on this matter!

I've never been able to work out the archiving PMs thing.

So I have an easier way of keeping PMs I might need.

I print them off...

*thinks*

it's OK b-c.

it's OK...

you can cry...you can cry as much as you like...

it's normal...

*thinks some more*

*wipes tear off cheek*

You can cry as much as you like. Today is the day to do it.
We are there with you.

This would have been so much harder without the support of the forum.

There are certain forumites who deserve to be way up there in the most supportive forumite award voting in the 2009 awards later this year.

Thank you Bev. You rock.

Poor Barry.



You've got my email address if you want to chat.

Likewise
crying's a natural release valve. NOT crying is much less healthy.
Thinking of you

We're all thinking of you.

How hard can it possibly be to find a piano piece with RH broken chords/alberti bass-type thing?!?! I've seen hundreds of the things, but now I actively try and find one, I draw a complete blank!