Why? Do you want to???

It's ok

A thinly disguised Yes I think Ive got my lesson in an hour



Subliminal message....

Clarinet is best!!!!!

Oops not so subliminal as the colour thingy didn't work!!!

Yes she does.

She's had the offer of a clarinet for the Leeds concert - and ideas do have the habit of taking root and then growing...

I wouldn't know what to do with it

There will be 9 clarinettists at Leeds - no shortage of anyone to tell you what to do with it

LOL.

I don't have one at the moment

Well, I'll bring a couple of soft reeds that I've never used and you can have a go on my clari during one of the breaks.

Ok, if you're sure Thanks

Scary

yes you must

I would very much like to know how you get on with Flossie's clari at Leeds

I'm sure I'll text you to let you know

My phone will be on, and in between pieces in my rehearsal, I'll be sure to have a look at my phone

The York Odeon is reopening! It's been a derelict shell for the past three years!

ooo! As a cinema?

That's great news! Are they keeping the original Art Deco style?


Edit: yes, I've just read an online press article and they're restoring it to its former glory

I'm not doing a very good job of getting my students' reports written...

I've just been told off for having the music on too loud. Beethoven's 5th, followed by Katie Melua, and ELO's Mr Blue Sky. I thought I was supposed to tell the children off, not the other way around

You must have passed your second childhood and be entering your second teenage Oops, no that's May

My eldest is always telling me off. For music too loud, dancing too wildly, getting tiddled with my friends She is SO old fashioned it's unbelievable.
When my Mum and eldest get together, they are like 2 peas in a pod , except there is 66 years between them. They were tut tutting about something in the paper the other day, and asked me what I thought of Princess Eugenie dancing on the tables. I said she should while she could. They thought she was very naughty Hmmmmmmmmm.

Excellent choice of music, though .

This is what happens when one's parents are irresponsible - one has to be sensible to rebel

My coffee has gone cold.

picking up a flute after playing a tin whistle feels very strange; like the instrument suddenly got twice as big.

Of course.



YOu should have heard what she said when I sunbathed topless in Greece a couple of years ago

I never did like liquorice. =/

I do.

Glad to see you on here Floss. Hope you're on the mend now.

I don't either Miss Ross. Are you feeling better at all?

I cannot stand liquorice...

I'm eating mango chutney crisps. Which is a very different flavour from the norm...

Sounds lovely hope you had a good evening



I like liquorice...but I have to say I'm intrigued by mango chutney crisps!!! Sounds wonderful!

They're not bad at all : it doesn't sound like that flavour should work, but it does!

I've had mango chutney crisps before and they are nice.

The crisp flavour I really didn't get was chilli and chocolate...

Remember the Two Ronnies ice-cream sketch? salt and vinegar?



I love anything liquorice.

Oh yes . Up there with 'fork handles, handles for forks'

can't resist ...

in case anyone hasn't seen it -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsvFd7N6I1c

That deserves a !!!!

On the National Rail website, there is a section entitled "planned disruptions". Is this not rather sadistic on the part of the railway industry?...

Haha, that's the first time I've seen anything Two Ronnies, and I'm almost crying with laughter!!! Love it!!

It seems to have suddenly got very dark outside...

Where am I going in life?

What is my purpose? What am I trying to do?


Ah yes.... the fabulous consumption of chocolate!!!

(I had a piece of 'Cadbury Caramel' tonight and have discovered true happiness )

Is it time to go swimming yet?!

I wonder how many people have now received lots of habitual affection on the ends of my texts... It's quite obvious that I text Fiona more than anyone else!

Why is student finance such a pain in the butt!!!!!!!

They have to do maintenance work on the line at some point, and they can't do everything overnight, hence planned disruptions.

It's not an ARGH for the scream through, it's not what's made me HAPPY today, it's just got to come out of my head so here in the random thread it gets deposited...

Obviously holidays are a Good Thing, and coming back from them is a Bad Thing, but really, it's just silly this time.
Get back in to work, and it doesn't look like much has progressed despite someone actually taking over what I did for my week away. Nevermind, I didn't really expect that anything would be completed in my absence.
I just want to be at home. There is so much I could be doing in my garden today! Spuds - a few of which were just peaking through the ground when we went away - now they are all up and most are in urgent need of earthing up. Lots of plants ready to go in their growbags in the greenhouse. New seeds which you can plant from May, I still haven't got them started yet (borlotti beans and cucumber and purple kale). The lawn needs mowing. I need to do some more sowings of radish and salad leaves. Leeks need planting out.
There's some stuff I ordered before I went away, which I hoped would be delivered while I was away, and nothing has come but I still haven't been charged, so I suspect my order is lost. So I need to phone up and follow up on that.
There's still a bit of holiday washing to do, as well, I could get that done.
I could play with my two remaining rats (our very elderly lady, we got home Saturday and she was OK, Saturday night she looked a bit wobbly so I said I'd take her to the vet on Sunday or Monday, got up Sunday morning and she'd died - just curled up and gone to sleep very relaxedly. But waited until I got home to give her a cuddle on Saturday night first). Or I could scour the local rescues looking to see if there are any young ladies looking for good quality accommodation.
I need to chase - and rant - at the stupid people who manage our share scheme at work, as they are completely incompetent - I sold some shares in January. Only they did two sales instead of one. I phoned them up to sort it out. Multiple phone calls got me nowhere, although I did get a promise of them phoning me which never happened. So I wrote to them, and said I would only deal with them in writing from now on, and they haven't replied. So they are going to get another letter, sent by recorded delivery so I have proof that they received it. And if I get no response from that, then the next letter will go to their MD, and also be copied to my company's benefit department to ask why we are dealing with these rubbish people. All I want is a refund of the dealing fee for the second sale, £17.50, but it's become a matter of getting them just to acknowledge my existence now!!
Luckily I'm up to date on OU work, an assignment was due in while I was away so I sent it off before I went, and this week I have come back to is a reading week (i.e. a week off) so I don't actually need to do anything this week.

I could do some tootling, despite taking recorders with me on holiday absolutely no practice happened during my holiday - the weather was too good and I spent all day outdoors and just came in to sleep, really! Got to get my thumbnail cut before I can do anything anyway...

Oh well, coming up to 11am, I probably ought to look at doing some work now, having cleared my 66 emails (many ignorable, but quite a few 'urgent' but apparently not urgent enough to find someone to look in to things while I was away!) But first, I'm going to book the Monday off after each of my other two holidays later in the year!!!

My boyfriend still isn't taking this "I want to play the clarinet" thing too well

See how you get on with my clari at Leeds.

I don't honestly know if your hands will be big enough. My clari isn't the best in this respect, because it's quite old and keywork designs have improved a lot - but I find my clari a bit of a stretch for a couple of the keys. You need to be able to cover the holes completely on the clari.

Can you reach okay on a treble recorder?

Bring him to the event - we'll get him seen to!

just about...

This is my worry too. Barry reckons I'd be ok, but I do have my doubts. Guess we'll find out at Leeds!

Why do comments like that make a man worry?