i'm glad the school made set 1 do maths early 'cause it would have clashed with the Japanese AS today lol

I think my new obsession is going to be chickens!!!


I cuddled one today: a 'rescue' battery hen all fat and happy now. I've ear-marked a corner of the garden big enough for a run and coup. They chuckle at you if you hand-feed them oatcakes


I'll never eat another chicken again


(Why do I get the feeling my husband is going to be making with the big sighs when he gets home from work today???? )(HE doesn't chuckle when I feed him biscuits!)

I'll tell him they're models for a new series of paintings.....

You should be fine. I find treble a bit of a stretch on the right hand but manage fine on clarinet. Some makes favour the smaller handed better than others, the only area I've had difficulty with are the extra Eb/G# key added to some clarinets, the LH F#/C# on some instruments and occaisionally covering the whole of the bottom G hole as my fingers are thin as well as short.

That's useful - thanks

He doesn't?! Matthew does!

Be careful, or we'll all be feeding him biscuits at Leeds to see him chuckle

Cake and cheese do it too...

Too much information

Ladies, ladies...

Ooh I say...

Don't worry Matthew, I am off to bed now, and so should Floss. She is up far too late, so I am putting my foot down, as I am old enough to be her Mum.
Night Floss.

Nighty night xxx

Do you have really tiny hands? I could span all the keys on my clarinet (a really old buffet or boosey and hawkes thing that had not been entirely well looked after to start - schhol's instrument - and after a Yamaha student one) at the age of 9/10 ish

Umm, yep I have tiny hands. I can manage flute ok, and treble recorder just about depending on how I've put on the footjoint.

How big is a clarinet?

I wouldn't mind having so much stuff to do, if only instead of all of them being 'urgent' someone would actually take the time to tell me which is MOST urgent.
(There's a meeting this afternoon - I will demand answers then as to what order they want things addressed in!)

I should think you'll be OK with the stretch on clari BB2

I found my favourite real ale in JS at the weekend - it does not taste like it does when I buy it from the brewery - why?

But don't be put off if you can't quite manage it on my clari - it is very old and keywork designs have improved a lot in the last 50 years.

Why are my eyes burning?!

Possibilities:

1. You are sitting too near the fire - and this weather, who could blame you!

2. Hay fever

3. You were too late to bed last night.

4. Someone unkind has thrown sand/acid/orange juice into them

5. Other

Skylark says she favours the LeBlanc because the keywork suits small hands (I think that was why anyway - check out my old thread about upgrading (July 08) as she mentioned it on there ) It really did NOT suit me anyway

Hehehe I think its was a combination of hayfever and no sleep!!

Although, I do quite like the idea of saying "5. Other - beginnings of spontaneous combustion "

(Unrelated to Chev's post...)


It's all DaisyChain's fault!!

()

Guilty as charged m'lud!

Conversation between my dad and me..

Dad "Are you doing anything today?"
Me "We might go out for dinner"
Dad "How can you go out for dinner, you're a vegetarian"

Me

What an odd comment to make!!

It's pretty standard for him, but still made me

Bracing walk at lunch time.

I'm really excited about flute shopping

I want to go Alto flute shopping...

I really must do some revision. These bar numbers are not going to learn themselves! Nothing like leaving it till the day before the exam, then leaving it longer...

How much are alto flutes?

Expensive...

I could get a basic one for less than my current concert flute cost, but they are still expensive.

If my old concert flute sold (it's currently on the second hand listing at the shop where I bought my new one) then I would be able to put the money together...

I need to take my flute back down to the shop in the next few weeks to get it a service done while its still under warranty. I'm thinking of trying out alto flutes at the same time and seeing what ones I like, then I'll keep an eye on the second hand listings...

*dreams of alto flutes*

Are you doing Edexcel, Sarah? I'm rather frustrated at having to memorise all the pieces! I'm sure taking a score into the exam instead would demonstrate more skill than just having to remember everything...

Good luck!

It would make life easier, wouldn't it!

After mucking around with numbers in excel for a while, I've worked out that I only need to learn 22 bar numbers that I didn't know already, which is quite a lot less than I thought I would need to learn.

It's not the history part that's worrying me though, it's the listening. We've had about 20 mins on it in lessons all year and I'm having to result to learning the pieces in order to answer the questions rather than actual listening. I'm getting quite good at answering the questions without even listening to the extract once.

Only about eight weeks or so to go

My room is a bit cold. Cold fingers and flutes don't mi very well...

Small arrgh, but not big enough for the aaagh thread...
I was getting stressed out with revision, so I thought I'd go make some brownies... and promtly put my hand through the electric whisk

I uh, want to empty my bin.
In the garden, there is those security spot lights things and I'm pertty sure all my neighbours are asleep and would not appreciate it on by their door.

oh well?

I'm really bored. I had the music exam this morning then had worked out I'd practise the recorder all afternoon while waiting to catch the train to my lesson. The slight problem is that the other people sitting the exam are in the music block, so practising scales in the room next door is a bit of non-starter. I've been sitting around for the last hour , then had the brainwave to go on hofnote, but turns out my school has blocked all the media player boxes So now I'm back to being bored...

EDIT: I wonder if it would be better to be bored out of my mind and at the station or bored out of my mind here...hmm.

So, I've put my books in alphabetical order, sorted all my music by instrument, arranged my wardrobe by item (and then in size order, smallest to largest...) and cleared out some other drawers. Wondering what to do next...

Just realised I sound like some sort of freak when I write that!

Tune your violin?

Arrange your jewellry by colour and length?

Arrange your hair accessories by colour and type (or type and colour)?

....... I could probably think of some more if you really want.

How about busking on your recorder at the station?

You can come round to mine and sort out my music

Done!

Organise all your make-up.

Sort out the shelves/cupboard in the bathroom and get rid of all those cosmeticy gists that you won't ever use because you don't like the smell or whatever.

Make a cushion using worn out clothes or things you're never going to wear again for the cover.

Learn how to knit (I taught myself froma book a couple of years ago).

Repair the hem/strap on your trousers/top which you've been meaning to do for ages and haven't quite got round to doing yet.

Paint or draw a picture (you could maybe do a penguin...).

Laugh at Flossie's suggestions.

Knitting = fun

Knitting = something I can't do

Though I can work a row counter

That would have been a great idea! I ended grabbing a random book form the library to take to read on the platform, but it was a pretty boring book, so I'm not sure it was really an improvement than doing nothing.