Andreas Helgstrand & Blue Hors Matine

I have to share...this is my absolute favourite youtube video of all time - I don't know if you'll agree if you're not interested in horses but I don't think anyone can fail to be impressed. Just wow.

The commentators are a bit irritating but don't turn the sound off, you need it?

PS...does anyone else have an interest in horses as well as music?

Thanks Rosie. It is amazing. What a horse!

nice that , Soph...
makes you think... don' it!!

Glad you like it... I like to find quotes that mean something... sad I know

no, not sad at all
it can't be sad, I do it all the time


guess I particularly like the colourful "As we grow up..." and losing someone you love etc

Orthodontist appointment today.

Thats very profound and mature of you, given that biologically speaking I'm old enough to your mother!

you look pleased by that...

Is this the one where they take the brace off and you get to see your new smile for the first time?

The radiator at the bottom of my stairs had sprang a leak overnight, not around a pipe joint but a tiny hole through the panel of the radiator itself and had been piddling water all night by the look of things.
Fortunately the cat's litter try is at the bottom of the stairs and had caught all of the water but was full to within a quarter inch of the top of the tray.

I came down stairs to the sound of trickling water and the sight of a cat sitting on the back door mat staring at his tray which by now resembled more closely a nice warm paddling pool rather than a toilet.

I'd managed to do without the central heating being on until the end of last week and only ever have it on for an hour morning and evening and don't have any heating on in the room where my violins are but I just can't believe my luck at the cat's tray being there to stop my hallway being under a quarter inch of water by the time I got up this morning.

The valves on this radiator won't turn off properly though so I've got to put up with the trickling and keep emptying the drip catching bucket (moved the cat's tray as they both had their legs crossed) until the council come and sort it.

Not a great way to start Monday.

I'm not sure who I feel sorrier for you or your cat. At least you didn't find any little messages of complaint left around the place.

yet.....

Feline message's are normally quite easy to find due to a fairly pungent odour. I speak through experience!

I was - I like going to the dentist/orthodontist! (Positive thinking...)
Unfortunately not, still a year or so to go until that delightful day!

We have light in our extension and the paint is beginning to come on the walls. Only another 5 weeks and the floor can go down and we can move the furniture in. I'll have a proper music room at last.

Ahh, sounds good.
Our new kitchen is being delivered next month now

I'm hungry... have a craving for one of those egg custard tarts

I've got shelves to put some of my music collection on. Now I need Heavy Duty Book Ends.

Hmm. In theory, I like the idea of a music room. But all I would put in it is my violin LOL. My piano isn't even mine so I don't have a say as to where it goes!

Aha, well on the plans it is down as a "study". That's right it's "my study" and naturally the Piano, all my music books all my sheet music all my books about music, my other musical instruments and that need to be there for me to work, hence its a music room.

If anyone finds Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All Men while they're unpacking their Christmas decorations, could they please return it to the cafe ASAP? It seems to have got a bit mislaid....

i'm unlikely to find that, but i have got that song from 'goodbye mr chips' that goes - dada dee da dee da dee dada dee dada daa daa...

on friday i will be free of school for ever. i can't believe it. six more hours of writing and agonising fingers and then nothing...

I remember when I was first free of school. I missed it for about six months, then I was heartily glad that I had left, and now I remember it with a sort of faint sense of amused nostalgia- we all thought we were so grown up!!

there will be people that i miss from school, but definitely not the school itself. the trouble with saying that you thought you were so grown up then, is that it implies that school students aren't grown up, and that the problems of students aren't really as serious as "adults'" problems. don't really think that they are so trivial... when you are living through school the problems you experience there are every bit as real and serious as problems you would experience as an adult. everybody in this country's education department seems to think that school students are not capable of real feelings or legitimate concerns - just as the apartheid government saw black people a few decades ago. now nobody takes it seriously if school students protest about anything - "they just want to party".

I'm so glad my exam's over
Gonna just take a chance to relax tonight, don't think geography revision's even gonna get a look in

sorry if this is dim, but what exam have you done? and congratulations for getting through it in one piece!
post-exam celebrations are way more important than geography... and you can just invent facts for that anyway.

I like to find ones with a meaning in which you can interprete how you like, ones that have a deep meaning



What do you mean??

I HAVE FINISHED MY FIRST DRAFT OF MY GEOGRAPHY COURSEWORK!

Here's hoping it's an OK draft so I never have to look at the thing again.

yes, I am with you there.
And I feel I can really understand some of that properly -- it's hard truly to understand and feel something unless you have had direct experience of it.

I agree, finding quotes for things you have been through... can help sometimes as well.

Thank you KJ.

On these Forums, I feel there is one person most particularly that I can rely on to make me smile... with some practical, common-sensical remark, nudging things back into perspective..

and you have not let me down.

Any decision, Saxfan? They sound fab! How's the 'fund' going??

not a very lively fund.... more like Northern Rock...
at this rate it's going to be a long wait

Sorry to interrupt the peace on earth/northern rock posts but I'm here for tea and sympathy and a bit of a grrr at the same time. (Didn't think this quite warranted a post on the teachers bit)

Have pupil age about 10 about to do G2 piano. Various bits of exam stuff (being vague here because don't want her to identify herself) are needing lots more work - mad rush squeeze it all into last fortnight - not the usual way I work, but still...... and offer to give extra lesson this evening, and there's no time - school disco or something. Which is more important - music exam or school disco? Grrrrrrrrrrr

Thank you - I feel better now

OVER TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE ARE NOW REGISTERED ON THESE FORUMS

*faints*

But there are only 7840 members... surely the rest haven't been banned! Maybe the people who are being validated are still given a number, even if they end up not being registered as members That's an awful lot of trolls if that's the case

Indeed, counting up this morning thare are 7832 members, 4 admin, 577 in validation.

So that leaves around eleven thousand member numbers allocated to registrations which are either spam machines, trolls or people who've deregistered.

Er - sorry - just me being thick then (not unusual ) - so why do some people have a member number of eg 20176???

Sorry- I didn't mean my comments in the way you took them. I know students can have real and genuine problems. But I wasn't talking about concerns education-wise or whatever - of course students should be listened to in this regard - I was talking about our attitudes to life back then. Maybe it's different where you're from, but I remember at 16 thinking my friends and I were the bee's knees and the world revolved around us. So my comments were personal and certainly not aimed at students in general.

We had a rather enjoyable 20 minute holiday in Wales today...

Well, actually, we just missed a junction off a motorway, and so ended up in South Wales and had to turn around via roundabout. Funny thing was, there was a sign that said 'Welcome to England', but no 'Welcome to Wales' sign on reverse...

~Wobby~

My Friday evening is panning out quite nicely.

Watching 'Munich' on dvd, drinking a not unappealing Italian Rose', waiting for my Chinese take-away to be delivered,

...and what makes it all the more lovely is that I have the house to myself as the other bodies have gone remote control car racing for the evening.


Bliss

I've just lost my bedroom to my Nan.

I have a cough. Great.

If Tears Could...

If tears could build a stairway
And memories were a lane,
I would walk right up to heaven
To bring you home again.
No farewell words were spoken.
No time to say good-bye.
You were gone before we knew it,
And only God knows why.
My heart still aches in sadness
And secret tears still flow.
What it meant to lose you,
No one will ever know.

When a battery operated gadget fails to function even after you've changed batteries....it is cheaper to consider the possibility that you've put a second dud battery into it, rather than to dash out in a panic and buy a replacement gadget. Which won't work with either dud battery from the first machine.

Oh dear

I once bought a new dual-handset telephone system, which when I set it up, didn't work quite as I wanted it to. I rang the shop (a large chain) and threw myself on their mercy, saying I knew it didn't really fall within their returns policy but.... The sales assistant said that they couldn't take it back just because I didn't like it, but she recommended that I make up some spurious reason for saying that it didn't work and then they would take it back with no questions asked

Fervently hopes the gadget in question is not the new laptop.



We are now on our third multihandset phone system. We always get them from Argos, and we always take out their three year money back guarantee. We have never yet had a phone system last for three years - the record was a week (faulty charger). So we take them back, get a replacement and take out a new three year policy.

It wasn't

I wonder if the twenty seven year old I like is too old for me...