Not sure whether to be proud or not of being a maestro twice over...

You still have a long way to go to catch nicki flute!

Something happened at work today, that made me realize yet again that we should enjoy life and go at it full pelt.

Nicki and I just love the forum toooo much!!!!



Oh no...

NOt to me, Barry, but I say, if you fancy a hot air balloon ride, or to do something special within your financial reach, then go for it and do it now.
I just need to find some energy to do this now, and will make a start by having an earlyish night.

There's so much I want to do still. Life is there to use to the full, and I'll try 'n' cram it full of good stuff



You take care Bev. Goodnight.

Yep, this is why I love reckless/fun pursuits Go throw yourself out of planes, go flying, hang-gliding, zorbing, karting, bungee jumping, track days etc etc I never understand why people say "I would do it but... <insert pathetic excuse here>".

The only problem is that once you start enjoying all those adrenaline highs, normal life seems quite dull

I always wondered where my life was lacking - now I fathom that it is a shortage of death-defying stunts and high-octane pursuits that has contributed to my deprivation all this time! I'm not sure I'd know where to begin a search for planes to jump out of! Having said that, I'd probably only consider it if I realised that I didn't actually want to go to Tunisia anyway, for instance, and I'd have to be pretty biased against the nation for which I was heading, as me vertigo kicks in upon reaching the peak of our step ladder when changing lightbulbs and such...

Still, I would heartily advocate that you jump in with both feet while the going is good, Bazza!

I have no intention of jumping out of anything.
I would like to drive a steam engine, have a hot air balloon ride, and go to the Rockies in Canada again.

It's good - it's like suicide without the nasty, dying bit The first time you do it your brain goes "WHAT THE ###### HAVE YOU JUST DONE!"

Yes, but my brain thinks that every time I have to accompany the children on a white knuckle ride cos my Barry won't go on with them.

Fortunately for me our children were all born before they invented white knuckle rides, so I didn't have that problem, but I know I would have been the same as Barry over it. As a result, we have the two older lads who hate these rides, but the youngest, Edward, is an adrenaline junky! His idea of living was to go to New Zealand and jump off or out of everything that they offered. Still, he comes in very handy when our grandchildren say "will you take me on that ride please grandad?".

I feel your pain. Only once to the Rockies is a sub-standard affair indeed; the resort of second-class citizens and poor labourers.

Sorry mw1, it was in 1992, and I really want to go again. Can't afford it at the moment though. Cornwall here we come. Have to make do with Bedruthan Steps, Port Issac and cream teas.....can't be bad then.

I even had to go on Space Mountain at Disney Paris.........without the children.That was a bet. When I got off , some teenagers were lying on the platform, and they couldn't walk.

The BBC Radio 4 Weather forecast is becoming rather vague.

I'm never going to get all my homework finished in time.
I suppose I would get more done if I logged off the forums and turned off the computer, but...

For flutes, there is the Flutewise day in London.

For saxophones, there is the Royal Northern Sax Day in Manchester.

There isn't really an equivalent I know of for clarinets. There are clarinet choir playdays, and single reed days that include saxes as well, but nothing like the two above events for clari...

*thinks*

now, I wonder...

If you are about to arrange a superb clarinet day can you give at least 11 months notice so that it gets into my diary before other commitments please.

look...CJB is tempting me to do this...

oh yes...

go barry-clari

Now the horriblist exam is out of the way, I only have one left - 2 days of hard work then it's all over.

Hotmail wouldn't let me download your scale program by the way

That's a shame, I'd wondered if it had got through. It had a picture of a pianoon and everything lol

ive always wanted to see a pianoon!

Well if you ever see one, point it out to me!

Do you have another address I could try?

no unfortunatley
Maybe try posting it on a filesharing site?

ah, I didn't think of that...



Here you go:

Grade 4 Piano Scales etc

It should work I think.

Yes... and it would be great to have a clarinetty event in Cambridge sometime next year... *looks hopeful*

Chances are, if I manage to organise anything on the scale I'm thinking of for a clarinet day, it'd be in London or the immediate home counties, but I think you're about the fourth forum member to mention Cambridge. We'll see how we go...

My cat has been trying to post something on the forums...
here is his typing

Is this some sort of code??

Yes. It's code for , " Open the tuna now, or the curtains have had it".

Why, when neither plain black nor plain white suits me, do I find I like the way I look in an black-and-white patterned top?

Were you a Zebra in a past life?

Not unless I was a spotted variety, This top has circular blotches rather than stripes.

It says, "My selfish owner gets fresh salmon and all I get is this rancid pile of turgid mess for dinner!"

lol

You know what they say about cats... they don't have owners, they have staff

My cat definitely has staff. And, at the moment, The Hump. My husband had a meeting after work yesterday, so I went round to visit a friend...got home at 8pm, 2 hours after normal cat dinner time...my first duty was of course to feed my lady...but she made it clear that such service was unacceptable and wouldn't talk to either of us last night. Nor this morning. Curled up on the sofa, not getting up for breakfast, and staying defiantly with her back to us.

I've just realised I was top poster (quantity, not necessarily quality) yesterday and am ahead of Barry today.... I think I'd better go crawl back under my rock before everyone gets sick of me

*hides*

If moths are so attracted to the light, why do they only come out at night?

I'm way down the top 10 list today

If you post lots, it means you enjoy the company here. That's my theory anyway, and I'm sticking to it!

It's more like I have no-one else who will put up with my random psychobabble, so you lot get the "honour" But yeah, this is a nice, friendly place and I think I'll be sticking around - you poor souls!

You've done well to rack up 554 posts in 2 months !

Cue the Vikings...

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Lucky us

At least you're entertaining

I can only aspire to reach your dizzy heights of professional raillery though, Carol

I know.
At least it gives you something to aspire to...

My students' results come out in 15 minutes.

I hope they've all passed outright. Last year one lass failed a module from another department, and I was really nervous when I had to go into the resit list to find what she'd failed (thankfully it wasn't my module). Do I get as nervous as the students?

I have been dispatched to the library to type up some work. I am making good progress with that, obv.

We'll they're out. A bit mixed, but largely what I expected. Most of the students whon I expected to get 1st have (there's just 2 who should have been capable of 1sts but have dropped to a 2:1). A couple of them have managed to pull a 2:1 out of the bag when I didn't expect them to, and a couple who could have got 2:1s if they'd put the work in have dropped to a 2:2. Unusually, there aren't any 3rds, ordinary degrees or DipHEs this year (at least not amongst the 3rd years - haven't checked the 2nd years yet).

A year ago today I had my argument with the stairs.