lol Perhaps you should always remember to put your Schuh's on..to play Schuhbert

And what, pray, do you suggest for Brahms?

Well, if the shoe (or, indeed, anything else!) fits.....

lol it has to be play Brahms in your Bra.....if your a man someones elses bra will suffice
sorry i couldnt help myself

Will my pork tenderloin defrost in time for lunch? I forgot to take it out of the freezer last night!

If you have sunny weather the way we do in London.. yes, if you stick it in the sunshine enough to thaw out and cook it immediately afterwards. (any longer and you run the risk of food poisoning)

It's defrosted now - plenty of sunshine here too.

I've even put the rice on already, so Nasi Goreng it is - soon!

I was right - it was YUMMY!

Some of the scenes in this week's Dr Who finale were filmed inside (and on the roof of) the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea!

Whilst at the University there I used to attend the Wednesday evening Organ Recitals. I think the first one I went to was given by Ernst Erich Stender, organist at the Marienkirche in Luebeck (Dietrich Buxtehude's old post). He played the Prelude & Fugue on BACH by Liszt and Mendelssohn's Organ Sonata No.3 in A, amongst other things.

Subsequently I saw John Lill perform there (not on the organ though!), Alfred Brendel and Segovia!

I just found my certificates from my first ever dance exams in disco and stage dancing-dated 9th November 2003!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-...rip-toilet.html

Ok, a bit old, but honestly, can this paper possibly get any more ridiculous?

that actually made me giggle a bit!

Congratulations Fran*piano on becoming a Forum Virtuoso.

I don't think she's noticed.

Admittedly, I probaly wouldn't notice either as I haven't got a clue how many posts I've made unless I look at the stats.

4495

Ahh, I hadn't noticed! Thanks guys now if only my playing ability would match up to my forum status!

Very strange indeed! Hope they come through soon for you, noodle!

That does sound very frustrating indeed! Maybe it's just a temporary glitch or something? I'm fine thank you! How are you, apart from the obvious lack of results??

I have been this hungover only once before in my life. I don't know why drinking on an empty stomach seemed like a good idea to me, nor do I have any idea exactly why it was so essential to not miss the concert afterparty I went to. I have a 9:15 seminar, and at the moment I'm too busy concentrating on not throwing up to even brush my hair, let alone intelligently discuss scientific advances in early modern women's literature.

Not sure that pudding, chips and gravy for lunch was such a good idea with clarinet practice still to do.

I have images of the clarinet being used as some sort of spud-gun now, thanks for that!

It's more a shortage of breathing room....

If you plan to perform your Diploma Recital to the A'level Music Set, make sure that the whole of Y12 hasn't already disappeared on a day-trip to Birmingham University!



It didn't matter; I took the opportunity to play the whole thing and simultaneously record it. That produced the necessary nerves prerequisite for performance practice!

We've reset it for next Thursday instead.

Note to self: spectacular organ/piano skill is not enough of a reason to fall in love with someone.

No, it's not, but like any artistic ability well above and beyond the norm, it can be blindingly attractive.

Absolutely.

Seriously, I don't think I've ever met anyone so talented, and I've met some talented people... And he's not bad looking either. This may not end well for me.

I've been known to fall for the same in the past

Stunning voice - I've been a jelly a number of times!!
Great double bass skill - jelly again (the nice smile and lovely eyes - didn't help but I was only young - why do you think there was a double bass part in one of my GCSE compositions )
and there have been one or two others.....

Go for it Lucky!!

My random thought:
Why did it feel like about 10:30 when it was 11:30pm yesterday and today the converse is true - it already feels like 10:30. I'm tired

There are worse reasons...

Those who went to Dyrham will appreciate this...

I ended up falling off my piano stool last night, crashing to the floor after a mischievous maybug somehow managed to get into the house and whizz around my head! I was in a panic as I thought it was a hornet!

I'm sure it was hilarious at the time but my back aches a bit now! :S

Even worse, I had to sleep in another bedroom as I couldn't find the damned thing after I'd run to get some flyspray, a pint glass, and some card (I was going to do whatever was easiest to get rid of it).

I'll be bug-hunting tonight...

Hope that you have recovered, I can associate with this, having had a spider drop on to my piano keyboard yesterday whilst playing to my daughter. I have a phobia for spiders, luckily I didn't fall off my stool but it didn't do very much for my performance. Daughter came to investigate as I scream and run away, only for the blighter to have disappeared down under the keys and probably in the piano somewhere! Now everytime I go on the piano I am worried it is going to come back out.

Of course it could have been that it thought what is that lovely sound, I ought to go and investigate lol

My father went out to Sierra Leone, West Africa, as part of the Methodist Missionary Association. Eventually my mother joined him out there. She says she'll never forget the sound as a large 'bird-eating' spider dropped off the wall onto a metal radiator in their living-room. Of course she screamed and one of the house domestics turned up, trying to coax it out from the back of the radiator, on his hands and knees with a broom-handle!

I'm not sure that a pint-glass and piece of card would have been sufficient!

It's annoying that these things are so quiet - I don't want to fumigate the house with flyspray, and I don't really want to kill it, as they're harmless (and an important part of the food chain). Hopefully it'll show up later on when I get home.

Yesterday I couldn't find our cat. I eventually tracked her down in the bathroom. She was playing with a HUGE beetle - she had flipped it onto its back, and was batting it backwards and forwards across the tiles... it travelled quite a long way

It's been reason enough for me in the past.

An accent has been enough for me in the past - how silly is that? But it did work out into a great couple of years

How's your back Sol?? Fancy you panicking after being so manly in getting rid of that huge spider off my bedroom wall
It's funny what can attract a person to another, but it would be a dull lonely world if we all fancied the same chap/girl.

Do you ever manage to sit on a chair or stool without falling off it Sol??!!
If I were you I'd seriously consider putting these on before sitting down next time...

Methinks I now have the title of "forum laughing stock!"

I'd probably fall out of the coffin on the day of my funeral!

I love it, thanks for making me laugh Missypiano

Poor Sol!! Ahh

Sol', you could found The Extreme Piano Club, a subforum of Extreme Sports.

I know there's "Extreme Ironing". Has anyone played a keyboard/piano at the top of Everest yet?

Might have to play predominantly in F# major or using the Pentatonic Scale on black-notes alone - a white-out would prove havoc for using the white notes!

C major is definitely out of the question!

Maybe not Everest but surely there'll be a Knight piano on K2 !

hmmmm...I seem to recall being there when Sol won the title of forum hurdles champion...for running in a concert hall and jumping over seats! so that might be a great idea!

The next sport sounds really painful though:

It feels like it should be around 6:15. It's only 4:30, so there's nearly two hours left before home-time.

Hahahaha!

I've just realised that my first ever real solo singing performance is on Monday night! argghhh, it's so much closer than I'd been consciously aware of!

Felling very lonely and blue!!

Propaganda = a real goose

Sorry - I've been working on a History project...

Saturday 3rd July 2010, ~4.45pm BST. Things you can't believe you've said out loud, #487.

"Diego Maradona looks more attractive now than he ever has"



Fortunately my husband not only understood that this was a comment on relative attractiveness, not absolute attractiveness (with the greatest of respect, I'd not put Mr. Maradona up there with, for example, Robert Redford [well, Robert Redford a few years back ]). He was also able to explain this abberrant statement in full:

1) It's the beard - apparently the beard-with-white-in can not be resisted
2) It's the beard and the suit - the beard adds a bit of scruffiness, and apparently women are also unable to resist a slightly scruffy bloke in a good suit
3) It's the lack of drugs - the fact he no longer looks completely insane / out of his face would move anyone up the attractiveness chart
4) It's the loss of weight - he may not be the slenderest or fittest, but again from where he was not so long ago he could only improve!

In about twenty four hours or so, I will be singing at the school summer concert....argh! I'm terrified!