French keyboards are AZERTY.
I touchtype and it takes me a couple of days to get used to the keyboard when I swap countries. The most annoying things I find are:
A/Q are inverted
M is in a different place
French keyboards only have a full stop in upper case (in lower case you get a semi-colon)
French keyboards have numbers in upper case (lower case has accents, brackets, apostrophe etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania_%28phenomenon%29

Well... i was at work tonight.... and two friends i knew from the other pub i worked at came in... They asked me how i was enjoying it etc.... then one asked if we had 'cellar buoys'... my answer was to say that the manager and bar manager were the only 'cellar boys' we have....



I've just looked up 'cellar buoys'.... no wonder he laughed so much!!!

Maybe it's time for the winter coat...

Up in t' north we get us mums to rub us bellies wi goose grease then stitch us up in our underwear for t' winter.

And there was I thinking that Beatlemania was the first instance of this type of thing! Thanks for the quote, nicki.

I don't have a very musical family, so there's no one I can really talk to about how I feel about music or ask advice. When I come on here it's like having an extended Musical family, people who know what you are talking about and where you are coming from. It's a place where you can recieve great advice and also give it back too. I suppose I never really appreciated the impact these forums had on me until finding out the awful news about Clavicembalo. It makes you realise what the forums and the people in it mean to you. I enjoy seeing the familiar names and not so familiar names and enjoy reading peoples posts. I'm glad I came across these forums a few years back

Nice posts! I wish I'd had the forums when I was growing up. I agree it's a bit like having an extended family.

I bet the AB had no idea what they were starting up in the beginning!

I would like a new embouchure, please.

This is a very moving post. Well done, p*s*l.

Yes. I have sisters, brothers and friends here.

And children!

I know what PSL is on about - I can see why people enjoy these forums so much, it's like stumbling upon an outpost populated entirely by people who actually understand what you're on about and why you want to do it! My regular social crowd just think I'm mental for locking myself indoors with a noisy contraption.

And what about your piano?

There might be a spare one in the Lost Property thread

Ah, thanks for that. I tidied my room yesterday, so might come across it today.

This afternoon I have started The Job of Sorting Out Sheet Music.
The situation was getting critical, so I have started the job to start making it more suitable again. It is overwhelming and physically hard work. Still, hopefully the end result will be worth this backache and brainache.
I'm surrounded by piles of music on tables, on the chairs, boxes, crates, and a never ending supply of descant recorders which keep appearing...

How quickly has this week gone?! O.o

Who broke Facebook?

Ahhh, so it's not just me having issues with it!!

Nope!

click

It's working okay-ish for me now, any joy?

It's going now

This is my 3000th post on the forum, four days before I've been here a year!!

Congratulations

My next milestone is 29000

Weston-super-Mare pier reopens

1.The qualifying wasn't that exciting...
2. Where did the sun go?

It's here

Really? I thought it was pretty good. I reckon there'll be fun and games tomorrow.


Tomorrow then?

Behave yourself pushpull

maybe Monday eh Barry

Yeah, that's a little closer to the mark

I've just realised why I've been feeling so tired at work, I've been using lavender and chamomile scented washing powder on my shirts

The top poster crown beckons...

Car Expert

I'm going to look silly in that, though

You can have that one, I've got this one instead:



Car Expert

I'm sure it suits you very well

Just heard Wagner on the X Factor, and decided to see what would happen if I typed Wagner into Google.

What's at the top of the list? Not Wagner, the German composer : it's a news feed on Wagner from the X Factor

A girl I used to teach in primary school has just had a treble clef tattooed behind/below her left ear...

Why oh why oh why do I insist on crossing my legs when I sit down, anywhere? I know it gives me pins and needles...

A good friend of mine died this morning. We played recorders together now and then. TOo young.

I'm very sorry to hear this I hope you're okay.

so sorry to hear this

Sorry to hear that, Bev. It does hurt a lot when friends go, but we are really lucky to live in an age when it's a relatively rare occurrence for people to die early. It always brings me up short looking at the age of death of so many composers, poets, etc - Mozart, Schumann, Keats, to name a few.

Hope you will soon be able to feel grateful for the time you had with your friend, rather than upset about the time you didn't.

Sorry to hear that

So sorry to hear that Bev. My thoughts are with you

*hugs*

So sorry to hear your sad news, Bev. Thinking of you.

Take care, Bev, and try not to let it get you down. I am sure they did all they could for her.