Oh, alright... that's significantly better! I thought I had posted that many times since morning (effectively 8 hours ago for me) and I was appalled

EDIT: But actually, it's still ridiculous how much time I have been wasting... the internet definitely hasn't had a positive effect on my attention span New goal: not to stay on any forum longer than it takes to make 3 posts/comments/whatever in 24 hours...

An earthquake in New Zealand and political unrest in north Africa / the middle east are not proof (or evidence) that the world is going to end in 2012 due to a Mayan prophecy. A prophecy that must be true because you learnt about it on a documentary channel.

That's what I'd like to say to my colleague but for the sake of office harmony I can't

Funnily enough, I just saw four emaciated blokes on horses riding by!

There will always be wars and rumours of wars....

(Matthew 24:6-7)

One could argue that the insurrection and overthrow of despotic dictators in north Africa is long overdue. If it were not for the modern media we wouldn't know anything about it, and the peoples of the Arab countries wouldn't be copying one another right now.

And isn't the earth's crust unusually thin beneath New Zealand; hence regular seismic and volcanic activity in the region?

SB

anyone wants to go and measure the probability of an earthquake somewhere significant in the world and unrest somewhere else significant in the world happening in the same year, bet it's pretty high.

..... especially unrest in north Africa or the middle east, and earthquakes in areas where there are geological faults or where the earth's crust is thin.

SB

Sorry to be less serious but on the BBC website regarding the Cornish Pasty now being protected.

"It said the filling should be "chunky, made up of uncooked mince or chunks of beef with swede, potato and onion and a light seasoning" and that the pasty should be slow-baked".

Mince???

And it's goodnight from him

Couldn't resist, though it dates me dreadfully.

Good one!



On a more personal note I hope pianoeater and baiba are OK... I live in an earthquake-prone country and sometimes thinks my family are a bit ridiculous when they ring up in a panic about a quake 500 miles off... but I do hope neither of you are in the Christchurch area or at least are not affected.

I've now been learning piano for 2 years... I started a month before I signed up to these forums... Where does the time go?

And you've done really, really well to get to your level in that time

Shame I don't have as much time to put into it now as I did the first 18 months. I'll redouble my efforts once the house renovation is done...

...and your posh piano is in place

It is scary how many people believe completely irrational things on the flimsiest "evidence", or worse no evidence (or "Politican's evidence" as I call it ... I would like this to be true, therefore it is true) - especially when many of them are in positions of power and reponsibility.

I have just had some kangaroo steak for the first time. Quite tasty !

Feeling happier today. Had an urge to do some flute teaching. I do want to do flute teaching sometimes but then get scared...!

Does it make you look like this? :





You'd be an excellent flute tutor, Nicki

ahhhh i wondered why the yay was bouncy and now i know, thanks barry haha

Ah, but I've never eaten kangaroo steak

Not sure I ever want to, really...

all i can think of now is skipy the bush kangaroo

click

haha love it

Different between being a good player and a tutor

I know that. You'd make a fine flute tutor.

*pointy stick.......*

I think that two instruments ganging up on me at once is a little unfair.

Me too!!

True. I'm sticking to one at a time. Which is a bit of a shame as my poor squeezebox is looking lonely.

I looked up some music I wanted to buy. It cost ?47.99.

I thought some of the French clarinet and flute music was expensive enough...

ouch what are you buying nicki??

French by any chance?

That was the Ibert flute concerto...

ahhh nice

Is there any good reason for French woodwind music to be so expensive???

Especially since I love French flute music!

No idea. But it's not just the woodwind music.

My daughter's trombone music costs me a fortune. She only plays music by contemporary French composers. Each piece is sold individually and costs between 10 and 15 euros. Since she is not particuarly advanced the piece is usually 1 A4 piece of paper for the trombone part and 3 A4 sheets for the piano part. Given the price I can't believe that some of them are so stingy that the last page of the piano part is printed on the cover

What's even worse is that sometimes her teacher gets me to buy a piece and then decides that he doesn't want to use it after all

It's no better in clarinet world, Nicki : some Paris Conservatoire pieces are very expensive...

That is why I love : http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Flute-...mposers/3164902

I second that - when I was a horn student I remember paying what seemed like an extortionate amount for En Foret by Bozza - I cannot remember how much exactly but it was two or three times the price of any of my other pieces. Including some entire books of orchestral excerpts, and including other still-in-copyright music.

Definitely not. I see it's being given "Protected Geographical Status" so only pasties made in Cornwall can be called Cornish.

Why has KatieS's keyboard no capital letters?

I'm officially going insane... I just had an irresistible/inexplicable urge to hear my "home" language. It's bizarre, because although it was "technically" my first language, I began speaking English when I went to school, and my parents didn't enforce "no-English" rules at home so I'm much, much more fluent in English... but being at school I NEVER hear it - at home it's at least mixed somewhat into our speech. So now I'm listening to a TERRIBLE movie on YouTube for the sole purpose of hearing the language...

That's an experience English speakers are very unlikely ever to have... I have friends of various nationalities (or descendents of...), some of whom sometimes have these attacks of linguistic nostalgia. You are not alone in your "insanity".

I know what you mean, Lilly. Although I've always spoken 'English', the way it's spoken at home is very different to how it's spoken where I'm studying. Sometimes I end up trawling youtube to find people talking, and I've recently found our local radio station from home online, so I can listen to that and feel like I'm at home.

Sorry stetenorve, i didn't even realise i'd been missing them out far to eager to reply to everyone i shall try and keep my typing in check

Yep that's right Seeing some of the things that have been called 'Cornish Pasties' when visiting other counties I think it's a good thing.

However, as they are in Cornwall, Ginsters are still allowed to call themselves Cornish It's a push to call them pasties!!

Having now had a real Cornish pastie, I won't eat a Ginsters one again...

ah, that's better

mmmmm this topic is making me hungry now!! to be fair, nothing can be a real cornish pasty!