Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
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A tuba which I have accidentally acquired/bought. Not sure quite how it happened, but it is rather fun.
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:08 PM) 
A tuba which I have accidentally acquired/bought. Not sure quite how it happened, but it is rather fun.
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
*very much wants to see pcf playing a tuba*
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:08 PM)
A tuba which I have accidentally acquired/bought. Not sure quite how it happened, but it is rather fun.
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
How does one accidentally acquire a tuba
"It followed me home, can i keep it?"
Barry, I'm sure it and me will appear at a forum event at some point - we will be terrorising people on public transport before I know it! 
How does one accidentally acquire a tuba "It followed me home, can i keep it?"
More along the lines of a friend saying "You know you want a tuba? I'm about to put one of mine up for sale, you get first dibs." and me being unable to say no! Completely accidental purchase, honest!
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 01:15 PM)
How does one accidentally acquire a tuba
"It followed me home, can i keep it?"More along the lines of a friend saying "You know you want a tuba? I'm about to put one of mine up for sale, you get first dibs." and me being unable to say no! Completely accidental purchase, honest!
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:56 PM)
Barry, I'm sure it and me will appear at a forum event at some point - we will be terrorising people on public transport before I know it!
Excellent
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 01:15 PM)
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:08 PM)
A tuba which I have accidentally acquired/bought. Not sure quite how it happened, but it is rather fun.
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
How does one accidentally acquire a tuba
"It followed me home, can i keep it?"Not that much different to being an accidental clarinettist......Bigger.....
And pcf will have to become pcft 
QUOTE(Maizie @ Dec 20 2011, 02:13 PM)
And pcf will have to become pcft
If we were to go by all the instruments in her profile, pcf should really be pocfsrptpdksv
My optician has that hanging in his consulation room!
Do you think he plays multiple instruments? I must ask him next visit.
Do you think he plays multiple instruments? I must ask him next visit.
On arriving in a bookshop in Ely the boys went into the children's section and started to browse whilst I started to hunt for a few last minute Pressies.
I was offered a cup of tea, and given lots of good suggestions.
It was Earl Grey served in a teapot.
Matthew and no2son endeared themselves to the staff as they both love reading.
The word 'cup of tea' was like music to my ears.
After I finally completed my Ely shopping, I found the garden centre had reduced the Christmas Trees. no2son helped choose, and Matthew helped lift it in from the car into the lounge.
I now have a Christmas tree that strangely reminds me of a bell tower in Pisa, but do I care...
Much better day than yesterday
I was offered a cup of tea, and given lots of good suggestions.
It was Earl Grey served in a teapot.
Matthew and no2son endeared themselves to the staff as they both love reading.
The word 'cup of tea' was like music to my ears.
After I finally completed my Ely shopping, I found the garden centre had reduced the Christmas Trees. no2son helped choose, and Matthew helped lift it in from the car into the lounge.
I now have a Christmas tree that strangely reminds me of a bell tower in Pisa, but do I care...
Much better day than yesterday
QUOTE(maggiemay @ Dec 20 2011, 02:44 PM)
My optician has that hanging in his consulation room!
Do you think he plays multiple instruments? I must ask him next visit.
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QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:08 PM)
A tuba which I have accidentally acquired/bought. Not sure quite how it happened, but it is rather fun.
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
Confused Tenor Viol here....
How do you accidentally buy a tuba exactly?
It's not as though you accidentally picked one up whilst buying sheet music.....???QUOTE(Tenor Viol @ Dec 20 2011, 04:18 PM)
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:08 PM)
A tuba which I have accidentally acquired/bought. Not sure quite how it happened, but it is rather fun.
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
Confused Tenor Viol here....
How do you accidentally buy a tuba exactly?
It's not as though you accidentally picked one up whilst buying sheet music.....???I sounds like the sort of thing Flanders and Swann would do, either that the type of thing one would do after rather a lot of strong liquor...
I was tempted by a full sized violin in a second hand shop today...
QUOTE(jod @ Dec 20 2011, 04:24 PM)
QUOTE(Tenor Viol @ Dec 20 2011, 04:18 PM)
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:08 PM)
A tuba which I have accidentally acquired/bought. Not sure quite how it happened, but it is rather fun.
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
Must make sure I do enough of my other wind instruments to keep embouchures going... such hardship!
Confused Tenor Viol here....
How do you accidentally buy a tuba exactly?
It's not as though you accidentally picked one up whilst buying sheet music.....???I sounds like the sort of thing Flanders and Swann would do, either that the type of thing one would do after rather a lot of strong liquor...
I was tempted by a full sized violin in a second hand shop today...
It is *exactly* the sort of thing Flanders and Swann would do- check out the last verse of http://www.hornplanet.com/hornpage/museum/...s/ill_wind.html
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:56 PM)
Barry, I'm sure it and me will appear at a forum event at some point - we will be terrorising people on public transport before I know it!
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 01:15 PM)
How does one accidentally acquire a tuba
"It followed me home, can i keep it?"More along the lines of a friend saying "You know you want a tuba? I'm about to put one of mine up for sale, you get first dibs." and me being unable to say no! Completely accidental purchase, honest!
Do you know enough notes for the bass line of carols yet?
QUOTE(CJB @ Dec 20 2011, 05:20 PM)
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 01:56 PM)
Barry, I'm sure it and me will appear at a forum event at some point - we will be terrorising people on public transport before I know it!
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 01:15 PM)
How does one accidentally acquire a tuba
"It followed me home, can i keep it?"More along the lines of a friend saying "You know you want a tuba? I'm about to put one of mine up for sale, you get first dibs." and me being unable to say no! Completely accidental purchase, honest!
Do you know enough notes for the bass line of carols yet?
Probably not enough for tomorrow - whilst I've got a two octave range coming along, it is a two octave range with a firm grip on a fingering chart at the moment! *grabs carol book to have a try*
I'll stick to pcf as a username!
QUOTE(pianocelloflute @ Dec 20 2011, 07:05 PM)
I'll stick to pcf as a username!
I'd get confused if you changed it now
I have de-wasped the loft.
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 07:19 PM)
I have de-wasped the loft.
Wasps in December?
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Dec 20 2011, 07:30 PM)
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 07:19 PM)
I have de-wasped the loft.
Wasps in December?
No - there is an empty nest now (that was not empty during the summer) so I have sprayed it, and the other two empty nests with nasty stuff to keep them out. I was just waiting until the temperature got low enough that anything in there would be dead. I am going to hang up Waspinators (fake nests that prevent the real ones from nesting). I only sprayed the nasty stuff there to kill anything that may be hibernating, though I doubt there would be anything there.
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 07:38 PM)
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Dec 20 2011, 07:30 PM)
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 07:19 PM)
I have de-wasped the loft.
Wasps in December?
No - there is an empty nest now (that was not empty during the summer) so I have sprayed it, and the other two empty nests with nasty stuff to keep them out. I was just waiting until the temperature got low enough that anything in there would be dead. I am going to hang up Waspinators (fake nests that prevent the real ones from nesting). I only sprayed the nasty stuff there to kill anything that may be hibernating, though I doubt there would be anything there.
Ah, OK
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Dec 20 2011, 07:30 PM)
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 07:19 PM)
I have de-wasped the loft.
Wasps in December?
Believe it or not, there was a wasp buzzing round the exam waiting room on 2nd December.
QUOTE(andante_in_c @ Dec 20 2011, 07:41 PM)
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Dec 20 2011, 07:30 PM)
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 07:19 PM)
I have de-wasped the loft.
Wasps in December?
Believe it or not, there was a wasp buzzing round the exam waiting room on 2nd December.
Must have been a very hardy wasp
QUOTE(Bagpuss @ Dec 19 2011, 07:44 PM)
Lol, go maggiemay! An old boyfriend of mine (old as in past, not past it!
) once said if he believed in reincarnation he'd like to come back as my bra..... 
Anything-more-than-a-handful-is-wasted-Bag
x
Seeing Rihanna and Calvin Harris tonight at the O2! guestlist tickets and then guess who happened to turn up two seats to my left and one row down? Kate Moss! got a shot of Rihanna and Kate Moss in one shot! would have possibly been able to meet he but that would have involved a 1 hour wait when we had a cab waiting! but hey, excellent night and free tickets very happy indeed!
guestlist tickets and then guess who happened to turn up two seats to my left and one row down? Kate Moss! got a shot of Rihanna and Kate Moss in one shot! would have possibly been able to meet he but that would have involved a 1 hour wait when we had a cab waiting! but hey, excellent night and free tickets very happy indeed!
Last night's episode of Rev left a warm fuzzy glow; definitely a Blackadder Goes Forth moment and I will remember it for a long time to come.
My new piano arrived. 
QUOTE(andante_in_c @ Dec 20 2011, 07:41 PM)
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Dec 20 2011, 07:30 PM)
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 20 2011, 07:19 PM)
I have de-wasped the loft.
Wasps in December?
Believe it or not, there was a wasp buzzing round the exam waiting room on 2nd December.
That reminds me, was very happy the day my medic alert band arrived.
After two high speed dashes to A and E following Anaphylactic Reactions I now feel better given I am wearing something that tells those around me what is going on if and when I land on the ground at their feet.
What has made me happy today- knowing that the Christmas Cards are now hubby's problem!
Less stress for the rest of the day!
Spill Tortellini - what sort of piano have you treated yourself to!
Confirmation that I'm going to Bayreuth next summer 
QUOTE(Deborah @ Dec 21 2011, 01:58 PM)
Confirmation that I'm going to Bayreuth next summer
Lucky girlie. Is your OH going too?
Enjoy!
QUOTE(Deborah @ Dec 21 2011, 01:58 PM)
Confirmation that I'm going to Bayreuth next summer
Are you?
Will need to know more when I see you...
Yeah, after the assault course that was the Kitchen (find the cake tin.... I've hidden the Lemon Zester guess which draw it is in?) Eventually, two weeks after I would have liked, the Christmas Cake is in the Oven.
No time to feed it. Will have to do.
So... unless the Marzipan, the apricot jam and the brandy is hidden, tomorrow I can cover the top with Marzipan. The On Friday, I can Ice it.
I'm sure some of the family will get their Christmas cards on time.
I can now spend some time doing fun things with wrapping paper and sticky tape... (This means I'm actually giving some presents!)
No time to feed it. Will have to do.
So... unless the Marzipan, the apricot jam and the brandy is hidden, tomorrow I can cover the top with Marzipan. The On Friday, I can Ice it.
I'm sure some of the family will get their Christmas cards on time.
I can now spend some time doing fun things with wrapping paper and sticky tape... (This means I'm actually giving some presents!)
only one more working day for the rest of the year.
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 21 2011, 04:26 PM)
only one more working day for the rest of the year.
Hubby is working on Friday morning.
QUOTE(jod @ Dec 21 2011, 04:27 PM)
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 21 2011, 04:26 PM)
only one more working day for the rest of the year.
Hubby is working on Friday morning.
But I am not
Edit: well, not in the office anyway. I will be making stuffing and gravy and other Christmas edibles to take up on Saturday.
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 21 2011, 04:52 PM)
QUOTE(jod @ Dec 21 2011, 04:27 PM)
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 21 2011, 04:26 PM)
only one more working day for the rest of the year.
Hubby is working on Friday morning.
But I am not
Edit: well, not in the office anyway. I will be making stuffing and gravy and other Christmas edibles to take up on Saturday.
I am in the office all of Friday as normal and back on the 28th.
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 21 2011, 04:52 PM)
QUOTE(jod @ Dec 21 2011, 04:27 PM)
QUOTE(corenfa @ Dec 21 2011, 04:26 PM)
only one more working day for the rest of the year.
Hubby is working on Friday morning.
But I am not
Edit: well, not in the office anyway. I will be making stuffing and gravy and other Christmas edibles to take up on Saturday.
Friday morning is my time to visit the butcher and bring the goose home.
Then its off to Norwich armed with a book to visit my inlaws. (actually the idea of bringing Christmas 'edibles' sounds like a good idea...)
It's nearly the END of the shortest day!!!!!
...which means SUMMER is just around the corner!!!!!! yahhoooooooooo 
*hears the Hallelujah chorus in the background.....*
...which means SUMMER is just around the corner!!!!!! yahhoooooooooo
*hears the Hallelujah chorus in the background.....*
QUOTE(lottie @ Dec 21 2011, 05:47 PM)
It's nearly the END of the shortest day!!!!!
...which means SUMMER is just around the corner!!!!!! yahhoooooooooo
*hears the Hallelujah chorus in the background.....*
Here, here
I
summer In the meantime I have lots of lovely piano pieces to practise.
Happy today - finished Christmas shopping off.
QUOTE(Bagpuss @ Dec 19 2011, 07:43 PM)
My last pupe of the term gave me a wrapped gift today. When I got home I saw it had written instructions to open it today. So I just have (all be it in fear and trepidation of the Curse of Santa). I am now the proud owner of a set of stickers that say :
"Flutes are shiny, ohhhh shiny"
"I'm an elephant - yay!" (that'll come in handy won't it?)
"Flutes should always be rested on shoulders" (as if little me would criticise a pupe for doing so....
)"Scales are rubbish and should never be learned" (this pupe really SHOULD value its spleen more....)
"Rubber chickens are stretchy like pineapples" (well, another jolly useful one there then. This pupe regularly utters the word "pineapple" at random intervals during lessons....)
I really DID laugh when I opened them. I am actually quite touched as these are things we've laughed about in the course of the term and said pupe has had fun doing this for little me.
Faith in the Youth of Today happily restored.
Smiling-Bag x
QUOTE(Bagpuss @ Dec 19 2011, 08:35 PM)
Like a good bra, sis, like a good bra
(plenty of support!)Titter-Ye-Not-Bag x
Excellent x 2
our carol playing has raised lots of money for two local charities
2,000 posts!!
2 things made me happy yesterday.
A couple of lovely PMs.
Singing the solo part of "The Three Kings" at a hastily arranged 9 Lessons. Had 30 minutes notice, but it's a piece I know well. A number of the congregation were kind enough to say how much they had enjoyed it.
A couple of lovely PMs.
Singing the solo part of "The Three Kings" at a hastily arranged 9 Lessons. Had 30 minutes notice, but it's a piece I know well. A number of the congregation were kind enough to say how much they had enjoyed it.
Yesterday's happy - Christmas Festival can be put away for another year. Today's happy - on my way to a lovely clarinetty day and train 1/6 of the day is on time.
I'm now on train 3 - all so far left within 1 min of the scheduled time
I'm now on train 3 - all so far left within 1 min of the scheduled time
I just remembered I have the Polar Express music on this laptop, so now I feel proper Christmassy at work
Found this perfect length of ribbon for 50p to go around the Christmas cake at the local Haberdashers. It has Snowflakes on it ans says 'Merry Christmas'
End is in sight with the Christmas Preparations. I'll be able to have my pre Christmas dram and relax rather than drink it for 'purely medicinal purposes'!
End is in sight with the Christmas Preparations. I'll be able to have my pre Christmas dram and relax rather than drink it for 'purely medicinal purposes'!
My OH said to me while playing out digital piano "stop playing the demo", "I'm not.." he comes in room and says "oh it's you playing!"
This has got to be the best Christmas present this year, my hard work is really paying off. Considering OH is post diploma level on piano I'm utterly delighted.
This has got to be the best Christmas present this year, my hard work is really paying off. Considering OH is post diploma level on piano I'm utterly delighted.
QUOTE(Pixie*Porsche @ Dec 22 2011, 09:22 PM)
My OH said to me while playing out digital piano "stop playing the demo", "I'm not.." he comes in room and says "oh it's you playing!"
This has got to be the best Christmas present this year, my hard work is really paying off. Considering OH is post diploma level on piano I'm utterly delighted.
nice to hear you're enjoying your playing so much amongst other things my
has made me happy today
QUOTE(jod @ Dec 22 2011, 12:26 PM)
Found this perfect length of ribbon for 50p to go around the Christmas cake at the local Haberdashers. It has Snowflakes on it ans says 'Merry Christmas'
That's better than one that says 'Happy Easter'. Or 'Best wishes on your 30th Wedding Anniversary'
QUOTE(louise1712 @ Dec 22 2011, 09:32 PM)
amongst other things my
has made me happy today me too
Great company, some great music, yummy food, a glass or 2 of port. Oh and all 6 trains departed/arrived within 3 mins of their timetabled time (sorry Barry!).
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