You were great Tequila, Chanson de Matin sounded fab and thanks for your help with Queen of Sheba, still can't count some of that properly

Bring on next week

Oooo I love Chanson de Matin Playing this as a clari / piano piece with a pupil!

You two seem to have some great music in your band.

I like it too, have accompanied daughter and wife playing violin. (But not at the same time!)
Also Chanson de Nuit, and Salut d'Amour- similar pieces

I've sung the Langlais but not the Vierne - kind of stuff that keeps organists happy

My good friend in the room next to me in halls, her mum has offered me a job at her tea rooms over Easter!!!! Excited for Easter already as this is my first proper job even if a bit random!

We do

What version is your clari/piano version. I'd wondered if it may be a good one to look out for .
And Yes we do have some good music.

I reckon the Vierne is much more fun.

My happy ? getting home after a very cold morning out.

Why the smiley Tequila?

http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/0396637/details.html - it's in here The Carmen Overture is fab too

Runs from about grades 3-5

oops .... I have absolutely no idea how that got in there!!! Must've got click happy!! will edit!!





Easy enough then .... Had seen that book but also the Elgar Album here
Not up on my Elgar - as he only wrote one piece for clarinet - so not sure which is the better option ...

I have the Faure version of that series, some lovely stuff in it and perhaps a tad more difficult than the one P*P mentioned.

A handsome (and cheerful, timely and efficient) plumber.

Finding two sets of 12 inch double- ended knitting needles in a charity shop. Big jar full of all types, all a bit mixed up, but these nice and straight and clean, and was lucky to find two complete sets - a useful length. Lady wanted 40p, and it turned out it was for both sets. One set size 3.75 and the other set 4.5. Very useful. Maybe this should be in the anyone knit ? thread, come to think of it.

Being able to get out of bed and get dressed for the first time since Saturday.

Still feeling pretty rough but at least not like the death that I WAS feeling.

Lucky you!!

Glad you are a bit better

My happy? My parcel has arrived so I can mess around with mending an old, dead, piccolo....which if I manage to fix, becomes mine in band

Yeay!

indeed


I played solo clari last night at band and had some nice comments from conductor, thinks he's starting to like me......

indeed!

or maybe even double . Well done Louise1712. I played 1st and lived to tell the tale, so for me too.


Get well soon

Glad you are feeling a bit better, Cyrilla.

Sunrise - best of luck with the piccolo!

* Very nice music lesson last night

* My mum is away so I am looking after her cat - his claws are getting long. He is an old boy. As I am still working my way through the 200 pounds of pet shop vouchers I won, I went and got him a scratch mat, obviously not at all worried if he ignores it (know he won't go for a post at his age, but a flat mat he might like...) It came with a cat nip infused ball with feathers on it attached. Oh my oh my oh my. He's gone utterly mental over the ball! I videod him on my phone so I can send it to my mother - and I shall be buying him a packet of catnip tomorrow to turn in to a little catnip pillow. I've known this cat 15+ years and never ever seen him like this.

* Have taken the case off of my not working computer and think I can see where the problem is - well, in a 'knee bone connected to the thigh bone' way - the fan connected to the PSU isn't spinning right (it starts OK, then it sputters and stops, then it comes on again, then it sputters a bit), but it's not blocked. All points to a PSU problem...

Hearing that my youngest has got a music scholarship for next year ..... oh and in the interview report it tells me she wants to play sax as wel! Lol!

As in weather thread, my central heating makes me happy every day at the moment . I expect many of us over a certain age grew up without it, and although I miss the firelighting, boiler uncertainty of those dark winter mornings (only a little though!) getting up to a warm house is just lovely.

I am happy because our gas has just been re-connected after two of the coldest days and nights this year.

(I thought I could smell gas on the driveway near to our house on Wednesday afternoon. Like a fool I called the Gas Board, who within an hour had disconnected our supply. Not being especially old, (and our youngest being 13), we were not a 'priority case', so we had to wait for the four different teams to turn up and do their bit of the job. The gas was actually reconnected to the house yesterday, but we had to wait until today for another man to re-connect the meter, as the people who came yesterday weren't allowed to do that. )

So, we had to keep ourselves warm using two electric radiators in a large house, and used a picnic stove with the microwave. Next time I think will wait until the weather warms up before I report a minor gas leak.



It is probably just caked up with dust. Try sucking any dust out with the Noo Noo (AKA Hoover) to see if that makes any difference. If the power supply was at fault I doubt that the PC would work at all.

The fans are usually cheap and easy enough to replace.

SB

I had something similar just over a year ago. Thankfully it was much warmer then than it is now, but it took 10 days to get it reconnected!!! My heating, hot water and cooking are all gas dependent. It was at a time when I was stupidly busy at work and I just didn't have the time to spare to go to another building for a shower at lunchtime so it was cold showers over that time. I did get compensation though, ?30 for each 24 hours after the initial 24 hours, and I decided to buy myself something frivolous with the money when it came through, so I have a nice silver charm bracelet. With each day that passed and still no reconnection I was thinking "that's another charm then!".

I appear to have fixed my computer!


I'm actually surpirsed at how undusty it was in there! Anyway, further poking around revealed that my PSU has one fan directly on the back of it, and on on the back of the PC sort of underneath it. The sort of underneath it one was sputtering but now appears to be happy. The one at the back of the PSU wasn't spinning at all. I poked it (with the PC off) and it spun round. Switched PC back on, it started spinning round fine, and now all is happy. PC has been on for a whole half an hour now

I'm going to give everything a gentle hoover before I put it back together.


And if that weren't enough to make me happy, I also seem to have fixed the sync problem on my phone (by checking the settings - the 'auto sync' had got unchecked).

No. 1 son (in his mid-twenties) has bought himself a digital piano and music and is playing for an hour or so each night after work. I'm delighted he's restarted - he gave up lessons after passing Grade 5 when he was 15.

That sounds exactly like my no 1, mid-twenties son who passed Grade 5 mid-teens and then gave up! A digital or acoustic piano is on the shopping list for this year as soon as he has moved out of his very tiny flat into somewhere that will accommodate said instrument (and girlfriend, of course!) When he comes home, he is always playing the piano. In the meantime, trying to coax him back into taking some interest in his flute has been met with resounding indifference.

Some 'more intelligent' computers have speed sensors in their cooling fans, (in which case there will be three or four wires to each fan) and will shut down or refuse to boot if the various fans are not running at the expected speed.

SB

I'm finally getting somewhere. This is good

You mean things like ice on the inside of the bedroom window in a morning?

Oh happy days.

I can also remember in some weather, (I think when it was very cold), the draw on the boiler was such that the water in the hot water tank would boil during the night, overflowing into the cold tank. In the morning both the hot and cold taps would run hot, with a thick rusty-brown liquid which wasn't very pleasant for washing in or cleaning teeth.

I also remember leaving the gas poker in the boiler in for too long, so that all that was left of it was a melted stub with a flame coming out of it.

Where was Health & Safety in these days?

SB

I sure that I speak on behalf of many forumites when I say "That is exactly what I would surmise.".

replying to the 2 uni offers i got.

my firm choice just happens to be the college i go to atm

unclogging my dishwasher

Excellent Are they both conditional offers?

I now have a week off work and am looking forward to a great few days

yep

colchester institute and anglia ruskin

Best of luck with getting the necessary grades, Rach

the smell of the chicken roasting in the oven

Finding some warm old slippers in the cupboard.

Having a lovely day at RNCM!

Had a day of not doing a lot and writing!!

just got to get grade 7 and pass the course i'm on atm.

Hope you do!

Heading off to Chester Cathedral shortly to sing Evensong there this afternoon.

Seeing the first of this year's lambs in the fields!

Back from Chester. Freezing in the Quire. Good sing though. Splendid piece of Bach at the end.