I'd find it quite hard to read music written in red...

Just had my first ever play on a clarinet Managed Chromatics G-G (bottom octave) and a few below and above in an hour. It was fun!!

Ooh - I'm jealous! Hope you have a wonderful time.

Me too, very jealous!!

..a real instrument at last

1) Watching my two cats out in the garden
2) Painting an aeroplane money-box with Bagpuss
3) Lunch and a game of cards with Bagpuss
4) Bag helping me sort and put away all my Christmas stuff (I know, it's a bit late )
4) A most pleasing message and photo from a friend

My cat is torn between wanting her usual morning cuddle, and remembering that she has the hump with me for taking a mouse away from her last night (it was alive and I put it somewhere she couldn't go straight back out and find it again).
It's going along the lines of: purr, purr, purr, oh hang on, flounce, sneak back, purr, purr, flounce, not talking to you, well, maybe, purr, purr...

I've always wanted to go to Glyndebourne and the Marriage of Figaro would be the perfect work to see.




Terry Pratchett summed this up in Pyramids: 4,000 years ago cats were worshipped as gods - they have not forgotten this

Bwahaha I was waiting for someone to say that!!

You've probably covered most of the first register then : well done you!

Thanks...it was good and I got to bring it home too. Fumbled through oompahpah and doe a deer

I signed up for the Cameo Orchestra play day with the Manchester Camerata on 4th March at RNCM. Received an e-mail with the music in it - Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings I'll be lucky to play one note in three!

Anyone else going? Happy to meet up for lunch beforehand (doesn't start till 2pm). There are woodwind and string groups I believe? I'll stick something in Events to avoid clogging this thread.

Seeing niece number 2 looking much healthier, after the last few weeks it is so nice to have her awake and responding to things again

A bunch of flowers and a lovely homemade meal

Finally finding out what this piece of music was called:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Miserere+M...us/3Hx3Q7?src=5

Been waiting for years to know....then Radio 3 came up trumps.

Hey listening to that made me happy. I can remember my dad sitting with me in our front room when I was a child listening to this with me and telling me how amazing it is.

What I was going to write was the sun shining through made me happy- but this little treat of music and a memory of my dad made me even happier. Thank you.

Whilst Classic FM can be irritating with its obession with "the top 300" at least the Allegri features regularly. It's surprisingly simple really - an alternatim setting of the Gregorian chant psalm tone and harmonised sections. It's fun to sing.

Good to see you posting again, Oddball

Wonderful! Thanks for posting this link.

Snow!

Remember my friend (goes to my singing teacher) that failed his A level music last year but still managed to get into Uni to read music? He's just been offered a recording contract I'm so happy for him, he has a fantastic voice

lots of lovely sunshine, a good practice session on clari, and the possibility of a new toy tomorrow

That's good to hear, Sunrise. Every success to him!

It is! I think we're doing it on Wednesday.

Best of luck to your friend Sunrise!

.... and pop tarts.. mmmm.

Debating whether to back to bed and read the weekend newspapers... I do this about once a year and this morning it just feels hugely tempting....

Sadly not to be....he didn't log out his facebook and his friend was a naughty boy . Thing is, we all fell for it because he really IS that good! Oh well, it's just a matter of time

Had to be persuaded to check latest essay result online, I was in tears thinking I'd probably done really badly (I'm feeling constantly tense at the moment, typical final year syndrome!). I got the best mark I've got so far in my whole degree.

(Apologies for grammar... brain not functioning well!)

Well done Floss


I'm looking forward to band later, just hoping that my earache has gone by then.

I've bought a harpsichord...


...for my iPad
Actually, I got a piano app that has a harpsichord sound available, as the specific harpsichords apps I could find didn't seem to be overly well-reviewed. And getting a piano one with other sounds means I can make other silly noises too (like pretending to be an organ). Lots of piano apps have other instrument sounds available, but not all that many have harpsichord. It appears to only do A=440, but I suppose you can't have everything (and actually, it appears to transpose by semitones, so you can get to A=415 that way)

No, there's no intention of anything sensible happening with this, it's just a bit of fun

Well done Floss! : D

Good for you Floss. Well done!

Newbie no more!

Passed my baboon exam, and also had a successful quartet rehearsal

a very good clari practice

for yesterday: Passing my driving theory test!! woooooooo! and for Thursday: successfully learning to parallel park and enjoying it! (contrary to most stories )

Congratulations!

I'll always remember what the tester said to me when my driving test was finished. He sort of went 'Humph, well I'll give you the benefit of the doubt! But we did nearly roll back into the Town Hall Square'. I guess I rolled back a few inches on a hill start, on a hill 100 yards above the Town Hall Square (Keighley) That was April 1965.

I thought my tester was going to burst into tears when he passed me (in 1975).

I had reversed onto the kerb when reversing around a corner, but I think that was forgiven when I avoided a nasty accident by looking over my shoulder beofre turning right into the test centre, when I saw a nutter in a Cortina about to overtake, at the same time as another car he was racing undertook us on the left.

"I take it you ride a motorcyle?" he said glumly!

SB

Everyone thought I was mad when I booked my driving test on the 18th November 2005 having passed my theory that day (which was my 17th birthday). My test was on the 21st December 2005. I'd had a year on the roads riding a scooter to get road experience and had owned my first car for a year previous to that and had been playing about with it.

Never had a lesson with a professional instructor just drove everyday with my parents, I was over the moon to have passed first time and all it cost me was the theory and practical test fees.

Don't think the examiner had ever had anyone so keen

Learning to drive need not be expensive

I was failed TWICE in 1990 for being too defensive/polite towards other road users. Nowadays I always make a point of being polite in my car, and if they don't like me because I stick to 30mph in 30mph zones and show fingers to me, I always assume that if its two fingers they're displaying they're listening to Radio 2, or one for Radio 1.

:-))))

feeling much better than I have done for the last few days

I often wonder if there is a different Highway Code for van drivers, as they often seem to use hand signals that don't appear in the version I have.

SB

Finally arriving home at 9.40pm, having taken 4 1/2 hours to come the last 25 miles of my journey from Pontefract. The A34 driving south was not the place to be today, and breaking down in the middle of one of the worst queues I can remember did not add to the fun.

I was so fortunate that about 5 minutes after breaking down, a very kind white van man, complete with flashing amber light, tow rope and the know-how to affix same to my car, pulled up in front of me and offered to tow me to some services 6 miles down the road. It took the poor chap 90 minutes to achieve the same; his clutch leg must have been dropping off! And he wouldn't take a penny from me for his kindness, as he was going that way in any case. The RAC man who arrived an hour later was also kindness itself, and managed to fix the car in 10 minutes whilst I sat in his cab in the warm!

So two very kind gentlemen of the road (if you'll pardon the expression) really made my day much better than it might have been.

looking forward to my first oboe lesson tonight

What will make me happy is our pupil concert tonight!! Can't wait!

I HAVE BEEN OFFERED A JOB

(sorry to shout but can't stop jumping up and down at the moment)

Fantastic news! Good luck!

well done BB77 have a party to celebrate.

Brilliant!!!

well done you!