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Glad you are on the way to sorting out your exam conundrum, Clari Nicki!

My happy - a lovely students' concert which everyone seemed to enjoy.

An awesome day!

Firstly the music festival, my ocarinas did me proud....then a 24hr swimming marathon where my daughter was swimming all night - every hour, so no sleep - and son did a short shift in the afternoon.....then same daughter off to the festival to play. She was exhausted, didn't want to do it, didn't think she could do it, almost couldn't see due to chlorine eyes and a cold that had materialised, and said that when she was playing her fingers were a blur, she couldn't focus! But came away with a 1st place (joint with 2 others, the adjudicator couldn't split them!) so that was way more than we had hoped for oh and then she went back to the pool to finish the marathon

And then on to play a celidh with some bandmates to about 300 people....made a few jaws drop as Gib does not have an Irish band - well it didn't until last night! It was a cracking night and now I just wish I could be that relaxed (even though every tune relied on me) when I played classical! Fantastic!!

Oh and our Festival adjudicator is an ABRSM examiner senior moderator! He has a wonderful manner, his comments have been fantastic, spot on the mark and really illumintaing/helpful. I think the best adjudicator I've seen. Looking forward to being back there today

the sun is back

Another super Evensong, the 4th in a series of 5 at which the Bishop gives the address. Tonight we even had incense, as we had a solemn Evensong for Mothering Sunday.

My lovely family... I've had a lovely Mother's Day... oh yes and Catkins and leaves forming on trees.....

catkins and yes, t'edges are brekkin' as my dad says......

Was a bit peeved that DH didn't even mention Mother's Day - I know it isn't Mother's Day in Italy but I am an English mother! This morning he pointed out that yesterday was actually Father's Day in Italy - whoops. So we have decided that this week we are going to celebrate both!

Saw this this morning and it made me happy:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/ART-DIRECTI...M-INSIDE/340016

Instruments from the inside!

These are fascinating images, if a little creepy to my eye.

No prizes for guessing that I like No's 4 and 5 best!

SB

Younger son has just got the uni offer he most wanted, to do a B Mus.

Recovering today from yesterday's musical excesses...

We had our Vaughan Williams fest. Main work was the Sea Symphony, but first part was what we believe to be only the second ever public performance of the Garden of Proserpine (discovered in 2010 after a 100 years in a library) and the Lark Ascending - stunning performance by the leader of the Orchestra of Opera North, David Greed.

As I was nominally the concert manager for this event, I had a fair amount of stuff to do yesterday....

EDIT: fixed dreadful typos and added soloist's details.

I **MAY** be getting a TR6 ... Been waiting 3 years to get one as well

I played the Britten Violin Concerto with David as soloist. I have to say he was AMAZING.

Agreed - it was a stunning performance - the audience was transfixed at the end




I've always quite liked TR6s - a friend of mine used ot have one, many years ago. Got to be BRG though!

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Band last night made me very happy, played much more of Queen of Sheba than I did last time

Nephew enjoyed his first day at his new school on Shetland Not sure he understood a lot of what they said though from what sis told me

My pupils' exams are over.... just an afternoon of exams for me to steward and then ....relax.....

Its my retirement dinner at Hotel du Vin, Harrogate tonight. Hope they havent fixed me a strippogram or suchlike !

I had forgotten that such services existed!

I was at a works long service presentation some years ago where a Stripogram was hired. The General Manager, who had apparently hired the girl, ended up getting a hefty slap for taking rather more interest than was good for him! It was some time before he was allowed to forget that particular indiscretion!

Enjoy it anyway!

SB

Not in Harrogate my dear old chap Have a great evening fsharpminor

Emjoy your dinner, f#m! I hope they've found you a more appropriate gift than a stripogram!

Enjoy your evening fsharpminor......

Have a lovely evening F#Minor

My big HAPPY for today is the fact I am wanted to teach at a school as a self employed independent teacher with a confirmed booking Oh and I might have 2 TR6's lined up ....

Have a lovely evening x



So pleased for you...and another TR6...what colour is the secnond one???

Exam results. My childrens! Little Bella, Grade 3 Piano, 125 Merit. And Little, Little Bella, Grade 2 Piano wait for it ...... 125 Merit. What more could a Mummy wish for!! Happy bunny, happy bunny - I'm a VERY happy bunny!!

Well done- how lovely for you that they both got the same mark!
DD1 did a piano exam last week and DD2 did one today- bet they don't get the same mark!

Offering a job to a young lady. She will be my new Assistant Manager.

Just seeing that rosfrog is back on the forums!

sunshine, lovely sunshine streaming through my bedroom window

and it's band tonight

Always good to see old long standing forum members posting again!

Hope you had a good meal, f#m!

Thanks for your good wishes in earlier posts, the meal at Hotel du Vin was excellent and they had no nasty surprises for me ! I finish work end of next week.

Glad you had a good night fsharpminor, enjoy your retirement (when it arrives)

Glad the meal was a good one

band

Yesteday I went on a guided tour of a local church that has just been restored. The guide started off by saying "unfortunately there are only two old frescoes remaining, the rest date from the 1600s". I love the fact that she considered the others to be "new"!

My Dad the early music nut is visiting, and we have an evening of recorder duets planned.

A fantastic violin lesson this morning

Its the Wirral Music Festival tonight and tomorrow. I am looking forward to being a 'compere' , ie announcing classes etc this evening and especially tomorrow morning for the senior piano classes.

Im sure there will be some promising youngsters playing. Hopefully to emulate Stephen Hough who started here, and whose name is on many of the trophies.

Have fun fsharpminor

The fact that my daughter got 124 in her Gr 6 piano exam.... i needed a bit of good news.......Results arrived in exactly a week

Well done to her!

Yay! Really pleased for her!

Surviving 2 days of AB exams....This batch of pupes gave me SUCH grief coming up to the exams that even Bag, Queen of Internalising, got a teensy bit rattled....but I think most of them played more or less as well as they can in the accompanied bits yesterday and today. I have promised two of my big boys a present if they pass their scales. Don't worry, my money's safe....!! Bless. Pity actually as I have a couple of lovely CDs in mind which I know they would both absolutely adore....ah well, chaps, c'est la vie

Slightly-Weary-Bag x

Sounds ok Bag Fingers crossed for the results

Thanks, Tent Queen

Will keep you posted although I have a nasty feeling results will be held back due to a bit of a mishap with one of the candidates....Have you ever seen a flautist and an organist trying to string a fiddle (there MUST be a joke there somewhere but we failed to see the funny side at the time)....or indeed seen the look on said organist's face when asked if she'd be willing to "busk" an accompaniment when a candidate turned up with no piano parts.....

Bx

That's certainly different!... Hope the results are fab, Bag

Get that round here too! The local 'new' church is 300 years old soon (next year). The medieval church fell/burnt down in the 1690s. Of course the medieval church was not the original, that replaced a Saxon church around 1200...

my happy, well, a Saturday with no work to go to and the prospect of looking, only looking, into how much a decent oboe will cost to rent (visit to music shop )

mmmm....only looking.....now how many times have I heard people say that????

Probably a bit more than an equivalent clarinet, Louise. Have fun though!