My new baby

It's about midnight and I've just got back from playing in the most FABULOUS salsa concert.

Despite missing entry for fl/ob/cl solo in one of the songs, it sounded really great. The public loved it and the invited lead singers (quite well-known folk here) really enjoyed it too and were very complimentary.

(I will definitely not be reporting in to the slimmers' thread tonight due to unspeakable beer count to celebrate )

Very nice P*P


I had a lovely day out yesterday just wandering, chatting, drinking tea and not rushing around all over the place It was great

Quite a coincidence, that...

Chocolate tarts baked by my daughter. (She also makes excellent muffins.)

Ah - nothing like a bit of anthropomorphic personification to make you feel better.

Nice car.

(History teacher (complete with gown and chalk dust everywhere) to young TV, who, being English, is prone to littotes (and multiple sub-clauses): "TV - I do not call the Hundred Years War a bit of a fracas")

compliment for the second clarinets from the conductor at band last night

Lovely, P*P!!

Just had a great morning (3.5hrs) of holiday teaching....one of my most lovely & musical 7 year old piano students asked, with her Dad, if she could start violin as well So instead of a piano lesson today we fitted her with a violin, the right size of which I just happened to have in the cupboard from a previous student. She was delighted to have a mini lesson and then walk away with a violin!

And of course, the other parents were delighted that I'd found a new home for their old violin. Happies all round

My day just got better....been asked to play violin with a military orchestra whilst over in UK, for their conducting exams. First time in 18 years, I can't wait!

Great!!

Yesterday I had some hours without hearing my tinitus and right now it isn't there either! I hope it will go on like this.

Finally got round to looking it up...the "get one free" turns out to be on the FTCL and FRSM lists (a Vivaldi concerto - I wasn't expecting it to be something I would be playing immediately!) Still, at least it was free and having it on my shelf might impress someone

Made some money, got a new pupil and went for a drive in my GT6, life is good

a letter from HMRC

With a refund I presume?

Maundy Thursday service. Choir sang Allegri's Miserere during the stripping of the altar. I conducted, and Mrs Stetenorve hit the top Cs in Choir 2.

Ooh - nice one!

Psalm 22 to plainchant. Unaccompanied.

I've found a string teacher who is organising tutored string quartets. Just heard back that they've possibly got something sorted out for me and I have a date now for my first session in a few weeks time.

that's great Tenor Viol



My happy - the wonderful painting niece no 1 did for me

Is it of you?

No, it's L-shaped, coloured red and covered in glitter! She's written some lovely things on it too

It's a decorative learner's plate

mmm, only it's about 45cm high and 30cm long, so a bit big to stick on a car

fair enough!

Looking at a very funny website. You know the current craze amongst posh blokes of wearing bright red trousers? (generally along with tweed jacket, brogues etc) - there's a website just with loads of photos of them proudly doing that. I know that doesn't sound funny, but it is... I can't type the exact name of the website as it has a naughty word (no naughty content though, I promise) but if you google 'look at my red trousers' you will find it.

Hmmm - I wear tweed and brogues - not all the time! However, I draw the line at red chinos.

You've no idea... Living in a rural area, tweed is de rigueur. However, in the chamber choir the secretary, librarian, and I have concluded that a certain personality type seems to go with the red chinos as we've encountered a couple of "characters" in recent years. One is a bass (thank fully moved on now) who thought he was God's gift to womankind, the other is a conductor (not ours) who is a retired surgeon and thinks that everyone is his flunky (think James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelot Spratt).

Apologies to anyone who wears them and does not fit this stereotype

I definitely will not be buying the red chinos.

I do hope this description doesn't apply to those of us who live out in the sticks, and sometimes choose to wear red corduroys?

SB

Well, I live in the sticks so I tick at least 2 of the 3 boxes. I am sure that you are the epitome of sublime gentility and therefore not part of the stereotype being described

Maybe these 'posh' blokes are trying to set themselves apart from those who would rather be seen wearing shell suits, or jeans at half mast?

SB

tea

I'm with you on that one...

Tea is always good Louise!

beginning to paint my boiled egg for tomorrow's egg rolling..... and the fact that in a couple of hours my sis who lives in Canada will be here.... and my bro, his wife and daughter.... YAY!

Arriving home from a few days spent in Cornwall for a family funeral.

Sad, but lovely to be home after a gruelling journey.

Have a great time Clari Nicki1



Glad you're back safe and sound Misterioso

ROFL Just been looking through the website in question! I absolutely LOVE this ladies jacket though

Cracking up watching the people I'm with on chatroulette claim that they're from an imaginary country complete with made up language

That must have been quite a round trip for you, Misterioso. I hope you can spend the next 2 or 3 days recovering.

starting to finally recover from this cold i've had since tuesday.

That's good Rach


a day off is making me happy, and hopefully clari practice will make me even happier later on

The bathroom scales. I am off to the slimmers' thread to gloat!

Sounds exciting, Aquarelle....!!

Mozart, JS Bach, Charles Wood and C V Stanford.

Pizza and chocolate. (Not together.)

A wonderfully musical weekend - great performance of 'Manon' in HD, live from the Met yesterday ( seen at local cinema) with superb cast. I have a new fav tenor - Piotr Beczala

Then more thrilling singing this morning - not only Mozart ( Coronation Mass) but also the Mascagni Easter Hymn, with a brilliantly powerful soloist. Fantastic, and quite emotional!

I wish!! No rest for the wicked!

What's made me happy today?
Imagine a cold, windswept, remote 12th century church at the Butt of Lewis (the windiest bit - or Butt!) accessed only by a muddy footpath across a croft, where the rain always seems to fall horizontally. There is no heating, and the only lights are oil lamps. The portable keyboard runs on batteries, and everything for the services has to be taken up in a suitcase. But our Easter service there today was wonderful!

(The trickiest bit was keeping the mud I collected from the croft off the bottom of my robe! )

Went racing Well went to watch the racing, realllllllllly realllllllllly want to get involved in a championship now myself, pity it costs so much money. No wonder many of the racers drive rubbish road cars!

It's a lovely sunny day here, we took the dogs and kids to the beach in Spain for a long walk and a play. Fun!!

Can we have some of that sun, please?...

I'll try and bring some with me on Saturday