I gave someone a special home-made present today (we don't normally exchange presents)

I wish I could be there to see her face when she opens it... coz she'll luv it I thinks

Makes me happy thinking about it.

Only just seen this. Fantastic. Well done

I had the priviledge of being "a knight in shining armour" to a very upset foreign girl with a beautiful newborn baby and I got to hold the baby too

Yes, I am OK now, got discharged fully today. It is great to be free again!

Finding out I am going to the Dolmetsch house tomorrow to try out hand made treble recorders. I am really excited!

Heard I've finally been promoted - I'm now a Reader instead of a Senior Lecturer!

A new pair of gloves

- I shall expect to hear you singing Devil Gate Drive with an outsized guitar very soon hillyb!

What's made me happy today? : playing music with friends

Still cold in Cambridge, then?!

Not particularly (it was actually relatively warm today! ), but it's a really nice pair of gloves.

I have an offer from Durham!!!

Wow! That's excellent! Durham is wonderful.

Seeing my Aunty and Grandma and imparting Christmas gifts. Incidentally, they live in Durham.

BEWARE. I did that once and look what happened to me...

FINALLY writing my Xmas cards

Getting the matching stool for my harp

Finishing my Xmas shopping

Putting all the presents under the tree

That's great news Sarah - well done!

*ears prick up*

Which college/subject? Let me know if you have any questions

I am very jealous (but also echo the Beware! Luckily my interaction was at the Early Music Festival and wasn't with the handmades, so it wasn't so much of a financial disaster )

Today I am very happy because I cycled in to work for the first time in 16 days (due to the insanity of the last two weeks - staying late, needing to cart laptop back and forth [if Santa doesn't sort me out cycling-laptop-luggage, I shall be sorting it out in the new year]).
This would be good in and of itself, but the extra good bit is that I did my 500th commute mile on the way in to work

(It sounds a big impressive number, but it actually amounts to only 25 days of commuting in the half-year since I started! Still, it should make it easy to make 2009 a 'record year'!)

I've applied to Trevelyan for maths.

Congratulations!


Seeing those 2 amazing people would be enough to make anyone happy!


Go for it, PCF.

Happy because my schoolfriends are back from uni and we've been hanging out again

Best college

I was going to say "I'll second that" when I realised my daughter is at home and might object! (She went to Grey)

Congratulations on your offer, Sarah, and fingers crossed for a nice thick envelope from Clare in the New Year.

Hehe!! Well, I got a rosewood treble, it is so mellow and responsive to dynamics (unlike the plastic one I had had to use up until now! It was one of 8 I tried! A lovely late 18th Birthday present!

Part of my Christmas present (a hairstyle) turning out well. I'm blonde now!

Finally completing my Christmas shopping... (I think!) :rolleyes

I have another one: Reading Twilight! I avoided it for ages because I knew it was badly written, anti-feminist and total rubbish... I gave in, so I could go and see the film with friends, and I actually seriously adore that book.

I really wanna see that film!

Busking with a recorder pupil and my trusty Yammy keyboard. We were out yesterday with the recorder group as well and we made £140 for the Brooke Animal Hospital for their work with the brick kiln donkeys of India. It is worth asking Google about their work if you don't know about it already.

Spending quality time with much missed friends in the pub, chatting, laughing, smiling, feeling loved, and realising all over again just how much they mean to me, and how great they are
*warm fuzzy Christmassy feeling*

And how much you mean to them

Getting good post
and chatting lots with my Nic Nic

Not a problem

Well, I havent been able to answer this question in a while... but Whats made me happy today?

Well:
Going to my favouritist pub for dinner with my Mum and sister and seeing the Landlord who i now call my friend
Going to my cousins 2nd Birthday party and seeing him enjoy himself!!!
Going to my grandparents and seeing my brother there too!
Going back to my favourite pub to deliver presents and seeing the genuine appreciation and shock when we gave them!!!
And now... watching the television with my Mum, Dad and sister

Its a proper pub, and we go together as a family every so often and we enjoy it there

That's good Soph

It's CHRISTMAAAAAAS!! Well nearly!!

Seeing my kids get all excited about Santa. (We've been tracking him too - cooool!)

Going to the church crib service and seeing the kids all sing away in a manger and being able to pick out my daughter's voice amongst the throng.... (Aaaaah!)

I love Christmas!!!

Aw, Dawn, that's lovely.

Someone rather special wished me a merry Christmas this evening. That would be enough in itself, but he's the first one to have actually said it (as opposed to written it) to me this year.

Oooo, surprise trip?

I wish... No, it was over the phone between what seems like 101 church services.

Hahah. Trouble of being an organist!

that's nice too miss Ross

Merry Christmas.

The wonderful music in the 9 Lessons and Carols from Kings today...and in particular the three (four if you listened to the whole thing on Radio 4 in the afternoon) solos sung by the tenor who was one of my sprogs in primary school. He was lovely when he was 8 (when I first started teaching him) and he's still lovely and sooo talented. He was in my choir and just gorgeous to teach - I remember him being the Mayor when we did 'Rats' when he was in Year 6 *comes over all nostalgic*. He had an amazing unbroken voice and it's now a gorgeous tenor.

He's now in his last year as a choral scholar at Kings so I won't see him on TV again .

Well done, Joel - you made my day.

The sheer fact that it's Christmas day, and I can celebrate, and I can eat and drink and be happy alllll day

nothing yet, but bell ringing in 7 hours will!

Singing 'Gaudete' at the Midnight Eucharist in a quartet where the other members were guest soprano soloist katyjay, No 3 son singing bass and another young baritone, who was once my Head Chorister, singing tenor.

Gaudete is good. Including the Steeleye Span version

He did have a lovely voice!

A generally lovely day, and the fact that I've calculated the best use of vouchers and Christmas money to get next term's booklist down to half it's previous (extortionate) price.

The new Wallace and Gromit episode

i love them...

my mum has got me a ticket home for chinese new year in late january..... i miss my mum sooooooo much....

yes, wasn't it fun !

i missed it