Some more music arrived for my Anglesey event. Now the accompanist has three pieces to play. There are lots more on the way so I am told.

Were Barry's songs among the pieces, Petrat?

Yes, they arrived safe and well. Arwel is going to play the one in the new key and I am going to play the original. Barry has to sing in the key between us both as a challenge.

Jolly good. I was working on that with him at his singing lesson this morning....


only joking Barry

Cooking makes me very happy. I miss it here. As does the sun shining witha blue sky.

I can't think of anything which has made really that happy today. I got a letter from home...But, many of my friends don't seem to be having the best of times at the moment.

The blossom on the trees in my garden.... the petty patterns the ice made on my car window (before I de-iced it).....

Petty ???

King Rat had a presentation of a massive portrait in oils, done by a well known local artist today. It was given as a token for chairing a Drugs and Alcohol service for thirty years. he has been unwell recently and it cheered him up hugely. When he is happy so am I.

I was told I may have the chance to go to Germany for a week in the summer

Ahh..hope I get to see it soon petrat!

My John Suchet Beethoven trilogy has arrived

Sounds good petrat

Looking at the Anglesey pictures and realising there'll be another Anglesey meet in '09 has made me happy today.

My soprano sax has arrived

Can we expect a duet with you and St George in Leeds then skyers?

*Enjoy playing it!*

Life's treating me well at the moment, business is good, new car last week, birthday tomorrow. Yeah Ive nothing to complain about just now !

Hopefully! We might play a little Beethoven number




Happy birthday for tomorrow fsm!

someone's happy!

This I have to see!

Got home at half 4 for the first time in about 2 weeks!

Someone just said something nice about my flute playing

Yeah, great news. That didn't take long!

I was very lucky - most of the places I tried didn't have them in stock apart from netmusicalinstruments

1) Sleeping until 11.30am (I was feeling rough) and feeling very much better as a result
2) Going to choir tonight with Bagpuss and Willard

A very successful choir rehearsal.

Tramadol .

*hugs YAP*.

Talking on the phone for a hour to a friend.

Okay so now it's Tramadol and being hugged by Rainbow . My first answer was somewhat literal - Tramadol is seratonergic and noradrenergic so, quite literally, has made me happy today .

Tramadol Hydrochloride and wine is an excellent combination, I remember! Very good for killing pain too....!

Ahh, sorry. I took your first post as meaning 'I'm so ill and in so much pain that taking Tramadol was the only thing that made me happy'!

You didn't notice the bit that says avoid alcohol then?


Oh right, no; sorry, should have been clearer . It's an atypical analgesic that has multiple mechanisms of actions; including some which, as a side effect, improve mood . I'm not complaining .

I've just found some photographs of a very dear friend who died last year. Rather than make me sad they've reminded me what fantastic fun we had together and how much I loved her.

Well this is a made me happy last night but I'm still smiling today!

I played in a band concert last night in which I played a recorder duet as 'something to contrast with the band stuff'. Three members of the audience came up to me afterwards saying that they never knew a recorder could sound like that

That is so nice.....

I've got a fairly new laptop and I've gone on the forums from it for the first time and I'm happy because I can use emoticons from this computer (I never managed to use them on my Mac)

I managed to do 2 hours of flute practice today

re-reading the 7th harry potter (which is a bit odd considering that it is very dark and tragic).

My maternelle class were delightful today. Worked well, played well and were nice to each other.

the more people who can be convinced that the recorder is a great instrument in its own right, the better, in my opinion...

Well done you!

Several of the audience members made similar comments after our garklein ensemble!

Well done though for playing your recorder and convincing a few more people that recorders are nice, and not just nasty plastic things for squeaking out "London's Burning".

A while ago I posted a panicky thread about my neighbour who threatened council action on us because of our music practise disturbing him.

A "For Sale" sign has appeared outside his house today

Ah yes, good old Tramadol

I used to take it for migraine

I had 3 cups of tea in various places around town with my friends

And I got paid £12 for 90 minutes where I work

got off at 5.30 instead of 7.30 today! but wasted my extra "free" time by vegetating before the mighty computer.

Don't we all

What made me happy today was playing the slow movement of Vivaldi's spring in our school 'orchestra'. Somehow we ended up with 6 people playing the tune across 4 instruments. I then enjoyed the interesting canon effect as the violins ignored the bars rest at the start, flutes/sax came in at the right time with me, then the flutes drifted out, the accompanying parts moved to opposite ends of the (rather large) school and through it all the violins merrily played on until a particularly discordant note when they realized what had happened. Cue entire tune section dissolving into laughter along with conductor while the accompanying parts looked bemused

Oh, did it help? A recent study indicates it's particularly effective against neuropathic pain (which is what a migraine is). Specifically, in rats, considering just neuropathic pain, it's almost equipotent to morphine. For other sorts of pain, it's about a fifth as potent. So I can certainly imagine it working well for migraines. I'm not sure how much of my pain is neuropathic, but it's good stuff - and, relevant to the thread, makes me happy .

It's one of the very few things that helps! The other one being kapake, which I think is more or less co-codamol with extra codeine.

I first got Tramadol when I had a migraine one evening - and had run out of medicine (I've learned my lesson). I was screaming with the pain so my sister made a run to the emergency doc and came back with it. I'm now down to a migraine every couple of months or so but after that experience I keep tablets on me everywhere I go!

I always laugh when I see those forehead sticks that are supposed to help migraine. About as useful as a chocolate fireguard

The sun is out and I feel warm

One of the violin teachers at Guildhall brought in the most sticky, wonderfully chocolatey cake I think I've ever eaten.

She later told us her secret ingredient is...MASHED POTATO

singing Durufle

: )

A comatose pigeon I picked up two days ago came ot of its coma and flew off into the bright blue sky. It had, I think been hit by a car. Now I know pigeons in towns are a nuisance and what made me happy today might make others unhappy but we do live in the country and they aren't a nuisance here!