Have a good time Barry, you have earned yourself some fun and relaxation. Safe Journey.

Have a good time Basil. Don't forget your toothbrush..............oh and that music stuff
Thanks everyone.

Have a good time Barry - and safe journey !

Going on holiday! Well, tomorrow I am going on holiday. So today I have come in to work, tidied some stuff up, made a nice big clear list for whoever gets to take over from me. And it's not quite half-past eleven. So I suppose that I should perhaps take a look at some of the things from the list. But I've now got my holiday head on so I'm not in the mood to work at all.

On top of which, my husband has just rung me to let me know he is finishing work early, so he is going to do some of the stuff we had to do this evening after I got back from my music lesson, so now I don't even have loads of stuff to do when I get home (plenty enough - take cat round to mother's, have dinner, pack, clean rat cage...think that's it...)


Edit: Squeee!! And in the half an hour since I posted that, I've knocked two things off of the work list. Two things that I haven't been able to do all week, that have been really annoying me but just too difficult. Relaxing is clearly a Good Thing. Now all that's left on the work list requires input from other people, so I'm very happy indeed

Where are you going?
Somewhere nice?

Somewhere with no University essay requirement?

Can I come please?

Devon, which might be a bit of a schlep for you. Though we have more bedrooms than we need, so feel free to come along

And actually, I do have an OU essay due the Friday I am on holiday - but, swot that I am, I submitted it last night so it's done and out of the way.

Now, my July holiday, the essay is due in on the Friday before we leave, so no having to cram stuff in early...and we'll be in Fort William, which is not quite so much distance for you

I'm going to the Symphony Hall tonight with Basil. Dvorak's 9th .

Having a long and fun lesson with rosfrog this morning on Skype..

Catching and killing 2 rats in 2 days with my new traps! Peanut butter is the very best bait!

I'm going to an orchestra gathering! I haven't done such a thing in 4 months!

I hope you both have a lovely evening.

A tentative offer has made me happy. and also

I wrote last week on the Scream thread about our cat Carlo who was very very ill. What made me happy today was that he came downstairs for the first time since his illness.

He is still shaky on his legs but it was a pleasure to see him up and about again.

Awww - that is good news!

A shared victory for Digby and I - our respective pupils came joint first in one of our local festival classes today!

That's really good news Please give Carlo a huge hug (or even just a really careful stroke, whichever he can deal with best)




Congratulations

Awww...so pleased to hear this, Aquarelle.

That's really great, Aquarelle.

So pleased Carlo is improving, Aquarelle.

Glad that Carlo is better.
The concert was very good last night. It was the Prague Symphony orchestra.

Sounds wonderful!

I really enjoyed an Emma Johnson masterclass this morning with students from our local music service. Emma made lots of helpful comments and gave us a spirited rendering of the Prelude from the Finzi Bagatelles at the end of the morning.

She was quite an inspiration for my son when he was younger, and it was nice to be able to tell her so.

I just earned my first star on my positivity chart that my friends made me

I had a really good piano lesson this morning, and my Beethoven apparently sounded brilliant
I actually ENJOYED doing the aural tests this morning! We did some things that were apparently part of the Kodaly method where my teacher played something on the piano, and I had to sing it without music, and then play it without music, and then we played it with music, and did also this in a cannon as a duet. She also talked about Sol-fa and did all these hand signs, but I couldn't remember them!

Jacob.

Possibly finding a song for me and two friends to sing at our next concert together.

A social event I was rather dreading being cancelled - I do feel guilty about the thrill I felt inside when I received the call

Hooray!!!

*awards Jacob's piano teacher a sticker*

(Anything you want to know about Kodály, Jacob, just ask!)

A house!!!


A house we've walked past and admired for years is coming on the market next month

It is sunny outside and I'm not feeling sad!

The Sunshine

Improvising 'Ubi Caritas' during communion at church this morning... just 3 sopranos and a bass and a very simple theme. Lush.

Catching up with some friends afterwards was nice too. So many nice people in one place!

Getting several good things in the post

I've just done my A2 music practical and it was great!!

Congratulations Stephie

I'VE DONE IT!!!!!!

I've finally finished writing up all my seminars from the last 6 months (which I should have done at the time but kept putting off )

But they're done now!!!

And my project is finished and written up and set out in a presentation folder

Which just leaves some tidying up and a few short reflections (totalling about 3k words) for Friday and I'll be finished!!! Oh and a painting to finish. The end is in sight........

(now starting to worry about passing )

I wasn't sure whether to put this here or in the proud thread.

A year after dropping computing (I've not so much as thought about it since, let alone programmed anything!), I managed to write a little programme to count for me and it works The code's only about 3 lines long, but it's done the trick and I even managed to make it a nicer colour than the average windows-grey.

I know they say true Mathematicians are no good at Arithmetic, but that's ridiculous! I think you should learn to count for yourself!

I seriously have problems counting past about two I have problems counting less than a bar's rest in recorder duets

What I made the program for was to keep track of where I'd got to in repetitions of scales/tricky bars etc. As in I carry on practising a bit until I can play it right 3 times in a row, except 3 didn't seem to be enough, so I chose 10 instead, but I kept losing where I'd got to.

I got music in my uni post this morning (thanks Flossie!)

The fact that I found something I wanted to visit in the summer will be free.

Same here

Coincidence or what?

I'd forgotten I sent that!




*wonders what B-C and BB2 are talking about...*

It sounds a very clever programme, Sarah. Hope you didn't mind me pulling your leg!

It's really not lol. You were right though, I should really learn to count sometime soon.

Sonny Jim won a prize in the raffle at a local fete. Only found out this evening because I went on their website to see how much the fete raised. £100 M&S vouchers!!!

Just did my first English Literature paper this morning and it was GREAT! Three exams down, another hundred billion to go... Okay, bit of an exaggeration there... Seven left. Seems like a hundred billion though...

Handed in all my coursework this morning

(Results next Friday )


Going to stay optimistic

Looked at my 16 month old daughter.

That works for me every day. She has learnt how to blow kisses today and keeps doing it.

That's so lovely, she sounds enchanting!

They are gorgeous at that age