Not to worry - I wouldn't have a clue either. I'll just have to imagine it.


Great news! So might you attempt the exam?

UNless things are much worse tomorrow, I'll attempt it.

Good luck old lady....
a rainbow made me smile today.....

That would be nice!!!

Have a feeling that's not going to happen, though...

Good luck OL

<---- Robyn, the silly sausage

To help with the imagination...a random baby elephant picture:

Awwwwwww!!

Just heard that National Express are giving up operation of the East Coast Main Line!

I've ridden on an Elephant.... I love 'em Those hairs on their backs are quite wiry though!

Almond Croissant and Rich Latte.

Got my accomodation sorted... off to the Renault World Series at Silverstone this weekend.. got Pit passes too Hope the weather holds out.

Fast cars, good friends, and free-flowing beer - that will be a great weekend

EDIT: Just got tickets for the Audley End Picnic Concert on the 1st of August ("Back to the 80s") which will be a laugh too... wow, my calendar is filling up nicely what with all this stuff and forums events I'm planning to attend

Passing my French LFA course (Post A-Level, level 3) with merit.

I thought there must've been a mistake with the marking...

What's LFA? Languages For ....? Congrats anyway

Languages for All

google - is there anything it doesn't know?

10322.6 / 0 + 1.67659

manages to beat it
Good ol' division by zero.

Me too! Anyone who can do York -> Inverness return at a more sensible price will get my undiluted support!!

I've posted almost exactly the same thing in the random thoughts thread (hadn't read this one yet).

I added a

It's not definite yet, but

Bring back GNER - or at least the name and colours.

The new colours National Express brought in look far too similar to the new colours which Virgin (or rather Virgin's replacement) introduced recently. I nearly got on the wrong train at Newcastle the other week because they'd changed platforms and the trains looked too similar. National Express has cut a lot of trains to my station as well.

Oooh, thanks, Maizie - he's gorgeous!

Congratulations, Lucy!

How did the English exams go?

Thanks everyone.

This year at York it's just lots and lots of assessed essays - and no exams for English. The essays were ok-ish, I have a chance to revise them over summer, though they've also been partly marked. Something like... they've been assessed as drafts, and that mark goes towards our first year results, and then they'll be assessed again when finished, after summer, to go towards second year results.

I'm getting scared now! It can't be too bad though, because I'm sure if I'd failed I would've had warnings and things before now...

Hehe, yup. I got into school today and they all laughed because I thought they'd be cross/upset.

AHHHH!!!!

That's the very same one my editor sent me!!!

Thank you, Maizie!

Being able to take Ma Diapason out for the first time since returning from hols.

Where did you go?

Morrisson's for her shopping, then into local village for lunch, then a ride "Over Wyre" (i.e. over the River Wyre to Knott End) then back home (hers) for a cup of tea.

Then back here (home) to flake out in the heat until B-B-Q time.

An elderly lady paid me a very lovely compliment today, and I swear it's left me glowing.

My clarinet teacher payed me a lovely compliment too - on my playing

I think you're being a bit mean to poor Google!

I learnt how to use an electric drill today On wood only, at the moment, but rawlplugs here I come!

Finished a painting today - that does make me happy.

I would have been quite proud if I'd managed to become the first person ever to crash it from a search

Hrm I wonder if you can feed it calculus...

Only two weeks of school left!

A piano student turning up for their lesson after not coming last week and me not being able to get in touch with them for an explanation.

I assumed they had just very rudely bailed on me (which does unfortunately happen). Instead they'd just very rudely not turned up or appologised!

But I don't mind because I very much needed the money from them for the next month of tuition!

The sunshine, sitting in the garden and reading my book for a while with a nice glass of ribena

A lovely bunch of flowers by way of an apology!

..

Chatting to a new friend

A really fun game of football with some French exchange students, girls v. boys (naturally we won )

Meeting up with friends that we don't get to see often, sun, pimms, watching REALLY good rowing, playing 'spot the stupidist hat', being pretty much the only person not to get blisters from wearing unsuitable shoes and only getting very slightly rained on despite the not-very-good forecast.

It's been a pretty good weekend really.

Wimbledons finished!

Only another 50 weeks and it will start all over again...

Talking of Pimm's, we had a fire drill on Friday afternoon at the office. Our assembly point happens to be outside a restaurant by the river.

All I can say is that the manager of that place isn't stupid... within minutes he was out there trying to sell Pimm's Most people indulged, despite the disapproving looks of various line managers!

Well, it was flippin' hot and we needed to cool down somehow

An old sort of friend.

We went to primary school together, and she goes to my school now. But there was always this weird thing between us because my close friend and her HATED each other. So I was never "allowed" to chat or be friends with her, and she didn't want to chat to the friend of her enemy.

But she has the same flute teacher as me. We've politely congratulated each other on grades we've heard about in the past, but never actually talked properly.

But her mum must have told her about me being upset after the exam (soooo embarrassing, I hate hormones and emotions of being a teenager )

and she asked me about it on facebook, and was really sweet.

and we both chatted about how each of our exams went, because she did the same grade and same pieces exactly after my exam
it was a bit awkward, but generally pleasant

Don't worry too much about that. From my experiences with women thus far, it seems to recur indefinitely throughout the rest of their lives I'd get used to it if I were you

You also get used to it being something that you're told will be better one day, but it isn't.
When you're a teenager, it'll be fine once your hormones settle down.
Once you're a bit older, it'll be fine once you've had a baby.
When you're pregnant, it'll be fine once you've had the baby.
Once you've had a baby, it'll be fine once your hormones settle down (again).
Once you've had all the babies you're going to have, it'll be fine once you've had the menopause.
When you're in the menopause, it'll be fine once you are properly post-menopausal (i.e. once your hormones settle down).
Once you're post-menopausal, it's your lack of hormones.

I'm happy because I've just dropped my M-i-L at the railway station and I get my life and house back to myself!

I love that bit, even with really welcome guests (sorry, just realised how that might sound - I was thinking of me, not you and your M-i-L).



and yet also

I've just done my grade 8 piano, and it went really well (Whether the examiner agrees is a different story!).
I started with scales, and I think I responded quickly to all of them, and there were no mistakes in any of them except one where I did the Harmonic instead of Melodic and she let me do it again. All the arpeggios etc went fine, as did the scales in 3rds and 6th's (even C# minor in 6th's which I was dreading, but played it with no mistakes at all for once!).

My pieces were good, particularly the Beethoven. The Cimarosa from the A list went a lot better than expected, and the mistakes that I was making the day before strangely didn't happen in the exam (Although I did repeat a bar for some strange reason!). The Beethoven on the B list was really good, there were a few slips here and there, but that's to be expected. The Gershwin on the C list was good, although I mucked up a bar or two that could of been better, but oh well!

Aural was interesting! The singing the 3rd line of a piece started ok, but I forgot the ending! The sight singing also started well, but the ending "lost it's way" (what an old examiner wrote!). The other two tests went really well though, except I forgot the name of the modulation when it changers key (eg. F major to G minor).

Sight reading was also very good. A slip or two, but oh well!

Overall I think it went really well, but now i've said that, I'll end up failing or getting 101!

Now I have a long wait for results! (well, hopefully not that long a wait!)

Jacob.

Pleased it went well for you, Jacob, after all the worry. Fingers crossed for your distinction!

Taking on a new student whose parents say "Tell us what you want, and we'll get it!" That's my kind of parent!

OK..top of list..Steinway baby Grand.