Realising that our financial situation is going to change some time in the next few months, and leave us approximately one thousand pounds per month better off! And not just once, but every month! It's just a bonkers thing when we think about it. It means we can save up for a nice new bathroom (ours is functional-but-a-bit-grim), tart up the kitchen, and ponder things like a new recorder or a snazzy bicycle...

A very, very silly joke.....

Q: What do you get if you cross a motorway with a wheelbarrow?







A: Run over, you idiot!

That's very amusing

For the first time in the last 6 weeks or so I'm finally on top of my workload, just in time to take 2 weeks off. I haven't got everything done that the powers-that-be would really like me to have done, but I have done everything I told them realistically might be possible, and that was looking fairly unlikely earlier in the week.

Now I've got a week's jazzing and a week's relaxing to look forward to

My daughter and I played a duet on the piano.

Been out for lunch with my sister, mum, aunt and cousin ^-^

The 2 new gadgets I ordered (and shouldn't have) arrived this morning, and last night I figured out what I was doing wrong!

Shame I won't have time to mess around with them until next week...

It didn't rain when my choir and I were performing outdoors at Bristol's Temple Quay! The wind did blow though and there were some moments of apprehension when I thought my music would blow away.....

It's looking like there's a bit of a breeze out there, so I just checked, and it appears there's a 15mph wind out there...blowing in the direction of home! YAY for tailwinds!

Teaching benjaminja for about four hours!

Well, there was a fair amount of chat interspersed...and it didn't feel at all like work because he's lovely !

My third post to the happy thread in a day, how nice

I just dropped in to my mum's house to see how she is getting on with our semi-missing cat. Well, he is about more and more, definitely knows where his food comes from, and she's moving the food towards the door, where she will shortly have a cat flap. Where he spends his non-eating time, we're not sure...well, not for most of it.
BUT, my mum's next door neighbour also has a cat. A very timid, tiny little girl cat, who is scared of her own shadow. And it turns out, the two cats are spending lots of time together. Our cat is spending time in her garden (the neighbour doesn't mind), and they've been seen laying together on the warm concrete near the back of the houses; not snuggled up close, but with only a small gap between them - in cat terms, best of friends! Both are neutered so no worries on that front! It's just amazing because our solitary outdoors cat is just that - solitary. He did used to live with his sister but she died some years ago, since when he became a bit more people-oriented, but we don't know of any 'cat friends' that he had.
So it's lovely, he is beginning to find his feet and settle, I am sure once my mum has a cat flap she can work more on getting him indoors especially once the weather is not so warm and dry. But I am just so delighted that he has a friend

less then 2 weeks 'till GCSE results!

Lestat

We appear to have adopted our neighbours cat! It keeps coming into the house whenever the front door is opened, and it spent the night yesterday. I think its owner works a lot during the day, s/he must be lonely, so comes to seek salvation with us!
Its a nice ginger one

It'll be a male, HC - you don't get female ginger cats IIRC.

I love ginger toms.



Bev.

Aww what a beauty! I know two female cats who are both white with ginger patches. Apparently, you can get all-ginger female cats, but it is uncommon. Similarly, tortoiseshell cats are usually female - males with that colouring are less common that females. Though neither is rare, just less common. And these have grown in to the myths that ginger cats can only be boys, and torties can only be girls.

...getting up EXTREMELY slowly...

More cat knowledge to add to my collection - thanks Maizie!

cute

Getting up what exactly?

I went to the new Tesco's that's just opened on the Market Place where Woolworths used to be. It is so huge. I felt a bit like a child in a sweet shop and have bought lots of lovely food that I haven't had for ages - things like Rye bread, salami, flavoured couscous and frozen potato croquets. The kind of stuff which Iceland (which has been our 'main' supermarket for ages) and the greengrocer's and butcher's don't sell.

I'll probably still get veg from the grocers on N Road, and will use the butcher's in the indoor market when possible, but it is so nice to have a supermarket again (even if it is a tescos). Don't know how well the supermarket will do (we went through Safeway's, Morrisons and Waitrose in just under 4 years and then ended up with no-one apart from the little Iceland and Spar on N Road and a very small and expensive tesco express) but it will be nice not to spend half a day going round different shops to fet food each week.

I managed to play the low notes that I can't normally play on the saxophone. I normally can't get anything lower than D, but I managed down to B. I think I'm improving.

Yes, it was a brilliant day wasn't it? - it made me very happy . Many thanks to Cyrilla & Bagpuss for looking after me so well on my trip to the mainland

Now THAT would be telling...




Aww, glad you enjoyed it, Apf!

An organist friend who was at my church this morning: "You played beautifully and made that organ sound better than it is."

It meant a lot to me because this friend certainly does_not give praise away lavishly, and it's quite a while since another organist heard me play and had anything positive to say!

Playing moosic with Alpha Male Jazz Cat HORRORS I was FORCED (well, coerced) into playing piano duets (FEAR) but didn't do a bad job muddling through some Bach and Handel flute stuff. I also massaged his paws with some super-duper Molton Brown potion....simple things....

Wuvved-Up Bag x

What's made me happy today?

Well, it certainly wasn't vomiting a few moments ago, that's for sure...!

Sounds harsh Feel better soon!

I'm happy because I discovered money in my bank account! Yay!

I am happy becuase my violin teacher has returned to london so he is able to teach me. He has been away for a month so I am glad to actually get a lesson soon.

Directing the church choir this morning for the anthem "Ave Verum" by Mozart. Though few in number (due to holidays and flu!) we were high in quality.

Wow..what a coincidence! I've just finished listening to this on the radio! It's a lovely piece. I'm glad it went well, despite the absences.

Playing the organ in church. First time since April, because I'm the third organist, aka the last resort. I accept that the other two are better, but I still enjoy playing!

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A lovely day in York with Barry and Babybird2.

sarah-flute *so grateful*

And earlier on it was mwl1 for spending hours on the phone to me as I got lost in a forest trying to take a shortcut home having left the house following an argument and thus pretty upset. I'd have freaked out even more if he hadn't been talking to me the whole time. Plus I suspect I saw a big wild cat that is once again suspected to be prowling around our town. He's so good to look after me sometimes...

Do you play that on cowbells?

The thought of going for a day on the river with some lovely ex-colleagues from the most special and wonderful school I ever worked at (including the special and wonderful head).

Jessica, Usain and Sébastien.

Regards, Peter.

Darn, someone else got there first. Mind you, surely Bagpuss and AMJC would play mewsic? Or miaowsic?
Moosic would be for cattle-related users, if we have any of those (oh, clarimoo, for starters...)

That's a bit good for early on Monday morning, Maizie.

Bag's posts do make me chuckle

I just booked next week off... the first proper break I'll have had all year! I'll get tonnes of practice done and probably go away for a few days

Finally finishing the last assignment of my MA module!!

Listening to my star pupil play the piano. She's not the most talented but by far works the hardest and I love her to bits!

Just seen this (my forumming has been limited of late!) : yes, it was a lovely day!

And meet some very interesting people...

I don't know about that.