Just found out that my new clavinova arrives tomoorw - about 2 weeks ahead of schedule
I'm v excited!
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Just read the email - Sally and I have both passed the Bishop's (Silver) Award singing exam!
QUOTE(stetenorve @ Oct 1 2009, 09:36 PM) 
Just read the email - Sally and I have both passed the Bishop's (Silver) Award singing exam!
many congratulations to you both !
(from a fellow-chorister)
QUOTE(stetenorve @ Oct 1 2009, 09:36 PM)
Just read the email - Sally and I have both passed the Bishop's (Silver) Award singing exam!
Congratulations!
It would seem that I need new specs as well..only just seen these..sorry!
How can that be silly
I hope you are OK with it. Feel free to ask for help. Ask your audiologist loads of questions too.........they are very highly qualified.
How exciting
Sometimes Solari, it depends on how deaf you are as to which aids are the best for you. It's not always a cost thing.
I'm ok I suppose. I really need it now as certain noises are getting intolerable. I'm as certain as I can be that i'm now completely deaf in the right ear, and the tinnitus has got worse too. I have an appointment with my ENT Specialist in early November to confirm one way or the other.
The hearing aid is to block high pitched sounds that hurt my ear. I was shown a couple back in February but will discuss my options again when I see the audiologist.
We audiologists take great care to supply and programme the most appropriate device for the client ; I'm sure no one is ever fobbed off. The NHS uses commercial technology and the sound quality will be equal to anything available privately. They may not be as 'pretty' as a pop-in-the-ear type but then pop-in-the-ear does not necessarily mean 'digital'.
JaneS is right that you need to adjust to a different way of hearing - a bit like getting used to bifocals, I believe, and it may take one or two appointments to get the levels correct.
Good luck DC!
BTW if it was easy, I would be a lot less stressed than I am, and would post more!
Thank you! My audiologists and ENT Specialist have been very good since my problem started a couple of years ago.
Good luck, DC! xx
Thanks very much, Floss x
Just read the email - Sally and I have both passed the Bishop's (Silver) Award singing exam!
Congratulations!
QUOTE(The Old Lady @ Sep 30 2009, 02:07 PM)
How can that be silly
I hope you are OK with it. Feel free to ask for help. Ask your audiologist loads of questions too.........they are very highly qualified. How exciting
Sometimes Solari, it depends on how deaf you are as to which aids are the best for you. It's not always a cost thing.
I'm ok I suppose. I really need it now as certain noises are getting intolerable. I'm as certain as I can be that i'm now completely deaf in the right ear, and the tinnitus has got worse too. I have an appointment with my ENT Specialist in early November to confirm one way or the other.
The hearing aid is to block high pitched sounds that hurt my ear. I was shown a couple back in February but will discuss my options again when I see the audiologist.
QUOTE(mel2 @ Oct 1 2009, 12:47 PM)
We audiologists take great care to supply and programme the most appropriate device for the client
; I'm sure no one is ever fobbed off. The NHS uses commercial technology and the sound quality will be equal to anything available privately. They may not be as 'pretty' as a pop-in-the-ear type but then pop-in-the-ear does not necessarily mean 'digital'.JaneS is right that you need to adjust to a different way of hearing - a bit like getting used to bifocals, I believe, and it may take one or two appointments to get the levels correct.
Good luck DC!
BTW if it was easy, I would be a lot less stressed than I am, and would post more!
Thank you!
My audiologists and ENT Specialist have been very good since my problem started a couple of years ago.QUOTE(Celeste @ Oct 1 2009, 02:51 PM)
Good luck, DC!
xxThanks very much, Floss x
QUOTE(stetenorve @ Oct 1 2009, 09:36 PM)
Just read the email - Sally and I have both passed the Bishop's (Silver) Award singing exam!
Congratulations!
Not gonna go into the details but, Matthew and Fiona have basically just saved my life.
It was nothing, hon. xxx
Last night but, the Head of Languages at school (who has never met me before) said my French was excellent and asked if I spoke it at home. 
(I don't!!)
She then, however, asked what year I was in and gave me a bit of a funny look when I said "Ten..."
(I don't!!)She then, however, asked what year I was in and gave me a bit of a funny look when I said "Ten..."
My new piano arrives today.
Did I mention that already?
Did I mention that already?
QUOTE(davidmackay @ Oct 2 2009, 10:02 AM)
My new piano arrives today.
Did I mention that already?
I remember when I got mine... With all the packaging it was in, it wouldn't fit through the door... I had to slip the delivery man a few quid to help me unpack and get it in the house!
Putting it together required the assistance of a friend too, the top part was flippin' heavy!
Enjoy!
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 10:51 AM)
I remember when I got mine... With all the packaging it was in, it wouldn't fit through the door... I had to slip the delivery man a few quid to help me unpack and get it in the house!
Putting it together required the assistance of a friend too, the top part was flippin' heavy!
Enjoy!
I'm pretty sure the guy in the shop said they would put it together for me. I assumed this was a service provided by yamaha as part of the cost. Apparantely not. Unless you got yours off 'some bloke in the pub'?
QUOTE(davidmackay @ Oct 2 2009, 10:57 AM)
I'm pretty sure the guy in the shop said they would put it together for me. I assumed this was a service provided by yamaha as part of the cost. Apparantely not. Unless you got yours off 'some bloke in the pub'?
It'll be a service provided by the shop, not Yamaha. I bought mine online to save a substantial amount of cash, and being techie, I wasn't intimidated by the prospect of having to assemble it myself
QUOTE(davidmackay @ Oct 2 2009, 10:57 AM)
Unless you got yours off 'some bloke in the pub'?
Are you suggesting that I'm some sort of "shifty geezer"?
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 10:59 AM)
Are you suggesting that I'm some sort of "shifty geezer"?
I'd certainly never suggest such a thing. But having heard your cockney accent, there's no doubt in my mind.
QUOTE(davidmackay @ Oct 2 2009, 11:02 AM)
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 10:59 AM)
Are you suggesting that I'm some sort of "shifty geezer"?
I'd certainly never suggest such a thing. But having heard your cockney accent, there's no doubt in my mind.
If you think *I* have a cockney accent, your ears would bleed if you heard some of my friends!
I'm hardly D*ck van Dyke!
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 11:04 AM)
I'm hardly D*ck van Dyke!
No, he's cuter
QUOTE(maledictis @ Oct 2 2009, 11:10 AM)
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 11:04 AM)
I'm hardly D*ck van Dyke!
No, he's cuter
But he's a dinosaur!
Learrrrve it out, me old china.
Would you adam an eve it?
You're havin' a bubble - talking cobbler's awls.
Would you adam an eve it?
You're havin' a bubble - talking cobbler's awls.
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 11:10 AM)
QUOTE(maledictis @ Oct 2 2009, 11:10 AM)
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 11:04 AM)
I'm hardly D*ck van Dyke!
No, he's cuter
But he's a dinosaur!
Yes, but - "Diagnosis Murder" - what a quality piece of television!
QUOTE(davidmackay @ Oct 2 2009, 11:13 AM)
Learrrrve it out, me old china.
Would you adam an eve it?
You're havin' a bubble - talking cobbler's awls.
It's a braw bricht minlicht nicht th'nicht!
QUOTE(davidmackay @ Oct 2 2009, 11:02 AM)
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 10:59 AM)
Are you suggesting that I'm some sort of "shifty geezer"?
I'd certainly never suggest such a thing. But having heard your cockney accent, there's no doubt in my mind.
Cockney?!
Solari's posts always read in an Irish accent to me.
Is this some kind of synaesthesia or do I perhaps need a long, long holiday.....
QUOTE(mel2 @ Oct 2 2009, 12:33 PM)
Cockney?!
Solari's posts always read in an Irish accent to me.
Is this some kind of synaesthesia or do I perhaps need a long, long holiday.....
I have a slight SE London accent, I am not East-End "Gorbloimey apples n pears!"
Carol will vouch for this
I can do a Belfast accent.... "High nigh brine kigh."
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 12:36 PM)
I have a slight SE London accent, I am not East-End "Gorbloimey apples n pears!"
from someone else with one
Lots of Clarinet playinng AND aranging another playing session for next week The music events of next week now tally to at least 4.
The music events of next week now tally to at least 4.
I'm playing at the Royal Albert Hall next month
QUOTE(Devil_Fiddler @ Oct 2 2009, 06:09 PM)
I'm playing at the Royal Albert Hall next week
Lucky you - how exciting!
What are you playing?
QUOTE(BerkshireMum @ Oct 2 2009, 06:39 PM)
QUOTE(Devil_Fiddler @ Oct 2 2009, 06:09 PM)
I'm playing at the Royal Albert Hall next week
Lucky you - how exciting!
What are you playing?Oh my gosh, I've just realised how exceedingly stupid I've been - I meant next month not next week
I'll go and change it...I'm playing in the orchestra for a massed choir piece at the schools proms, it's a new commission about Darwin apparently...
My youngest pupil showed me today how she had worked out the beginning of the Paddington Bear theme on her violin...
W
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QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 2 2009, 12:36 PM)
I have a slight SE London accent, I am not East-End "Gorbloimey apples n pears!"
Carol will vouch for this
I will
(not for anything else though
)
Going to my first orchestra rehearsal, and finding that the bassoon parts went ridiculously high, and sometimes going into tenor clef (which I don't read), and often very fast ... and surviving! Just!
Being with friends discussing going to chessington on an inset day in a few weeks.
Also went to a theory class with friends- SO FUNNY. There was this girl who made us laugh A LOT. Felt kind of mean at first, but seriously this kid was so annoyingly funny. She was about 11 I think, and apparently (I missed it) last week she put up her hand at the end and said "we're 6 minutes late finishing". Then the teacher got cross with her. This week she brought an electronic kitchen timer, and placed it on her desk, then when it went off, packed away and sat there with her arms crossed until the lesson finished! Then whenever the teacher asks anyone a question, and waits for them to figure it out, this girl whispers the answer really loudly, to make sure that everyone knows that SHE knows the answer. And when the teacher asked for homework she flapped it around in her face, and whenever anyone gets anything wrong, even people twice her age, she corrects them from across the room (sometimes getting it wrong herself).
Deary me, she was very clever, and knew a lot of things we wouldn't have known at that age, but boy was she obnoxious
discussing going to chessington on an inset day in a few weeks. Also went to a theory class with friends- SO FUNNY. There was this girl who made us laugh A LOT. Felt kind of mean at first, but seriously this kid was so annoyingly funny. She was about 11 I think, and apparently (I missed it) last week she put up her hand at the end and said "we're 6 minutes late finishing". Then the teacher got cross with her. This week she brought an electronic kitchen timer, and placed it on her desk, then when it went off, packed away and sat there with her arms crossed until the lesson finished! Then whenever the teacher asks anyone a question, and waits for them to figure it out, this girl whispers the answer really loudly, to make sure that everyone knows that SHE knows the answer. And when the teacher asked for homework she flapped it around in her face, and whenever anyone gets anything wrong, even people twice her age, she corrects them from across the room (sometimes getting it wrong herself).
Deary me, she was very clever, and knew a lot of things we wouldn't have known at that age, but boy was she obnoxious
I've almost finished my victorian project!!
The fault from h3ll has been fixed... can go home now 
discovering Sol is a cockney.
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Ordering from dominos. Well not order, the bloke on the phone was quite... rude. The result of ordering though...
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Ordering from dominos. Well not order, the bloke on the phone was quite... rude. The result of ordering though...
After some pretty exhausting and somewhat stressful days, culminating in a day yesterday that didn't do bags for my self-confidence or self-esteem 
, as well as leaving me in a state of Grumpy Old Bag-dom, I was enormously cheered by the welcome I had from some ex-students of mine (who all said how much they missed me 
) and by a lovely lesson with some new students...
, as well as leaving me in a state of Grumpy Old Bag-dom, I was enormously cheered by the welcome I had from some ex-students of mine (who all said how much they missed me ) and by a lovely lesson with some new students...
Cyrilla may object, but escaping from Croydon today made me happy
Sol, I might feel sad at the fact you loathe singing, but I can only sympathise with your feelings re Croydon! I share them...it IS the armpit of the universe, after all...and I only ever go there if I absolutely HAVE to (I live about 4 miles away).
QUOTE(Cyrilla @ Oct 3 2009, 10:56 PM)
Sol, I might feel sad at the fact you loathe singing, but I can only sympathise with your feelings re Croydon!
If you drive along Beddington Lane, you will see that someone has got a boxing ring in their garden... Is that how they settle neighbourly disputes in that part of London?
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 3 2009, 10:59 PM)
If you drive along Beddington Lane, you will see that someone has got a boxing ring in their garden... Is that how they settle neighbourly disputes in that part of London?
I wouldn't be at all surprised...
There are only two places in Croydon that I love (and, no, I'm not talking about East Croydon station
). QUOTE(Cyrilla @ Oct 3 2009, 11:00 PM)
I wouldn't be at all surprised...
There are only two places in Croydon that I love (and, no, I'm not talking about East Croydon station
).Which two places would those be?
One is my old school, which I visited again a few weeks ago for the first time in years...I had forgotten just how deeply I love the place...
A lovely long flute practice. It's the first time that I've had the house to myself for a decent length of time since I moved 3 weeks ago.
It's the first time that I've had the house to myself for a decent length of time since I moved 3 weeks ago.
QUOTE(Cyrilla @ Oct 3 2009, 11:00 PM)
QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 3 2009, 10:59 PM)
If you drive along Beddington Lane, you will see that someone has got a boxing ring in their garden... Is that how they settle neighbourly disputes in that part of London?
I wouldn't be at all surprised...
There are only two places in Croydon that I love (and, no, I'm not talking about East Croydon station
).There is one place in Croydon I am VERY partial to. Flautists will know where I mean.
I always thought the best thing to come out of Croydon was the A23!
I am not a big fan of Croydon but I have to go there daily to go to College.
At least I have a lovely view of Croydon from floor 22 of no 1 croydon which is convieniantly very close to East Croydon Station.
At least I have a lovely view of Croydon from floor 22 of no 1 croydon which is convieniantly very close to East Croydon Station.
QUOTE(Violin Hero @ Oct 4 2009, 10:17 AM)
..which is conveniently very close to East Croydon Station.
The Oil Rig, you mean???
Goodness, a 'lovely view of Croydon'...
Just managed to upload photo for the first time ever! Now you can see a pic of the love of my life on my profile!! (joke)
Moving into college and finding I have really nice people on my landing.
QUOTE(sarah123 @ Oct 4 2009, 11:00 PM)
Moving into college and finding I have really nice people on my landing.
That sounds like a promising start to uni life.
QUOTE(Flossie @ Oct 4 2009, 11:06 PM)
QUOTE(sarah123 @ Oct 4 2009, 11:00 PM)
Moving into college and finding I have really nice people on my landing.
That sounds like a promising start to uni life.
Hmm, we tried and failed to make a satisfactory pot of tea between three of us though.
I'll have to come and visit you some time.
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