I fixed my DAB radio. I thought I might have to replace it, but it's fine now.
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Carry on Nurse was 1959 and Carry on Camping was 1970 (I've just checked) and there's a massive difference between them

Good luck with the new housemate

Carry on Camping...with Barbara Windsor at her best

Getting on a train to London and finding I have a double seat and a working socket for my laptop. So no excuse for not getting my OU work done! Ooh, Solitaire! :-)

What happened to the trumpet practice?

Should have done it really, it would have guaranteed me keeping my double seat! Or a whole carriage to myself! Lol

Yes, Baz, the Brum Day was yesterday - and it was an amazingly lovely and good day - but the sessions I referred to were at the MusicLearningLive!2010 event at the RNCM.

Joan Hickson? As in Miss Marple??!

Sunshine!!

Yes! Looking about a foot taller and making a scarily strict ward sister I've just looked on IMDB and she was 53.

Went to the cinema to see Solomon Kane!

I needed something to take my mind off my poor toes.

OK

Glad you had fun

Getting my confirmation that I had a place at Chets this summer!!!

Isn't it good how we're now getting vast gangs of forum people invading 'outside' events...

Absolutely!!! So looking forward to it Barry!!!

I'm sure you'll have fun there! Do have a wander around the city if you get a chance, it's a very nice place.

Just ordered some more music....



I'm making good use of the books I have already too... I was randomly going through parts of some Beethoven sonatas last night and found some beautiful bits of music that I'd not heard before Sight-reading practice has never been so much fun!

Oh, yes, it was fun - and far, far more than fun - am still on a high...

Glad you had a good time C!

(not that I was in any doubt, you understand!)

Sunshine has cheered me up no end.

Oh, and first foray into shopping-as-mum-of-the-bride

making music with oldnotes - always good fun.



Thanks again Oldnotes

Thank you.

Buying Viennetta. It'll do for some comfort eating tonight, whilst curling up on the sofa and watching Van Helsing!

Managed to play some of my forthcoming Diploma pieces to Y12s with fair success. Played my Bach Prelude and the first two movements of the Schubert Sonata. Provided information on their musical form and what to look out for, so good preparation for the impending viva voce.

We're soon to lose our Canadian-born Acting Second in Music Department, so I played them my Maple Leaf Drag! that I composed for him the other week. Used the letters of his first name and surname to provide the notes for two themes respectively.

Somewhat spookily, my first nine bars fitted harmonically above the first two stanzas of the Canadian National Anthem in long notes - hence the 'Drag' in the title.

Next stop AS/A2 Concert in two weeks' time.

Disruption to the trains means I have a very good reason to work from home today.

If this had happened last week I would probably still have had to sit at the computer pretty much non-stop. But having met last weeks deadlines this week is more relaxed while I wait for people to respond. So although I've got a fair bit of work to do I reckon I should be able to fit in some extra practice as well!

When I woke up this morning, the outside temperature was positive (0.6 C)
And the weather forecast didn't have ice / snow / torrential rain even mentioned.

So I cycled to work!

Only the second time in 2010 - last regular cycling was in November. I was a bit slow but I enjoyed it which is the main thing. Helps that I drive the same route so I know where all the vicious evil potholes that have appeared due to the snow are!


Oh, and nearly forgot. I was all happy on Monday due to being told how much my annual bonus will be, got home to show off my letter to my husband, only for him to show me his bank account online - where his inheritance has arrived! So totally outclassed by that (although I 'win' because I still have a mum and haven't had seven months of faffing about with solicitors)

After a nightmare getting in to work this morning, I found my order of books sitting on my desk!

EDIT: Wow the Nocturne in Bb is great!

MORE books, Solari?! I don't know how you have any time to do anything but play with all the books you keep mentioning on here!

Being able to walk properly for the first time in five days!

After going to the Einaudi concert last night I've been playing through a few of the pieces in the book I got a while ago...

As for playing, yes, that's the idea - it keeps me out of trouble and stops me from going to the pub *too* much It's great being able to pick something up and have a go at it, and recognising the piece despite my murderous sight reading

Getting great reports on both my kids at parents evening tonight

I passed my Grade 5 clarinet

Saw 'Alice in Wonderland' today! Loved it. Tim Burton has once again outdone himself. *clapclap*

Congratulations!

Going to a fab gig by the Bootleg Beatles and having SUCH a laugh with 'George Harrison' afterwards...excellent evening after a belter of a day...

Going to a superb concert by Ashford Baroque and the Laudamus Choir last night.

Sounds good, Sue.


I'm happy today because I've just applied for a place at a Summer School at Roehampton University which is being run by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. *excited* (Not getting my hopes up or anything... )

Hey! That's not that far from me and Bag! Praps we can meet up...

Ooooooh

How pleasing as up until now VERY LITTLE had made me happy today!!!!!!!!!!!

Bah.

Time-for-wine-Bag xx

Hope you manage to get a place, Celeste.

What's made me happy...planning my summer...

Thank you I haven't had a lesson since my exam... it was a special visit so the results came in less than 2 weeks. I'm now thinking about what to start learning - probably some of the Finzi.

Go for it! Both the Prelude and the Romance are within your grasp now.

Returning home to find one of those distinctive OU boxes on the doorstep! Then opening the parcel to find lots of books, and the specimen exam paper for the exam in October.


Not everyone's idea of happiness, I know, but the new books, filled with the lovely maths, and the exam paper having questions I can answer now, means it made me happy!


And carrot cake has made me happy too!

is it a maths course you're doing, pcf?

OOooooooh, how exciting pcf!

I'm having some Very Serious Thoughts about post-graduate study...

In my lesson we tried the Carol, for some light relief although I share lessons with a friend who's sort of between Grade 4 and 5, so my teacher said we'd do the Carol first, then think about the Romance and Forlana, then possibly the Prelude. It looks very hard!

What sort of PG study, Maizie?

Prob an MSc in Bioinformatics.

Thanks to a recent inheritance, we are debt-free-other-than-mortgage and the household running costs have dropped so much that I could half my income with no real impact.
I'm likely being made redundant later this year, which will come with a substantial wodge of money - well over half my annual pay, so I could use that as "salary" and pay for course fees for a year without too much concern.
My OU degree (humanities with classical studies) finishes June 2011 - so I'd be looking at a 2011 academic year start (oh, my original degree was in biology and I'm currently a programmer...so it's not a total departure to go to bioinformatics).

It's just pondering at the moment but basically it's financially viable in a way it would never have been since I left university (and indeed, probably wasn't even that viable then!)

I assume you've looked an have places in mind?