can't be bad at all!

A great duet session with my clari duet partner.
We did really well tonight He's just left we got that carried away

My fifteens are ready! I know the recipe says to just leave them in the fridge for a few hours, but I've always left them in for 6 or more... left them in overnight last night!

Deleted.

Reading the Daily Mash... laughing out loud in the office!

Going back to doing voluntary work... and reading about the Bank of America having to apologise for having kidnapped someone's parrot

Getting an acceptable sound from my clarinet.

I thought that was a common occurrence for you, sbhoa

Not been too happy with it recently.

Your clarinet tone is likely to be miles better than what I'm getting from the recorder (and come to think of it, the piano) at the moment!

I went for a meze tonight! 'Twas beautiful.

There were 5 sopranos in my dining room tonight......

That's almost two trebles!

You had the Mafia over for dinner?

The onward march of improvement. Your tone has never been poor in my experience, you're just getting it even better, and you're getting much more discerning.

I agree wholeheartedly with Barry

Buying some music

Corelli sonatas Op.5 in case you are interested

And having a very nice clear list of Things To Do after I leave work this evening. Hopefully I can squeak 'music practice' in there somewhere as at the moment it doesn't look like there is a lot of space

Meeting Skylark, who helped OH and me to choose a new piano today- she also helped prevent our getting lost in Leeds whilst we were about it.

Can't believe we've actually set the ball rolling!

Being able to finally buy a Mother's Day present for my Mum, and hearing a wonderful string quartet in the Trafford Centre today! They brightened up my day considerably.

My performance in a local music competition went well

Meeting up with an old friend whom I haven't seen for 15-20 years. He found me on facebook after hearing me on the radio last November!

I spent much of my misspent youth with him and it was lovely to see him again, even though he's not too well...the fact that tempus fugits for us all made me a bit sad...he still cracks me up though !

Oh - and getting the Junior Choir concert at Guildhall out of the way. I stress about these events SOOO much .

Going to my husband's lovely concert in the parish church. Bach motets (Singet dem Herrn and Jesu meine Freude) and the Victoria Requiem, all unaccompanied.

Going for a "girls night out" at a local restaurant with four best friends-not convinced the people at the tables around us were overjoyed with our incessant giggling, but we were background noise compared to the (utterly hilarious) hen party that came in half way through the night!

Sounds like you enjoyed yourself!

We most certainly did we were so intrigued though, there was a lady on the table behind ours who cried her eyes out the entire time she was there-we were that terrible mix of incredibly curious and yet sympathetically concerned at the same time! I hope she was okay though

Listening to oboe d'amore's orchestra concert this evening

Vivaldi Just got back from choral society concert, we did Gloria which was a first for me, LURVE it! Plus some Tavener (The Lamb, Song for Athene), Rachmaninov and a few others for starters. All went far better than it had any right to, given how dire rehearsals have been this week!

Another educational/fun day with a few other forumites

I keep being late with catching up here, but .

We won our category in the choir competition that my school choir took part in last night
Even though it was fab that we won, it was a really really good day even without that, really good fun and everyone throughly enjoyed it

Coming home from my horrible job to my lovely family - puts everything into perspective.

A possible bargain? A cd on a market stall Arnold Bax Piano Works 2 Ashley Wass, piano. Naxos 8.557592
Just one pound, for which I get a long cd (73:16) Two Sonatas 3 and 4, Water Music, Winter Waters, Country-Tune and O Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies.

A bargain!

I like the 4th Sonata especially, not so easy to play though! The 'folk-tune' pieces are somewhat easier, but again can be deceptive; A Hill Tune definitely so (as became evident when I first attempted the piece) with quintuplets above the tenor melody line.


I got the pick of a large amount of early keyboard music today, quite unexpectedly (acquaintance of Head of Dept wanting to see it go to a good home). The music must have come from a serious 'Early Keyboard' player: The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Bull, Byrd, Gibbons, Morley, Purcell, Tisdall, Farnaby, The Mulliner Book .....

To do it justice I think I need some lessons with a harpsichordist, so my piano teacher is going to see who best to contact.

I finally found my old violin and piano teacher from South Oxfordshire 1970-1972. I now live between Bolton and Preston and she lives . . . 5 miles away!! Talk about a small world.

what competition was this? well done for winning

It was a choir competition, City Sings thank you! It was a really fab day, all the choirs were so very good! We did nearly get ourselves in a bit of trouble with the compere in the rehearsal though...who knew you could hear what was being said in the front row seats from the stage, eh?

Sending a message in to the BBC website because they have a story with the following words: "Rosalind Rathouse, principle of London's Cookery School"

Last time I emailed the BBC it was because they quoted someone as "I wasn't phased".

Heh heh heh heh.

Presumably you did that on principal!

Not fainting with terror in my oboe exam It's been such a long time since I did one, and even then it was G4 on a different instrument entirely!

Well done for staying in the upright!

I feel happy because (so far) nothing untoward has happened - a nice quiet day - yesterday I was doing battle with the NHS on my mother's behalf.

Met an old friend for lunch (though he didn't appreciate being called "old" friend)

Not having a second diabetic pooch :-D

New music (a present) - Bach WTC book 1

Having the day off work.

I'm really pleased for you, Juniper

My daughter!!!!

Surpassing everyone's expectations (except mine because I knew she could do it) by swimming length after length after length of the school pool (17m) without wearing her arm bands.

She's only recently developed the confidence to swim out of her depth without her bands and then only with me alongside her.

I'm so proud of her and she had a HUGE cheshire cat grin on her face when she came out of school today too - she's so pleased with herself too :party 2:

that's fab Dawn, well done her

Thanks

Thanks

WOO!!! Three lovely colleagues and I have just been asked to go and run a session each in Hungary in October - it's the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét and the lovely new young director of the Institute has asked us to go and do sessions on the adaptation of Kodály in the UK.

Up to now, only one person from the UK has ever been asked to teach at the Institute.

Gosh.

VERY scared but VERY excited!!!

wooo! Congratulations!