Bumped into someone I hadn't seen for over 10 years... This seems to be happening a lot lately!!

a little girl who has largely appeared somewhat clueless - and who today seemed to have got the idea

BerkshireSon got the summer internship at ICI Paints!

Thrilled to bits, as he hated being unable to find a job last summer.

That's good Berk.
We managed to get Kate 3 lots of work experience this summer hols. She wants to be a Veterinary Nurse, and do the degree. We have her in a town vets for a week, a town/country vets for a week, and then the farm we regularly stay at have agreed to having her for a few days whilst we are on holiday there, and they are asking their country vet to have her for a couple of days. She should have a broad outlook on the different types of practices after all this, and to be sure before she starts the college course in the autumn. Plus have 4 references for Uni.

Doing biology and chemistry practice papers in school today, and realising I actually know rather a lot more for these exams than I thought I did I feel much better now

Sounds good! It's always useful to gain experience in the field before committing to a course.

My son has wanted to teach since he was about 10, and now has lots of experience in schools. It's only recently that he's wondered whether after all a career in industry might appeal, and I'm hoping the internship will help him decide. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that Maths graduates can command quite a high salary in industry, and teachers are not all that well paid by comparison!

Brilliant - she seems determined enough, I'm sure it'll be a roaring success

What excellent news, Bev. Give Kate Mrs G's and my best wishes .

Having a better week.......

Pupil who was scratching her head re. minor scales in theory understood it today.
Another pupil was reading questions carefully in a theory past paper.

Was incredibly organised and was ready in time for cubs easily!

Hearing that a very dear friend's two years of torment and anguish are over..

Great news!







That's good to hear : two years is a long time...

Crikey, I hope they don't have to treat any lions.

Well done! I'm a runner but I've never run on a running machine. I did 9k yesterday in an hour which wasn't a PB and is quite slow but it made me happy. I love running!! Are there any other musical runners here?

Yes.............me. Started 10 weeks ago, and doing 2 miles in a very hilly area.

Playing my three Rutter Suite Antique pieces to my teacher at my last lesson before Solari's Baroque Day and getting a huge smile for all three of them .

my 7 day exam is finally over! I can finally sleep well!

I always run in the same park while daughter is swimming. Lovely park but completely flat. I don't like hills much but I should try to do some I suppose. Well done Old lady for starting.

Just got a nice bottle of red as a thanks for some efforts at work

7days!! What sort of exam is that? No wonder you're pleased to be finished.


It's lovely to feel appreciated, Sol. Hope you enjoy the wine - don't drink it all at once!

*hic* parding?

Went to see the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra play at Colston hall last night!
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Rachmaninov: Piano concerto no.2 in C minor
Shostakovich: Symphony no.10

Dear buffy and The Old Lady,

Well done to both of you too.

I know my 5k time isn't that fast compared to some, but to me it is.

My target is to get it under 25 mins ...

I'm no runner, but 25.22s for 5K (5km?) would give an average running speed of 713.72 km per hour (443 mph)!

Am I missing something?

I think it's Sonic the Hedgehog in disguise?

25 minutes.22seconds - I assume

Replying to whoever it was who asked about musical runners - my form tutor teaches PE and keeps putting my name down for 800m competitions, despite my time being an average of 3 1/2 to 4 minutes. I am definitely not a runner!

I do a lot of running, and after failing to make the cut for the London Marathon this year, I've applied again to run in it in 2011...

Saying hello to an old friend.

God luck for next year, Barry! How many times is that you've tried to get a place? I'm sure I remember you being disappointed last year too.

Have you entered any other races? I did a 4K fun run a month ago here in Turkey (my first run). It was great! I was very slow and my 8 year-old daughter beat me but I did beat my husband!! I'm entering a half marathon in August on the Isle of Wight. Really looking forward to it.

Last year was my first try, BM. I'm just going to keep going 'til I get a place...

Discovering Tesco 'Finest' Wensleydale Cheese with Cranberies and Blueberries in it. Its Delicious.

(Last night) A couple of PM's and the first decent night's sleep in ages!

(Wild)child home safe and well, leading to uninterrupted night's sleep. Could do with a couple more like that! And lovely sunshine.
N

We were discussing the London marathon in the pub the other weekend and I discovered that

a) the clarinettest in our jazz group used to run marathons seriously, never London but Paris and New York
b) he once came 17th in the Paris marathon
c) his time was 2.5 hours!!

I was very impressed. This was about 25 years ago and he reckons he'd struggle to come in under 5 hours these days. If he could run that is, knee surgery has pretty much ruled it out.

My time will be a lot slower than 2 and a half hours...

Buffy : sorry, just seen your post : I've done a number of shorter races before.

Singing at the top of York Minster.

Just noticed I appear to have become a virtuoso. Just wish it were true of my piano playing rather than my posts! That would make me even happier.

My teacher told me she was really really impressed with the way I've taken up the saxophone and got to such a good standard in less than a year. She said she was proud of me and this made me happy, especially that all the hard work I've put in seems to have paid off!

A rather productive/good violin lesson!

Flute. I am very out of practice though.

I think I've found the perfect dress for my best friend's wedding

Thanks It's gold and halterneck and

Some profitable practice, especially since I have been busy having to do other things for quite a few days on the trot recently - Maths, inviglation, supervision, accompanying ....

Practice included getting to grips with Liszt's Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa, used as the theme tune to the Radio 4 programme The Reunion - amongst the Liszt that Oldnotes kindly sent me in the post!

Au lac de Wallenstadt is next on the lis(z)t!!

Awwh, lovely gold is such a lovely and unusual colour for dresses, I really don't understand why there's so few dresses in that colour! Still, it'll just make yours even more special, I bet it's beautiful



Sounds like a few rather interesting days there!

Last week, Thursday - Saturday I was providing accompaniments for singers at the local Festival.

Monday was Sixth Form Supervision all day, simultaneously working out and writing out solutions to some Practice Papers for Further Pure 2 for which the Maths Dept didn't have any mark schemes.

Tuesday: period 1 teaching an emergency lesson on Polar Coordinates, so that Y13 could finish the syllabus before study leave, period 2 playing through my Diploma programme in the school hall, period 3 attending an invigilators' meeting in preparation for exams starting in earnest next week, period 4 re-recording an AS singing recital.

Wednesday: invigilating for 3.5 hours(!): two maths papers and an English paper for Y9, to help with setting for GCSE sets.

Glad to be at home today!

that is a LOT! Bet you're glad of the day off!

Well done, kingsley! That should encourage you to keep working hard in the coming months. It's lovely to look back and see how far you've come in quite a short time.

Yesterday - a very good concert accompanying a choir at Sewerby Hall. 60+ in the audience. My solo was Beethoven's 'Farewell to the piano' which they liked so much they asked for a piano solo encore by Chopin! played them the Opus 69/1 waltz - it was the only Chopin piece I could remember without the music.

Hearing that Vasily Petrenko, chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, won best male artist at the Classical BRITS last night. Since I took the plunge and joined their choir at the end of last year I've been incredibly priviliged to work with him both at rehearsal and in two concerts. Found him incredibly inspiring and motivating, and learned an enormous amount in a very short time at rehearsal.

Huge congrats, Vasily!