Well done oldnotes.

Mine's from yesterday too : My teacher and his wife were suitably impressed with the recording of our recital He's been showing it to peoples from band!!

He agreed that the concertino was much better than the recording he'd heard previously, that the Mozart was "Lovely!" That we'd done well and that I certainly looked the part too. His wife said I was very brave!!

He's now talking of doing the concertino with some other clarinettists as a quintet - with me on solo line!! - just for a bit of fun.

I woke up very late to suddenly remember that I was 'top and tailing' in my bed with my best friend! During the night, I hadn't been able to understand why my bed seemed half the size.

Just bought a skirt and trousers in size 12

Well done, Bev!

Well done Bev! (Even though you look totally lovely as you are )

Ta very much Daisy. It was hard work, but worth it. I still have 7lbs to go, but the running is helping immensely.
How are you doing??

That's fantasic, well done

Thanks Celeste.



Thanks Juniper

Another two pounds lost this week! You may hear reports of minor earth tremors coming from my part of the world. I've bought a skipping rope to help things along a bit! (Though I'm being careful because of my back ). Keep up the good work.

I have begun to book train tickets for my summer expeditions!

Well done Bev!! (even though I have to agree with some of the comments that you do not look like you need to lose any weight!!!)

We had our Record Of Achievement for Year eleven today-although it was sad that today was the last ever time we'll all be together as a year group again, it was really lovely

like!

Mrs Stetenorve called in at work this morning and bought me a bag of chocolate covered brazil nuts.

Mr B appears to have found my new cd of Vivaldi recorder music has stuck it into iTunes and actually seems to be listening to it. I think this is the 1st time he's ever chosen to listen to a recorder. It's also a welcome change from the 80s syntheser bands that the house has resonated to for most of the morning

Waking up really early-I was wide awake at 5am, so I got up, did some piano practice for about an hour and a half, did some ballet exercise, was in town for 8am to buy new pointe shoes for dance ( ) then got back in about 9.30ish and have since then practiced violin and revised! I can tell it's going to be a great day, and it's not even 11am yet-then, to top it off, I still have four hours of dancing classes, and then I'm going to the house of a very dear friend who I don't see very often tonight! I'm actually insanely happy right now

My bassoon is well again (see Hospital thread!)

Meeting some nice folks (forum members) and having fun making music in York

Nice to meet the new faces: Katica, Flobiano, Louise....

And to see all those I've met before again too.

The York playday and judster's alto flute. It was a really nice alto flute to play as it was really responsive - I did briefly have an issue with vibrato width, though, when I went back to my normal flute.

Meeting the lovely Katica!

Playing the flute with relaxed hands for the first time ever...

Sounds like young musician of the year has out a spell on you.

Well done, nicki.

as long as it doesn't mean I only improve once every two years!

I am really too excited about this

I knew you would get better again .

I want to practise! But revision must come first

two things made me smile in a seriously dire day the first was hearing "night ona bare mountian" by mussorgsky and the dances from Prince igor by boradi on the radio today

and a random small act of kindness from a forum member

Playing duets with a virtual flautist! Sibelius rocks!

Wearing my new pointe shoes in ballet class tonight-I didn't want to take htem off!

OOOHhh you do Ballet Too, so talented i am very jealous lol i love ballet...(to watch not to do unless you want to see a fairy elephant in a tutu )

you should give it a try, Netty, you might just surprise yourself! You should have a look around and see if you can find a class in your area

thanks for the vote of confidence but well be being a ballerina is just gonna have to stay a pipe dream, i have greater hopes of playing in the pit, than on stage

Occasionally I'll catch sight of a certain shade of yellow that immediately takes me back to watching Coppelia when I was 11 years old - a school trip for 1st Year (Y7) boys from the town's Grammar School. I remember the stunning bright yellow colour of the dresses; I think worn by about half a dozen ballerinas.

I saw such a yellow the other day (someone's outfit*). I thought it's either that 'Coppelia' yellow or ..... resembles the colour of one of the marbles in my collection! - marbles were played avidly at Junior school; many vivid colours.

The outfit was worn by Jeanie, on a DVD of Randall & Hopkirk (deceased) - a '70s TV programme.

1969-70, I believe...

Gardens - sun - warmth - plants - flowers - new life - SPRING


oh and discovering the score for a piece of music which I've found myself humming several times a day for weeks and I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was - it was Liszt's Liebestraum

Number 3? That score terrifies me... Maybe in 10 years time...

It's an arrangement for clarinet - you'd definitely be able to play the accompaniment

Seeing a turtle dove in my garden. I don't think I've ever seen one in real life before, and it was just a few yards from me (and I recognised it! My son was very impressed )

Several pieces of Liszt I want to learn - Liebestraum not actually amongst them, as it happens.

I've been listening to Brendel's recording of Liszt's Annees de Pelerinage. It's not fair!

That was one of the first grown up shows I was allowed to watch.

My first ever crush was Marty Hopkirk...

But wasn't he dead?

Mine too though Jeff did have a certain rugged charm. And I wanted to look and dress like Jeanie

SO?????



*sigh*

Furthermore, the DVDs are all in colour! We only had a black & white TV until 1976.

The first programme I saw on our new (rented) colour TV was a cartoon, Grape Ape

We'd been on holiday in Norfolk, staying in a friend's house. They had a Grundig colour TV - we watched the 'Mark Spitz' Olympic Games in colour and No.1 on TOTP was 'Popcorn', in vivid colour!

"Can we have a colour telly dad? Can we? Can we?" - repeat 100 times! My dad caved in in the end!

I can't remember exactly when my parents got their first colour TV, but I remember the first time I watched one. I and a friend went to babysit for one of our school Physics teachers in 1970 or '71, and discovered that they had a colour TV - it seemed absolutely amazing at the time, but now of course we take it all for granted.

It's been lovely and sunny today

Just back from a great concert at Huntingdon Hall in WOrcester. Fairport Convention Yet again, we were about the youngest there

Just back from Red Priest at Cadogan Hall. Coupled with an afternoon trip to the Handle House Museum, the Early Music shop and a rather lovely Chinese meal I'm a happy but shattered person.

I've had that feeling whenever I've gone to a concert where Mahler is the main programme....

When Mahler's on the programme there's not usually room for much else!

(The German verb 'mahlen' means 'to paint', by the way.)