Coo. I've been contemplating NAS storage for a while but I'm making do with a 1TB external drive.

What has made me unbelievably, over the top, extremely excited and very very very happy today is that it is the first day I don't have to take Warfarin anymore!!!!!

That's what I had, and it has started to degrade. So I bit the bullet and got a Dlink DNS 323 - I found it easy to set up but I am a bit of a linux geek.

I got news from the university that I've been awarded a scholarship - this could not have made me more happy! I'm having serious money troubles at the moment (I don't even have enough to pay for food, never mind my rent), so a scholarship is fab news.

Great stuff Stephie. I hope you get your accommodation issues sorted too.

Hey! That's great. I was in the same situation last year, and have now been awarded a scholarship, so I know how it feels. (Let me know if you ever want to chat about it... xx)


I'm happy because today I made my conducting debut...! And I LOVED IT!!! I was quite sad to hand the proverbial baton back to Barry really. Bring on next time.

Thank you very much I'm hopefully going to see the accommodation folks in person tomorrow, time permitting.


Thanks Fiona I'll be sure to let you know if it comes to it. It's always helpful to speak with someone who's been in the same situation!

The anthem (Holy is the true light by Harris) went really well at church today. I had the soprano section round at my house last week for extra coaching, and it paid off.

That's great news, muzikalbadger! Wishing you the best of health from here on in.

Thanks!!!!

Having got somewhere with finding an accompanist for my music exam on Sunday 5th December.

She did say it was conditional on public transport running and that the music was learnable in a reasonable amount of time.

Not getting up until 11am.

Had another huge weekend and was sooooo tired...

Hey, good news! Congrats!!

I'm very pleased to see this. You can definitely do a session at York, and I'd be more than happy to recommend Celeste's services to any event organiser who needs to use a conductor.

What's made me happy? Memories of a wonderful weekend...

Wow loads of fab news on here in the last few days!

I had a lovely lunch with a very pregnant friend that I haven't seen for ages, and found out she is living opposite a flat we are looking to rent. So hopefully I'll be seeing loads more of her and their new addition

I've just been to a viola recital, which is enough to make me happy in itself. In a change to the programme that was published, one of my favourite pieces was unexpectedly played!

"Extra coaching"?!

A good rehearsal/practice session with DawnF, for forthcoming concerts.

Thanks for conducting the session on Sunday Celeste, you were great

Glad you enjoyed it too, Louise!

The above posts -

Both my neighbours on either side have pianos! This means if I ever want to get an acoustic, it's unlikely to be the cause of complaints.

All quite correct and professional! Mrs Stetenorve is one of those sopranos.

Glad you are so happy BC and Louise!

My husband ordered a camera.
It was supposed to despatch in 2-5 days.
When he'd heard nothing in 8 days, he got in touch with them.
They apologised and said they'd send it out priority.

Via a courier.

Two days after that we had nothing, so he checked his online tracking.

They'd allegedly tried to deliver Friday - no response - left a card. Only we had no card.

So my husband phoned them up and explained, it took them ages to be able to do anything without a card tracking number ('I didn't GET a card!!!') Agreed for them to leave it with us or one of our neighbours - specifying 110, 112 and 113 (we live at 111).

Tuesday, got home, nothing, looked it up online 'delivered at 12.15, signed for by NSR'. Who is NSR and where do they live? We have nothing, the nominated neighbours have nothing, check houses 105-115, nobody has anything.

Today my husband again speaks to them, they say they will interview the driver. He says he left it in the recycle box. We again check our recycle boxes (two), wheelie bins, neighbours' recycle boxes. Nothing.

Doorbell goes about five minutes ago. It is the gentleman from house number 1, saying 'I found this in my recycle box'.

It is clearly labelled for 111!

Now very happy as we have the camera (have been very annoyed/concerned), going to never use that shop again and make sure the courier company get a stroppy note about teaching their drivers to read!

Listening to one of my 10 year old pupils exploring some new pieces after taking her exam on Monday.

my home cooked curry

The OU phoned me up today and confirmed that they recommend that I switch over to AA317 instead of TA212 in February. This means that I don't have to worry about finding the money for AA317 and have all the messing about of cancelling TA212 after the start date and receiving only 80% back. The problem was that I paid some of it in Tesco clubcard vouchers. Thank you OU for being so understanding and helpful.

It's so frustrating, isn't it! Glad you're happy with the camera anyway.

I've finally made it to my 1000th post! (Such an effort )

I'm now a Prodigy

Thanksgiving!

band practice

Congratulations, you need a cake, lol, someone else will have to supply it though as I can't do it on here! lol

Getting things sorted with Natwest - I KNEW I wasn't 900 pounds in debt! So I took it up with them and they've fixed it. I'm now out of the red

Speedshifter! The last time I wanted to play something by ear I had to do it with a CD player on repeat. Now I can slow it down enough to be able to hear every note.

An email from someone I was really hoping to hear from!

Bacon and tomato on toast.

Sunshine!

Same here.

a phone call

Got six hours' sleep last night!



Might not seem like a lot but when you only get an average of between 1 and 3 hours' sleep every night, six hours is a LOT.

A lovely long long walk in the sun across some of Hampshire's finest countryside - might take a while to get my boots clean after the bit that according to the guide claimed to get 'a bit boggy after prolonged rain'.

Mulled wine.... first of year... a nice sunny day. Less driving than usual (child no. 3 gone to Stoke on Trent for 'big, important gym comp'- so no driving to collect her at 9pm.... so hence the mulled wine!

Cat went all friendly for an hour. Now back to lurking, but progress is being made...

Mine did too.... maybe it's the weather?

Boiler fixed an hour before it started snowing!!!!!

I'm already very happy, but waking up to a covering of snow has made me happier today even though I have to work today and will be out in the cold for most of it.

Remeber that my weekend job is only 1.8 miles away from my flat whilst my weekday job is quite a lot further away.