I can well understand his discomfort, SB, and can only conclude that either you have the constitution of an ox or it is less windy where you are than it is here

The sea off the Wirral is very rough !

It was rather choppy, but thankfully I am used to it. The crew seem much more sympathetic to their passengers feeilings than they did in years gone by. Indeed, in the days of the old Ben my Chree I am sure they took positive delight in their passengers discomfort.

On one occasion, when it was equally choppy, I remember hearing a Tannoy announcement (in very broad Scouse) about two hours out of Douglas, to the effect that 'anyone still wishing to purchase fresh Manx kippers should make their way to the Pursers office'.

SB

That is always cause for partying

A phone-call from someone who was thinking of me. Like having a hug but over the phone.

Aw, that's nice lottie

I'm looking forward to the playday tomorrow, lots of sight-reading, people to catch up with and new people to meet

Ewwww. I had a VERY unpleasant experience on the Ben my Chree in June 2004 (etched forever on my memory).

Whenever I've been to the IoM since I've taken the Seacat...

I manage to deal with a customers problem, which should've been dealt with after Christmas. I also got one of my supervisors to finish dealing with it, as I think it was a little bit out of my job description. All she wanted was some money putting back on her store card for some items she wanted to return after Christmas, and everyone who she spoke to said "No, sorry we can't help you."

At least now the problem has been resolved, and the customer went home happy after about a 10 week wait.

Loz xx

I love the Forum!

Sitting at Trinidad and Tobago airport on a six hour layover ( ) and the internet connection is so slow that no other web site even opens. This one works just fine (except for photos).

What made me happy today -------- getting home from work!

Actually this is from yesterday, the playday in Manchester and meeting up with other forumites made me very happy

Today, well I'm looking at my diary and seeing (in bold capital letters) the words ANNUAL LEAVE scrawled across this week

Louise

I'm off work this week tooooo!

hope you have a great week off Celeste

One of my niece's (aged 30 in March, university educated, has a degree in English and is now teaching 11-13 year olds) has just rung and asked if she needs to unplug the freezer to defrost it! I said it might be a good idea if she did. Bless her...

Being let into a building after waiting outside in the cold for half an hour as nobody had updated me on the change of code for the lock...

I have spent too much time being stressed and overwhelmed this past week, but now I'm going to reflect on the good things:

1. It's sunny and above 40 degrees!
2. I decided on a whim to see if I could still play my diploma pieces this morning - and I (mostly) could! All but one piece (the shortest piece - only three minutes) was still memorized, obviously not "under my fingers" like it was when I took the exam, but I could get through it. I'm pleasantly surprised since I haven't touched the pieces in nearly three months...
3. My problem sets are really interesting and enjoyable to do when I'm not thinking about how difficult they are, and how tired I am, and how long they will take me, which I am NOT going to think about anymore!

Here's to being positive!

only because I know you are in the US, that does not sound odd and because I have been in the roughly same area at this time of year I know why that is a good reason to be happy....

Having someone that I was a Nun in the sound of music 2 years ago with come and give me a great big hug in the supermarket! I haven't seen her for over a year and it gave my spirits such a lift, totally unexpected!

Whatever it was infesting my ear has now exploded and suddenly my face has stopped hurting... Feel a bit weird though...

Still, no longer in agonising pain so that's cheered me up somewhat.

seeing the sun for the first time in............

Wieniawski.

He's also made me and and and

It was yesterday, but I passed my First Aid (St John Ambulance) course for cadets. Only drill and shooting left to pass now

40 degress in the middle of winter? How hot does it get in the summer? It hardly ever gets up to 40 degrees here even in summer, and I'm glad because I start to wilt once it goes above the low 20s.


Well done.

I'm guessing that might be 40 degrees Farenheit!

That sounds awful, Solari! Have you been to the doctor's? If it's that bad, you might need antibiotics to clear it up.

Glad it's feeling better at the moment, anyway.

I second that.. doctor sounds like a good idea.

Get well soon

Thanks, both of you! I feel much better now actually and would rather avoid antibiotics so I'll see how it goes.

OK - hope you continue to feel better. I'll shut up after I tell you to watch for meningitis symptoms sorry, dad's a doctor, had it drilled into me that ear infections can sometimes migrate. You know yourself best.

I would like to say "take care" but after the discussion on the pedants' paradise thread, I am now worried that the pedant police will come after me

Good guess Tsax My American brain thinks in Farenheit - sorry about that! That would translate to about 5 degrees C, which is positively balmy for this time of year around here... It occasionally gets up to 40 degrees C in summer here, but not often and I wouldn't be happy about it! I think we do generally have a wider temperature range here though - our "normal" weather ranges between -5 in winter to 35+ in summer.

... and a wider range probably even within a single day. One day in Boston it went from 30 degrees (translated to Celsius for the benefit of the audience ) at noon to 15 degrees at 2pm. It was a sunny summer day, then this odd cold wind started blowing and before we knew it, clouds & rain. Other half was not best pleased, as he'd come out to class in shorts because it was 30 degrees. I've never seen (felt?) that happen here.

Hope you continue to improve, Solari.

For me, one of my young and promising pupils who has tuned in again after a really dodgy few weeks.

My teacher is away next week (sad) but

1. I save ?60 on 2 lessons (DD and mine) when money is quite tight
2. I have a new adult rebeginner starting violin next week after the enquiry today
3. I have 2 of my teacher's students booked in for sightreading and aural lessons instead of their lessons with him (with his blessing, of course) - possibly more to come!!

Is that Boston Lincolnshire or Boston USA?

Temperatures here in the UK tend to be influenced and stabilised by the sea which surrounds us, and especially by the warm Atlantic Gulf Stream. Temperatures in the middle of a large land mass tend to fluctuate much more wildly, as can be seen by high summer / mid winter temperatures on the continent when compared with temperatures here in the UK. Likewise the highest and lowest temperatures in the UK are usually recorded well away from the sea.

Having said that, onshore breezes from the North Sea can easily depress summer temperatures by 10 or 15 degrees C within a mile or so of the coast.

SB

I third that.. doctor even if you tell him/her you don't want antibiotics, information cant hurt .
Get well soon.

I would fourth that. I would go and go now!

SB Junior had a nasty ear infection which resulted in a perforated eardrum. Thankfully the damage wasn't permanent, but he had difficulty hearing for two or three weeks.

Get well soon.

SB

What's made me happy today?

......... Oddly enough, a long overdue visit to the Dentist.

I had been putting it off for far too long, making every excuse under the sun, until last week I plucked up the courage to walk in to the surgery to ask for an appointment. I felt like a fugitive handing myself in!

Well, today was the day of reckoning, and whilst I need to have some work done, it is nothing like as bad as I had feared.

(I will save the until my treatment is complete!)

SB

A ring given to me as a present from a friend today as a thank you

The sun..... it cheered me up and helped me air my child's sicked on mattress and duvet cover from last night!!!!

I have a large block of handmade fudge.

The title of this thread makes a false assumption.

Ah. thank you, Celeste - you've just reminded me that I brought some tablet back from Scotland!


Too true.

It's band practice tonight

I got a job offer.

Well done

Very well done

My student has won a major music scholarship to a rather nice school up North. He'll be going in September, so I shall be very sad then, but he's been an absolute joy to teach and I have him for another precious term and a half!