It is now legally binding that we have to do at least 2 diplomas - arrrrgh!

I was at starbucks earlier and this old couple behind me (from Germany) couldn't really speak English, thus were having difficulty and I realised they were German, so I said " Kann ich Ihnen helfe? ". They said in shock, " SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH!? " I said " Ich spreche ein wenig" they - " Ah gut! Ja, helfe, bitte", So I asked the man - " was willst du trinken? " he answered " koffie mit milch, bitte" I then asked his wife " und sie? " she replied " eine Tasse Tee, mit Milch, bitte und einen Salat". So I told the man - got their order and they were like " DANKE!! "

Seeing all that german makes me go

Well, at least one ATCL each Though if you fancy L afterwards, if all goes well?...

band last night it was fun

Cool Nice to hear that Louise and nice to see you last night too

I am going for the DipABRSM before the LTCL. no way I would be ready for an L anytime this decade, I don't think!

Being back on the Forums

Yay. Welcome back, Fran.

I love students.

More sunshine! Also, a 6th-form interview went well.

Pancakes.... yum....... good teaching times.... the sun.... and now I'm off to do more pancakes at cubs!

Fair enough!



Welcome back!

I was just looking at the reports for my website and found that one person visited twice today and spent a long time looking at all the pages several times. Then I spotted they'd used Google to get there. The key words they used?
- "Karate lessons"

I might do my L next year...

Before or after grade 2 piano?

I'm doing grade 2 this year...!

Wow - there's a positive remark! Hope you enjoy it!

I got the grade 2 book today but none of the pieces particularly stood out. A friend is helping me. I am mad!

I knew there was a journal article with my name on it in the works (not written by me, but I contributed a lot to the background work)... it was submitted and accepted ages and ages ago.

I randomly googled my name today and there it was!!!!

So exciting. For me, anyway.

Mrs Stetenorve's pancakes. (And none went on a rabbit's head!)

Spending the day at Birmingham Conservatoire moderating the Kodaly Elementary Exam being taken by a group of the students there.

Lovely students, who had clearly worked so hard - and beautiful music-making by them - and they were very definitely the products of some excellent teaching by my friend Moo...

AND the journey wasn't too bad - only 7 hours of driving .

My headache has gone and I've had a text from my teacher - lesson next week

Two s

Met with a friend and her two year old daughter for lunch. Afterwards we went to the river and with some bread I had brought with me for the very purpose, we fed the ducks. Which was lovely, I think I enjoyed it as much as the two year old. Why are there so many things you are supposed to stop enjoying once you grow up?!

Finally getting a ballet variation I've been working on right!

I loved having young children for many reasons, but one of the delights was being able to make sandcastles, sand cars, etc "for them" on the beach without looking an idiot!

There's electric train sets, Lego, Meccano and Scalextrix as well.

SB

About six weeks ago I finally caved and admitted that my jeans were ever so slightly uncomfortably snug, and we went out and bought the next size up.
About four weeks ago after a bit of Sensible Chat with my husband, I decided it was time to think about maybe possibly losing some weight ("again" - because the last time I did this was actually 10 years ago, and it's taken all that time to creep back up to scary-number).
And now my new jeans are hoooge! Which is not what has made me happy. What has made me happy is that I can comfortably get not only myself in these jeans, but four recorder headjoints warming up nicely in the waistband. Brilliant!!

And Sylvanian Families

Heh. You don't have to be or HAVE a child to enjoy those...


may still occasionally buy herself sets

Having a sustain pedal which will hold a pianissimo chord all the way through 4 bars of adagio!

My violin sounded like a violin tonight

Excellent news!

Red Priest in Guildford and dinner with friends I haven't seen in a while.

Ha! My 22 year old lodgers picked up my 14 year old from school yesterday as he has a 2 hour gap between school and Explorers (scouts), which are both 25 mins drive from her, and they took him out to Burger King etc . They had to go to a toy shop as the 22 year old male wanted to see the scalextrix sets (it's nearly 22 year old's birthday!) Don't think men ever grow up- their toys just get more expensive!

True; very true. But please don't tell my wife.

Edit: I should add that SB Junior and I went to a very good model railway exhibition near here a few months ago, and saw quite a few familiar faces from our local organist's association.

SB

yay i just managed to ebay a chadash barrel for my clarinet for 42!!! bargain!!! ahhhhh i love ebay!!

it's band night

My clarinet is back from repair.

oh sbhoa what did you have to have done???

The keywork on the lower joint needed servicing.

ahhh right i have my clari serviced not long ago (and it had lock joint at the same time haha) pleased to say i didnt have to have anything done this time

My daughter got 100% in an AS module - got the results today! She is really pleased. had 2 good lessons today- one with a girl I've been teaching since Sep. She's making excellent progress! And one I've been teaching for years and we were working on Brahms clarinet sonata in Eb and I like that...


....and all my exam candidates stuff is coming together.... at last......they were worrying me a couple of weeks!

DD got an A* in her Biology GCSE paper. We are so pleased for her because she got a terrible mark in the mock just before Christmas and worked really hard all through the Christmas holidays to try and improve.

Band practice was really good, our concert pieces sounded so much better than last week

Now looking forward to my clari lesson tomorrow, getting some feedback on the pieces I was set and going through my Glasgow piece with the accompaniment.

Congrats to muffin monster's daughter!

Er...I seem to have been invited to teach/present at a Kodaly conference in Adelaide, Australia, in October 2012...



*faints*

Lovely news, both of you! Well done to your children - it's great when all the hard work pays off. Onwards and upwards!


Wow - that's fantastic! Lucky you!