Getting a sneaky peek at my students' A level results for tomorrow!

Great to read that!

I picked a Triumph Stag up

All the weightlifting lessons paid off then!

The Stag is the lightest car I have ... to drive, not in actual weight!

Got a University place!!!!!

Where are you going?

To Southampton Solent to study geography with marine studies! Feeling very indeed

Onion, I met your viola teacher yesterday!!!

And someone who knows Violinia...and two kids who had been in Hungary at the same time as me the other week...and a boy I used to teach at Guildhall (now about 14 and who insists on wearing a suit, shirt and cufflinks at all times )...and several other people whom I'd met previously (but didn't remember ) and people who knew people I knew...

Small world, this music one!

Well done! Hope you have a great time at Southampton Solent.

It was just thinking about two small worlds yesterday!

On Facebook I am friends with two authors - they co-write, and are probably my favourite fiction authors. Because I am friends with both of them, it suggests that I may know people who also know them both. Now, an awful lot of these are fans like me, but every so often FB will suggest that I know some well-known sci-fi writer or other. It always makes me laugh.

And then, similarly, because I am friends with some forumites, it suggests me friends from that direction. Mostly it is other forumites (the other day, for example, it suggested I might know somebody named Cyrilla!)...but occasionally it is a Name in the recorder-world. And that always makes me grin too

That sort of thing makes me smile as well. I have a policy of only adding people I know properly (ie face to face or after so much on line interaction I feel I know them face to face) to FB I'm often surprised by it's suggestions. Though with some of the folks from here my initial thought is 'who?'

LinkedIn is funny in this respect too! A friend (who more than once seemed to have a job available that he thought I could do - til he found out I was the wrong sort of programmer) persuaded me to join but I haven't bothered with it much. So I don't have many connections for it to suggest who else I might know. So it takes a guess and seems to think I know anyone who has ever studied at the Open University

I've just read a most marvellous book, Nauticus in Scotland. This is a book written by a man in 1882 who undertook a 2400+ mile tour of Scotland by tricycle.

I am so so so so happy to discover that he also undertook a 1400+ mile tour of England on his tricycle, and I shall be ordering up that book rather soon I think

I'd quite fancy a go on the tricycle as well! It's one of these beasties (without the Victorian lady installed):



Edit: ohohohohoh, and a link to a photo of one, which is actually an 1882 version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eucharisto_deo/4353944091/

Brahms is Composer Of The Week on Radio 3

I've got 100% on my my mystery shop at work

So they deem you a star employee?

A friend getting into Leeds College of Music through clearing today just as we were all fearing the worst! So pleased

Agreed - today LinkedIn suggested that I might like to join a group of figure skating coaches...

I'm happy because DD has just come home from a week's camping - so nice to have her back.

The fact that it is one day until I start my new job.

All the best in your new job, Violin Hero.

Excellent news for both!

All the best for tomorrow, VH - really hope it goes well

Yes, hope all goes well for you Violin Hero

I have one day at work left then not in again until next Tuesday really looking forward to the next few days

Not a lot

Still not well, and steeling myself for a write off of a week

Sorry you are still not well, Barry. Hope things get better sooner than you think.

Yay!



Get well soon - i'm just in that borderline between not-well and well, so I am going to spend all day inside drinking cups of tea, talking to the cat, and tinkering with the piano.

I hope it soon improves towards the 'well' side of the equation, corenfa, but I do enjoy the thought of how you are planning to deal with it.


I missed this one this morning - best of luck for tomorrow, VH.

hehe, thanks.. Thus far, I have the cat sitting on the balcony wall enjoying the sun, interspersed with requests for food (nice try); and Gardener's Question Time on the radio. The only gardening skill I have is raising weeds, but today I have learnt that if you want to use woad to make dye, you have to ferment it and wee on it.

Time to refill the tea.. Piano a bit later.

enjoy your Sunday, all.

I hope that piece of information comes in useful sometime.

I doubt it ever will! The reason it was even on GQT at all was that a lady said that she wanted to plant traditional dye plants to dye the wool that she spins (blimey, she really must be into this self-sufficiency thing), and she asked for some tips on how to grow them. The panelist said that she might want to not tell her neighbours what she was up to, as kings & queens used to ban woad fermentation from taking place near any highways that they might be travelling near, because it stank so badly.

Fascinating. Much more interesting than 'I'm having problems with my brassicas'.

Doesn't something similar happen in the process for making Harris tweed?

Having just looked it up - apparently, wee was involved in a lot of traditional dyeing until they discovered other mordants (I think that's the stuff that sets the dye in the cloth).

Riding pillion behind Alpha Male Jazz Cat on his beloved ancient Honda

Never felt so free in all my life...

Biker-Bag xx

My friend has just told me that she's passed her ATCl with 93/100!
She tried to do it a few years ago but was too ill, but now she's done it, and she's getting married later this year - go girlie!

AWWWWWW!!!!!!!

You biker chick, you (praps you need to change your profile pic ).

A perfect day, really.
Began with a lie-in; then packed a picnic and en route to destination called in to old dad and OH fixed up his digi-box thingy.

Drove to cliff-top bird reserve and walked along the headland path in gorgeous weather. Ate picnic looking over huge limestone cliffs and down at gannets, herring gulls and kittywakes (sp?)
We carried on to a vast, beautiful, almost deserted beach with perfect sand and no painful pebbles to hobble over. Had a paddle in the clear blue sea and then walked back - about 8 miles altogether.

Watched the Verdi Requiem during dinner, which rounded things off nicely.

*sigh*

Speaking to my husband who is actually seems quite happy considering he's out in the middle of nowhere in Zambia and way out of his comfort zone!

Um.... having fun in the hot tub with my kids


finding accomadation next door for our ex-lodgers, so they'll still be near us but not in our house!


Not a bad day really considering I was feeling a little lonely this morning!

This morning I sang the treble solos from Schubert's Mass in G in Lincoln Cathedral!

'Wee' finds uses in all sorts of processes, even today.

Church bells are cast in moulds made from a mixture of horse dung, straw and clay. The moulds are baked dry in an oven, and any cracks are filled with a thinned down mix of the above! Apparently, the ureic acid in the horse dung is important to acheive the correct tempering of the alloy used to cast the bells. Having been to Taylor's Bell Foundry in Loughborough to see our new Treble and Second cast I can assure you the smell is something else!

My happy is having just returned from a brilliant week's holiday, which included all the usual things plus steam trains and being locked in to a veeerrrry large ecclesiastical building (after hours) with only a four manual Willis and a pile of organ music to pass the time.

SB

A 1st lesson with a lovely 11 year old. He's just passed his G1 but had to stop lessons with his previous teacher due to changing schools. Today was a trial lesson - I hope he becomes a regular.

Going to the lunchtime Prom.

Violamum was only on holiday - not a victim of moastal erosion.

YAY!!

For me... I am in Kent staying with kids with a friend. Spent the afternoon, putting the world to rights, drinking tea, watching her adorable kitten play!

Excellent. I'm really pleased.

My viola is sick and in hospital

She's in the hands of an award-winning luthier and I'm beyond excited about getting her back because she's going to be fabulous


Hurry up Thursday.....




Oh.. and hubby is on holiday from work and although we're just at home we're having a wonderful time with long dog-walks and daytrips and going out for lunch and just having fun

Oh, oh, oh ... and a new gallery has taken four of my paintings for their current exhibition ... and will be taking two to LONDON in October!!


Sorry, I'm just having a bit of a happy-fest at the moment