Don't apologise, sounds like you have a lot to be happy about!!

There's nothing wrong with a happy fest. Enjoy it.

SB

PS: I have just received an odd message saying "You have posted a message with more emoticons that this board allows. Please reduce the number of emoticons you've added to the message" so I have deleted two of yours Lottie.

Yes, I had to do the same

Good for you, lottie!

Back in England after two weeks away - nice to come back to proper British weather!

Feel like I'm finally starting to sort my life out that isn't to do with music or cars and found as I got on with it, there was still time for music and cars too. I actually got lots done and practised more clarinet and piano than I've done in a while, yesterday.

I had that message once, did not know they where subject to cut backs as well

lesson

and hope

Think I got carried away this morning

received an email from his Mum saying he wants lessons from me

That's great news.

Lady Rat, the one who had the big operation up-thread, when I took her in to the vet last week for a 'wound check', they noticed a lump on her face. Carry on with the antibiotics and come back in a week if it isn't better.
So on Monday we went in, and the vet was Not Happy. She thought it might be an abscess, but as it was hard, not soft and squishy, perhaps not. Also, as the previous anaesthetic was quite recently, even doing a whiff of anaesthetic to investigate the lump was not ideal. So, we'll leave it until Friday, and then bring her in to have it poked at.

Just going to bed last night, and I notice a white-ish splodge near her eye. It could be bedding. It could be a bit of food. But I take her out to investigate, and it is a bit of 'ooze'. So I gently pressed on the lump, and out came lots of gunk. Wiped it away, pressed again, lots more gunk. And again. And again. And again.

This is very pleasing because:
1) I am sure her ladyship is much more comfortable without all that gunk inside her face. She no longer looks like she has been thwacked with a baseball bat and has a normal shaped head
2) I think we can be sure it was an abscess! While a facial abscess isn't entirely non-trivial, it's far better than a not-abscess-mystery-lump, which can pretty much only be a bad thing.
3) She doesn't need to go to the vet on Friday. Less stress the better, although she must be getting used to the travelling I don't think she entirely likes the car
4) She doesn't need anaesthesia - this is a Really Good Thing
5) I don't need to pay for a vet visit! This is of the least consideration, I'll pay whatever it costs (to give you some idea, her de-lump operation cost in the order of 20 times what she herself cost!) But it is still nice to have an expected expense taken away

And she let me have another little de-gunk of it this morning, and a little wash of the area

And as if all that weren't enough, I think my migraine is on the way out

That is really good news - we lost our rat because the thought abscess wasn't. Really happy for you x

Having had one or two myself I think I know how Lady Rat feels.

They always seem to be in places that I cannot reach myself, so I have had to ask my good lady wife to squeeze, clean and change the dressing.

SB

PS: Sorry to discuss such matters over breakfast, but its better out than in.

Good, that all sounds very positive Maizie

Had a great session on the piano, yesterday. Also did some accompaniment for a pupil and it went together really well.

When I grow up I want to be a pianist

2 happys in 1 day - new record for me!

The C clarinet I ordered yesterday has just arrived and from a 1st blow appears to be surprisingly good for it's price tag (well it is a clarinet so needs yay smilies!)

I did think of that as I posted, ponder "What's made me happy today? Rat pus..."

But for people with far less gross happy things


Extra late breaking news: The postman has just been and brings me a letter from the London Recorder Orchestra...

You know you want to...

Another great piano session Technique is getting better and things are coming much quicker. Left hand is presenting no problems - I used to dread adding the left hand part! Don't do that anymore and find 'm learning things hands together much much more quickly

So, so happy with my piano progress

Absolutely


My happy, well, had a lovely day yesterday and am going camping later on

My nephew's excellent GCSE results.
Hard work pays off.

Congratulations to him!

Daughter's GCSE results.

(for JudithJ's nephew and all the others out there too )
I was the first year of GCSEs myself and have always hated that people slate them and say they are easier. It may be true, it may not but a lot of teenagers work very hard for them and shouldn't have their efforts belittled.
Off my now

Very proud of No 3 son, who drove round to his girlfriend's house last night after she phoned at 11.30 to say that there was a large spider in her bed and could he deal with it. He's not keen on them himself, but he managed to catch it and eject it for her.

Yes I do want to!
Just need to make sure husband is totally fine with it - he seems to think he won't be working second-Saturday-of-month for much longer! He thinks it was just to fit work in around our holidays, but I think he's got so much extra work that at least one thing will have to remain on a Saturday. And in any case, if I have a Saturday "doing music", he can have a Saturday "doing photography" and will probably be mighty happy with that.

Anyway, today I have just worked out the cause of a Mysterious Discrepancy (why one report showing [theoretically] exactly the same thing as another report outputs 1000 fewer rows). I haven't got a solution yet, but at least I know where to start looking for one, and can also provide some progress to those who probably think I'm sitting around wasting time on t'internet instead of working...oh...

Sightsinging the first Henry Panofka vocalisa at full speed (accompanied on piano) with only one error in the whole 3 pages - without even looking through it first! Teacher and other student were suitably impressed

Haven't I often told you you're a star?


Haha, surely you mean "he rode round on his white charger.."


Well done Daughter!

I'm solvent again! Can stop living off soup and beans now!

Wow!

Perhaps you could give the lady in this some lessons...I think she might need some...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiKJ3Aj0Jb8...feature=related

Getting less ill. And managed to get out and about yesterday

Awww feel better soon Barry


My 'happy' is that I picked up my viola from the brilliant Luthier today. My 'horror' was finding out that her seam had actually come apart ( ) but he has made the most AMAZING job of repairing her

Thanks, lottie.

Bananas and custard

A very ill old lady making a smidgen of improvement and moving her fingers when her daughter stroked her hand. Words cannot express how much that moved me.

Shiny new shoes (actually they're yesterday's happy )

Going shopping for a new outfit to go with the shoes. And ending up with a new outfit. And not having spent any money in the process

That sounds good (apart from the shopping bit...) - a new outfit at no expense!

W

How on earth did you manage that? Have you been looting?!

No, discovering stuff in my wardrobe I'd forgotten I'd got

Hehehe must start some solfege at some point....






3 days of horrid office work left - including today, and then I get to practice all I want

I made it to to the end of week 1 in my new job!

Have to say we had a party for a leaving colleague who I am replacing and I had too much alcohol.

Glad you are fitting in....

Having a lovely afternoon with Bagpuss and two friends - it's well over a year since the four of us managed to get together. Girl power!!!

Bag was her usual VERY wicked and funny self (resplendent in sparkly gold, VERY vertiginous shoes!) and we just laughed pretty much all afternoon. My two friends have both had very difficult years and it was so good to see them laughing .

And then getting a lovely e-mail from a very dear friend and special person.

The last fortnight actually. Attending all nine concerts in the North Yorkshire Moors Chamber Music Festival. Each concert in a different church on the Moors. 31 superb musicians over the two weeks, organised by Jamie Walton, and a range of music from Bach to Borodin, Schubert to Shostakovich, Beethoven to Tchaikovsky, etc., etc.. There are now 2 concerts to come in late November when they will announce next year's festival.

Shows how little notice I've been taking of the forum of late - I had no idea you'd found a new job! Glad it's going well.



Oh, and

Cat is happy with her new cat flap, that mr corenfa patiently sawed a hole in my back door for.

Has just realised that in the last school year, I entered 24 pupils for 30 music exams and they all passed! I just added that up for a newsletter (and many did better than pass!)

Oh, it was most certainly , Baz. Especially THOSE SHOES...

sitting on a sofa, after three days of camping chairs and airbeds, a sofa is the height of luxury