Quite so, darling - my anniversaire approacheth in Novembertide!

YUP!

Our cat is now our friend again. Last night she came to sit with us in the living room, not on a lap or on the sofa, but on the floor with her back to the sofa (just to make sure we understood that she wasn't talking to us). This morning, here I am 'working' from home, and I have a very close assistant. I know she wants me to go out in the garden with her and I have tried to explain I am working, so she is sitting in front of my monitor, licking my fingers as I type...

I'm impressed - I was only away for 1 night on Sat and I'm still being sulked at......then again I've got an awful lot more done so far today as a result!

Hubs applied for a job Fri, got asked for interview today and got offered the job on the spot! He's so chuffed, it sounds like it's going to be so much better for him (and less stressful) than where he is now. Here's hoping he'll mellow out a bit at home too now....

Celebrating tonight

Fantastic - better and better for you both! Long may it continue - mellowness can't be over-rated.

Me? 30 years married today. Glad we're both here and in stable health!

LOL better and better but less money....well it's not everything, but there will have to be some serious belt tightening around here until my students multiply a bit more!

Congratulations! 30 years is a great achievement

Congratulations!

I am not Christian but I went to Methodist schools, and I remember the singing fondly. I liked the old-fashioned hymns better than the modern ones. I still do. And some of my first ever public performing experience was playing hymns in school chapel services!!

My happy is - receiving good health news (not pertaining to me)

Congratulations to Listener and to Dawn's OH! I do enjoy this thread - it's great to share good news.

Thanks guys, he's had to go into his old job today, unable to say anything until his formal offer comes through later today....he's like a big kid this morning!!

Thank you all too. Back to the grind today, but the sun is shining

Seeing 2 nice properties that I can add to my shortlist as I am looking for a new property to move to soon.

Volunteered myself to be VERY busy over the next twelve weeks ... happy about it at the moment but in a few weeks time this will be in the scream thread, guaranteed!

Mind you this *MAY* have something to do with the university work I do - means in my breaks I can play the concert grand in a big auditorium Taking better sheet music than accompaniments later on in the week

Headache gone and clari practice went well

Planning next year's BKA Summer School and then meeting up for a meal with Hammerklavier in the evening.

louise1712's headache gone : yay!

Thanks Barry indeed! I'm feeling much much better

Feeling really wanted/liked/appreciated on here, thanks everyone

payday is approaching as is the weekend

I deregistered from facebook - yeh! I've got three more forums to go although I don't want to deregister from here.

Hmm ... what's the other one ?... ponders your friendly neighbourhood internet stalker.

TEEF!

I broke a crown late in July, snapped it off at the base, and it was right next to the front teeth. As the one behind it had no neighbour on the other side and the fron teeth felt very vulnerable, I knew I was going to be told I needed dentures - I couod have had an implant, bt it would have cost me two holidays!

I did take the private option, and after three previous bite tests and fittings, I finally got them today - and I have a proper smile and not a witchy face! My tongue is still feeling around it too often - it's made of acrylic, not my tongue, the plate, but it's gone in and now it's come out again first try. It doesn't look like my poor old mum's full set, which she used to carry around in her handbag all the time when she was 76 and doolally and I did feel it was like the beginning of the end - false teeth? They're what OLD people have (I'm only 63 ) but I'm just discovering several other people's hush-hush dentistry (I shall find that difficult to say for a while - things like "fifths and sixths" and things with lots of d's and r's in them are still taxing the old mouth)

Hope your teeth settle in nicely, linda.ff. My Dad had to have all his teeth out when he was 42, so you have done much better than he did! Have fun smiling again!

some new music at band last night and the weekend is just around the corner

Finding out that i got into EYSWO

(i'm not just happy about it. I'm kind of hyper about it.)

Congratulations!

Warm sun has made me happy today.

Aww - well done! Hope you really enjoy it.

Getting my Saturday back!

W

ummm....Essex Youth Senior Wind Orchestra?

I wont need to go over to our Horsforth office until a week next Tuesday, and I am looking forward to meeting two forumites next week.

Spending a couple of hours with Alpha Male Jazz Cat

For a scruffy old alley-cat he sure is fit! nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......

lol

Bx

Almost.

Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra

and thanks to everyone that's congratulated me

Close! Well done Rach, have fun when you get to your first rehearsal with them!

glad you've had a good time Bagpuss


it's the weekend

You bet it is...

I will. the first rehearsal's not till january though.

Time will fly!

Hearing from one of my pupils that she's playing with the year 7 orchestra at her new school.

I'm a bit puzzled at first, and wonder if I've not kept up with her starting a second instrument.

But it turns out they have found her a piano part to play. Great stuff! what a nice opportunity for her.

Reckon I've bought a bargain - a Howarth clarinet for less than the tenth of the new price of one.

Singing tonight. I was invited to "thicken up" the tenor line for a local choir who were to perform Faure's Requiem. Took along Mrs S and her Dad (who ended up singing the baritone solos). We actually sang the piece as part of a formal Requiem Mass in a catholic church which was celebrating 50 years since the dedication of the building.

The atmosphere was superb, Latin all over the place, and stacks of incense.

Religious music at its best, in the setting it was written for.

Sounds wonderful, stetenorve. I love the Faure Requiem

The requiem is great and you clearly enjoyed the opportunity to perform it.

The Faure is wonderful, and I always enjoy hearing and performing it. Better still with a liberal dose of smells and bells!

If you get a chance, Liszt's Missa Choralis is equally splendid, but is very rarely heard.

SB

Very proud of my big girl today. This morning she made a really good Head Girl's speech at Open Day at her school. Tonight it was House Music Competition and she won the senior soloist class! She played Sunstreams on the flute. It's a gorgeous piece and I've never heard her play it with the piano. She played really well- the best I've heard her play!
Her house also won House Song!

Happy days! Sometimes being a mum is the best thing in the world!

Just had Shiny New Sofa and Shiny New Chair delivered.

I have reached my advanced age without EVER having bought a sofa (why did I type 'solfa' the first time?) so I am feeling Very Grown Up.

This made me laugh out loud (the solfa and the grown-up bit!). It's nice getting new things isn't it?

Definitely! I needed a bit of perking up after a pretty sad and surreal couple of weeks.

Actually today I'm feeling absolutely done in and can hardly move so I spent the morning reclining on New Sofa (and re-arranging other bits of furniture) watching Poirot..

But now I have to plan what I'm going to teach to students doing the Dalcroze course this afternoon..wondering where ON EARTH to find the energy..