Moping about the house

preparing veg for dinner

organ practice.

Eating pasta.

Faffing

Still marking exam papers
Charles 1st was reheated in 1649...
The Industrial Revolution was when towns started growing mushrooms...

Practising Aural tests with my mum ready for grade 8 on Monday!

Jacob.

Picking my nose!

Charming!

Jacob.

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Sitting in the garden wearing next to nothing with a bottle of wine having just eaten a very good barbecue meal (surprising as J was in charge and managed this time to NOT to cremate everything!)

Now about to go through a collection of Piano Conductor scores with a veiw to doing some re-arranging for th'organ..........hic!

You don't sound in any state to rearrange anything

Bit of outside influence (flatulence!) may work wonders!

Too much information

Better out than in, and all that.

just been to the pub...

Me too I feel much better now after a crazy day at work!

...after your examination session. After hosting that, I think a pub visit is very much deserved!

sewing a button on

wow... that's just what I was doing!!! Youngest is off to an IT conference to represent 'Primary aged children in the UK', to be interviewed about her IT usage and couldn't find a clean school top with buttons!!!!!

Entertaining Boiler Repair Man

At this time in the morning. Really....

Bx

I'm sure he found you very diverting, Bag!

I was checking my mobile for texts and found that my 9.00 student was visiting Cambridge today. So I have another hour at home.

Having trouble motivating myself to get ready for work, oh well, I'm off now... I feel so groggy after a rubbish night's sleep. I might have to empty out the fridge and sleep in there instead.

I was changing clothes trying to find something cooler

I'm now dressed head-to-toe in loose linen and I'm still soooooo hot (I don't do shorts).

It's 28 in the shade already..

I think I might go and accidentally turn the hose on myself and the dogs!!!

quick and early lunch

I was digging up pinks in my friend's garden.

Having a pint of Timothy Taylors Landlord bitter (I was brought up 200yds from the brewery in Keighley) in Arcadia winebar, Headingley.

That is really nice stuff!

It has won awards at CAMRA events for years. Most people to whom I've mentioned it agree its one of the very best bitters around!
Maybe this should be in 'The Tavern in the Town' thread, but I am also partial to the beer from my wifes original area --- Adnams. (Southwold ,East Suffolk)

I'm quite partial to Harvey's Best Sussex Bitter and Young's Waggledance myself

Doing/Checking/Posting a assignment to my tutor. All done!

What Were You Doing..., ... before you logged on to the forum just now?

Losing the will to live Roll on the weekend..

Listening to music in the garden.

Tieing my brain in knots trying to sight read two lines of recorder at once.

Watching two pigeons going through the "teasing" ritual before making a baby pigeon..aww!

Shouldn't be that bad surely, you're obviously very proficient at doing that for piano?

Clarinet lesson

Reading isn't the problem - it's that 1 hand is working at totally the wrong place on the recorder and there are some challenges getting the right amount of air into both instruments to get both to sound evenly. This is of course assuming this is still following on from the 2 recorders at once query a few days ago.


As to what I was doing - procrastinating and avoiding the ironing (then again I'm still doing that really)

Matthew and I were in Harrogate once, and there was a male pigeon putting on a bit of a show. Matthew didn't seem to know what was going on. Aw... bless 'im.

But it's quite interesting to watch! Especially when the female really can't be doing with it, and keeps wandering off. And by goodness those males can fluff up their feathers to extreme levels of fluffiness!

That's what I thought! I think it might be something to do with playing combinations of notes that you'd never get on the piano (ie two hands alternating between the two same notes but with each hand playing one note and the other playing the other combined with confusing rhythms.:

It's a bit of a strange piece!

I think I may be slightly better at the whole two recorders thing if it was more tuneful.

What are you playing?

LOL you are mad, playing 2 at once!!! Are you going to get a drum for your back as well so you can do a "one woman band" party trick or something?

Yup, that's the one. Surprisingly, I'm not having too much of a problem playing right-handed and the much bigger problem is trying not to drop the left one - I got a bit worried about my new treble and have switched to two plastic descants now.





No, I would play the piano with my feet actually. That would be much more impressive than a drum on my back.

If you fancy listening to some more (slightly - ok, very - strange) recorder music, this is the piece I'm attempting to play. It doesn't start till about a third the way through and you have to ignoe the weird dancer.

I'll have a look tomorrow when Mr B isn't sharing bandwidth - our broadband isn't too hot and he's playing some on line game thing with friends. Last time I looked at youtube I apparently 'got them all killed by causing lag' (count to many hundred before saying it's just a game)

So I don't keep you in suspense, the piece is 'Ende' by Louis Andriessen. I hadn't heard of it before but you may have.

ringing touches of bob minor.

Trying to remember why I sat down at the computer in the first place!

That is plain weird... I'm a bit at that...

You started off so well introducing me to nice recorder music, now it's harking back to traumatic memories of discordant primary school playing Shame on you



Lag is evil. What are they playing? And no, it's not just a game if you're in a league (I used to be a few years ago, but gaming just eats up too much time so I don't to much of it at all now apart from L4D)

There's a lot of weird modern recorder music around as well as the baroque stuff. There's also some tuneful modern music too though.

You might prefer this.

EDIT: that recording's not very good, but it was the only one youtube had.