I wouldn't worry too much Sol. How you managed to play all these pieces from memory on Saturday was pretty amazing!!! I'm sure you'll be ok on the day of the playday!!!

That sounds painful...did it help your playing of the piece at all?

Nope, it also failed to knock some sense into me

Updating some info on a website I run.

Watching Glee!!! Yay! :-D

Filling out the entry form for the Ealing music festival. Just got to decide what to play now......

Being fast asleep dreaming about clarinets. Not that I'm obsessed or anything

I was at the hospital, once again!

Nothing serious I hope xx

I collapsed at a bus stop and couldn't breathe... Fun! Hope you're ok. xx

Hope you feel better now. I'm ok(ish) thanks.

Only ish?

a 'Oui Oui'

Reading a Jehova's Witnesses leaflet that came through my door

Coughing...

It didn't turn you to the dark side then?

I was in when they called with a leaflet the other day. Had to say a quick 'thank you' and shut the door before OH realised they were there and came running with ears pricked and eyes all lit up. He loves a good doorstep debate


Celeste, I hope you're feeling better now.


Before I came on here I was working out how much money I've spent in the last 6 months. How have I spent that? HOW? Where????

I used to be like that, but I just can't be bothered anymore. I think some of their ideas are downright crazy to be honest, so just politely tell them I'm busy. They can do whatever they like as long as they leave me alone!

They are nothing like they used to be in years gone by though, I think the days of fanatical doorstep visits are a thing of the past

To be honest, I saw them walking up to the front door and decided to sprint into the kitchen to hide in there for a few minutes

I had some JW friends at school you used to go leafleting. I remember once, after a party, in which they'd drunk, smoked, got off with lots of random guys, and done all manner of forbidden things, they got up, hungover as anything, put on their make-up to hide the bags under their eyes, and went off to "save souls".

I find it rather more difficult to take it seriously now.

Oh, I don't know - I got snaffled into setting up a direct debit to the St John Ambulance yesterday, through such a doorstep call.

The guy was very nice, and it's a very good cause, but he was VERY pushy and I'm thinking of cancelling the DD...

I DEEPLY DEEPLY resent this sort of pushy, aggressive approach which a number of high profile charities seem to be employing these days. I DO NOT sign up for things on the doorstep and in the street I actively go out of my way to avoid making contact with their "agents".

They must realise eventually that it is doing their image harm.


A firm but polite, "no thank you, I'm not interested" seems to do the trick these days. Unless it's the horns growing out of my head that puts them off.

Cleaning the kitchen - it needed a good scrubbin'

Sending to my school's Second in Maths a corrected solution to an old S'level Maths question:

Integrate the function: x.e^ax. sinbx

???x e^ax sinbx dx=??x e^ax Im[e^ibx ] ? dx=Im[???x e^ax e^ibx ? dx]=Im[???x e^(a+ib)x dx?]

???x e^(a+ib)x dx?= [x ?(1/(a+ib) e^(a+ib)x )]- ???(1/(a+ib) e^(a+ib)x ) dx

= (?(1/(a+ib)))x e^(a+ib)x- (?(1/(a+ib)))^2 e^(a+ib)x

= (?((a-ib)/(a^2+b^2 )))x e^(a+ib)x- ?(?(a-ib)?^2/(a^2+b^2 )^2 ) e^(a+ib)x

We need the Imaginary part of this:

(?(a/(a^2+b^2 )))x e^ax sinbx-(?(b/(a^2+b^2 )))x e^ax cosbx- ?((a^2-b^2)/(a^2+b^2 )^2 ) e^ax sinbx- ?((-2ab)/(a^2+b^2 )^2 ) e^ax cosbx

= (?((a^3 x+ab^2 x-a^2+b^2)/(a^2+b^2 )^2 )) e^ax sinbx+(?((b(a^2 x+b^2 x-2a))/(a^2+b^2 )^2 )) e^ax cosbx

=?(e^ax/(a^2+b^2 )^2 ) [(a^3 x+ab^2 x-a^2+b^2)sinbx-b(a^2 x+b^2 x-2a)cosbx]

Something like that, anyway! No, that is now correct!

(You'll have to imagine integral signs and square brackets where the ? marks are, as appropriate)


One of my more accessible posts!

This brought back horrible memories of struggling to cope in maths for engineering... eek!

You see Solari, on the rare occasions that you feel dismayed by lack of progress on the piano front, just think what you could otherwise be facing!

P.S. No-one apart from me, will either know or care that I returned to edit my initial post, changing 3 (+) signs for (-) signs. All the algebraic terms were otherwise correct though!

Get well soon, C.




Arrrrgggghhhhh! Difficult maths!!!!! Arrrrrrghhhhh!!!!!! *runs*

Playing with the cat and a ball of wool.

Coming home from band.

Thanks, Baz.

Still coughing and feeling wuff...

You didn't get stuck on the nth chapter?

Me - discussing a double glazing quote with the head of my block of flats' management committee. I managed to get a reasonable quote for replacing the fogged-up sealed units using a cherry picker (as opposed to scaffolding). If I can get other residents to have work done at the same time we can bring down the price even more.

Counting out how much money I have left to last me seven days until my Mum gets back - if I run out, I'm done for!

Watching 'Prog on the BBC' on BBC Four...

Waiting for pupil and deciding I had just enough time to empty the washing machine.

Feeding the neighbour's cat.

Practising

Accidentally making the worst soup ever. Recipe supplied on request.
N

Coughing so much I couldn't sleep.

Blanching kale for tonight's supper. I'm going to use it as a salad veg - don't know if it will work.

Getting drunk..ZZzzz..

Already?!

I've been giving the house a good cleaning. With my Mum away on holiday, I've had to do most of it myself. My sister did the laundry though, which was nice!

Stephie I think you missed the AM part of the time in Solari's post

I've been shopping, pianoing then wii fit- ing Productive day all round

Sounds an awful lot better than last night, Juniper...

Making a sauce for the pasta

Yeah I forgot about the 'looking after wounded soldier'! The shopping was boring food shopping which needed doing or we would have ended up eating tins of beans and shreddies! the rest was done while OH was sleeping. Not a pleasant time

Is the wounded soldier feeling a bit less wounded now?

He's in a bit of a bad way. the pain's making him ill. He's back sleeping again now. Just feel really helpless

aw

Hope the sleep does him good, and he's feeling cheerier really soon.

Thanks

I really shouldn't have but I tried out another piece from one of my new books and have completely fallen in love with it...

Oh well, more work!!!