Visiting the cats protection league's adoption centre pending a home visit a little cat should be joining our household soon.

looking at a room for a potential forum event

"No, no, no, Betty. I'm not having another cat in this house!" (Frank Spencer)

You know the rest!

Blitzing my flat before my singing teacher comes around to watch the recording of the last recital through to see if wants any of it.... the flat was in a bad way, it's been a busy day!!

Listening to old classic rock with my dad

Attempting to buy a Yamaha saxophone from eBay. I have been outbid on four so far. I might just ask Father Christmas to bring me a shiny new one

That's what my niece asked for last year.

Santa brought her a shiny new Alto Saxophone and her uncle ( ) composed a three movement Sonatina for Sax & Piano - 'Sax of Gold!' - to go with it!

making coffee

similar : except I was making tea

too predictable

Visiting Bali Bird and Reptile Park (it's half past three over here)!

One day I'll surprise you and everyone else and say I'm making coffee too!

Ah, I wondered what you were doing lifting up a tortoise at quarter to nine in the morning!

Having practised some Liszt - it's getting better, slowly - I turned to The Short-Tempered Clavier by P.D.Q.Bach: Preludes and Fugues in All the Major and Minor keys Except for the Really Hard Ones (S. 3.14159, easy as) with performance notes in five languages!

If I tell you that one of those languages is Hieroglyphics and that:

1. Trills begin on the upper auxilliary note.

Is translated into French as:

1. Decouper le lapin en morceaux en reservant le foie.

You'll get the gist of it!

Interring one of our favourite hens (Fifi) in the front garden. That's 2 we've lost in a week.

Practising piano

Sunbathing in the garden after work and having a BBQ!
The one day we get hot weather!
PSL

I was taking a nap.

Aw, how sad.

(I'm called Fifi by my soon-to-be God daughter..! )

Eating dinner - chicken sate with peanut sauce and steamed rice

Thank you for your kind remarks.

Piano practice

Trying to sight read the first 2 pages of Chopin Op.9 No.2... I need to force myself to sight read 2 pages that I've never seen before, every day, apparently... I even made some music out of bits of it!

Struggled through Op9 No.1 just now - I can't do those weird tuplets while sight-reading at all though :S Just try to hit the notes!

I love Op. 9 No. 2 - I've been told to learn it over the summer, but with 4 weeks without a piano I'll have a lot of learning to cram into the last week and a half of the holiday! Oh, and I was eating ice cream ...not so good for the health kick though

I keep myself that's what I should do...

Playing Monopoly Deal!

practising

Being a guest of Southeastern Trains. I'd like to thank the commuter who walked across my feet. Luckily, no damage done...

For various reasons, it wasn't me, but just as well, eh?

You would've said 'sorry'...

Standing outside my classroom one day (the corridor was rather narrow), I gestured for the class to go in. No sooner has the first lad turned to enter, than he fell straight to the ground, like a felled tree (but more quickly!) - I'd been standing on his shoe-laces!

Thinking!

Buying hubby's present for his fortieth at the end of September Very very excited now!

poor lad!!

Feeding next door's cat. And fish. Its so odd watching fish eat! They just kind of inhale the food!

I read this as "feeding next door's cat the fish"!! I had quite a turn reading it

Haha! Nooo, I don't think the neighbours would like that! The cat isn't allowed near the fish!!

practising...

Writing

Catching up with reading newspaper artcles that I had previously put to one side to read at some stage, whilst simultaneously listening to some newly-purchased CDs of organ music.

Watching DVDs of Alistair Cooke's America.

I do still miss his weekly Letter from America, although I have the commercial cassette-tapes and inherited the books of his Letters that I had bought for several of my Dad's birthdays over the years.

Reading!

Having a lovely day out (despite the weather) up at my beloved river...

Taking a closer look at the piano part of the clarinet pieces I'm due to accompany at Cardiff!

Dancing with Adlington Morris Men at Saddleworth Rushcart. Oh and eating meat and potato pie and mushy peas and drinking beer as yer do.

One of the many visiting sides taking part were from Holland. Utrecht to be precise

a walking treasure hunt around a lovely North Yorkshire village

Sounds like fun don't think I'd have the same pleasure doing something similar round here!....

It was fun the nice little lady of more mature years who devised the treasure hunt said it would only take 10/15 minutes, an hour and a bit later.................