Didn't you mention violin as well?

that can now be added to the above list!

Teaching a new pupil who I was quite impressed with. She has almost mastered 1st finger on G, D and A string in her 1st ever violin lesson. her bow hold was almost perfect without me having to alter anything.

Mother's Day dinner, and giving Mother's Day presents, and talking to Mother.

See if you can work out the connection here

Erm, Mother?

Did you cook Mother's Day dinner or go out?

Making breakfast.

The latter

Aw, that's lovely


I was at work, finishing counting the weekends car parking income. Rather a tidy sum it was too......

was at band rehearsal

watching Glee....... dare I admit to that?

Travelling back from Glasgow

Sitting contemplating the true wonder it would be to own finale 2011 if it wasn't such a stupidly high price

Feeding the dogs and trying to plan the day. It's going to be a complicated one and I need to be in several places at once - mostly hours of driving apart

Drinking coffee and planning what to do today

Looking at my Easter egg, which has been in a cupboard for the last week, and being tempted to eat some of it before Easter Sunday.

Listening to Matthew playing the organ... Came back from my stay at home to find he has one in the dining room now!

washing the car

You turned your back for too long, darling...

Syringing some warm water into my little dog. She has trapped wind and sore tummy and the only way to ease the cramps is a little warm water to get her system moving (as advised by the vet).

Then she needs to eat something and refused her biscuit so HAD to have a little morsel of quiche

She's fine now and all smoochy again (she's the one on my profile )

Making coffee ... Finally sitting down after a busy morning in York - buying numerous gifts, children's clothes etc. I did manage to buy myself a little treat or two at the same time tho '''
cheers!!

Excellent, were these treats music related Dawn?


bit of clari practice for me

Trying to find a funny card.

And failing : (

I just signed myself up for an extremely tedious, not at all educational summer job... I probably should have looked into more opportunities, but I was so surprised that anyone would be willing to hire me, let alone on the spot, that I just said yes, because I really wanted the money... On the upside, the people seem nice/interesting, even if the work isn't great?

Was at my clari lesson

Actually ..... no they weren't this time They were of the clothing variety - a couple of dresses for the summer.



Just been doing a mammoth music session though .....

Been reading about that

Waking up late and eating breakfast - I was absolutely exhausted after the 4 day school trip to Berlin!

listening to recordings of the Mozart and Lefevre pieces I'm working on

Putting the kids to bed....

Been a Looong day!

1st day of holidayitis I call it - they struggled to get on lots of tears etc .....

Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Aiming for a family day out.

Looking at motorbikes and buying new shoes

Must do some music tonight and beloved, can do no wrong Porsche is still sat feeling sorry for itself while V8 has had fun, HA serves you right you Stuttgart "wonder"

I love Lefevre.... some of my pupils hate him, but I love his music.... thankfully some of them like him- have one doing Lefevre for Gr 6 AB , one doing Lefevre for Gr 6 TG and one doing one for TG Gr7 next term....

Love Mozart too

Have a nice day out DawnF




I love Lefevre and Mozart too.

I've said this before, it's nice to be playing some stuff that I've heard other people play.



Was playing clari, yes the Lefevre and Mozart, before logging on here

Just gardening - supervised by two cats. Now I've got backache but they obviously haven't.

Lunch - after cycling back from church in lovely warm weather (not really sunny though)

Playing the clarinet. Pleased that I made the effort to start as what I thought would be a 10 minute session turned out being close to an hour.

Eating my lunch - leftover salad from last night and a cheese & red onion toastie

Clari practice

Book of orange?

Oh I so know what you mean. I was shouting at the kids... this is the first day at home with just mummy with nothing particular to do... fortunately also the last day!!!

Now, is it my fault that the older one decided to abandon writing his holiday diary on about day 3 and now has a lot of catching up to do? It's all in aid of improving writing skills whilst also having something to show off when he goes back, so win-win I'd say! He did do a lovely watercolour of the pyramids, though.

And when I log off I'm going to have coffee and chocolate - a LOT of chocolate judging by the screams...

There were a couple of bits from the book of orange yes! Plus all the other stuff I've been set Had a go at the Rondo too, couple of sticky bits but I think it'll be ok for Stalybridge. Will ask teacher on Friday, see what he thinks (especially as we haven't even looked at Sonata 1 yet!)

Cool : let me know Louise, and I'll get to work on the piano-y bit

Thanks Barry

Been clearing out child no 3's room for past 2 days! She left primary education last year and it's sad clearing out all the books etc that she won't read again but we've read loads and loads! Also, we've been clearing out old toys that have been passed down from the others.... but we really don't need any more! I now have boxes of books for the junior school/ infant school/ bags of old school uniform/ music club t shirts/ dancing class stuff etc to pass on!

Clari lesson.

How did it go sbhoa?

It was good.
One of those 'yes that was good but it needs to be better' lessons.
Lots of things still to improve on.

Stuffing myself as much as possible before 9.00 as I am on nil by mouth except water.

Dealing with the THIRTY-SEVEN e-mails that came through between 12.30pm and 8pm today. Many of them are about worrying things so I have been two hours answering them and adding another 20 things to my 'to do' list.

ARGH.

Assembling impossible holiday itinerary


Oh dear, Cyrilla, that doesn’t sound good

Sending emails to schools prospecting!