packing for uni :S procrastinating was the easier option!

Looking at the washing up feeling disheartened...

Ordering a curry to refuel after a 6 mile walk this evening. As I did a 5 mile one yesterday afternoon I feel I deserve it.

Stuffing 400 envelopes

Feeding the birds and taking photos of my garden in the snow (which look very much like all the photos of my garden I take every time it snows, but I love them anyway )

playing clari, thought I'd better do at least a little bit of practice before band tomorrow

filling in my form for the Glasgow event

Just had to take my new car into the garage - the problem was getting it out. This being Italy it was a very small entrance and there was no room to turn round so I would have had to back out over the pavement, bus lane and into a dual carriageway. I got the mechanic to do it for me. Not proud of myself but I have only been driving a few weeks and it was way out of my comfort zone.....

Working through a massive pile of emails.

Understand completely...I think that quite a lot of Italy is outside my comfort zone even though I've been driving for 25 years
Our street here is so narrow that in 5 years I've not once had the courage to get the car out of our own driveway (involves some delicate reversing and a 5-point turn to get it out of our road). I cycle to work and get Hubby to get the car out on the occasions I need to drive

Extra marching drill ready for Buckingham Palace

Teaching in Tuff Skool after a two-week break then cooking some veg and catching up with e-mails and BKA stuff...sigh.

At the supermarket.
Purchasing one 1/2lb packet of chocolate raisins, one 1/2lb packet or chocolate peanuts, one 200g slab of white chocolate and one 200g slab of wholenut.

The raisins and white chocolate being a present for me for recovering photos from my husband's not-responding CF card from his camera. The others being for him for, well, being him (actually, the photos were reasonable spectacular so definite worth recovering)

Erm...not all for tonight, though

oboe and clari practice

Travelling back from London

Oboe practice. Have been working at the Vaughan Williams English Folk Song suite that our windband director is keen to play. The Dives and Lazarus section in the first movement is *nasty*, as it is in four flats and goes like the clappers in 6 8. I am slowly getting on top of this and shouldn't now get totally left behind by the flutes and clarinets at the next rehearsal.

The Vaughan Williams is a lovely suite Good luck with your next rehearsal



I've had to wash my car windscreen this morning thanks to the birds that roost in the tree under which the car is parked!

having a clear out of stuff at work, documents dating from 1994..............

riding a little grey pony called Marco

band practice it was fun

And if you played polo on said pony, it would be Marco Polo!

Conducting practice. I'm now ready for my class tomorrow, but do I have enough to sleep?

Your conducting is FAB, Judith - so I hope it went well!

playing my

drank some coffee ...

seen an ant in my kitchen and was scared ...

then came online ...

Planning tomorrow's lessons.....not much on as Year 11 are orf on Study Leave from tomorrow so one's timetable is beginning to shrink.

So watch out for me busking outside Sainsburys....

Impoverished-Bag x

Clari practice no more tonight though, head aching again

Back from singing Mozart

was out in the pouring raining pulling tins out of car park machines.............

haha! I was actually riding him again just now in the soaking rain... I am beyond wet and hairy! I resembled a chicken when I dismounted due to all the white hair! actuallly.. still do

Surviving a three hour meeting with bright shiny baubly marketing people who don't understand data

band practice

rehearsal for concert on Saturday

Murdering Playing recorders.

writing a programme bio and emailing it to my friend for a concert that me and my friends have organised and are performing in tomorrow.

Revising for AA302 exam and not caring about the development of Monteverdi's career.

Gardening. Planted up 9 pots for the patio.

Eating lunch, which consisted of fish, chips and mushy peas.

Singing Tippett's "A child of our Time" with choral soc

Watching - and enjoying - the final of Britain's Got Talent... . Is anyone else brave enough to admit they saw it ???

I only caught the end of YMOTY as I was teaching today from 9am to 7pm .

Didn't watch BGT but did see all of YMOTY



Just been making sure I had my music for today, dreamt last night that I got to Glasgow minus clarinet and music

I saw BGT, and i'm glad the dog won But I also liked the choir, loveable rogues, aquabatics and jonathan and charlotte... There were actually some pretty decent acts this year!

I had a dream about conducting the string ensemble Louise... lets just say no one was behaving themselves!!

Yes, I agree, the acts were all very good this year - agree with your favourites too. I picked the top three! The choir just bring tears to my eyes every time I see them...

I'm not hugely keen on dogs but Pudsey was SOMETHING ELSE!!!

Mowed three lawns - having lunch forum break....

were they better behaved on the day????


I was travelling back from Glasgow/Edinburgh

The string ensemble was... not so sure about the finale!!!

Had an unanticipated day at home waiting for an heating engineer to come round and investigate strange noises (wailing banshee lurking in the heating system)

Dialled into a number of conference calls.

Went to the gym trouble is really ought to go more often than once every Preston Guild

Need to head off to chamber choir in 25 mins.

Watching 56 Up...Very Scary Programme. I remember seeing 7 Up and then 14 Up as part of my Child Development course at teacher training college...

Me too! I watched it from 14 Up. Can't believe they're 56! A great series though.

playing clari, trying to perfect a pesky couple of bars

washing the car