That sounds wonderful. Good luck.

a) Getting ready for two heating engineers to arrive to completely dismantle the boiler and remove the wailing banshee that's hiding inside it (see aaarrgghhh earllier in the week )

b) Preparing to ring my ISP provider back to find out what I need to do to get master socket fixed (you are receiving this message courtesy of my test socket )

Thank you! The person whose baby this is (sadly not me) and three others of us who are involved have an interview at the Department of Education next Thursday...

clari practice, then oboe practice and finally, some flute practice

foolishly watching some clips on youtube

At a Diamond Jubilee Street Party Planning meeting - this means several glasses of wine and trying to take notes as I'm doing the Minutes!! Even if it pours on they day, we have had fun getting to know our neighbours planning our street party; in fact I think it might become an annual event even without the excuse of a Diamond Jubliee!

Rehearsing jubilee concert with chamber choir - Bach and Parry.

enjoying the sunshine

clari and oboe practice

Sending a mini auto-rant email to Director of Music at one of my schools....

Bah-Bag x

watching the apprentice

Orchestra, and the beautiful cresent moon through the whispy light pollution. Spectacular

Swimming!


Yes, wasn't it beautiful last night - just a tiny sliver!

I was at the Department for Education taking part in an interview for a free school to be set up.

If successful, it will be the first of its kind - a primary with music every afternoon (and it will also be a centre for training other primary teachers in music).

Keep everything crossed, guys...

Practice (exam tomorrow).


Good luck with this.

I really hope that it works out well (and is going strong when I am qualified and looking for a job!).

Keeping everything crossed for you Cyrilla


I was having a fabby time at band practice first time on my own on clari in this band but it was rather enjoyable

It's not my plan (although I do have a similar one) but that of one of the Guildhall mums. I'm a patron of the yet-to-be-established school (me and Charles Hazlewood !!!) so I was asked to go along and explain Kodaly to The Suits *lol*.

We did tell them that people are queueing up not only to send their children there but also to teach there!

Hopefully it will be a model for others across the country..

And what an exceedingly FAB plan it is too (this venture is in Clari-land)...

Reading Teach Primary, including an article by a certain forumite

wondering how early I can get to band tonight to get the windows open and some air into the room...........

Walking on the beach. Very windy, huge waves, lots of lovely (and empty!) white sand.

Teaching one of my slowest students - who has recently apparently started to practise.

Holding an Olympic torch.

How cool and sporty do I feel now!?

Impressed! Were you running with it?

I was just teaching my G7 pupil. I have to do this mental flip on a Monday, from 3 beginners in a row, and 1 laid back G3 to a G7 standard. Reminds me of the days when I used to teach Y6s for a double lesson, and then Y13 for a single at the end of the afternoon. Arrgh!

Looking at mountains on the moon, and at Saturn's rings.

Writing a few reports on the computer. Funny how it's easy to write certain ones, and then others completely stump you. Anyway, the muse has gone to bed now, and so must I.

I take it you have access to a telescope of some sort? The moon's not quite at dichotomy tonight and with a bit of twilight in the sky, I think it makes the moon more interesting.

No. One of my ex-pupils was a runner and he came round for a revision session and brought the torch to show me. It was soooooooo cool. I really didn't expect to get that excited about it, but somehow I did.

Yes. OH has two. Yesterday we were looking through a Meade 12 inch Lightbridge.

Having lunch whilst watching the original series of Star Trek.

Wonderful stuff.

You really should see a doctor about those recurring bouts of tribbles, C.

B x

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I haven't seen that episode yet. Today's had a Spock in an alternative universe. He was sporting a BEARD.

Looking for a book... grrrr.

attempting clari practice, it's too warm though and I gave up after twenty minutes

eating a salad sandwich

That's quite a big instrument! Biggest I have is a 10 inch short f-ratio Newtonian (not that short it's f6.3 I think)

It does look rather as though it might be at home in a dentist's surgery.

That's one of my favourites

Yes, it was fab. They were all looking very fetching in gold sashes.

Assessment this morning then rehearsing for tomorrow's assessment which is my final uni exam and my final day of university

One of my other favourites is the one in which Spock gets married. It's where my signature quote is from.

I have a soft spot for Spock (old Spock, not the newfangled one from the 2009 movie)

We have a tribble I bought it years ago for OH in the USA. I don't think it makes its funny little noise any more and, what's more disappointing, we still have just the one Spock is great

You need to feed it more

Oh! I WANT a Tribble! I want, I want!!!

And I love Spock too...

One of the cool things about the re-runs at the moment is that a Trekkie geek pops up at the end of the episode, giving some trivia about the following one (recently it was that the following episode was the only one in which Captain Kirk's top didn't have a black triangular neck).

I think perhaps I should get out more.

Me too! A house full of trekkies here....son (age 7) draws enterprises, and apparently got hoofed in the "wrong place" by a girl at school the other day when he started going on about the enterprise being the supportive parents we are, we did laugh when he told us hours later

Meanwhile, this morning, we waved daughter off to her first International Swimming competition in Andorra, she has a long day of travelling ahead of her I will be eagerly awaiting facebook reports from her

lesson

I had my final day of University. ...

The thought of not seeing friends =

Finding work =

What to do with my life now? =

(what do tribbles eat?)

Cyrilla, there's a website just for tribbles and they appear at Trekkie Conventions (www.tribbletoys.com). I think ours came from the time we were visiting Las Vegas many years ago and there was a Star Trek exhibition at one of the big hotels. It's a good job it didn't start making its funny little noise in the luggage going through customs




It's a strange mixture of feelings, isn't it? And I think it takes a while to sink in that you've actually finished. But good luck with everything

Thank you! You have made a sad old woman very happy .