hope you pass neil as lots of people dont understand the difficulties with playing the recorder!now on to LTCL

Glad it went ok, Neil. Hope the results come quickly

Best of luck for the result Neil

Hey, Miffy is doing her Diploma in violin THIS SUNDAY!!!!

COME ON MIFFY, COME ON MIFFY!!!

Show 'em what you're made of!

Oooh Jojo, you are naughty!

Thanks though, you've been a real support, especially during my drama queen bit late last night..
xxx

Anyone want to join me in wishing Miffy a good session tomorrow at her Diploma exam??

BEST WISHES FOR TOMORROW MIFFY

Thanks Jojo!
Actually, I'm just online looking for oneway plane tickets to Timbuctoo at the moment..

Does anyone know how long Trinity results take to come out?

Good luck, miffy! Hope it goes really well for you.

Make the most of the experience - it's not every day you have a captive audience to perform to for such a long time! Seriously, do enjoy yourself; after all the hard work of preparation you deserve to enjoy your performance.

I have my DipABRSM flute exam on the 16th...I'm so scared! Good luck to everyone who's taking diplomas/waiting for results

Haven't heard from you for ages! Did you go to Kings, London in the end? I hope things are going well for you.

Best of luck for the 16th - do let us know how it goes.

Thanks Yes I'm in my second year now at King's - so so glad that I chose to stick with maths, enjoying it so much

That's good to hear. Any idea what you want to do eventually? It's great that you're keeping up your music too - are you in a university orchestra?

I'd love to be an academic...thinking of doing a PhD at the moment I didn't get into the uni orchestra But I'm in the chamber music society over at Imperial so get to do quite a bit of ensemble playing!

Best of luck today, Andante in C

Best of luck Andante_in_C

yes, all the best andante_in_c

Thanks everyone. Just waiting for my accompanist to arrive and then I'm off.

...and the amazing accompanist hero driver lady arrived and Andante, the accompanist and tagalong helper/bag carrier and page turner Katyjay departed for a quick trip to the exam centre.

Which is, as the bird almost flies, a brief 45 minute trip away. Say an hour after a small scenic detour of the town centre on the way to the car park....

Of the exam, I can report that Andante sounded pretty good over the rather loud piano (page turners don't hear things from the best vantage point). Her Mozart started with a good dramatic flourish and flew along from there. Roussel and Anne Boyd duly followed, I managed not to mess up any of the page turns, drop the spare flute or send any of the music flying. So far so good....

Then we set off to come home, just after 3pm. It was a bit snowy as we joined the motorway, and rapidly got more snowy and nasty as we got further along it.

We got off the motorway at the second attempt, and then took best part of 3 hours to get from there back to Andante's house despite the satnav saying it was only 5 minutes away, through sheer, treacherous, horrible untreated snowy roads. We got up hills by sheer willpower, and down them with our teeth gritted (shame the roads weren't....)

Our accompanist deserves a medal not only for the ostinatos in Cloudy Mountain, but for getting us most of the way home (Signor Dante collected us and took us the last mile.)

Four hours into our 45 minute journey we finally got to Andante's house. Phew.

Sorry to read about your h orrendous journey!

It seems we were the lucky ones. I've just seen that thousands of people were stranded in Basingstoke last night - we must have got through just in time. Phew!

That sounds nasty - glad you're all home safely

At least you got to the exam ok and were able to do it. The stress caused by being late for the exam would have been horrible. Glad you got home safely afterwards even if it took a long time.

Yes, we were fortunate I had the first slot of the afternoon so that I was finished by 3.00. The journey there was unpleasant, but not particularly slow.

Well done David. Best of luck with it

Well done. Best of luck

Good luck!!