Doing my annual music room tidy-up/clear-out. I have now officially outgrown my music room. Sheet music is invading another room upstairs. Mua-ha-ha!!

Ooh, I'm sure I can rustle something up.

And thanks, Susie, but definitely not required!!

Its 1.45 am and I should be soundly in the land of Nod..Been decorating the music studio for days..vast space its been a monster..the ceiling is 5 meters vaulted and we have been up scaffolds lined it and painted the enitre room pure white..now the woodwork has to be done..You would think after that lot I would sleep like a log but No..I awoke after a terrifying nightmare of the Hannibal Lectur type..lord knows why..I never watch horror/slasher movies or read scarey books unless you count Harry Potter. I'm so shaken up I am looking at security bars for the windows and intruder alarms...It'll be ages before I will get to sleep again..Curses.. I have had a run of bad nights for ages..I rarely sleep more than four maybe five hours at most and I am quite worn out..Nothing is worrying me so why can't I sleep..

Oh well time for tea it wont help me sleep but it'll settle my jangling nerves after the silly nightmare..

I'm sorry to hear that, A.U.K. I hope the security measures are successful, and perhaps you might research Native American dream catchers, about which I know next to nothing except that they are rather nice to look at. If they deal with the nightmares too so much the better.

Thanks Andante in C..I finally got to sleep around 4 am but my mood had lightened and I kept myself company by watching two fantastic programs, one on Italy which was simply wonderful, the other on Russian Art which was truely beautiful..So not a total loss..the funny thing is I had been at dinner earlier and this man was talking about the walled city of Luca and low and behold where did this program on Italy visit..Luca..I was amazed and enthralled so maybe it was serendipity..The down side is I am absolutely exhausted and I have a lesson at 3.30..

Have called the security people to come and measure for window bars for the bedroom and security gates for the doors..I dont know why I got my knickers in such a frightful bunch..I'm not a nervous person but this horrible dream had me very jumpy..Now all I have to arrange is decent burgler alarm system..cameras etc..

i'll keep an eye out for dream catchers..never heard of them or seen one so I'll take your word they a nice to look at..

Sorry to hear about your bad night, A.U.K. I don't get bad dreams very often but when I do they are very hard to shake off - they seem to poison half the next day. Immerse yourself in nice things and all the best for a good night.

Funniest bad dream I had (not at the time, but afterwards) was when I thought there was a crocodile coming up the bed to get me...I was out of the bed and half way across the room before hubby caught up with me and convinced me it wasn't real...

Eating a stupid number of cheese twists. Serious comfort eating going on in the world of Floss at the moment, everything seems to be falling apart at once.

Aw Floss , thinking of you

Waiting for a new laptop that I am setting up for a user to load windows for the 1st time.

Watching Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders filming a couple of scenes for an oncoming episode of Absolutely Fabulous. Very funny!

Putting off attacking piles of work by watching clips of Julian Clary on youtube.

I'd forgotten just how wonderful he is!

I would offer you a Jelly Baby, but I've just finished the packet.

I've been suffering broken sleep patterns for a little while. Not the scary dreams thank goodness. But last night I was just about to make my before-bed cup of tea when I came across a herbal tea which we'd acquired from a hotel over the summer. So I had that instead, and had a much better night sleep-wise. So try some herbal tea perhaps? Hope you have a better night tonight.

Watching the World Athletics on Channel 4, and wondering if the main presenter is as not-very-good as I perceive him to be...

Checking out the halls Solent have allocated me that I didn't really want to be in....... less than a month until I move in.. EEEK!

I was watching at about the same time as you, Baz, and I have to say that thought crossed my mind too...I felt sorry for him as he was clearly VERY nervous, but it was pretty painful to watch .

Even the lovely Michael Johnson looked somewhat p**d off..

Shows what a totally class act the Beeb are when it comes to these things...

Quite, C. Am very much looking forward to the BBC's coverage of the Olympics

Am now waiting for the 100m final. 12:45pm local time

Watching F1... I love lazy sunday mornings/afternoons!!

That is what I shall be doing once the 100m is over

Yep me too. I love Spa.

Oh dear, poor Usain...

Anyone else thinking that these World Championships have so far been rather disappointing?...

Putting off ironing all my work shirts for the short week coming up.

I saw UB's false start too - felt so sorry for him even if it was down to his own lack of focus (not my inside knowledge there, just quoting Michael Johnson) - whatever the reason, it's such a shame.

I agree with the comment on our presenter - I don't know who he is but he seems painfully inexperienced and sounds very young, like a childrens' TV presenter. I do like Michael Johnson - hope they have him there in 2012.

I agree mostly, Barry, but I have enjoyed watching the decathlon EXCEPT yesterday in particular the ad breaks nearly had me screaming - at one point they were every 7 or 8 minutes - one long jump, one 400m decathlon race and an ad break AWFUL. I'm so glad the Olympics will be on the BBC (they will, won't they?)

Now watching the Equestrian European Eventing Championships, and loving it, they hardly ever broadcast live horsey programmes, so enjoying it immensely

Most definitely. Just HATING the C4 coverage, which doesn't help. Sorry for Mo Farah too .




Agree about the 'children's presenter'...and about the ad breaks *screams*.

The only good thing IS the gorgeous Michael Johnson..Bag and I just go into paroxysms of delight whenever he says the word, 'Bat-ON'....*quiver*...

hoping that iPlayer will let me watch the comedy prom some time really soon......

It was up when I looked :-)

oh it's there, just taking a while to load!

Right now I'm having a break from piano practise

There is sooooooo much repertoire to explore and I'm going to the music shop on Tuesday, who knows what I might come out with??

Same here (break from piano that is).

And as I said on another thread, I work 5 minutes' walk from Chappells but fortunately I am too busy most of the time to remember this... it'd be lethal otherwise..

Have flopped into my armchair after a gruelling afternoon of cleaning the deck which surrounds my studio..80m2 of pressure washing and relief gutter cleaning plus all the spindles and posts has left me ragged..just as I was finishing the heavens opened and I got completely soaked so it was time to call it a day and have a hot bath and my supper...fed the dogs who got an extra special "Suppies for Puppies" I have a house full at the moment as my sister is away so her three dogs are staying with me and mine..thanfully they are all old chums so its one long party as far as they are concerned..it doesn't end..they have endless energy..I wish I did.

well time to sit and relax, am going to finally watch Avatar, it was cheap at Tesco's so I relented..hope it was worth the Fiver..

Andrew

Yes but it was a great performance and a World silver is not to be sniffed at.

Rather like Jake of F1 "fame". I cringe whenever he says "well done" as though F1 drivers are 5 year olds having just won the school egg and spoon race.

Speaking of F1 - great performance by Jenson today given yesterday's c0ck up. Wonderful race - but then it was Spa so no real surprise.

Also - a great stage on the Vuelta a Espania for Bradley Wiggins. Looking forward to tomorrow's time trial.

Sitting with an Ice pack on my leg due to a pulled muscle

But you are absolutely right

I KNOW! Bag and I watch for hours just waiting for the 'B' word....

What a shame the word is usually combined with the words 'Great Britain have dropped the...'

LOL Baz!!!!



I nearly SCREAMED at the tv this morning - the number of ad breaks and the total ineptitude of the presenter and some of the commentators ('more shinier', anybody?). However, I gritted my teeth and contented myself by throwing pairs of old socks at the telly instead.

I'm also beginning to hate the after-race interview. Sometimes the athletes are so upset with the way they've performed, or how a race has gone, that they are near to tears and certainly not really coherent, and I don't want to see them doing their best to be polite (which they always are), or to explain why things went wrong. Give them time to get their dignity together, for goodness' sake

And not enough Michael Johnson today (though he might have been on when I got so cross with the ad breaks that I went and cut a hedge )

Just finished about 2 hours of piano practise so now just deciding what to do / trying to think of something more interesting than things I need to do to advertise my teaching for the next term!

Agree with your first para - all this 'Describe your emotions right now' when you can see someone is desperately disappointed in their performance. Bah!

Oh, there was a fair bit of Mister BatON today - it must have been while you were cutting that hedge!!

Cooking my dinner!

Watching the Edinburgh Tattoo on TV.
The Dutch band on bikes was different.

Mis read that badly...I thought you wrote "The Dutch Band on Dykes"..

What an alarming prospect..

Trying to learn German.

I took G.C.S.E. many many years ago but can only remember how to buy cinema tickets and tell people my dress size (2 things I hardly ever do nowadays).

Ist das die Anstrengung wert?

Unglucklicherweise, denke ich so nicht.

Watching the Comedy Prom on iPlayer. Hilarious stuff

Ortis Deley. Former anchor of the Channel 4 coverage of these world championships.

click

Procrastinating and feeling exceeding tired

lying awake and feeling slightly sick, would love to be asleep as I've only clocked two hours so far and have to get up in another 4

Getting ready to drive down to Cheltenham...