No accounting for taste, is there?

Ask 2 year old Heather who are City..... the answer is 'number 1'.
Cousin Elvis on the other hand wears a 'I dribble for Liverpool' bib.

As a native of the region of the river Mǽres-ēa (Anglo-Saxon for border river) I have absolutely no interest in pursuits invovling chasing bags of wind around a lea (Old English 'leah' = open ground).

Sipping a large mug of tea and eating the last slice of Christmas cake.

Listening to a 'conversation' between the cat and MrCJB. It's something on the lines of

Cat: mew
MrCJB: mew
Cat: MEW
MrCJB: What?
Cat: MEOW
MrCJB: No I'm not making your dinner
Cat: MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
MrCJB: GO AWAY

I think I'll go to the kitchen and put them both out of their misery.

There was a similar conversation in our house yesterday!

Worrying about things.

About to have lunch!

Oh no, poor Cyrilla

Going to take out some frustration/ anger etc. on the pieces at band grrrrrrrrrrrr

Aww, it's OK - just usual LIFE stuff and also bothered because of nearest and dearest being stressed/unhappy/unwell.

It just all suddenly ganged up on me this morning but am OK now.

Seething quietly.....



Bah-Humbug-Bag x

Glad you're feeling better




Hope you're feeling better too Bagpuss



I'm having a slobbing evening

Such things are delicious and Very Necessary!!!

I think I've inadvertently had one... Had to drive to Coventry and back today. Got home quite handily and promptly zonked out for two hours on the sofa... . I rashly offered to draw up a constitution for an organisation that wants to become a charity, so that was a bit of time (I've done it before so glorified cut-and-paste jobbie).

More needed

Indeed they are, it was great

Am waiting for a colleague to arrive at work then we have the morning at one of our district offices.

Watching Season 3 of Lost

and keeping that niece no. 2 has a good night

Listening to Andy Scott and Sax Assault

Hoping my new coffee machine arrives tomorrow - can't last much longer with my rubbish temporary one

Good coffee is essential - not the oxidised dross that is usually passed off as coffee

Also ordered a Boden milk-frother. I have high hopes of a decent cup of coffee any day now....

waiting for my first customer, it's going to be a very long morning I think....

packing things for tomorrow

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Finishing off some fish and chips

Ah, Bag and I had the same tonight!

Our chippie has just won the Best Fish and Chip Restaurant in the UK .

Excellent! If it's the place I think it is, then I agree, it's fab

It is the one you're thinking of!

Woo!

Watching South Park (the Barbara Streisand episode) and laughing a lot. I always forget how funny it is.

... wondering if it's too early for breakfast


I've been awake for ages

shivering, there's no heating on at work

Working out how to get to Manchester : no direct trains because a goods train fell off the track at Milton Keynes...

Not the weather to be hanging around on cold stations...

If it's below 64F (16C??) I think you can refuse to work....




Can you get to Birmingham ==> Shrewsbury, then Aviva Train Wales to Manchester? That's my local direct service to Manchester, otherwise I have to drive over to Crewe.

Hope you've got it sorted b-c




They've fixed it now it's too warm

Strangely, I don't think there is an upper limit....

In the community orchestra I'm playing in, we're tackling Beethoven 5, movements 3 and 4.This, it must be said is seriously adventurous stuff for me Cellists have a lot to do (all those Cmin and Bbmin passages for a start). There's a lot of rapid passage work with continuous shifting between positions I to V.

So.... spent the last hour and a half with a pencil, my part, and a fingering chart working out fingerings - I've never put so many fingerings in a piece, ever It'll be interesting to see if I can in fact play them And I've only done 3 pages so far......

Feeling slightly smug Found an error in the part - looked wrong so I dug out my pocket full score (remnant of A214) and checked - I was right! Brain still works sometimes

Reading about figured bass

deciding what to practice later

Excruciatingly bored.

I've been off this week (not my preferred plan, I usually avoid half term). I live on my own anyway, but I usually have stuff lined up, but not this week for all kinds of reasons.

I had kept this weekend free as today is my brother's 50th birthday, so I had assumed that there would be festivities to deal with (and is why I didn't plan to go to London today and why I turned something else down). At fairly short notice (three weeks ago), he changed his mind and went away on Thursday with his OH to Cornwall and left my nephews at home. My mum has gone over to make sure things don't get out of hand.

So, one choir is off this week, one music lesson was cancelled, no need to pop over to mum's to help with her shopping etc (she doesn't drive) and apart from the chamber choir last Monday and orchestra this morning, I've not seen or spoken to anyone all week.

The highlight of the week was a visit to the luthier and spending three hours writing explanatory notes about a constitution I've drawn up and references to charity commission documents for the orchestra which would like to register as a charity - I've done this before so I volunteered to help them with it. Oh, and reading some G6 theory stuff.

Exciting stuff huh?

I think I'll go for a swim - it'll keep me off the streets for an hour or so!

I'll be able to justify a glass of wine later then.

Wine? Did somebody say wine?!

I am looking at my credit card statement

Doom. Total blasted DOOM.

So wine it is then!

Hic-Bag x

I can report that the first glass of wine was quite nice, but it may require a second just to check.

I am talking to my father-in-law.......

Copying 184GB of data from my old old external hard drive to my new, smaller and larger capacity new one.

Just e-mailed to enquire about a string chamber day in Chester next month.

Trying to summon the energy to unpack the concert gubbins from yesterday. Managed to get everything home and into the house, but not back into its proper places yet....

You deserve a thoroughly chilled day today, kj. Unpack the boxes tomorrow

sniffling (and trying not to sneeze)