Yep, that is the plan




Oh Cyrilla



I'm watching Top Gear

Watching Dancing on Ice and trying to recover from being ill

Watching Dancing on Ice and trying to recover from being ill

Working out the budget for my chamber choir's autumn concert to see if we can afford to hire a chamber organ. I think probably not as it's looking like about GBP2,500 for strings, oboes, trumpets, timps and organist.

To be fair, the organ in the venue is not bad and in fact has some historically interesting pipework (I believe some of the metal flutes are particularly fine being made from a very good alloy). Unlike the local church where we have to hire a chamber organ as the pitch is somewhere around A=460+ (some of the pipework is C17th but it's mostly Victorian and has been altered).

Venting spleen with an old friend via Email on the subject of sight reading (she plays piano and organ in church)



yes I really miss the testcard sometimes.

Hope you are both feeling better, be it emotionally or physically.

I know what you mean about coping with stress, Cyrilla. I thought the wisdom of experience would bring less stress but I find my stress threshold has lowered too...

Agreed - I certainly don't seem to cope with stress any better as I get older!

I expend an awful lot of energy trying to look and act in an UNstressed manner...

Hope today is better than you expected Cyrilla.....
I am cooking breakfast for 2 of my kids......they probably will forget to thank me ......

Listening to Radio 2...

Again?

Mind you, Chris Evans is quite a likeable chap, unlike that obnoxious Ferrari bloke on LBC, or Chris Moyles!

I miss Ray Moore tho, Oh My Father had a Rabbit, and he thought it was a Duck, etc.

I'm getting the groove on with a bit of Mode Plagal, from Greece.

Really BC?

Grudgingly writing a birthday card for one of my rotten inlaws. Another year further away from the stork and closer to the Grim Reaper. That's all birthdays are, really.

Having lunch (slowly) and hoping the ulcer on my bottom lip isn't too sore to play clari tonight, although I have a suspicion that it will be, it's rather dry and cracked

Having lunch and dispairing at the huge mountain of work that needs to be done.

Yes I like Radio 2! Apart from the Dermot O'Leary show. That's quite boring

Louise : hope the ulcer is better soon, and that it doesn't stop you playing

Working my way through a backlog of paperwork at work whilst the phone system is down and nobody can call us.

Watching The Tube

me too

me three!!

Terrifying muzikalbadger

Thought for one moment you meant the old pop vid show with Paula Yates and Jools Holland.

Completely!! i'll be more terrified tomorrow when I try and play it though!!
The Mozart looks crazy!!

Wishing I could play 'Sheep May Safely Graze' (one of my favourite Baroque pieces)

Listening to the springtime dawn chorus before rush hour kicks in!

now I've found 'Fascination' By the Human League on Youtube. I take pleasure in feeling old and cold but never bold.

Let's hope I don't end up doing the same

You better not! katyjays songs are fabulous if completely insane! Have you decided what to play yet Barry?

Probably part of the Philip Sparke Clarinet Concerto. Piano part looks difficult-ish, but not insane.

Sounds really nice :-) What movement are you thinking of doing?

Either movement one or three. A recording of movement one is here, and a recording of movement three is here. Movement two is too long to fit in the time limit by some margin.

Movement 2 is lovely though... Both 1 and 3 sound fun - let me know once you make your decision

Listening to the first of the movements mentioned in the above post

listened to the third movement last night too, must say, that piece is very barry-clari

hehe

looking at campsites, have three on my shortlist now

*gulp*

Have a cup of tea before setting off on a VERY long day teaching.... sigh....

Running round working out which outlet caused the main ring-main RCD breaker to trip - looks like it's the hob...

three very nice looking ones b-c

*GULP*

sorting out books for lessons tomorrow

Thinking it may be bed time. After all I do get up at 06:30.

looking at photos

Nice photos?

Unpacking some pre assembled furniture that was delivered yesterday.

Chilling in bed trying to think up a name for my photograph so I can enter it into a new forest photo comp.. it's just a pretty photo of a fox but I refuse to call it anything as dull and mundane as 'The fox' even though that's what it is..

Listening to Weekend Wogan on Radio 2

Catching up with the Formula 1

Planning dinner which is going to involve seafood and a lot of chilli.

Yep



thought you said you had no turn of speed b-c


am listening to a recording of a piece I'm learning on my clari

Also catching up with Formula 1 (do you think Mark Webber fancies learning the flute??? ) whilst planning tomorrow's lessons. Doom.

Multi-Tasking-Bag x