Oh man, my days of straight As at A Level must be further than I initially thought *slaps self*

Eating breakfast...and probably dropping toast crumbs into the keyboard.

drinking hot water and lemon

Eating an early lunch of prawn cocktail crisp sandwich

Thinking that I really must get going...driving to Leicester now for the BKA Spring Course...*sigh*...

My Gold Arts Award, and before that practicing my violin

reading about Rhabdomyolisis!

Listening to flute music

Stuck in a hotel room in Bolivia, trying to get up enough courage to get the oboe out...

Trying to get my hairdryer to work...it's rather temperamental

Discussing with a friend why the Doctor told River Song his true name, but he never told Rose! I've just remembered this from Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead in 2008 and it annoyed me. I'm not a River Song fan.

Eating fruit salad for brekky... Watermelon... yum

Vitamin C : good for you

Are you feeling better today?

Much - I think I had a 24 hour bug thingy. Definitely wasn't the Doom Bar

glad you're better!

I was on the verge of starting a thread on chirality and its influence, if any, on the strengths and weaknesses of playing different instruments, but then it occurred to me to search for same.

It's just that the topic was covered before I joined the Forum.

Ambisinistrous ought very much to be a word, for having two left feet, as it were!

Forgive my ignorance...what's chirality? It sounds most intriguing!

It's 'handed-ness' - left/right-handed.

Quite apart from handedness in humans, some crystals show chirality in the direction in which they grow, as do certain plants.

I don't remember the topic being covered. Especially if it was ages back, it'd do no harm to have a second discussion about it.

Ooh we are talking posh aren't we.
Actually you also get chirality in chemical structures . eg I sell a product called D-Limonene, where the D is 'dextra'. There is also L Limonene and a mixed DL Limonene. Its to do with the orientation of the atoms in the structure.

OK then, I'll op-en up a new thread when I've caught up with the rest of my unread posts.

Found the original thread...early '08. No harm in having another discussion though. It's what keeps the forums active and alive

I'm waiting for OH to get back the the curries

Watching an eye tutorial and holding a hot compress to my stomach.

And that's got me on the phone to the local curry house

Watching a TV docu on Gt Ormond Street and kids in intensive care

-"handed-ness" made me laugh, not sure why though. That's very interesting about the crystals though-you're a font of knowledge clavicembalo

Hope you feel better soon.

I am thinking "What ... another thread about sight-reading, shall I find the link to the stuff I wrote last year? Or would be more sensible to just go to bed"

Matters on sight-reading fill the threads because many musicians feel that it a comparative weakness in their musical armoury. Were the ability to improvise called upon to a similar degree, then that would be the topic of the day.

I don't fear the impending Quick Study for my DipABRSM, in fact I surmise that that for LRSM wouldn't fill me with dread either and I'd hope to make a good stab at the FRSM contribution too. However, ask me to improvise on the simplest, most well-known of tunes and I'd be petrified, because I've never practised the art.

Thanks Feeling a bit better now!

Coughing

get well soon...

still in bed.... well none of the kids have surfaced yet!

Hope you feel better soon

My word is 'sniffly'. I didn't think my hayfever would start surfacing already

It's quite common in April, sadly

There are three pollen seasons : tree (April-June), grass (June-July) and weed (July-September), and of those, grass is by far the most common type of pollen for allergic reactions, and is usually when I start sneezing...

I've been hayfevery for a good couple of weeks now.

I didn't know about 'pollen seasons'! I usually start going towards the end of April and it keeps up through May and June.

Ah : that sounds like that tree pollen is your main problem then...

Drinking a scotch after working from 7.30 am to 8.45 pm. Blissssssssssssssssss.

LOL! I just realised that this was in the wrong thread. Stupid Stéphie.


Must be! Oh well. Just have to stock up on antihistamines and tissues

Right now, I'm packing to go to Belfast tomorrow! I can't wait to see my brothers I only get to see them every three or four months.

Watching the Nick, Dave and Gordy show

Listening to a very weird compilation CD of Good Charlotte, Van Halen and Whitesnake songs

Ditto. Bo-ring so far. C'mon audience, let's have a bit of heckling....

Haven't they been gagged, in so far as applause and such is concerned?

Oooh, must put on the tv. It'll help me pack for Sonny Jim's outing to France tomorrow.

Trying to work out how to use an ftp client to access a web site

Yes, they're not allowed to applaud or jeer or heckle. There are 76 restrictions on the three speakers and the audience, and the three have to shake hands at the end.

I find I'm not listening to the answers so much as seeing how they react to the questions. Nick Clegg, for instance, remembers the question asker's name and uses it (personal touch), David Cameron is beginning to sound a little hoarse, GB is maintaining a nice, measured tone, and both DC and GB are courting Nick Clegg (just in case), at the same time as doing down his policies. I think ?Alastair Stewart is having fun by watching to see which of the three really wants to speak and then choosing one of the others.

I'm also watching the Presidential Debate.

Why are we letting the politicians and media change our democracy into a presidential system, without our say so?

Alastair Stewart seems a bit stressed by it all, never mind the candidates!