At this time of night?

The only time I ever seem to do serious thinking! Unfortunately, it never tends to end well

I've had pretty much a whole day of it tbh... Decided to unwind by doing some practice and messing with Sibelius, feel a bit less mentally frazzled now

I need to find something to "de-frazzle"-normally piano/violin, but I don't think my family'd be overjoyed to hear an out of tune Moon River or awful attempt at Faure's Pavane fill the house at twenty past midnight!

con sordino?

I'll rephrase that-was I to hear an out of tune Moon River or awful attempt at Faure's Pavane fill the house at twenty past midnight, I think I would probably leave the house before my family had time to do anything!!

Still uploading the CD's to iTunes: My CD's are stored in alphabetical order: I've just done CD 110 and I'm only just doing Dvorak! I must have more than I thought.

I'm guessing though, that the contribution of Xenakis, Yon and Zipoli will not be quite so prolific!

When I consider my sheet music collection, the composers within the category A-D do seem to be out of proportion with other sections of the alphabet. With Bach, Bax, Britten, Brahms, Beethoven, Berkeley, Bridge, Bowen .... the Bs are represented more than any other letter!

Making a list of best signatures for the next award

Getting confused in a witch-hunt...

The witches, Sol, are the ones wearing the pointy black hats!

Is this some on-line role playing game?

No, I'm on a wild goose chase at work....argh!

Wild geese and witches.....your job sounds more fun that mine

Haha...

Only 2 more days to go and Im off for 2 weeks - hurrah! 2 solid weeks of tinkling the ivories!

and perhaps the odd night out on the town!

Do we forewarn Manchester?


What am I doing though? I'm waiting for organist David Briggs to be featured on Radfio 3's programme In Tune, ahead of Saturday's Bach Day at the Proms. he is the emeritus organist of Gloucester Cathedral - effectively just down the road from here - a brilliant and famed improviser on the instrument.

I love Manchester - have some really great memories of it in years past I really miss spending lots of time up North!

Never been to Manchester myself and no further North than Leeds/York (unless a day out in Scarborough counts).

Never visited Scarborough, but the other three places you mention all have considerable merit. It's not possible to cover all York has to offer in a day, there's loads to see and do in and around Manchester, and Leeds is another city with plenty to offer, it's also on the doorstep of some rather nice countryside.

I would like to visit London, they always seem to get good hot weather! Whilst the rest of us have the usual cloud just waiting to rain, it's like a little pocket where London get's the heat!
Plus I'd love to go see Wicked at the West End.

London heat is, I feel, over-rated. Generally, London's not good at heat : it's usually accompanied by high humidity and little/no breeze, as such it's rather uncomfortable...

just finished a short but fun practice session am now updating my status on face book and about to gather up my ratties for a little run around before i do a few chores thn go to bed...had a very nice evening tonight

I'm more of a fan of damp, cool conditions - snow is perfect!

I'll swap you's???
It's rained here for pretty much a month straight!
Everytime the schools go on holiday it rains, sure as anything when they go back we will get better weather

A bit of sunshine and 15-22 degrees will do me just fine...

Still loading CD's: no. 200 currently going through (in more or less alphabetical order, with a few exceptions such as Billy Joel) is Norah Jones. So is 201. 202 is Tom Jones!

Led Zeppelin and Tom Lehrer to follow soon!

Then Liszt

Any ACDC? I love Led Zeppelin!
PSL

Flicking through a grade five theory book

Don't flick - study!

That's me told!! I'm too tired to study anything properly, so I figured at least having the book open should prevent too many feelings of guilt

No ACDC (unless I get to share my kids laptops when they're on)

I just loaded number 300: Mendelssohn. (mind you, the kitchen CD's are out of order and I loaded most of them this morning).

{Edit: If I hadn't loaded the last couple of dozen or so in reverse order the 300th would have been a Mozart Piano Concerto.}

Reading urban legends on the internet

Drinking tea and watching Band of Brothers (again).

Watching old The Worst Witch videos with mwl1!

You mean the really old ones? I remember seeing them on video when I was a kid, and having a crush on Mildred!

Yep! Matthew found five of them at 20p each in a charity shop. I'd have thought Enid was more your type!

I can't remember her... but google searches turn up pics of Jessica Fox... Well, that's pleased me enough - she's wonderful!

The ironing - well in theory.

Watching Holby City avec mother and brother

Listening to music.

Munching some pork scratchings!

Having just listened to a repeat of Sunday's Food Programme on Radio 4, devoted solely to discussing this snack, it was somewhat torturous not having any at hand to sample. So I've dragged myself the twenty-two yards to my local butcher to satisfy the craving.

(Just because it's 22 yards away, doesn't make my butcher's a chain-store! )

Still loading CD's: I'm nearly done now, as I'm into the W's. No. 400 just going through is Fred Wedlock - The Oldest Swinger In Town (already transferred to CD from Vinyl a few years ago). After the alphabetical list (and the kitchen) there will be just the compilations (e.g. "20th Century Classics" and the candidate for the most wonderfully understated title in the world, "The Best Jazz Album in the World . . . Ever") to go. Mind you that's probably another 50 or so! Will I get to 500?

Edit: If I load the stuff belonging to my kids, 500 is a dead cert!

Making lesson plans via texts with my dance teacher

Working through page 2 of Chopin Op.72 No.1 Comparing my fingerings to my teacher's and stealing where appropriate

completing my practice diary

Listening to I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on BBC Radio 7.

Incidentally, there was an interesting interval feature on Radio 3 earlier, during the Proms broadcast, Twenty Minutes: A String to your Bow, "Andrew MacGregor discovers the importance of a good bow to violinists."

It would be worth checking out BBC iplayer to see if it's available.

I was practising sight reading but I threw the book out the window because I couldn't do it I will collect the book in ten minutes then reattempt it tomorrow.
PSL

Going through Pages 2 and 3 of Schubert D959 II and working out fingerings (I spent time writing out notes figuring out which runs were normal scales, which were chromatics, which chords were which and what inversion they were etc so it seems simpler now). I'll be able to play it at proper speed at some undefined point in the future!

Determined to at least get it under the fingers at a slower tempo!

Downloading what seems like thousands of photos from SD cards to my laptop.

Printing a few clarinet trios out