Make a batch of onion soup and a bolognese for tonight

Go back to bed.

Still not well? Hope you recover quickly.

Juniper : not had onion soup for ages. Very good with pepper

No, not at all. Thanks for the good wishes.

i bought another bag of onions and realised I already had a kilo, so have to use some up

Made with plenty of pepper..... and marmite


Get well soon Celeste

Now there's an excellent idea...

Violin practice

Get something to eat - haven't had anything but a cup of coffee since breakfast this morning, so I'm starving!

Watch some more old Buffy episodes

Play my clarinet

Spike

Lurrrrve Buffy

Write another song for the Dagwood Musical. Oh 'eck.

Further Quick Study sightreading practice.

By the way, if you've witnessed me sightread before, don't let other Dip' candidates know that I'm practising; it might be just a tad disconcerting for them!

Anyway, I have to scrape marks from somewhere!

Off to Covent Garden for a pint in the sun, then a gig

Have some lunch-I've just realised I haven't eaten since lunchtime yesterday!

Your maths revision is doubtless sustaining you right now:


Mathman always knows the score,
Knows how many twos make four,
Knows each question, ere you ask it!
All his x put in one basket!

Mathman always solves things first,
Algebra to quench his thirst!
Eats equations for his lunch,
Likes to sit and number-crunch!

I'll probably return to plodding through the Allegro movement of my Schubert Sonata with a metronome. I thought I'd got most of the RH arpeggio-like sections mastered, but one of them seems to have unravelled, so it's back to dotted crotchet = 54 and slowly work back up to the desired 72.

Ditto.

(But with Mrs Stetenorve, not Dawn!)

Write an essay! It's the only chance I'm going to have.

Glad you got that straight!!




Oh dear Be as kind to yourself as you can.

I did say,"Probably"!

My TV has only been working sporadically for some months now - I haven't got around to getting a replacement, having used iplayer for those few programmes I particularly want to watch. So when it stayed working earlier, rather than the picture 'collapsing', I left it on and consequently have postponed this evening's return to the keyboard, peppering forum threads with inconsequential badinage instead!

Anyway, I shall now do the washing-up, before turning in and listening to the latest instalment of Bram Stoker's Dracula, on BBC radio 7! !

I'm 4% of the way there! (50/2000 words)

well, it's a start, at least!

I'm going insane already, Fran!

Deep breath take a look at it again, and have another go

"Must we understand what goes on inside educational institutions to understand the relationship between education and society?"

I'm talking about Marx, Weber and Durkheim. I wish sociology had been on my curriculum. Loads of my fellow students have done A level sociology and found this really easy but I found all the lectures just went over my head. Never mind - onwards and upwards!

Oh gosh, good luck Celeste!

Thank you!

Sounds very heavy duty to me.

My only advice would be to do a 'good enough' job, rather than trying to get it all perfect.

Also, regular doses of vitamins* to keep your spirits up!



*vitamin A = A little of what you fancy does you good
vitamin B = brown = chocolate
vitamin C = Cadburys
vitamin D = dark chocolate
vitamin E = easter Eggs (seasonal)
vitamin K = Kinder Eggs (available year round)

What a contrived question. Not the sort of thing anyone would be spending much time on if some deranged examiner had not thought of it.

Anyway, I am going to SLEEP when I log off.

Not sure how helpful that was MadTom.
I'm not entirely sure you are right on this one either.



Ok.... (and feel free to ignore this if you have already done it.... )...I can't help with the sociology and Marx etc and I'm not entirely sure this will help but I'm going to try.

This is something I remember being told on my course. (I'm paraphrasing):

We have to remember that many people have been failed by the education system so are either distrustful and/or unsupportive of it. They may believe that it's no good for their children either. These children then come into education with all this kind of "bagagge" and it's hard for them to break out of the mould, believe they can do well etc. So I guess that what went on in the educational institute the parents attended did indeed shape their future (and that of their kids) and their views of the value of education.

I guess what I'm saying is that we are a product of our experiences (including our schooling) and that we in turn use our experiences to inform our views, values and opinions about the world. We then also use these views, values and opinions in our interactions with others and in raising our children - so we can influence others quite considerably. As within Western society (at least) our children spend 18 years within the education system it must have quite a pivotal role in this. A positive time in educational institutions can breed more positivity within those individuals and their offspring. However, it will take a lot to erase people's distrust formed by negative experiences.

I have no idea if this helps....

I intend to pay a visit to the piano part of Weber's Grand Duo Concertante and Brahms' two Clarinet Sonatas, to see if they appear any easier than when I last played through them a couple of years ago, perhaps more significantly, before I took up having lessons again.

First of all though, I'm going to finish listening to today's Afternoon Play on Radio 4 and make a cup of tea!

Revise for AS RE

I might be invigilating this. On the other hand, it might be Chemistry AS or indeed GCSE Business - I won't know until I get into school Monday morning and something is allotted to me.

Then in the afternoon, either GCSE Maths, AS Economics or AS Psychology.

Can't wait!

MELT

i am so hot i can barely breath, i wanted to do loads of practice today as well as loads of chores but i dont think i can expend the energy if i move i feel i may faint with heat exhaustion roll on winter lol

Have you tried playing tunes that conjure up visions of cooler times?

'Walking in a Winter Wonderland' perhaps? I'm sure other can chip in with suggestions!

Going to eat an Indian takeaway meal with our friends and then rehearse for our concert next Saturday.

Iron my white shirts. Then

have given the rats a bath now its time to give me a bath and then off to bed
zzzZZZZZZZ

Catch up on iplayer with this week's editions of Radio 4's A History of the World in 100 Objects - inspired!

I far prefer winter too, I love the snow!

Quick kip to get rid of annoying headache before going out to a "New Jazz Project" concert. Not just fun but a fundraiser for young Costa Rican musicians to get to go to camps in the US. Aaaaanddd... a few minutes blowing in my beautiful new oboe!

What did you get?

Yes, exactly!

A Howarth XL... much too expensive but totally gorgeous! The story is told in gory detail in that exclusive spot "Where are all the Oboists these days?"...

I don't know much about oboes, but I do know that's a good one! Enjoy! *goes to oboe thread*

Thank you, I certainly will!

Memorize part of the piano accompaniment (Orchestral reduction) to Bruch's G minor Violin sonata.

I have such a rich and fulfilling life ...

Oh so lucky you MT! I am boringly off to give the penultimate lesson to Grade 2 treble recorders and Grade 1 piano before their exams. However I am also doing the penultimate lesson with Grade 5 piano - super nice kid with a real flair - so perhaps it's not so bad!!