Do a bit of pre-lesson violin practice-I've not had time for very much with exams....

Run the Dyson around the living room. The carpet is so covered with cat hair it's hard to see its original colour

And then go back online and order some clarinet reeds.

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Wait for Friday school finishing ceremony (sing Turkish national anthem), go for a run, collect daughter from swimming training, go home, say hello to children and husband, have a shower, say goodbye to children and husband, go to end of term teachers' dinner (Turkish schools finish next week), come home, wrap daughter's birthday presents for 9th birthday tomorrow, go to bed, wake up for daughter's swimming training at 7am, followed by her birthday party etc, etc ...............thinking about it makes me tired!

Thank goodness school finishes soon.

Go out : a couple of teaching home visits, then an orchestra concert featuring the forums' own oboe d'amore. My mobile phone will vibrate each time there is a goal in the England game

For such events did Schumann write his Fantasy pieces!

Off to the RNCM to see Alfred Brendel

Is that for a lecture, On Character in Music, perchance?

more clarinet practice, some violin practice, then some reading for work on Wednesday.

" The Light And Shade Of Interpretation".

Righto. Only he's delivering the lecture On Character in Music at the Cheltenham Festival in July. Possibly different chapters of a forthcoming book? I hope so.

Revise-last GCSE exam tomorrow!

If it's a GCSE in Speed-posting, you'll waltz it!

Russian in the morning or Music-listening in the afternoon?

No, it's not a dance exam yes, it's music in the afternoon

Earlier this afternoon I was invited to invigilate this one tomorrow, but I declined the offer.

Firstly, because if they include Heavy-Metal/Garage/ .... actually anything other than Classical and I have to sit/stand through a performance " ... now for the fifth time ..." I'll blow a gasket.

Secondly, I was advised last year to put my hands in my pockets (which I did) for fear of giving away answers unintentionally - afterwards I calculated that I could have given away nearly 10 marks, had students witnessed me tapping out rhythms, playing air-keyboard or 'conducting', as I'm wont to do!

Thirdly, with the date of my Diploma exam received today, suddenly it has become all the more real, so I'm valuing practice-time all the more - after all, I'm invigilating every day next week as it is!

Good luck by the way!

If it's the same exam I'm going, there's four areas of study-the classical/baroque/romantic section, a section on serialism/minimalism/experimental, a third section on Brit Pop and popular music, and then "world music"-so not just classical! And that sounds rather intriguing-I'm sure the students would have regarded that with much hilarity! Thank you, and good luck with your diploma!

Liisten to Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show from BBC7 on iplayer, then call it a day.

Go to skool...

Practise

Finish work, take daughter to singing lesson, then me onto band to play flute - we are recording Swing Low sweet chariot as our trombone player is leaving tonight, posted back to the UK we shall miss him.

Go and have fish and chips with Bagpuss, followed by cribbage, knockout whist and CHOCOLATE.

Piano lesson

Sadly singing at a funeral of a friend :-(
The chaplain of the church of our choir, received an MBE for services to music, and 2 days later sadly had a heartattack, the excitement was too much for him. We have managed to get 30 of the choir at lunch time, so I'm looking forward to it, and then I'm not....

Get ready to go out

Me too.
Make butties. Go out to orchestra.
Back around 9.30.
It's going to have to count as my practice for today as I didn't managed any earlier.

I think you'll be given a decent workout

Go home! I've spent all day racking and setting up a load of network kit... Knackered now!

Sort out some sewing kit and plant up a pot if the plants have recovered from wilting in the sun.

hmmmm...go and have a quick shower and have an extremely early night as I could fall asleep right now OR be a good girl, walk to the piano and do some practice...hmmmm

Combine the two with Billy Mayerl's Sleepy Piano.

Well, I've made my decision! Shower (hopefully that will wake me up a bit!) and then piano practice and see what happens! If I can't play...then it will be bedtime instead!

Watch the 2nd half of Spain v Chile. This has been a good game so far

Bed and hopefully dreamless oblivion.

Supervising eight primary school children putting out 150 chairs for our concert has knackered me more than putting them all out myself would have done!

Haha! The number of times I allowed classes to put up their own displays, only to 'tidy them up' later!

Go to bed-I'm exhausted!

Out into the sunshine I think!

In just over half-an-hour I shall watch the series' finale of Dr Who. This year's revamp has reinvigorated my interest in the programme - I'd watched several with Eccleston and likewise several of Tennant's, but all of this series.

It's been a beacon amongst the general dross of Saturday night viewing.

Although as a mega Doctor Who fan I may be slightly biased.....

Well, I've opened all the windows upstairs and so the room with my Clavinova ought to be a comfortable temperature for a practice. Slow practice, fuelled by a metronome. Hopefully it will be as productive as yesterday's foray into the same territory. Equally, I hope that yesterday's progress has imbedded itself in my fingers.

I'm planning to play my complete Diploma programme to my teacher on Wednesday and then to an invited audience the following day!

Practise . Nine days to go

Best of luck! I put myself through it a year ago, so I know how you feel.

Why then did I decide to do it all again this year?


What am I going to do now? - well I've put the rice on and the pork has defrosted fully, so it looks like lunch is next! - a form of Nasi Goreng! Yum, yum!

Thanks clavicembalo. Best of luck for yours too.
Enjoy your lunch

Go home, spend 3 hours working on 1 piece, then go to the pub.

Ah, I love nasi goreng!! We eat it all the time.

I'm going to finish typing up my physics coursework evaluation, then go to bed!

Go to bed!!

I am going to start to do all the undone things that have accumulated during term time. They range from going to the bottle bank to grooming the dogs via six weeks' worth of housework in every room in the house - and the jungle that passes for a garden. On second thoughts perhaps I son't log off at all. I don't know if I can face it.

Walk to the Pump Room to hear Michael Collins in a recital of Schumann, Kurtag and Brahms.

Get back to work! Lunchbreaks are getting spun out a bit lately so I can check the Forum...

Might not actually log off until I leave, though... so it will be heading home to scan photos from across the decades to send to a school reunion I'm not attending. Will need to intersperse it with decent bouts of oboe practice to save myself from getting bored...

Watch the World Cup final, and make sure that I'm recording Top Gear...