continue with the draft for PhD application....

History homework, English homework, bassoon practice, piano practice, make biscuits - in that order

More reading for RE

Go to cubs..... to do "Mini- pioneering Challenge'. Exciting eh?

bit of paperwork then

Awh, that sounds so cute!

go to work, first day out on the road for almost a month

'twas fun- they managed the tower making well but struggled with the bridge!

Ironing. Tidying. Fluting. Pianoing. I've got an outsize headache.

Sympathy.
Ironing and tidying are deffinitely no good for headaches.

Going to visit Hardwick Hall - it's only a few miles away.

Go teach...... byeeeeeee

Embark on a day of teaching and being taught



How about that for coincidental timing!

Eat CHIPS!



Chip-Bag x

I'm actually having a night off practice to just enjoy some gaming - something I haven't done for absolutely ages.

What games?

Batman - Arkham Asylum, just installed it tonight (and I have a great spec gaming PC so all my settings are maxed, at 1920x1200) - absolutely brilliant, what fun!

Batman!! that's pretty cool as games go, I had an awful feeling you'd say Halo or Call Of Duty or something equally odd that my brother loves!

Nah, I like something a bit different where you have to use a bit of grey matter This is fun because you can do things several different ways, plus I like the stealth element. Wow I sound like a right saddo, but this is the first game I've played in months!

Typical me... I built a crazy spec PC and mostly played ZX Spectrum/CPC/SNES games on it at first...

Heading for Cardiff it's going to be good

I am going to look at the photos my husband has just taken of eight ducks who have landed on our garden pond. We have had three before but never eight!

Go to school

Pack.
Practice for Saturday recital (and to avoid another dressing down at orchestra next week ).
Get on bus for 3 hour ride south over the mountains to recital venue. Hope everyone crosses fingers for me that I get there safely and we don't get cut off by heavy rain storms predicted for the area .
Try and find some time for lunch...

or at least try to

Go for a short run, pasing mother in law's en route, and put their blue recycling box out. They are away for a couple of days.

Have some lunch - nice fresh loaf and pot of mackerel paté calling to me from the kitchen.

write a couple of letters then maybe some more

Get ready and head off to work

2-5 then 7- finish.

Then tomorrow:

1-6 then 7- finish

At least i enjoy my new job

What are you doing? Sounds like pub hours or something?

It is I've just moved to a new one, and i love it!
I love the interaction with the customers, and here i'm given a chance to learn... i help with the cellar cleans and things like that now At my old job i wasn't given that chance, and i was told i couldnt have two jobs either... so now i work in the new one and i love it! I don't mind the hours either

Great - doing something you enjoy is important! Good luck with it - sometimes it seems like things happen for a reason, so getting away from the old place seems to be a blessing in disguise!

Being away from there is what I needed! My old boss was a nasty piece of work and violent! I love it and who I work with now

Dry my hair and drag my not-very-well self to Guildhall...

Homework, and lots of it

I am going to bed where I shall read the next chapter of "Twilight". I have been terribly out of date on this series but was kicked into gear when a pupil said she and her friend had chosen to do a project on Debussy because of the use of Clair de Lune in the film. Needless to say I spent most of Thursday morning finding them sources they could use. I get softer!! But I did owe this pupil something as she had recommended me to the mother of a delighful little six year old boy who is starting piano with me next week. Worth a bit of help with Debussy, I thought!
'Night all!

Night night !

Maybe read a bit and then sleep

'Night all!

More practise

More homework

I am going to the opthalmologist. I have calculated that the length from my eyes to the music on the piano is 65 cm. I am wondering if I should take a piece of music with me to show him what I mean. If he can make me a prescription for glasses that will bring music back into focus I shall be off to the "What made you happy today thread" like a shot. I am rather tired of looking at the fog and maling a guess at what the composer might have written!

Clearing up/ hoovering ready to teach this afternoon!

Been doing that all morning ... so going to do a little more and then read my book for a few minutes before I need to go collect my children from school.




Good luck aquarelle. I got glasses earlier this year and my teacher's response when I passed comment that at least I could read the music now regardless of whether I could play it or not?? You played remarkably well for a blind person!!!

Have a loooooooooooong, hoooooooooooooooooot bath with a wee glass of red on the side. Need it after a LONG shift today plus the WORST ever start to an academic year. It's not the actual teachimg, it's EVERYTHING ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bath-Bag x

Yes, please take the music and the distance.

I was surprised that one optician I went to was particularly dumb about the need for special music playing glasses, but I have found a better optician who understood very well. I now have special music reading glasses as well as my varifocals which are used for distance and "normal" reading.

Do y'know.... I have no idea what I'm going to do

Yes, I did - thanks for your encouragement - and he was quite understanding but the solution of two pairs of glasses isn't very helpful. for me as i am not very patient with that sort of thing. I have moaned about it in the Surgery thread in case anyone has any other ideas.

And when I log off I am going to panic! I have done no preparation for my nursery music class tomorrow and have five new ones starting. Better go and get on with it!

off to teach...... got a new pupil today too.....