Today I've mostly bin...

[giraffe]

I once had to catch a french horn mid concert, when the hornist fainted. I was holding my bassoon at the time, so couldn't catch her, but managed to grab the horn as she collapsed.

[Bunnylump]

Did you get a round of applause? You certainly should have done!!

BTDTGTTS? I'm baffled!

Been There Done That Got The Tee Shirt

[Wulfruna]

We have to wait until March to hear from Kingsley's school which is our first choice.

As an Old Girl of Kingsley's school, I have extra reasons for wishing her sister well (though as my OH went to Fernando's, I suppose I have to concede that either will do )

[LAT]

............ out for lunch with the kids. And delivering some bulky belongings to them!

[Laura]

Ok, today is SHOWDAY!!!!!

Dress rehearsal this morning (1st playthough of some of the pieces ), 1st official performance this afternoon.

I'll hopefully be back on here tonight or tomorrow to let you know how I get on.

x

[MBH]

Good Luck Laura - hope everything goes great for you and there are no instruments flying around

[Laura]

Thanks, well first show is done. I'm absoluetly exhausted. Doing a dress rehearsal and then a performance means I've pretty much been blowing one instrument or another solidly from 9.30 this morning until 4.00. The others shouldn't be as bad. Also with an audience of all year 6 kids, some of the jokes fell a bit flat, while others ('you look like a big buffalo'), got a ridiculous amount of laughter. And the whole band was there for the first time today, and we've now played everything at least once, so that feels a lot better.

[Bunnylump]

Slightly able to relax then? Sounds brilliant. I'm so pleased it's going well. Good luck with the rest!

[clvrlad]

break a leg
glad your enjoying yourself
and for those near london and in the know
anyone fancy meeting at cannon street station tomorrow?

[LAT]

Sounds good Laura, hope the rest of the day went as well.

Sorry clvrlad, I have to go to work tomorrow so no day trip to London for me.

I had a frustrating day today. I got up early (for me) knowing I had a busy day at work only to find an inch of snow had arrived in the night. Still, I thought, I'll give it a go carefully. Got out of our road OK and drove carefully towards the local shops only to find traffic at a standstill in all directions. In the end I turned the car round and abandoned it and walked back home as I didn't want to chance my luck driving down the icy roads a second time. Seems there were at least three different accidents within a mile or so and all the roads were almost completely blocked. In the end I went to work by train which is a stupid journey as it involves 2 trains in different directions and takes about 4 times as long as it should to drive. And then, of course, I had to reverse the journey to get home again.
And now tomorrow I will have to work extra hard to catch up with what didn't get done today.

[Bunnylump]

Oh, dear, more snow? Poor you.

[clvrlad]

phone up tell em your snowed in:-D
then come abscond to london
lol joking hope your day goes better today

[Bunnylump]

Sorry I couldn't come and see you CL, I was working. Hope you had a good time.

[clvrlad]

it was good spent the morning well from about 10:00 till about 11:30 wandering the streets near the gherkin
had lunch in a local pub
then headed of to south Kensington to visit a statue of Darwin in the history museum
and after that a visit to the science museum next door
just finished eating my home made chilli
reason number two for choosing a hostel
my home cooking why dont i do much of it at home again?

[Bunnylump]

...Helping my daughter make resources for tomorrow. She's doing a primary school placement and needed to teach year 2 about pulleys or winding mechanisms. Two different sized cardboard tubes, some ribbon, a pompom and garden wire "Incy Wincy" spider later, a plan for using some cogs and things with Knex, and...bish bash bosh, sorted. Nothing if not inventive...

[LAT]

Sounds good fun, I bet they'll enjoy that!

[Bunnylump]

Don't care if they do. I did!!!

[Redfraggle]

I bet you did!

[clvrlad]

women....

why cant i be akes to do stuff like that
hmm im going to have to join a theatre group again.....

[Bunnylump]

Did you fancy playing the Incy Wincy character then?