If life were a bowl of cherries...

17/05/09

1. A lovely afternoon wine/tea with a good friend and good music.
2. Finding a fairly thorough musical analysis of one of my diploma pieces whilst trying to read up on it.
3. A fantastic band rehearsal - it is so good to be playing in a group again... and improvising. I missed both.
4. Waking up early and not feeling ill or too tired to go on.
5. Waking up in the night having left my blue lava lamp on - seeing the pretty colours, smiling, turning it off and falling asleep again.

xXx

16/05/09

1. With the exception of the Leys Swim, a really lovely time lifeguarding and a change to catch up with a number of good friends. :D
2. Another day with sucesful music practise and a siginificant improvement in my transposition.W
3. Getting my room cleaned and hoovered.
4. A very amusing evening watching EuroVision with my sisters...
5. Wearing shorts... because I had decided it was summer even if the weather hadn't

xXx

15/05/09

1. Doing Oboe and Keyboard skills practise for the first time in months/nigh on a year!! ... And scales for the first time in 2 years I reckon...
2. They weren't that bad at all! (Well oboe was not pleasent but that is to be expected, particularly as I am starting with very hard reeds.)
3. A lovely lunch at the Granta... and a beuatiful day to go with it.
4. An incredibly cute and rather adventurous baby coot that was tying (and failing) to swim through the rather algae infested brook on Coe Fen... and all his/her siblings that were sitting about a meter away.
5. Alan Bennett reading Wind in The Willows on BBC7iplayer.

xXx

14/05/09

1. A FANTASIC contra version on Mozarts "Alla Turca" with the most amazing clarient improvisation around it :D. It will never sound the same.
2. Dancing Kentucky Running Set on the grass in New Square (between Grafton and town) and getting some really odd looks.
3. Getting onto the Edinburgh Portal again (Finally!!)
4. Doing some organ.
5. Finding out another person I know is going to be at Edinburgh next year!

xXx

13/05/09

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEaX3MiDow&feature=re...
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yPkxCLads
2. A very good dance lesson... and learning Foxtrot which is REALLY Pretty!!! :D - all swings and swishing!
3. A lovely conversation with Stuart that made me feel a lot happier than I had been.
4. Actually writing up the report I intended to do last Friday.
5. A very good singing lesson although aprt of me wishes I could still sing Show as well as I used to. I have been working solely on Classical with the intent of developing that technique to exam standard but it is bitter-sweet to realise I have actually got there.

xXx