If life were a bowl of cherries... - thanks

Thanks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:34:52 +0000

1/06/09

Sitting in the sun on the phone to S.
This webcomic!
Surprise visits from friends :D.
My teddies being mostly ok... although smelling rather strongly of fabric conditioner and detergent now. :D
A lovely boyfriend who made me get on and do things when my brain started going to sleep.

6. Oh and butterscotch angel delight with raspberry jelly :D

31/05/09

Finding out I have a chance to sing solo in Ely Cathedral.... :S :D
A really very amusing game of DandD where we broke various unwritten rules (don't send the wizards charging in and don't split the party) and still survived.
A good band practise... in better shape than I should be by rights so yey! (Some good tunes as well.)
Being the 18th Camel.
Lunch with my parents and R in the sun, on the backs.

xXx

Thanks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:28:06 +0000

30/05/09

Mending my green jumper which has been on the mending pile for nigh on 4 years now! - took 4 hours as well :P.
Managing to mend my green jumper despite some stupid thread count along the lines of 30 stitches an inch!!! (it had laddered in several places - two were straight runs and easy to pick up, one was a rather long section where the entire thing had dropped down up to 9 rows I think. (Also started work on my green scarf but that will take longer as it is very torn and in a lose firefly knit.)
Watching 2/3 StarWars (4 and 5) - If you want to see my opinion on the *first* 3 StarWars look here. (The substitutions are pretty obvious!)
Daddy liking my spicy potato and vegetable soup - even though I can not, for the life of me, remember what actually went in it.
Sorting through my clothes and coming that bit closer to reducing my wardrobe to what I will conceivably wear again - I keep saving things incase I alter them/ use the material/ suddenly find a use for 3 or 4 old and stained but slightly warmer jumpers that are very stretched...

xXx

Thanks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:32:25 +0000

28/05/09

Bought my Towersey Ticket!
Got to sleep for a few hours in the afternoon.
Did oboe :D
Fantasitc dancing - mix of silly and just plain pretty!! Oh and the fact that I got to go to the entirity of The Round.
Lots of birds and butterflys in the fields on the way to/from work :D ... and poppies and cornflowers. It's pretty.

xXx

Thanks...

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:08:38 +0000

... Apologies for the delay - found it much harder to think of things this week.

27/05/09

Important sucesses at work. :D Oh and finishing all the zebra-fish slides and there being around 1/2 in very good condition despite being squashed!
Callipo Ice-lollies are only 65p from the Hospital.
Staying in and not going dancing but haveing a really lovely evening meal with my parents (despite the swarm of year 10s).
Watching a good film on iplayer - Nina's Heavenly Dreams... a little unrealistic at the end and an annoyingly hurried resolution, but still a good film.
Tidying my room so it is now bearable.

26/06/09

Went to the doctors and got a lot more drugs... :D (hayfever, asthma etc.)
Realised *just* how much I've changed since I last saw him - probably around 3 years now.
Finishing new book that was started on the 25th! - STILL FANTASTIC
Getting all the necessary work done early so I could go out to coffee - finding a new Italian coffee shop near the bus station. I liked it, they didn't.
Using Viakal to DESTROY limescale... seriously, it is amazingly theraputic!

25/05/09

Work and coffee shops.
(Finally working out) TRISTAN CHORDS!!!!!!!!! :D
A new book - "The name of the Wind" - FANTASTIC!!!!!!!! (and a new jumper for £2.99)
A really very nice smoothie.
A really quite pleasent journey home and no trouble through London despite the Bank Holiday.

xXx

Lots of Thanks (because I've been on Holiday)

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:12:53 +0000

24/05/09

A new kettle arrives.
Walking around Leamington Spa looking for interesting things but making a point to stay in the sun!
Early morning coffee and discussion of 80s UK politics.
New pretty tights.
Seeing Angels and Deamons: very good film.

23/05/09

More work... including coffee shops... and some really rather pretty chord progressions in my Rossini.
Cooking a lovely meal for dinner.
Finding out Pizza Hut does a very good salmon and pasta bake.
Relating to the above... going out for lunch simply because there was no working kettle in the house.
Finally getting a lot of the angst from the previous week sorted.

22/05/09

Getting some work done... - on to Berlioz now!
A lovely time swimming even if I didn't actually do that much. And a FANTASTIC SLIDE :D
Meeting new people. :D
Playing a new and very effective role-playing game. It was so good that I didn't notice the time until 3am.
Battenburg!

21/05/09

Good wind for sailing - but not so much to be dangerous with young kids.
Fun times teaching and some decent young sailors so I ended up working on a range of things - 11 year olds do quite well changing from an Oppi to a 420!
Only one person falling in... and only one injury - granted both on my boat and both to the same boy but he coped fairly well once he was warm and dry again and didn't seem to be entirely put off sailing (which is also good).
Travelling back in an absolutely beautiful vintage-looking but electronic car! ... listening to French Jazz... with the top down... in the sun!
Seeing Stuart in the evening :D

20/05/09

Lovely compline service with good conversation afterwards :D.
Doing well in my dance lesson and getting picked up on stylistic rather than basic improvements.
Getting Organ done and oboe... even though I was tired and ill and would have rather not.
Getting most of my packing done earlier rather than later.
Identifying a rather interesting problem at work... now just got to go through and check everything!

xXx

Thanks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:17:41 +0000

19/05/09

Getting some work done and actually feeling productive and interested in something. Been a *long* time since I have worked past 12.
Getting to go home early.
Clearing my desk of a rather cumberson TV so I actually have space to work / paint.
OBOE IMPROVING SIGNIFICANTLY. I can nearly get a full tone now and I managed (with a few breaks) a whole piece (Sarabande y Allegro by Grovlez)... Still focussing on studies studies and more studies, but I'll get there.
GROVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC ... online and available at all times :D.

xXx

Thanks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:49:18 +0000

18/05/09

The wind seemed to be behind me everywhere I cycled...!
A really lovely set of phone opperator people who helped me sort my debit card and my electricity... but for once they sounded: friendly and reasonably compatent.
Spending an hour talking to G before doing organ practise... good to catch up.
Watching "Enchanted" which was cute, hopelessly romantic, funny, a spoof of more movies than I could count and absolutely fantastic.
A really enjoyable lunch.

xXx

Thanks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:28:22 +0000

17/05/09

A lovely afternoon wine/tea with a good friend and good music.
Finding a fairly thorough musical analysis of one of my diploma pieces whilst trying to read up on it.
A fantastic band rehearsal - it is so good to be playing in a group again... and improvising. I missed both.
Waking up early and not feeling ill or too tired to go on.
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

Thanks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:32:34 +0000

16/05/09

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
Another day with sucesful music practise and a siginificant improvement in my transposition.W
Getting my room cleaned and hoovered.
A very amusing evening watching EuroVision with my sisters...
Wearing shorts... because I had decided it was summer even if the weather hadn't

xXx

Thanks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Ruth Pritchard) — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:11:35 +0000

15/05/09

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...
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.)
A lovely lunch at the Granta... and a beuatiful day to go with it.
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.
Alan Bennett reading Wind in The Willows on BBC7iplayer.

xXx