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July 2005
useless buy of the week!
Friday, 29 July 2005 1:17 P GMT+01
So much for not frittering my first salary paid four days earlier than Durham does away and be skint to go on holiday... And as if I really think having a tuner is likely to make me practise more - doesn't work for my flute or clarinet... However, I'
Category: play
Intro to other music 101
Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:52 A GMT+01
Mozart RequiemElgar cello concertoMozart clarinet concertoBruch or Mendelsson violin concertoRach 2Concierto de AranjuezTchaikovsky 1812Carl Orff Carmina BuranaVivaldi conc for four violinsMozart symphony 32 or 36
Category: culture
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Tall Ships 2005
Wednesday, 27 July 2005 4:28 P GMT+01
Despite needing early nights to cope with the driving to Teesside, I'm off to the Tall Ships event tonight, hoping that the weather holds and the fireworks are worth it! The night festivities start at 10.15, but I'm not sure when the fireworks are
Category: play
Nightmare of Gerontius
Sunday, 24 July 2005 10:26 P GMT+01
With no disrespect to Edward Elgar, whose writing for cello in the Enigma Variations and Cello Concerto I adore, and whose Pomp & Circumstance would be coming to my desert island, not even the Hallé with the Hallé Choir & Youth Choir and th
Category: culture
podcasting part 2
Sunday, 24 July 2005 10:24 P GMT+01
OK, Ian - here's the blonde guide to podcasting: Record your audio file (read open sound recorder, talk to it, save file, save as mp3)Upload your audio file to websiteCreate an xml file (the link on Andy's site didn't work, so I looked at Andy's and
Category: blogging
bird's eye view of stockholm
Sunday, 24 July 2005 4:17 P GMT+01
Wow. What a fantastic view Link courtesy of How to learn Swedish.... - trevlig resa, Francis.
Category: play
Santiago de Compostela
Sunday, 24 July 2005 2:13 P GMT+01
Lesson of the day. Yesterday, with news24 in the background, I heard the newsreader say there was "news just coming in of an explosion in Santiago de Compostela, wherever that was" [my italics]. I was very tempted to email or text them to f
Category: culture
you-know-who and the half-blood prince
Saturday, 23 July 2005 11:27 P GMT+01
<yawn> Have just finished the latest JK Rowling offering (so's I can call my mum tomorrow without her telling me what happens) and it was ok, not as bad as I'd feared after very lukewarm reviews this week. Not as good as the previous one perhap
Category: play
podcasting (don't get excited)
Saturday, 23 July 2005 12:52 P GMT+01
Sorry, had to add the brackets, incase some of you thought I'd got ahead of myself and was making technological progress beyond your wildest expectations... No fear, I'm still a bit clueless. Have finally this morning found out how to record onto my
Organisational blogs
Friday, 22 July 2005 9:24 A GMT+01
We've been doing a bit of discussing on blogs over the last few days. I might eventually get around to making some sensible comments about how blogs and their potential have developed in my mind during the last six months , but just so I don't lose t
ITS walk at Bowderdale
Monday, 18 July 2005 9:09 P GMT+01
(This is why I wasn't stripping off on the banks of the Tyne) The latest of Gilbert's fine walks: Bowderdale. I think it was too much for me, I loved the scenery, and luckily I'd bought some new factor 30 sun cream, but even so the one mile upwards
Category: play
naked toon..
Monday, 18 July 2005 1:57 P GMT+01
Well I couldn't really let it pass, could I? Spencer Tunick chooses one of my favourite locations to create his latest artwork. After watching the BBC3 coverage, I won't ever see the bridge in the same light again.
Category: culture
more images from We're Not Afraid
Friday, 15 July 2005 10:09 P GMT+01
how many learning and teaching professionals does it take to open a door?
Friday, 15 July 2005 9:01 P GMT+01
Ah yes, well, Friday entertainment... (sorry Phil, I was a little hampered getting this posted, see left) but here we go. Summary: whiteboard leaning up against filing cabinet behind door. Gust of wind blows board over against door, fitting v snugly.
Category: work
"we are not afraid"
Wednesday, 13 July 2005 9:11 A GMT+01
More on the world reaction to the london bombings: We're Not Afraid
Category: general
pollmonkey.com
Tuesday, 12 July 2005 3:46 P GMT+01
For 9 months of the year, we hate how cold it is; as soon as it's lovely weather, we're complaining about the heat........ Take my poll!
Category: work
London bombings
Saturday, 9 July 2005 6:27 P GMT+01
Thought it was about time I bought a newspaper - first time in ages. Despite the predilection for dead bodies some of you know via my reading material, I decided against the Express with its full frontal of the bus still with people on it in favour o
Category: general
typical...
Saturday, 9 July 2005 10:46 A GMT+01
On the day I can make a vain attempt to catch up on about 15 hours lost sleep, my body is awake at 6.50 going panic panic need to get up. Humph. However, it is a glorious day, so I guess that's ok. Even if I will obviously not be able to wake up on M
Category: general
day 4
Thursday, 7 July 2005 9:30 P GMT+01
Absolutely shattered... Two weeks off work is tricky enough to come back from anyway, without it being to a new job miles away!Journey: 55 minsWeather: foul - couldn't see the top of the windmill alongside the A19Upstairs: 1Downstairs: 2Price of a
Category: general
First day in new job
Monday, 4 July 2005 8:52 P GMT+01
...or rather, first day at new institution, but haven't really done anything much jobbish. 11 minutes of health & safety video etc etc. Discovered there's not only yoga classes, badminton courts, indian head massage and salsa aerobics within the
Category: work
fika
Sunday, 3 July 2005 10:12 P GMT+01
Hmmm, having just spent ages researching (gosh, I'm hungry now) links for a comment on Dr Gaffel's tirade on coffee houses, it threw out all the nice links I'd found. Poo. Anyway, for my own benefit, and so's I now go to bed relatively early instead
Category: play