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| Re: Mondays are extreme enough, hot is too much [message #50035 is a reply to message #50032 ] |
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equus_peduus
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Registered: September 2009
Location: France |
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Dawn does come very early this time of year. Very.
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While I'm not generally awake for the dawn end of things, I am consistently bemused by how late it stays light out here (so I assume the dawn end is similar). The hours of daylight are much more like what I'm used to in the middle of summer, not the beginning... And I'm only a few degrees north of where I used to be. I can only imagine it's even more exaggerated in England.
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The music-with is one of the things I love most about music. I haven't music-withed almost at all in uh... a long long time. I took lessons for a while - which is pretty much a solo endeavor (both the practicing and the lessons) - but haven't played in a group in ever so long. When I did my roadtrip up to visit grandparents last October, I stopped on the way to visit a friend from university. She has a very musical family - her immediate family forms a string quartet - and her parents have a weekly quartet rehearsal (with two other friends, my friend and her sister live too far away to make family-quartet rehearsal on a weekly basis a little impractical). But since I was in the area... and since her parents have an extra viola... my friend, her cello and I went to string quartet practice and read some quintets and sextets, and it was so much fun.
I need to go down to the music shop sometime soon and see if there are any amateur chamber groups (or orchestras) in this city that want a middling-level violist.
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| Re: Mondays are extreme enough, hot is too much [message #50056 is a reply to message #50038 ] |
Wed, 30 May 2012 03:35 |
 CathyR
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Registered: July 2009
Location: NW England |
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| Mockorange wrote on Tue, 29 May 2012 11:31 |
It's a shame you're self-employed and thus unable to enjoy the TWO DAYS HOLIDAY that is the principle attraction for those of us who are office-bound.
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You got it!! 
However ... the curse of being willing to volunteer when I feel I "should" means I am spending Saturday afternoon, and ALL of bank holiday Monday, helping out at the Central Council of Church Bellringers Annual Meeting, which my Guild is hosting. Counting "show of hands" votes, collecting voting slips, being a roving microphone operator ... ye Gods.
Still, in the breaks I'll have Sunshine on my Kindle to keep me sane.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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| Re: Mondays are extreme enough, hot is too much [message #50078 is a reply to message #50038 ] |
Thu, 31 May 2012 12:49 |
Katsheare
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Registered: December 2011
Location: Berks., England |
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How wonderful that your ME doesn't care about the temperature (touching wood that it stays that way). My cold-blooded son is happy in about a 20-degree range. I suppose that's what happens when a baby is born in the SF Bay Area...
| Mockorange wrote on Tue, 29 May 2012 11:31 |
...the four-day Jubilee riot next week. I plan to stay indoors as much as possible and to allow no red, white or blue in my vicinity. I will put decals on [red] Wolfgang, and Darkness and Chaos will have to wear leather for a few days while their bunting-coloured harnesses are disallowed. So not a monarchist.
It's a shame you're self-employed and thus unable to enjoy the TWO DAYS HOLIDAY that is the principle attraction for those of us who are office-bound.
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The first we knew of the extent of the holiday way my (self-employed) partner's telling us at tea last week. "Four days?" we said, gobsmacked. "Really. Huh."
And our trip into Devon early this week proved that that little corner of the country is filled with royalists. At least, I hope that's why so many flags are out in all the little villages we went through. Otherwise, it's rather more like the US than I'd realized...
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