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Carpet

On the A1 close to Stamford this morning, I drove between two lavender fields in full purple bloom. Quite lovely.

Thanks. It would be nice to hear others playing it, any version, any 'style'.

Chicken

Also the plates (and cutlery) used.
Pewter was for the landed gentry and proudly listed in Wills if they had any!
Silver (& gold?) for royalty.

Most folk used crockery of some form, or a wooden trencher.

First time ever I've counted as I was curious...
It's years since I've sat to properly learn a classical piece that ought to be within my capabilities and wondered how long it would take to learn & memorise at my age. So extrapolating, if I sat for an hour or so daily and played it through 15 times, I could in theory learn it in a week.

Love the kanji, very neat. What order are the five lines written?

Thanks. It's been interesting.
Without a teacher who would have stressed the fingering needed in the first lesson (e.g. to get legato on the octaves) it took me probably 40 attempts before I adopted most of the suggested notation.
I can play it faster & slower but not without a fumble or two because I need the dots. Another 20 times for memory?

Five-bar-gate counting:

I passed Grade 6 with a distinction in spring of 1978 so would have just turned 16 years old. I recall it would take a year to learn four pieces plus the new scales & arpeggios.
I miss my old piano teacher, Miss Armstrong.

I've kept a 'five-bar-gate' count of my practice over this last month since printing the music. I'm off to our London flat again, so no piano for a week; decided to record my efforts so far.

This is the 79th time I've played it through. I still need the music for some bars so it doesn't flow, and there are three mistakes. I'd like to think Miss Armstrong would say "it's coming along nicely"

This music clip makes me feel old. I remember the lyrics from my teens (we've had Live Aid and a few wars since) and yet he's still singing the song.

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Snort

Furious

It hit a June record of 37.3 degrees in Suffolk here today

Hyacinth

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1bdxHVSW6w/

Poetic look back at the Cameron - Johnson era, with very wry grin.

Sprinter

Peel

A Mexican woman holidaying in Sevilla, Southern Spain, was interviewed, saying that the 45 degrees yesterday was far worse than in Mexico.
That's 113f !

England may reach 37 today.

On a positive note, our heating is used less, reducing our ever rising utility costs.

We've been asked to stop feeding birds via bird feeders due to disease. Still throw breadcrumbs.

Bears in your back yard!
We've got some bison, beavers and boars now reintroduced to England. But bears no, while wolves, and lynx are still being discussed I understand.

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This is very funny and becomes, well, not suitable for the work Christmas party, but absolutely hilarious

@ShiroKuro said:

@AndyD OMG that score!! The music I play has a lot more white space….

There some pages of extremely challenging music