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I still can't get your user avatar Gill. Is it both of my computers or do you have the same problem, chuckies?? Yesterday, I had the honour (if honour is the correct word) of visiting my mother-in-law and taking her out to a pub lunch. We arrived at the care home in which she lived and the local (An...

Hope that's American Fahrenheit because you'd be coagulated throughout otherwise. Was your fuel bill any more than mine last January?? (£378). No negativity on this thread, or whingeing on about not being able to play the piano etc. I have a one day a week job at an Oxfam Books and Music shop and I'...

http://www.paullewispiano.co.uk/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lewis_(pianist) This is Britain's got proper talent, no chavs who can't sing dance or play. He was playing a live session on In Tune last week as I was preparing a chili con carne for our evening meal and he was absolutely superc...

Gill the Piano wrote: (although I still dislike performing in public so I can't talk!)

Does playing the organ in chapel not count as a sort of public performance then??

Siop Siarad pob wythnos...wel, dyna mwy o gyfle i ymarfer Cymraeg na'r fath beth dwi'n ei gael yma yn y rhan yma o Loegr! Ond y fis diwethaf, roeddwn i'n cerdded ar draws Sgwar Canmlwyddiant yng nghanol dinas Brym a chlywais i fachgen yn siarad ar ei ffon symudol....yn GYMRAEG! Ac efo acen y Gogledd...

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Ed Balls took grade 1 piano today. It's true! He has said it went OK, but the sight-reading was in F major. :roll: Come back Dave, all is forgiven :D Actually, William Hague (Foreign Secretary and former Conservative leader) is a grade 4 pianist. He started learning around the same time as he marri...

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wel Gill, wyt ti'n dal i ddysgu'r Gymraeg??

Well Gill, you'll be pleased to know I've conquered my fear of s**** r***......sight reading. I'm actually studying for my Grade 5, which I'm due to take on the 2nd December. I play the organ every other week at my new Roman Catholic church, I've shaken the hand of Paul Lewis, and I organise monthly...

Hopefully it'll be for good this time. How are we all??

Missed you all...especially you, Gill.