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So glad you got on well!

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dave brum wrote:I came second in the Scrabble.Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to do my sight reading practice.








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Some Oxfam B&Ms in this area sell classical CDs for £1.99 and others for £2.99. All of the ones in the Oxfam B&M in King Sheath are £2.99, so I very seldom buy from there (there just so happens to be nothing in there I want at the mo), whilst the similar shop in Harborne sells them at £1.99 so I spent twenty pounds in there during October. I still have some more I want from Knowle.
I stopped in Knowle on the way from Leamington yesterday and the shop there have them at the dearer price, even though there were a few in there I wanted. I did pick up one of two of Schubert's piano sonatas in their entirity, including his D960, the Scherzo from said work features in Withnail & I when the two actors meet Uncle Monty (the late Richard Griffiths) for the first time at his house.
Have you been in that one in Marlow lately Gill? I bought some sheet music in there going cheap two years ago - only to send it back to Buckinghamshire last month.
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Made me happy to have a good piano lesson today with Elaine. She's so encouraging and not afraid to be different. I got a Mr Tickle sticker for my hard work.
And you know I did play a couple of wrong notes in my sight reading (F naturals in G major). But I don't care one iota. Elaine said I kept the pulse going and didn't stop.
She really is so good for me. I'm not going to mention Mabel Mucklethwaite again (not her real name, of course!)
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You won't believe what good news that is to hear!dave brum wrote: I did play a couple of wrong notes in my sight reading (F naturals in G major). But I don't care one iota.

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She even gives me quotations to think about, on Friday I had the famous one by C S Lewis: 'you're never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream'.
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Elaine really encourages me to delve deeper into the music I'm playing, not just play it. I really do not mind travelling across the Second City to see her. She's offered to help me in so many ways, and its not uncommon to spend over 1 1/2 hours there when you've only paid for half an hour just mucking around musically. Now that's what makes learning the piano fun - which should not just be for child learners only.
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But both of these pale into insignificance after the amazing discovery I've made that I CAN SIGHT READ!!!
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And we are suitably relieved that you now know that which we, collectively, have known for some considerable timedave brum wrote:
But both of these pale into insignificance after the amazing discovery I've made that I CAN SIGHT READ!!!

Seriously though, congratulations on your achievement, Dave.
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The problem is that I cannot convert the dots into a piano tune as something gets lost in between my brain and hands. In a nutshell yes I can read music and read it fairly okayish but no I can't play the piano. That is the issue here.
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Cutting out the cakes makes a difference. This time in 2016 I was only 93kg, now I'm 105. And middle aged spread is not responsible. Even now sitting writing this, I can still see a huge mountainous mound of whale blubber that really makes me think that it serves no physical purpose and I do not need it in order for my body to function correctly.
Working in a bakery makes absolutely no difference as since I've been there (early June) I've only gained 3.5kg compared to the 11kg I gained between January and the end of May 2016, which was comfort eating to lessen the emotional pain of a Tory benefits cut.
So, as we say in this part of the UK, I've gone 'around the Wrekin' to explain that I'm chuffed to bits that I'm a bit less lardy.
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