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Aug. 19th, 2011 10:26 pmI've signed up for piano lessons at the local adult education college. I've wanted to learn the piano since I was at school so I'm really excited. Classes start on 19th September so not long to wait. The course is called 'Piano from the Beginning' and seems to include quite a lot of music theory. I can already read music written for the treble clef fairly well as a result of 10 years of clarinet lessons but the bass clef is like a foreign language. I learnt a bit about it for GCSE music but I've completely forgotten it now. I may dig out my trusty A-B Guide to Music Theory and do a bit of revision.
This weekend will mainly be spent buying shoes and cooking a quiche. A colleague is leaving our team on Friday and she explained some time ago that whereas some people have a fantasy football team, she has a fantasy quiche. The last time I attempted to make a quiche was a terrible disaster. I was living in halls at the time with a cruddy oven with no glass panel in the door. I'd failed to bake the base enough before adding the filling and it leaked through the pastry, through the loose bottomed quiche dish on to the bottom of the oven and finally out through the oven door on to the floor! This time around I've borrowed a solid bottomed dish from mum (I think the old one may have been chucked out in a fit of rage!) and taken her advice about baking the base well before filling. I'm going to make a practice version tomorrow and test it out on myunfortunate victims parents before making the real thing on Wednesday night. Wish me luck!
A few months ago I wrote that I was going to try and watch all the Time Out Top 100 British Movies which I hadn't seen already. I started by ordering numbers 90-100 from Lovefilm. The project didn't progress very far as Lovefilm then decided to send me all four series of Coupling which took some time to get through as I only subscribe to 2 discs a month. Yesterday my first 'Top 100' movie arrived. It's 'This is England'. I guess it was highly likely that this would be sent first as it's the newest one I ordered so they probably have more copies available. However, it's also a bit disappointing it seems to be shown quite regularly on Film4 and I could have saved a rental by recording it from there. Oh well. Watch this space for my first review.
This weekend will mainly be spent buying shoes and cooking a quiche. A colleague is leaving our team on Friday and she explained some time ago that whereas some people have a fantasy football team, she has a fantasy quiche. The last time I attempted to make a quiche was a terrible disaster. I was living in halls at the time with a cruddy oven with no glass panel in the door. I'd failed to bake the base enough before adding the filling and it leaked through the pastry, through the loose bottomed quiche dish on to the bottom of the oven and finally out through the oven door on to the floor! This time around I've borrowed a solid bottomed dish from mum (I think the old one may have been chucked out in a fit of rage!) and taken her advice about baking the base well before filling. I'm going to make a practice version tomorrow and test it out on my
A few months ago I wrote that I was going to try and watch all the Time Out Top 100 British Movies which I hadn't seen already. I started by ordering numbers 90-100 from Lovefilm. The project didn't progress very far as Lovefilm then decided to send me all four series of Coupling which took some time to get through as I only subscribe to 2 discs a month. Yesterday my first 'Top 100' movie arrived. It's 'This is England'. I guess it was highly likely that this would be sent first as it's the newest one I ordered so they probably have more copies available. However, it's also a bit disappointing it seems to be shown quite regularly on Film4 and I could have saved a rental by recording it from there. Oh well. Watch this space for my first review.
