So, is practising three hours a day paying off? Yes, I think so. I noticed a little bowing thing that I wasn't doing that well yesterday. I got to work on it. It's sounding better, but I'll keep working on it daily. My regular practice now contains 30 tunes (though only 20 are really in my unaccompanied repertoire) so it takes a while to run over them all. When I say 'run over' (no Peter, nothing to do with being hit by a car) I try to pick out little bits that might need the most work. Good practice MUST go hand in hand with good planning and thinking.
Tree fellers turned up in heavy rain to cut down some trees at the back of our section and turn them into wood chips.
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| A chip off the old block. |
I've probably already told you that the previous bloke who lived in that house behind use was a bit of a dick and planted ivy that grew all over the fence and, over the years, destroyed it. The new people in the house (they've been there for about 10 years now) are great. They've already dealt to the worst part of the ivy and have started putting new fence posts in. Where the ivy is growing from needs to be covered with black plastic for about two years. This starves it of sunlight and stops it growing back.
[Richard (of RBB) gets up quite quickly and goes to another room - he returns after a short while.] I got up at 5.30am this morning. I think I'll have to cut out that early morning coffee because it seems to go straight through me.
We've had constant rain for two days now. That makes it impossible for me to tidy up our section. Ah well. Such is life. Peter's post about Charlie Kirk was interesting. A New York cardinal evidently wants him canonized as a saint. I wonder how Robert really feels about that? As well as being a strong supporter of gun rights, he had it in for gay and transgender people. Have a read of Peter's post, [If right wing Republicans in USA get their way...] if you haven't already done so.
I did read Robert's latest (and short) post too.
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Here's the whole post: "The mother and brothers of Jesus came looking for him...he said "my mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and put it into practice". Of course Jesus was an only child, and Mary remained a Virgin. The Hebrews had no word for cousin so everyone was a bro. Bit like our Maori culture."
Short, eh!
Well, it'll soon be time to get into that violin practice. As usual, I'll start with long bows. It's in my head to polish up the tune for 'Take a 'The' train'. Oops, sorry, I meant 'Take the 'A' train'. A little jazz joke there. Just like saying, "The girl from Ipana."
Can you guess what tune that joke is about?
Ah well, it's time to move onto my next task.
Enjoy your day, and good luck with the house sale, Peter.
Sii gentile.
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I see that you are using extra ‘e’s in your posts now.
Should we all be using extra ‘e’s?
A trump, McDonald!
Or, should I say, "McDonald, Trump!"?
"I'll start with the long bows" said King Henry V at the battle of Agincourt and that worked out pretty well for the English.
Train sub Stan Tiation was a man who filled in as a train driver when other drivers were sick or unavailable. He made a claim that his wife had a virgin birth to their only child named Stay - they gave him an unusual name. I might do a post on this. There is a little bit of information about this online, but it's quite hard to find. Evidently Stay Tiation claimed that his mother, Betty, was impregnated by a god. There is no information on whether it was the Christian god or someone else. I'll try to find out more. Evidently this happened in 1952. Peter's and my birth year!
I think Stan would have been better starting out with the milkman when checking on his wife's 'virgin birth'.
"As well as being a strong supporter of gun rights, he had it in for gay and transgender people". Calumny and bum steer!
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