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Sympathetic expressions for all with loo problems, also from Unicorn Ridge. We have a cistern that has started dripping from the handle as if it is overfilling despite various well-intentioned tweaks, and to make matters more awkward nobody can remember when the septic tank was last pumped. Once winter starts it will be impossible to dig down to it, so it is rather a case of tossing a coin then hoping we have enough additional coins to pay for the outcome.
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« Reply #3106 on: 11:01:25, 25-09-2007 » |
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I know this is totally off topic now cos the thread's moved on, but I knew I'd missed something out... *Circumstances as follows:
20th November: did a full day's work then caught overnight train to Edinburgh.
21st November: Got call to say my grandma had died. Saw Der Rosenkavalier (in Edinburgh) and caught overnight train back to London
22nd November: packed up my life; collected the keys to my new flat; saw La voix humaine (Opera North/Sadler's Wells)
23rd November: moved house; saw Peter Grimes (Opera North/Sadler's Wells)
24th November: Had new bed and white goods delivered (previous place having been furnished); unpacked huge numbers of boxes; went to Andreas Scholl concert at the Barbican.
25th November: saw Death In Venice (Philharmonia/QEH).
26th November: 
27th/28th November: Went to work; on evening of 28th took train to Durham to stay with my mother prior to Grandma's funeral
29th November: Grandma's funeral in rural Northumberland, spent a second night at Mum's
30th November: Caught train from Durham to London King's Cross and transferred to Paddington in order to catch a train to Cardiff. Over the course of that and the three subsequent evenings, saw the Gergiev/Mariinsky Ring Cycle.
4th December: Returned from Cardiff by train; went home
5th December: had living room suite and flatpack wardrobe delivered; went to work.
Edited to say: 5th, 6th, 7th December: went to the final 3 concerts in the Gergiev/Shostakovich series at the Barbican
9th December: went to hear Juan Diego Florez in recital at the Barbican
10th December: sang Bach cantatas
Next three weeks: lived in complete chaos as I realised I didn't have enough shelves and cupboards and therefore couldn't really unpack.
To bring it back on topic I will mention the grumpy old rant that led me onto remembering the last instalment of the above. And that is the fact that concert series start booking earlier every year. This year really took the biscuit, with the Barbican opening for the current season on 9th January 2007, with concerts up to and including 6th December 2008 - without the excuse that it was a continuation of a particular series, as in the case of the above-noted Gergiev Shostakovich Cycle. |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #3107 on: 19:43:00, 25-09-2007 » |
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I know this is totally off topic now cos the thread's moved on, but I knew I'd missed something out... *Circumstances as follows:
9th December: went to hear Juan Diego Florez in recital at the Barbican
could you have forgotten HIM??!!!I'm feeling very grumpy. Foul day with my foul class then back to a foul teenage son at home...  Not really his fault I got so upset I suppose but his attitude was the last straw. On pc now trying to calm down. |
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« Reply #3108 on: 20:35:26, 25-09-2007 » |
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MJ
Sorry to hear that the grumps have hit you today, and that your own personal Kevin has been a bugbear. Perhaps another look at the rainbow will help?
Ron xxxxx
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« Reply #3109 on: 20:42:29, 25-09-2007 » |
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Is it any help to remind you that most teenage boys turn out ok in the end.
And throughout it all, most of them really love their mum, they just can't actually articulate it at the time.
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« Reply #3110 on: 21:11:11, 25-09-2007 » |
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Thanks Ron  and hh - yes, he's nice really...beneath the inconsiderate exterior.  Your rainbow has certainly brightened my evening, Ron. I came stomping upstairs and onto this computer with a personal black cloud above me (have I seen that in a Peanuts cartoon?) but it's drifted away now. It's not just the children who misbehave in my class who are stressing me out - it's their parents too who've been making life difficult. I've been evaluating IEP*s and IBP*s and starting to write the new ones plus referring 8 of the children for outside support. I have over 80% of my class on the SEN** register for learning or behaviour or both... the stress of it all is really getting to me now and it's still September! The dreaded SATS are in April and all my new 9 Year 2s are very, very, very low ability, more like Reception level - some can't recognise more than 3 letters and say their sounds!  *Individual Education/Behaviour Plan **Special Educational Needs Sorry for going on about it (I know it annoys some people when teachers complain) but this is the Grumpy Rant Room! |
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« Reply #3111 on: 21:21:26, 25-09-2007 » |
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MabelJane, You go right ahead and have a good rant and complain. It sounds as if you have every reason to. Your workload at school sounds terribly difficult and so stressful. Don`t think I could do it. I doff my cap to you, MJ. Keep checking out the Dough Rainbow !  |
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« Reply #3112 on: 14:55:33, 26-09-2007 » |
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Every afternoon I seem to hit a 'what's the point?' moment.
I'm in the middle of sorting sketch materials and scores out that have accumulated (and started to leak into each other) in preparation for my corrections (I've been asked to show more of my working) and it's really interesting seeing some old friends emerge, and helping others towards the recycling box. But suddenly it all seems trivial and I have this feeling of pressure just above my diaphragm, just below my chest. What am I doing and why?
It's not really a grump, but I want to put it somewhere fairly trivial because, in the larger scheme of things it doesn't matter and is quite trivial, and I know that this will pass. But on a fairly bleak rainy Wednesday afternoon I wanted to 'get it off my chest' in some way.
Ahem.
As you were.
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« Reply #3113 on: 15:14:06, 26-09-2007 » |
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And I do wish that next door's builder would stop slamming the door every five minutes. It's incredibly annoying.
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« Reply #3114 on: 17:35:01, 26-09-2007 » |
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But hh, "fairly trivial" and "incredibly annoying" things do add up to being Rant material - at least they do for me. Noise is one of the worst things. My loo is mended for the moment - nice Scottish plumber was afraid an entire waste and external drainpipe would have to be replaced, but he found a little crack in an old pipe that he could fix. I hope he's right! I said "So I don't have to have the lot replaced?" and he said with a twinkle and in an inimitable Greenock accent, "Not yet". (Something like "Nawt yeeht".) I HATE houses. I seem to remember I've said this before, and Lord Byron recommended a camper van, but I think that would have even worse drainage . |
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« Reply #3115 on: 21:48:14, 26-09-2007 » |
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Most people don't give it much thought, but in reality a house is a machine for living in. It needs constant attention and maintenance. Something which I have learned over the years.  |
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« Reply #3117 on: 13:37:09, 27-09-2007 » |
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It wouldn't be so annoying if it wasn't for the fact that a lot of tickets will go to official Capital of Culture people who wouldn't know the Berlin Phil from a school orchestra.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #3118 on: 13:49:19, 27-09-2007 » |
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« Reply #3119 on: 18:24:06, 29-09-2007 » |
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Not really a grump, I'm just not feeling quite myself today. I went out with my colleagues for a meal and some beer and, although I don't have a hangover and I wasn't especially drunk, I feel really annoyed and generally hacked off (hence playing the piano for hours today but that hasn't worked).
All this and my damned website is still down!!!
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Best regards,
Jonathan
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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