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Post by Rabbit on Jun 18, 2017 17:12:23 GMT
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Post by Javier on Jun 18, 2017 17:30:24 GMT
Is it father's day in the UK? Here we celebrate it on March 19th (St. Joseph)
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 18, 2017 18:08:13 GMT
Yes, today Javier. I never know which day it's on tbh. Been a good day for it here with the weather too. Lucy got me this mini toolkit so I had to find something to fix for her to see!! She's away for a week tomorrow on a school trip so she wanted a selfie to take away.
I look like such a miserable old git on it too. We went out and made a mini film in the garden after our selfie.
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Post by solderdude on Jun 18, 2017 19:19:09 GMT
Fathersday here too atm.
great pic ... says it all ... fathersday.
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Post by Javier on Jun 18, 2017 20:49:29 GMT
Well happy fathers' days to all of you then! Hope you had a nice day.
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 18, 2017 21:29:40 GMT
Thanks Frans and Javier. In spite of my 'face' I had a great day Javier and then got that note in Spanish that I had trouble with!!!
Lucy can be quite a delightful little thing and she was lovely today although very nervous s about going away for a week with her school. We had a big water fight in the garden which was funny and then I made a mini film of her having a play out there.
It was very hot though, so we didn't stay out for too long and hid under the gazebo for a lot of the time. Waiting for the thunderstorms now ......
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Post by Javier on Jun 18, 2017 21:40:51 GMT
Would you believe it is 23:45 and we have 29C? Hard to sleep with at least a fan.
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Post by marveltone on Jun 19, 2017 2:22:34 GMT
Happy Father's Day to all you other dads! We had a delightful, yet busy day. Had lunch, went to the final performance of the play Bonnie (my wife) is directing and Sarah (my daughter) is acting in, then struck the set to get things ready for the next production. Tired, but happy.
Ian, you and Lucy are a riot! Love the pic!
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 19, 2017 8:43:49 GMT
Thanks Joe. Unfortunately, Lucy has the mad traits that I have so together, we're a bit nutty sometimes. She's mixed with many absolutely mental musicians since a baby so she sees my 'madness' as quite normal.
Her Mum thinks we're both absolutely crazy so when we have a mad 15 minutes in the garden, she hides.
Javier, 29C at midnight is crackers. I'm not sure that I could stand it. In Florida, once it got to around 40C and above. I was unable to walk for much more than 30 seconds!! Worst part of Florida for me was Key West where I was playing in a bar and it was close to 40. The owner said it had air con so I'd be OK. Turns out that he took the bar front away and fans blew hot air down on us. It was mental. I think I lost a couple of stone in one night
Opposite us was a place called 'Ridley's' and in the window was a stuffed two headed calf.
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Post by marveltone on Jun 19, 2017 12:58:10 GMT
Ian, in my family, we're all actors, musicians and artists of various sorts, so being a bit off kilter is the norm. You're in good company!
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Post by ronzo56 on Jun 19, 2017 14:59:08 GMT
Would you believe it is 23:45 and we have 29C? Hard to sleep with at least a fan. Sent from my GT-I9505 using proboards Yes, Javier I can absolutely believe it. Been having same heat here. My wife and have been sleeping downstairs on the sofas the last two nights as the upstairs takes until 2 A.M. even with the A/C on to cool off. Last time I buy a two story house.
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Post by Javier on Jun 19, 2017 15:38:55 GMT
I also had a hard time falling asleep yesterday. We don't have AC and a big fan pointed straight at us wasn't enough to stop the sweating. Thankfuly temperature has dropped a little bit today.
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 19, 2017 15:47:21 GMT
Ian, in my family, we're all actors, musicians and artists of various sorts, so being a bit off kilter is the norm. You're in good company! I work on the premises that it's everyone else!! I know, it's quite difficult to explain to people who don't work in 'artistic' type jobs why workmates are so 'different'. Maybe it's to do with making up new ideas all of the time, I'm not sure. The demands of performing are very different to teaching, which I found absolutely mundane by comparison. I especially hated being in the same place, same room, same people every day and the 'torture' of hearing kids 'try' to be creative was awful. I also think that the majority are severely curtailed in that department as well since they don't have the freedom of thought to be creative on the whole. To me, it was like having a whole class of 'Special Needs' kids in the same room. 30 of them!! Schools are horrible places to exist every day to me, but teaching in colleges and universities is better. (Just) At least the older ones are there because there is a spark of creativity perhaps going on. So many just regurgitate old learned sequences though and are so used to Mum and Dad telling them how great they are that they can't think in any other way if you dared to suggest it!! Although stressful, I found performing way better since the interplay between performers in live work especially almost pushes you on into much better things automatically. I never knew what a real pianissimo note was on the oboe until I played in a pro orchestra. My goodness, so quiet that it could be quite scary to play. At the other end, just how loud a pro orchestra can play in comparison to say, student orchestras where so many insist that the dynamic demands are impossible, in spite of me actually experiencing them and telling them that it is very important to working as a pro musician. Maybe it's just the exacting demands of the job that make you go a bit nutty? I know that I am OCD about certain things and I'm sure it's from the demands of performing.
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Post by marveltone on Jun 19, 2017 16:15:18 GMT
My artistic endeavors are just on the community level. I build windows for a living. The music, acting and art are just a way to give back to the community, as well as personal enjoyment/therapy. Not much call for graphic artists and lyric tenors in remote rural America.
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