tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90945072024-03-12T15:46:42.438+00:00Scatter CushionsDisorganization personified, music, and
faith and computing - but zero attention spa..rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.comBlogger2708125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-56486533549759612112024-03-12T15:46:00.000+00:002024-03-12T15:46:08.906+00:00Teaser Tuesday!Oh does my login here still work?! Maybe (maybe??!!) I still have things to post and catchup, but starting gently with this
Teaser tuesday's now hosted here.
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BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin therajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-80660313682794644252021-10-17T06:13:00.004+01:002021-10-17T06:13:52.215+01:00Mutterings - Oct 17This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:Prove :: Theorem
Update :: Security
Animal :: Puppet (or even Muppet!)
Chocolate :: Cooking
Illness :: Serious
Upright :: Piano
Crucial ::
Baked :: Beans
Hoops :: Hula
Posture :: Seated
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-63970416426681466812021-10-05T15:26:00.003+01:002021-10-05T15:26:22.908+01:00Teaser Tuesday - Oct 5Teaser tuesday's now hosted here.
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• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title \& author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-83287381444202303922021-10-05T15:08:00.004+01:002021-10-05T15:08:54.229+01:00Mutterings - Oct 5This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:Trails :: Vapour
Permanently :: Exclusion
Incident :: Close
Concur :: Shake (on it!)
Shocked :: Expression
Money :: Income
Horse :: Mouth
Church :: People
British :: Identity (whatever that is!)
Scandal :: Profumo
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-7358893657780853992021-09-15T15:56:00.005+01:002021-09-19T14:18:27.732+01:00Amarok and Clementine - a comparisonIntroduction
I'm a long term user of Amarok the KDE media player - for probably 10+ years. There's always a blip when a move to a new version of the KDE software framework happens and at the moment we're in one of those transitions. When I moved to Ubuntu 21.04 I couldn't get the pre-release version to work and so for the last few months I've been trialling Clementine another media player that rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-23705584505971166542021-09-15T10:47:00.004+01:002021-09-15T10:47:51.232+01:00Mutterings - Sept 15This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
NPR :: Wot?! (googles...)
Lampshade :: Lady Lazarus (and very dark!)
Beep :: -o-matic (google suggests this is via Fireman Sam but I think it was Nick Park)
Fingernail :: Blackboard
Simple :: Minds
Tight :: Fisted
Swoosh :: Missing (the point)
Booger :: Eugh!
Fox :: Michael (friend and was vicar and BBC producer around rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-16465071802926560062021-09-15T10:40:00.008+01:002021-09-15T11:55:08.196+01:00Teaser Tuesday - Sept 15Let's do another of these (and maybe make it a regular event!)
I think it's now hosted here.
Grab your current read
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• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title \& author, too, so that other TT rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-40977582514018177272021-08-28T19:57:00.000+01:002021-08-28T19:57:12.360+01:00ChethamsLast weekend I returned from a visit to the Chethams piano summer school - a useful few days listening to concerts and participating in lessons and workshops. I got some useful comments on my playing and here is my performance of John Ireland's 'In a May Morning' from his Sarnia - written in the Channel Islands in May 1940 just before he escaped the German invasion. Maybe I will look at more of rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-77602421610408256102021-08-28T19:47:00.005+01:002021-08-28T19:47:49.132+01:00Mutterings - 28th AugThis week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
Travel:: Itinerary
Unravel :: Ravel
Yell :: Frustrate
Peaceful :: Landscape
Catastrophe :: Afghanistan
Position :: Carefully
Cat :: Scan
Health ::
Shark :: Fin
Mountain :: Scenery (missing this!)
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-14781369972036620682021-08-22T09:05:00.001+01:002021-08-22T09:05:16.237+01:00Mutterings - Aug 22This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
Fast :: Lent
Ridiculous :: Expression
Germs :: Wash (and the story of the last year)
Computer :: Technology
Business :: School
Old :: Wine (maybe glancing at the next line!)
Whine :: Cat feeding time!
Personal :: Story
Whisper :: Gallery (British museum)
Slow :: Festina (going back to the first word!)
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-31242984461791699192021-08-10T16:18:00.001+01:002021-08-10T16:18:15.429+01:00Mutterings - Aug 10This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:Misrepresent :: Malicious
Conditioning :: Air
Blister :: Pack
Dump :: Stig
Boing :: Zebedee!
Hill :: (to ) Die (on)
Consolidate :: Merge
Tame :: Lion
Power :: Electrical
Sneeze :: Allergy
This blog has been quiet, lots of unmentioned news...let's see!rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-75692478947556002052021-05-16T21:51:00.001+01:002021-05-16T21:51:13.899+01:00Mutterings - May 16This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:Tweet :: Mob
Chill :: Breathe (deeply)
Toe :: Hold
Early :: Riser
Plenty :: Drink
Repeat :: Mark
Blank :: Mind
Quarter :: Note
Synapse :: Connection
Earlobe :: Pierce
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-48032330398252324282021-05-09T15:19:00.000+01:002021-05-09T15:19:09.914+01:00Almost ready to recordI have a first go at recording my ARSM diploma programe tomorrow - I've done a few rehearsals already but tomorrow it is on a rather different piano, a Steingraeber piano at Shackleford's a local piano dealer. If it doesn't work tomorrow I have another morning booked, so I can choose the best recording for submission. rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-78729751563505899162021-04-17T22:04:00.000+01:002021-04-17T22:04:07.116+01:00Mutterings - Apr 17This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
Casino :: Royale
Bone :: Dry
Painting :: Contemplate
Market :: Prices
Shocked :: van de Graaf
Curbed :: Dog (training)
High :: Noon (I must be on a film kick)
Quiter :: Patch
Playroom :: Aughton (my aunt used to be on the staff at a children's residential nursery there back in the 50s)
Feed :: Twitter
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-40619122020864964312021-04-11T08:24:00.002+01:002021-04-11T08:24:37.461+01:00Mutterings - Apr 10This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:Song :: Funeral a moderately recent first performance of an early work of Stravinsky (who died 50 years ago this week.
Glass :: Philip (I've started on Music!)
Boat :: Skye (Song!)
Junk :: -et
Sheet :: (three) to the wind
Knit :: Purl
Gift :: Horse
Truck :: No (with such and such)
Small :: Bug (but they never are!)
Title :rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-32967058027537544732021-04-03T09:45:00.001+01:002021-04-03T09:45:18.709+01:00SwansOn a walk this week along the canal I passed 2 swans who were clearly far more interested in potential prey in the water rather than the threat from a human, I was little more than 1 metre from them. rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-37002826168898607962021-04-03T09:42:00.003+01:002021-04-03T09:42:36.000+01:00Mutterings - Apr 3This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
Bingo :: King of the Mornings (Brazilian film about the melt down of a TV personality)
Sound :: Depth
Correspond :: 1-1
Moving :: Emoting
Inch :: Shuffle (towards)
Clog :: Wooden (I have some for the feet when piano playing)
Video :: Nasty
Bark :: Bite
Cloud :: Memory (going fuzzy)
Pig :: Napoleon (Orwell's Animal farm)
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-7385746493868176962021-03-27T20:32:00.001+00:002021-03-27T20:32:20.554+00:00Mutterings - March 27This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:Frog :: Spawn
Milk :: Yogurt
Waist :: High
Thrift :: Shop
Brick :: Yellow (Road)
Kneel :: Homage
Rotate :: Axes
Jumpy :: Lambs
Style :: Rococo
Bruise :: Ugly
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-87732640594527052842021-03-21T16:57:00.000+00:002021-03-21T16:57:08.808+00:00Mutterings - March 21This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:Horse :: Saddle
Green :: Fauré - one of his settings of Verlaine
Stomach :: Strong
River :: Wharfe
Flirting :: Side-eye
Red :: Shift - astronomical and the Alan Garner book
Eating :: ones words
Thyme :: Basket
Eyeglasses :: Monocle
Speak :: Silence
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-61239146132496937582021-03-13T08:20:00.000+00:002021-03-13T08:20:12.041+00:00Mutterings - March 13This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
Keen :: Commander!
Charger :: Arab
Wearable :: Wristband
Owl :: Tawny
Head :: Salome (and John the Baptist!)
Cow :: Frighten
Records :: 78s
Countdown :: Final
Base :: First
Kid :: Deceive
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-23088400796122587362021-03-06T19:40:00.003+00:002021-04-17T21:59:22.933+01:00ABRSM Performance DiplomaI see I first posted about my intention to do the ABRSM diploma 10 years ago - it's still not done, but I'm getting to the point of asking for the date!
Here's my thoughts from 2011
The programme has changed a bit since then (as have the piano teachers, though I'm now back with the same one as then),and I'm now doing the performance diploma which is slightly easier and intending to submit it rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-43366293839473265702021-03-06T19:26:00.001+00:002021-03-06T19:26:13.497+00:00Still watersTo go with the post from the end of Jan of Macclesfield in the snow, here are a couple from this week where it feels as if Spring has nearly arrived.
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-91640168549667511322021-03-06T19:21:00.005+00:002021-03-06T19:21:53.850+00:00Mutterings - March 6This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
Clap :: Carers
Vision :: Perfect
Prone :: Fall
Congratulate :: Certificate
Lean :: Hungry
Thrill :: Chase
Chrome :: Browser
Host :: 127.0.0.1
Learn :: Look and (magazine from the 60s - or was it the 50s?)
Smell :: Rich
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-62914842039310927402021-02-20T19:44:00.001+00:002021-02-20T19:44:13.008+00:00Mutterings - 20 FebThis week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
Row :: Column
Happy :: Grumpy
Storm :: Welcome (to my life, at present!)
Clink :: Restaurant (the local women's prison at Styal runs a restaurant called the Clink, sometime we're hoping to go)
Mindful :: Calm
Massage :: Flesh
Water :: Reflection
Bingo :: Shout
Stomped :: Snow
Farm :: Barn
rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094507.post-15486531614902514352021-02-17T11:54:00.005+00:002021-02-17T11:54:50.578+00:00Mutterings - Feb 17This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
Mime :: Siegfried (must be that BBC Radio 3 is doing Wagner's Ring this week - though I have problems with that Opera!
Jinx :: High
Animal :: Run
Woman :: Gender
Correspondence :: Matching
Eggs :: Pancake (this is what happens when I do this late)
Tax :: Code (tries to find mine on gov.uk!)
Lima :: Ponte (Portugal rajmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772878283460648912noreply@blogger.com0