Composing and renovating
January 13th 2008 02:01
Today’s post has two words in it, since I missed doing one on Friday. Too busy working on writing some music at the moment to keep up with everything. I’d like to put on another concert – maybe this year if there’s enough time – and present some new music in it. I’ve finished the first of a group of piano pieces, and have some other ideas of what I’ll do. But I’ve also started writing some pieces for brass band, mostly as an experiment, to see if I can get the thing to work. The first piece is done, and a second is well on its way. Thank God for the Sibelius program. It makes light work of all that copying, and makes it easy to work on large scores.
That’s just a tranche of what I’ve been doing, because the renovating around our house proceeds at a pace. The painting is pretty well finished, so yesterday we spent pulling up old carpet and dumping it outside. Very dusty job, and tiring being down on your knees removing old staples. One room has a newer system laid in it: fitted lengths of wood with nails on the top. These hold the carpet in place, and exclude the need for staples. Much better arrangement.
Yesterday was boiling hot here in Dunedin; I couldn’t stay outside for more than a few minutes, and working upstairs, where the sun shines in most of the day, was like working in a hothouse. I had to remonstrate with my wife, and get her to keep on taking breaks downstairs where it was cooler. Otherwise she would have been a little melted pool on the floor, rather like the witch in the Wizard of Oz.
For the most part we managed to spend the day in good-hearted raillery of each other; a nice change from the times past when we’ve shouted a lot while working together. Maybe we’re maturing – just a teensy peensy little.
That’s just a tranche of what I’ve been doing, because the renovating around our house proceeds at a pace. The painting is pretty well finished, so yesterday we spent pulling up old carpet and dumping it outside. Very dusty job, and tiring being down on your knees removing old staples. One room has a newer system laid in it: fitted lengths of wood with nails on the top. These hold the carpet in place, and exclude the need for staples. Much better arrangement.
Yesterday was boiling hot here in Dunedin; I couldn’t stay outside for more than a few minutes, and working upstairs, where the sun shines in most of the day, was like working in a hothouse. I had to remonstrate with my wife, and get her to keep on taking breaks downstairs where it was cooler. Otherwise she would have been a little melted pool on the floor, rather like the witch in the Wizard of Oz.
For the most part we managed to spend the day in good-hearted raillery of each other; a nice change from the times past when we’ve shouted a lot while working together. Maybe we’re maturing – just a teensy peensy little.
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I'll try not to do it tooooo often!