While I don't like to crow "Told you so!"...

Oh, wait. Yes I do.In other news, my great-aunt (b.1917) passed on this morning after ten years of increasing decline. She was the last of her generation on my mother's side of the family ( Read more... )

Went for a (group) job interview thing the other day, and got talking to one of the other applicants before we started. We'd been asked to bring in a bunch of self-generated paperwork, and she'd mentioned that her printer had died on her the same morning ( Read more... )

Well, guitar is coming along. There's at least one tune I'm almost starting to be able to play without having to glue my eyes alternately to the tab and the strings. Progress ( Read more... )

The West Australian Academy of Music, a teeny-tiny music-teaching startup which has just moved to larger premises in Fremantle, is still fighting with the council over whether they'll be able to stay. The core of the red tape is that the site is zoned for semi-heavy industry, not education ( Read more... )