This is certainly one way to find out what I’m up to.
Another might be to actually ask.
Archive for June, 2008By popular demand (well, at the request of my pal Georgios), I’ve added some more dynamic and exciting pictures from our recent gala outings to the Gallery page. I can’t vouch for the quality of the images as they were taken by someone outwith the immediate Gubbins circle, but I think they’re shiny enough to warrant a quick squint.
And it was just ACE!
A lathe, as you’ll be aware, is a bloody messy, noisy and smelly bit of hardware, and the one in question is also rather heavy. As I have relatively limited spare time, I can’t really take it out into the back garden when I need to use it and then put it all away again. It also really needs to be fixed to a bench or the centrifugal forces involved in turning large chunks of wood at high rpms is likely to make it shift around a bit. Ergo, I need a shed. Thing is, while we don’t plan moving from our current house, it would be nice to have something which was moveable just in case, but sadly moveable sheds seem not to exist. Anyway, in accepting that a shed is needed[0], I have taken my first step on the path of the Sheddi. [0] While my daughter may well tell me “you don’t NEED a shed, you WANT one. WANT is not the same as NEED”, I have to pull rank/age on this one and say that where sheds are concerned, WANT is exactly the same as NEED.
Thing is, playing music is kinda hard and playing a weighty brass instrument is even harder. Doing that while marching, in bright sunlight, without falling over or passing out, is really really hard. So - we’ve done Mid Calder gala day, Uphall Gala day and Broxburn gala day, followed by a concert, so it’s safe to say we’re completely puggled. In fact, it’s quite nice to be back to work today for a rest - I have a little routine of going out to the car at lunchtime to practice and it was really nice to just play some music that wasn’t a march or a concert piece The concert was, of course, ACE, because it’s always fantastic to hear the Senior Band in full flow. |
I really enjoyed my lunchtime practice today. Except it wasn’t really a practice, because instead of learning stuff or rehearsing marches or concert pieces, I was just playing some music that I felt like. So, I played “For those in peril on the sea” a couple of times, followed by a bit of “Home on the Range” and some other traditional tunes from the end of the ‘how to play the baritone horn’ book. 
is a shed. See, through a bizarre series of events, which I’m probably not going to go into here because it’s all a little improbable, I have a bench lathe. This is a Good Thing(tm) because I’ve wanted a lathe for a long time - since high school, pretty much. The trouble is, I have nowhere to put the thing that would be semi-permanent.
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