G'day, folk. I was hoping someone else would start this today.
Sharon/WO, you sound very busy. I'm glad you got the chance to get to the gym. Warm weather will be there soon.
Linda, I'm glad your painting table is a success. Being able to move from room to room to take advantage of the light - sounds wonderful.
Sharon/LDM, I'm glad you enjoyed Superstar and the lead singer wasn't in a walking frame. I can't remember him from the movie, but I do remember the guy who played Judas (fabulous voice!) and Yvonne Elliman, who played Mary (I felt, ineffectually). I felt she sounded whiny, which spoiled it for me.
I was hoping to get a lot of paperwork done today, just catching up on stuff. But it's amazing how I can get slowed down, mostly by difficult child 3 constantly interrupting me. Some of the interruptions are legitimate, as he stops to ask me questions about his schoolwork, but others are just him walking in to the room, saying something rando that is on HIS mind but not relevant to anyone or anything else, then walking out again. Then just as I get my mind back on what I was doing, he walks in again to say the next sentence. Very annoying habit that I can't break in him.
I was rummagingthrough my music collection for the choir I should have gone to last night, and found some treasures. it's so old it's in danger of decaying purely from reaching the limits of paper-keeping capability, so we'll have to begin scanning it all. And my mother (or someone) had simply stuffed it all into a plastic shopping bag! I've got my work cut out for me. I got difficult child 3 to help me scan a couple of barbershop pieces which date from about 1915. I found another piece, NOT very Politically Correct, entitled something like "A Fat Little Baby Wid his Mammy's Eyes" which dates from 1905, so it must have been my grandfather's. Snuggled up next to it was a lullaby piece just as old, written by a Maori princess (her likeness and that of her baby were hand-painted on the front page). Then I found my aunt's old leather music case. She died in her early 20s during WWII and my mother put all her things away and never looked at them after that. As a result in that case is old sheet music, in almost mint condition, often with the marvellous, curly india-ink calligraphy titles on the front page.
A friend said to ring a local auction house, but it's too specialised for them. They gave me acouple of leads though. But while looking around at the topic, I found some samples being auctioned on eBay, for not exactly huge sums. So I think all I can do, is scan it all as and when I get the time, and perhaps consider donating it to a museum or something, eventually. Maybe frame some of the best, they are simply superb! It's funny - many of these have the typical copyright warning of their day, but are all probably well out of copyright purely by their age!
I will check - but if they ARE out of copyright, I might even be able to publish a collection of the scans, just as they appear. Now THAT would be something!
Tomorrow I have an early start, so does difficult child 3 2who is coming with me. I haven't told him yet what time we have to leave (horribly early) so if you hear screams from across the Pacific, it's difficult child 3, when I tell him! We're going in to his school, I have a meeting concerning shortlisting applicants for a new teaching position, while difficult child 3 will be waiting down stairs or in the school library working on what schoolwork I have for him.
Enjoy your Thursday.
Marg
AND now I have room on my desk to sort thru & complete all my paperwork & bills. 
