h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We had a choir director at school. He was a nice guy, but he wasn't small, and he was a jazz musician. He'd play the pianos at school so hard they had to be re-tuned every couple of months.

The school authorities complained about the expense.

and so they should organs/piano's in schools are totally different to the same in a "rock band" for one! rock bands can buy new ones dead easyschools can't

The 2 year (I had in a music lesson) at school (inc' all the class) were a total waste of time, we didn't learn anything from a crotchet to a quaver OR what they did

PS: there were NO musical instruments anyway for us to use

That's sad. Even in my elementary school in the South, where we had very little in the way of equipment, we had a piano. It was old and not fancy, but it was good enough for them to get a piano teacher in for a piano class once a week. I forget what my parents paid for the lessons, but it wasn't much at all, since everyone kicked in.

Mr Kidd was my first piano teacher other than my mom. Nice man. Good with little kids - we were 7 years old.

The piano tuner was here today. He not only did a great job, but he also gave me a tip for how to make my Yamaha keyboard sound better. And he didn't charge extra for that!

He's a guitarist himself - also gave me a homemade CD.

north south attitudes north only good to leave school and go down a pit why educate

Not my dad's attitude at all. He was born in what you'd call a shanty, practically. No running water, no electricity. Out in the country on a mountainside. They were subsistence farmers. The elementary school was one-room. They walked, carried their lunches in buckets - leftovers from yesterday's dinners.

My dad worked on the farm, cut lumber with his dad for a dollar a day, rode a train up to Detroit the summer he was 16 to work in a stockyard to pay off the family mortgage. Came home in fall to go to school. Did well in all his subjects - even had 'agriculture' as a subject. Went to the army in 1944, ended up in Germany, fighting his way through the Rhineland.

He knew exactly what he wanted from the GI Bill after the war, and he got it: an engineering degree from a university.

You couldn't tell those people that education wasn't for them. They'd shoot you - and they were darn good shots. A lot of those mountain boys turned into doctors, lawyers, and engineers. You couldn't stop them.

110% respect

we have similar, many northerners have contributed to "things " to the world 1st that nob'dy else has


but as you know"we've" always been modest about it

http://www.martinwoods.me.uk/what-yorkshire-gave-the-world/

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I've got to go, it's suppertime. See you later, stay warm, sleep well!

be safe and be well both

Glad you liked my sisters she's only small compared to "normal" ones

She's a really pretty

Most of the Hoggetts' cats are small, except for the Bengal cat.

you could squash Millie literally with one hand, she seems so frail

Aww.

For some reason, cats get bigger when they live with us. Same gene pool as the ones on the farm. But they grow bigger.

Maybe because we only have two at a time.

the cat that "adopted" mam and dad a few year back, was massive and they found out (via dad's doc when he called at home on health issues) that "Spud" (I named him) was a Russian Blue and the doc' asked if he could buy him from them ? the answer was no of course

Wow, they got adopted by a fancy cat.

Ours aren't special breeds, they're just pretty nice cats....

Of course, the elderly lady across the street says Lola the doglet is 'the cutest dog in Pennsylvania'.

he started by hanging about the back yardthey had a West Highland (female) White terrier at the time, but slowly Spud encroached in and was accepted by all mam tried to find who owned him locally, but the only result was a possible man near a family friend and that didn't bring any results as such - so HE was "theirs" it also looked like he'd been kicked in the side of his body ? but! he allowed mam and me to touch him slowly (confidence building) If mam/dad went on holiday, he'd stay with me - wouldn't settle at sisters - us animals stick together

No doubt.

Making friends with animals happens on their terms. You just follow their lead.

all "domesticated" animal's have individual personalities (even wild ones I suppose) true "pet" owners know this and that's why pets are NOT pets but part of the family