Pig Sty Avenue

I went to mass here last Sunday.  It was the sung mass, 11am.  I walked there from Charing Cross and I was running a bit late, so it was a bit of a dash to get there.  Worth it mind.  It's a fairly small church, slightly smaller than the average suburban Catholic church.  And you sit looking at stained glass window with the Risen Christ, a representation of the Last Supper, St E herself of course, Our Lady, someone else whose wee tag I couldn't read.  I haven't read up on that window, I'm saying what I saw. The choir were behind us and in good voice.  There was a big old fashioned church organ playing, and according to the parish bulletin, it was played by Simon Lloyd.  Here's the music, which I've copied from here . Monteverdi Messa a quattro voci 1651 JK, G, S, B, AK Deus in loco, 310 I Croce In spiritu humilitatis In Deo, 311 G Guerrero Pater noster Exsultate Deo, 312 A Credo III, Salve Regina, Domine salvum fac Petite, 314 C Organ: d...

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs .

Don't run away with the idea that Pig Sty Avenue is going the way of most blogs, and withering for want of nowhere else to go.  I'm merely busy, and not always able to get online.  You could say I'm having a life, IRL as it were, or something.   Normal service will be resumed in due course. 

My first practice on a proper piano. Very relieved to find that it's actually easier to play than the midi keyboard. And much easier on the ear.

That's going to be a cracking game, the neet .

This is the tune of the moment .  Actually, I first encountered it a while back, it being the first tune in the PSP software for two hands.  The thing is with that software, it will tell you "Excellent!! 100%" if you get all of the right notes in the right order - never mind that it took ages to play.  Once I'd got it right a couple of times, I moved on, with the nagging feeling that I ought to have got it right, I mean, sounding right, with all the notes played at the right time as well as in the right order.  So I've gone back to it. It's a very simple arrangement.  I've seen others with lots of 8th notes and chords in them, but this leaves all the fingers more or less on their home notes, (except that the little finger of the left hand moves from low C to B and back a couple of times). I've had lots of discussions, mostly with Boy , about the learning process.  I blogged about it here , mind.  Generally speaking, that's the way I'm going to...

What's encouraging about this signing , is that footballing thought seems to have gone into it.  A utility midfielder/defender.  Nowt flashy.  That's what we want.  A TEAM.  Like Germany.  Not a loose assemblage of millionaire masturbators.