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[taimatsu]

It's looking like I need to have a singing-and-cake belated birthday party (I've still never celebrated my 23rd with friends). I wonder how/when I could do that?

Maybe after I get back to Reading, and before I get too bogged down in jobs and things, I could organise something fun. It could be a picnic if the weather is still good, and that would lessen the house-panic and the issues with lack of space. We could have it in Prospect Park, and people could bring musical instruments. They could bring frisbees and boardgames and juggling balls and skipping ropes too, of course - I don't expect everyone would want to sing.

What I'd like to do is actually teach people new songs. I know a few that I think are unfamiliar to most people and should be more widely known. It's hard to teach people round a campfire, though, so I'd have to get a group of people who were interested in sharing new things. I guess it would be a 'bring five copies of the words and two of the tune and guitar chords' thing, and then we'd have a hope getting somewhere. Who's interested in singing new music?

*thinks*
So, in about three weeks I will be back in Reading. I will take some time to get used to being back at home with Robert, and I will tidy the house. As my housetidying progresses I will ask Janet over, because she has volunteered to help, and eventually I will ask Kathryn to come and do some of the ironing she loves so much :) Then I will be able to invite people round. I will get a new job and hence have some money, and I will lose some weight. I will do some new evening classes (more on that in a separate entry). It will all be fine.

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[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

*anticipates the ironing with glee*

YAY!

this sounds like a fabulous fabulous idea!

i would like to help with house stuff as well, if you'll have me. i really like tidying and cleaning. honestly - ask Elly!

[taimatsu]

You're so great. :) I wonder if I can convert the under-the-stairs cupboard into a little bedroom? I could capture you and make you live there; you could be my ironing fairy, and I would feed you on ginger biscuits and elderflower cordial. :)

Might be quite a fun job, but without much in the way of career progression.

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

*giggles lots*

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

i don't need career progression.

if you give me pesto as well i'm so yours.

[taimatsu]

I can do pesto. :)

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

*is yours*

[taimatsu]

Woohoo! Hmm, what shall I do with you when you're not ironing?

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

whatever you like... *winks*

i also cook, clean, look after babies, tidy,shop, and errrr... stuff.... :)

Mememe!

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

I want to learn new songs!

Re: Mememe!

[taimatsu]

Ah, cool :) I think I will have a separate musical evening when the house is slightly less horrible. Should be fun. :)

[wednesday]

You might recall I keep volunteering to help you clean, as well. :)

[taimatsu]

I lose track :) Thank you, that'd be great. I think the first step is for us to establish a very generous one-way relationship with the local charity shops, and then to get a select party of friends to help us scrub things, wash the walls, disinfect everything (and possibly rip up the carpets). I'll have to make a list of people to call when that time comes. :)

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

Add me to that list.

I like doing productive stuff with groups of people - posted an entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ixwin/105228.html) on it a little while ago.

[taimatsu]

I now really do have a list, and you're on it. :) Thank you very much.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Add me to the house-blitzing list, please! (I can't promise I'll be free on the date you choose but I'll do my best.)

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

The getting together and singing idea sounds fun.

[taimatsu]

I've still never heard you sing properly. This must be amended ASAP.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Oh, now I read your entry properly I realise that I was on the house-tidying list anyway. Sorry, I am trying to read faster than I can really process; it's the caffeine... :)

I'd love to learn new songs. I assume you're thinking of folky stuff? I always want to learn new folk songs... I just wish I had occasion to sing them somewhere. Or a voice good enough to make it worthwhile, sigh.

I have music for madrigals and stuff as well, which I'd be glad to bring if anybody wanted to do that kind of thing.

[taimatsu]

I have the music for 'Now Is The Month Of Maying' (when merry lads are playing, fa la laa lala la la lalala, fala la la la la laa). I'm interested in singing madrigals, and if I entice Sam to come he does lower-register harmony parts pretty well, I think.

I really, really want to teach people my favourite song ever, which is 'In the Calm Hour of Evening'. It's from some obscure choral songbook, but my mother used to sing me to sleep with it, and it's in a folk style, and it's just great. Also other folky stuff, like Sally Sits A-Weeping and Green Grass It Grows Bonny.

I tend to sing them at rubber-sword LARP events, and one of my non-rubber-sword LARP characters plays the guitar, so I have more excuses to sing.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Who's interested in singing new music?

Me. :)

Off to curl now. Will reply to things more later.

*smiles at you*

[cryx]

songs if i can get over my shyness with such things!

[taimatsu]

The people who're interested so far are lovely and supportive :) We will be encouraging and non-scary!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

I can provide folk music, and mediocre singing, and cake!