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Aujourd'hui et hier, j'ai gaspillé trop de temps marchant entre la gare de York, et l'appartement de [personal profile] leonato. Je l'ai rendu visite pour le soir, et ai essayé de retourner à Huddersfield sur le dernier train. Malheureusement, le train à été annuler, donc j'ai dû revenir chez Mark, et rester là. Ce matin j'ai parti assez tôt, afin que je puisse arriver à travail à l'heure. Et quand j'ai atteint la gare, j'ai remarqué que j'ai lassais mon portable chez Mark. Alors, aller et retour une fois de plus! Eh bien. Je suis à la bureau maintenant, et ma première réunion n'arriverait pas jusqu'à l'après-midi.

Hier nous avons eu notre première répétition pour le choeur d'université. Nous nous sommes mis de apprendre "Blest Pair of Sirens" de Parry, et les cantiques de soir en si bémol de Stainer. Le Parry était plûtot difficile, pas de moindres parce que il y avais seulement quatre ténors, et l'autre premier ténor ne chantait guère. Je ne suis adroit ni à chanter a vue, ni à chanter mon part toute seule, parmi les autres parts, donc faire tous les deux à là même temps était un vrai défi.

Ce soir j'ai hâte de retrouver Jon Jarrett, un ami de longtemps qui je n'ai pas vu depuis le mariage de [personal profile] bunnypip et [personal profile] cuddlyviking, et avant de cela, depuis il y a environ huit ans.

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Today and yesterday I wasted too much time walking between York station and [personal profile] leonato's flat. I visited him for the evening, and tried to return to Huddersfield on the last train. Unfortunately it was cancelled, so I had to go back to Mark's and stay there. This morning I left fairly early, in order to get to work on time. And when I reached the station I noticed that I'd left my phone at Marks. So, there and back again once more! Ah well. I'm in the office now, and my first meeting isn't until the afternoon.

Yesterday we had our first rehearsal of the university choir. We started learning Parry's "Blest Pair of Sirens" and Stainer's evening canticles in b flat. The Parry was quite difficult, not least because there were only four tenors, and the other first tenor was barely singing. I'm not very good at sightsinging, nor at singing my part alone amongst other parts, so doing both at once was a real challenge.

This evening I'm looking forward to meeting up with Jon Jarrett, an old friend whom I haven't seen since [personal profile] bunnypip and [personal profile] cuddlyviking's wedding, and before that since about eight years ago.

Date: 2020-01-22 12:14 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] karen2205
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Noticing how long ago it was I was at school/college and learning French - portable and telecharge are terms I don't remember ever hearing, so I don't know whether they just didn't exist from 1992-1999 or they were specialist vocabulary that wouldn't have been taught at GCSE/A level.

Date: 2020-01-22 04:10 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] hilarita
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Didn't exist, pretty much. Also, how old were your textbooks? One of mine was from 1979, and barely acknowledged the existence of computers, never mind yuppie shit like mobile phones.

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