Being a good chorus member involves more than just singing. Here are some of the additional roles and responsibilities that have somehow ended up on my shoulders.

• Deputy baritone section leader. This essentially involves telling the rest of the baritone section which notes and words they should be singing. I got this job mainly by being the best ( Read more... )

While I was wandering between rooms at work today, I was stopped by two people. I didn't recognise them, but they recognised me ( Read more... )

As I was leaving my flat on Monday morning to walk to work, one of the residents of one of the other flats stopped me. I think this guy had recently moved in, because I'd never actually spoken to him before. But he had a question for me ( Read more... )

For reasons too interesting to go into, I found myself listening to a recording of my old band that I used to be in earlier this evening. By which I mean I did the listening earlier this evening, and not that I was playing in the band earlier this evening. I was actually in the band about ten years ago. Hope that's clear ( Read more... )

It's finally happened! After over 2000 games and about seven years, somebody left a game of Deal or No Deal at the second offer! It's never happened before, and to be honest it did mean that there was quite a bit of fairly dull padding out in the last half-hour of the programme. I mean, they even had a montage at the end to fill out the time ( Read more... )

While I was sat in the local coffee shop this afternoon marking some of my students' tests, there was a group of friends seated around the table directly in front of me. There were three female people and two male people, and they seemed to be having a good time, loudly and profanely discussing the fact that they were going to go an 'smoke some ( Read more... )

The wedding reception I sang at this afternoon was fun. The bride was originally from London and the groom was from Sheffield, so there was a mixture of people from both ends of England in attendance. In fact, the first thing I noticed when we arrived was a sign saying 'WELCOME SOUTHERN SHANDIES AND NORTHERN MONKEYS', and when we got inside the ( Read more... )

When I heard the sound of a child sobbing as I walked around town this lunchtime, it made me feel a bit sad. At first I couldn't make out where the sobbing was coming from, but then I saw a boy walking towards me with a woman who I presume was his mother. He was dabbing a tissue against his eyes and making miserable noises ( Read more... )

I was given a shirt today. It was bought by one of my fellow singers but turned out to be too small for him and he never got around to taking it back to the shop, so he decided to give it to me instead ( Read more... )

I hate lanyards. They are ridiculous. But what's more ridiculous is the fact that people seem to be very happy to wear the stupid, annoying, dangly objects around their neck ( Read more... )