I’m so angry at myself, don’t EVER TOUCH BUTTONS!
My Mac has gone into the shop and in order to make it work again I’ve had to buy an external hard drive to back it all up and format the drive. As well as reinstalling my OS to which I can’t find my original disk for [...]

I had a solid day working on my Mac yesterday and as I’m still getting to grips with the Mac OS I had an explore around it.
Unfortunately when I turned it off in the evening and tried to turn it on later he wasn’t happy. A blinking Question Mark greeted me and it wouldn’t start [...]

When I was shopping around for trumpets a few years ago I had the unfortunate experience’s of trying a Taylor.
It was like playing a Picasso, NOT like a work of art, rather like playing a piece of cubism.
It looked like at had been cannibalized out of 5 different trumpets. Rose tinted bell, brass valve [...]

I have to say that the personnel I was given is a surprise; four trumpets, three sax’s, a flute, kit player with promise of pianist and TWO BASS players.
 
Playing will always come first to me and I’m happy to add that I’m not even a little tempted by the income that peri teaching brings [...]

Tomorrow I start my first Big Band with pupils from the school I work at. Of course the trumpet section is made up of my pupils but it’s the first time that I’ve had a complete horn and rhythm section at my disposal!!
 
…I like to think of them as a small army…
 
Anyway, I spent most [...]