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Jul 3·edited Jul 3Liked by Terry Freedman

"If you practise something properly and conscientiously, sooner or later it starts to pay off." Yes, yes it does. Thanks for that reminder. I also clapped and said "hooray" when I read of your progress in reading music. You are also a very witty writer. (Feel free to share on LinkedIn.) Loved your drawings.

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Share on Linkedin: 🤣 Thanks for kind words re progress!

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Jul 3Liked by Terry Freedman

😂

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Jul 2Liked by Terry Freedman

Chuckled a lot, Terry, thanks for sharing. The train conversation was great.

And thank you, sir, for noting my story.

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😂 Thanks, Nathan. No problem, squire.

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Really enjoyed the book organizing link you shared and sax appeal is hilarious. Thanks!

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Thanks, Charlotte. Which bit of sax appeal did you think hilarious, the term or the footnote, just out of interest? 😁

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The term and the whole idea of sax appeal.

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😂

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The train conversation cracked me up.

“D: I hope you feel suitably embarassed.

Me: I do, I do.” It’s just so rude when sarcasm backfires like that!

Also, my dad played the alto sax when I was growing up and I can confirm there is no *not loud* sound that comes out of that instrument.

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😂 "No not loud": LOL. I have managed to play it softly, but it's definitely not naturally a soft instrument!

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I'm impressed!

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And I'm astonished! Thanks, Stephanie 😁

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I am delighted to share that I have found this post to be a fabulous start to the week! 😉

Lovely saxophone news - it's great when muscle memory kicks in with physical things requiring technical skill. I was thrilled when I found elements of my hot glass work (in my previous life) becoming second nature like that - it was a 'feel' thing, in the end (not literally, because 🔥).

A rhombus is a parallelogram, but a parallelogram is not necessarily a rhombus. 👀 #amiright

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muscle memory: thanks, I couldn't remember the term. Amazing that it happened with your glass work. "A rhombus is a parallelogram, but a parallelogram is not necessarily a rhombus. 👀 #amiright" How would I know? It sounds confusing enough to be about right.

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Jul 1Liked by Terry Freedman

In Thank You, Jeeves, Bertie takes up the banjolele (kind of funny), but in the TV series they changed it to a trombone (not so funny). In both case, the instrument resulted in Jeeves’ resignation. I suppose a saxophone fits in there between them somehow on the annoyance scale.

Nice, understated Shakespeare connection between footnotes 1 and 3. That’s why I read Substack.

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Annoyance scale: 🤣 Thanks, Frank. What IS the Shakespearean connection there? Sorry to be ignorant.

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Jul 3Liked by Terry Freedman

Stratford-Othello

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Oh I see. It's a different Stratford unfortunately!

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Jul 3Liked by Terry Freedman

"even unimportant details are important"

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True. 🤣

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Jul 1Liked by Terry Freedman

Sax Appeal. 😂 Being my American self, when you first introduced D, because you did it with parentheses (D), I thought you were trying to tell me this friend is a Democrat.

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Was it that term that made you laugh, or the footnote that went with it? I should have given her a false name rather than just an initial. Mind you, she is the British version of a Democrat. Chortle.

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Jul 1Liked by Terry Freedman

"... if you practise something properly and conscientiously, sooner or later it starts to pay off." I am so glad you hear you are recognizing your progress here, Terry. It occurs so gradually we often can't see how far we've come. I am just hoping this maxim is also true of writing. Heaven knows I put in enough hours... A fine post today.

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Thanks, Sharron. It definitely is true of writing, but I think a lot has to do with HOW one practises, and what. I ought to write an article about my thoughts on this I think. "we often can't see how far we've come": I agree. Thanks for kind comment about my recognising my progress.

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Jul 3Liked by Terry Freedman

It’s all true, m’lord.

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😁

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(All squares are rhombuses.) (a quiet aside)

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Jul 2Liked by Terry Freedman

Yes! but not all rhombi are squares. (either plural is proper- mentioned only to tease Terry)

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"mentioned only to tease Terry": well you've succeeded! Typical. Thanks, wasn't sure about the plural.

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seriously? 🤔

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Jul 1Liked by Terry Freedman

I believe a rhombus is a diamond-shaped figure where all four sides are equal. A kite, many traffic signs, a baseball diamond or a diamond on a playing card, certain biscuits, earrings, etc.

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Well, why can't they just be called four-sided shapes, instead of having all these different names? Earrings? What's a baseball diamond when it's at home? I'm a Brit, we don't do baseball.

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Jul 3Liked by Terry Freedman

Ah, well. “four-sided shapes with all sides of equal length”, I guess, makes it something different… I have no expertise with maths, I admit. I balance my checkbook and I measure for recipes. That’s about it.

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Exactly. All these names sounds like a job creation exercise of some sort.

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They do, don't they. As for me, I am looking for a job putting stickers on pieces of fruit in the supermarket. I think I could totally do that job.

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(👍)

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