Not posting as often as I think I should do -or even as often as I think I do, I'm realising.

Have probably mentioned that I find myself embroiled in a bizarre fight facing one of the largest multinational corporations in the world, Shell which bought First Utility which used to supply me with electricity, gas and astronomic bills and a mess with the gas meters in the building that I thought was a problem dead and buried and has resurfaced back from the dead to give me grief and charge me eight thousands pounds because apparently I have never paid for my gas.

OTOH, I have now got the second dose of the vaccine so feeling a bit more reassured about those things although regarding normal life... who knows when and how that may happen. Just waiting to see what will happen.

Still teaching guitar in those schools and both are becoming a nuisance in different ways -but I need their money and also do have good pupils in both that I wouldn't want to leave stranded. But mostly I need that money.

Bought a digital piano (cheapest Casio with hammer-action keys, in instalments) when my midi keyboard died. So I decided to do something about my wasted two years learning piano as a secondary subject and have been practising -which has taught me a lot, things I knew but one tends to forget, about what my beginner guitar pupils go through.

The night is dark and full of terrors. But it also shows us the stars in the sky.
flaviomatani: (flav has  left the chat)
( Nov. 6th, 2020 10:53 am)
I had given Ko-Fi a try and opened an account there -Ko-Fi is a crowdfunding site, a bit like Patreon but people can make one-off contributions rather than subscriptions which seemed to me better suited to what I do. The metaphor they use is that of buying the artist a virtual cup of coffee, contributing a couple of quid at a time. Seemed like a good idea. It didn't work. In the beginning I had three people contributing and then nothing ever happened again even though I did try to spread the word.

I'd also joined Bark.com, a site that claims to unite people wanting a service and people providing it, at the suggestion of a pianist friend who had found that useful in getting piano pupils. After spending something like a hundred and fifty quid in the 'credits' that you have to buy before hand, I haven't got one single pupil from that source (although there is one who _might_ start lessons in the near future, so there is that too). So Bark didn't bite.

Still looking for alternatives...
flaviomatani: (Default)
( Dec. 5th, 2019 12:36 pm)
I just got the email from the ABRSM about my Grade 8 Music Theory pupil 's exam result. He passed with a Distinction with 94 (that's 94/100). Quite reasonable, I would say very very well done, James/ Wojciech! (well, he is not on DW/LJ but still..). Quite chuffed about this. This music teaching thing is a rather erratic and precarious way of making a living but it does have its rewards.
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