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• Since the contents of the groups changes over time, this justification for their segregation isn’t entirely accurate.

• Mind you, the mathematical bits didn’t function very well in my youth, so what hope is there now?

• Due to administrative confusion, I needlessly took their latest entrance test. After chasing them up I was told I “passed with flying colours”, but could get no more information.

• The situation with the house turned out to be much worse than we first thought and we appointed Bakers of Danbury to sort it out. Things have gone well, and the three phases of the work have been completed. We’ve given up seeking redress from the surveyor.
• Coxes Farm hails from the start of the 16th century, or possibly earlier, and is very “wonky”, requiring continual maintenance.
• In December 2017, a base to roof crack appeared in the render at the front.
• Subsequent investigations revealed that the frame at the front – which had been added in the 17th century – has rotted away, so the front façade was held up by the brick infill and an impervious cement render, the cause of the rot.
• The front of the house has now been rebuilt, as has ¾ of the rear.
• A third project was to rebuild the lower part of two side walls.
• I’ve written a Blog Item on this saga, with some theoretical thoughts, which I hope to have published in the Listed property Owners Club Magazine due course. Documentation of Phase 3 is awaiting completion.
• The main outstanding issues are with the roof. I don’t seem to be able to find anyone to fix them.

• If these link to the wrong version, ie. the current one, you’ll need to go the “previous versions” and select the correct one.

• 25 hours / week represents the amount of time that I’d need to spend if I were pursuing my research part-time at Birkbeck – which would be something like 5 hours / day, 5 days a week.
• Now that General Culture has been taken out, and Consciousness Studies added in, the total of 25 hours is not much different to the equivalent 26 hours (=29+1-4) last quarter.

• Or at least those recently added to my database, in the case of electronic items that sometimes arrive too fast to be catalogued immediately.
• As my purchasing has now dropped to a relative trickle, I’ve extended the selection range to cover the last 6 months.
• Some of these are random purchases from charity shops, or presents. Others are selectively purchased in support of my various projects.
• Poverty and lack of space is severely curtailing my purchasing power.
• The categorisation of my books has got out of hand, but follow this link for an alternative – categorised – list of recent acquisitions.

• In the light of the segregation of my projects into three tiers, items for tertiary projects are only to be addressed if everything of higher priority is in shape.
• If there are any changes to this list between quarters, they will appear in the Priority Task List.

• I used to itemise in this Note an ever-growing list of items accummulated over time, broken down by Chapter and Note.
• However, now both Chapters and Notes are getting into shape, there is no need to list these items again here, so they have been cut after checking they are covered in their place elsewhere.

• This list could get very long, so restrict it to 3 books!
• I'll replace these with new ones when completed.

• This is extremely time-consuming, and will not be possible for all books and papers of interest.

• There are rather a lot of these, so some will have to be skimmed.
• There were a few more on less central topics.
• I hope to whittle these down as time goes by!

• This list used to get inordinately long and has been culled.
• Ensure this doesn't happen again!

• This list is getting ludicrously long, and either needs addressing or pruning!

• I'm currently trying to reduce the backlog of 'Priority 1' items on my Aeon page, starting with the oldest.
• To achieve this in an acceptable timeframe, as well as restricting the new additions I've been either downgrading the priorities or reading the papers on my Kindle and then adding brief comments and logging them to my database.
• But they then get added to this list for more detailed investigation.
• Once I've got the 'Priority 1' list under control - that is, down to 10 items - I'll start whittling this list down.

• Time to be booked to my Languages Project.

• Well, maybe with the occasional holiday, and excluding days on which I have the Enigma Ensemble.

• I don't intend to present these for the Trinity exams, as I can present Orchestral Audition pieces instead; but they are essential for technique.

• I've yet to decide which to present for the Exam, so this long list will get whittled down in due course.

• These are just the ones from the Trinity schedule that I happen to have. Some look rather fearsome.
• The only one I've had assigned is the Second Movement of the Saint-Saens.

• The earlier grades are very elementary, but I need practice writing musical notation.

• "Deutsch (Diana) - The Enigma of Absolute Pitch",
• "Deutsch (Diana), Henthorn (Trevor) & Dolson (Mark) - Absolute Pitch, Speech, and Tone Language",
• "Deutsch (Diana), Li (Xiounuo) & Shen (Jing) - Absolute pitch among students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music",
• "Miyazaki (Ken’ichi) - How well do we understand absolute pitch?", and
• "Zatorre (Robert J.) - Absolute Pitch".

• I have a lot of chess books, but there's no point listing them here as they aren't going to get read any time soon, if ever.

• Trying out Math Trainer ("Admin - Math Trainer") seems a bit eccentric, but I’ve found that – as the time has passed – I’ve got lazier and lazier with mental arithmetic, and could do with perking up a bit. The App seems of some use.

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