Bonnie, your threads ARE inspiring. Your accounts of taking up an instrument in the prime of life (if you will forgive the lack of gallantry) and progressing so well, have given me the fantasy (no, 'Spaw, not the knee socks!)that when I retire in about 3 years time I can knuckle down and learn to play something other than kazoo and pianola (and not just become a couch potato spending all day with my book and record collection as Herself fears!).
RtS