Frank I'm amazed about that hemidemisemiquaver! Thanks for explaining it - for such a short note it sure has quite the handle!
Even sounds more musical than 'hundred-and-sixty-fourth notes'!

I do remember seeing the Brit crotchets and quavers listed, along with the American names, in glossaries on the back of older "music dictation books" (from the British "Boosey and Hawkes" publishers)when I was a kid, but since we didn't use them I never really learned them well.
But that does explain the accuracy of my guess!

If you're thinking about moving to Canada, don't let the winters stop you Frank. The changing seasons are part of what I love about Canada - never a dull moment! Spring, summer and fall do take up a good 3/4 of the year, and the summers are lovely and HOT, (contrary to the impression of a lot of non-Canadians who think we all live in igloos or something)!

The West Coast is beautiful and alot milder in the winter - hardly a snowflake but it rains all the time. I was surprised at how much I missed the sparkling white freshness of the snow when I spent a winter out there - didn't miss the shovelling but without the snow to brighten up the short, wet 'gray' days I was going stir-crazy by the end of February. Talk about gloomy and wet!

People's metabolisms do adjust to climate changes over time too. I remember spending part of August in Arizona one year and the heat was excrutiating! I remember wondering how people just didn't evaporate or something - it was hard even to move after a while! I felt so 'heavy' and lethargic...

The same happened when I spent a couple weeks with my sister in Florida one August. Except it was so humid it was even worse I think. Every day like clockwork around 1pm all of a sudden the sky would open up, thunder would roar and the rain would pound down in big heavy sheets - like Niagara Falls! - so hard that you had to pull over and wait for it to stop if you were driving. I'd never seen anything like it! It was a relief to go home - didn't have all those hurricane watches either.

My sister, who's lived in Florida for 20 years now is completely adjusted to the climate though. It's funny when she comes to Canada in the summer now - we're all running around in shorts and halter tops and she's shivering away in her jeans and sweaters saying "How did you get that tan!?" And we'll say "hey it's SUMMER! We do have SUMMER in Canada, remember???" If I lived in the Southern US the same thing would eventually happen, I guess.

daylia