Lee - an adult beginner

Lol - Manda - I will definitely try not to wee if I ever visit your house

Hellene - please can I have some help with the fingering for R hand of Sonatina 1! I really like this piece
It seems like there are a few possible ways to play.

Here are the bars: I am not sure of and what I've been trying at the moment!

Bar 3: FEDCBCBC D
Should it be 4321 (then cross over) 2323 (then squeeze together) 5

Bar 6: EGECEC
454253 ?

Bar 7: DBCABGAFG
423131321

Bar 13 and 14: FEGFAGF EDCBDGBA
21315432 54325432 (or cross over after high C??)

Bar 26 - same question as bar 3

Bar 28: chords GE FD EC DB
42 31 21 21

Bar 36
AGFFEDCBA GAFGEFDE
54321321 231212121

I hope you don't mind giving all this detailed help

I know it is a long time since I've posted an update - although I have SM in my thoughts A LOT!

Life is very hectic and very tiring at the moment. I think I'm close to a wall of overload as I've returned to work (3 days a week - but they are long days) and just working out how to juggle all of the activities that are important to me and my little ones.

I'm still playing piano as much as I can but I don't really have enough for me the make the kind of progress that I'd like. I guess I play maybe 3 times a week for 20-30 mins. I'd love to play every day but there are some days when I get in from a 12 hour day at work and after having sorted out dinner and everything else that I'm too tired to even see the screen never mind concentrate on playing. At this point the only thing I can cope with is junk TV! If I am aiming for 10,000 hours to achieve excellence then at this rate it will only take me around 96 years to finally get there!!!!!

I'm still playing Sonatina 1 - Clementi. I am making slow but steady progress and played P6 328/333 today (time was 133 - as a comparison I can play left and right hands with few mistakes in a time of between 83 and 90. I find it easier with the timing to play on 6 presentations as it is clearer to see where the rests are with the left hand. But this does mean I cannot compare my time against the perfect computer score. So, I plan to measure against a set tempo using a metronome as I did with March (not there yet!). I am now starting to memorize the piece in stages.

With sight reading, I have nearly finished Favourite classics 1. I am torn with sight reading, since if I play it all slowly on 6 presentation then I can score quite accurately but I struggle with speeding it up, it is often a timing issue as much as anything. So with some pieces I do play repeatedly to try to improve - I realise this is an element of memorization but it seems to be the only way to get over certain mistakes. I hope this is OK. So I will follow Hellene's suggestion for moving through the sight reading pieces - after favourite classics 1 I think it is time to move onto Boogie 2.