just another morning here

Another week has gone by without me having much to say, or for that matter, time to say it in even if there was anything to report! Actually I did do something this week, but not in the real world

On Monday I had the day off – an ‘occasional’ day, traditionally stuck at the end of November in order to help with Christmas shopping. As the years go by I am doing less and less Christmas shopping at all, much less in town, so I didn’t bother. Instead I got a few jobs done, cleaned the house a bit, went to Sainsbury’s, and that was about all.

Tuesday and Wednesday passed without anything out of the ordinary happening; on Thursday my class got to have an extra bus day so we went up to Haldon Forest Park and did the Play Trail with the kids which was fun. Showed them all a geocache, a couple of them were impressed with my hidden ‘treasure box’. Tiredness setting in all round by this stage in the week, Anna had a great moment when she realised she had done her art homework (draw a portrait of someone that you live with) for fun a couple of weeks ago so she could skip that!

Friday was Anna’s day off as her school had a non-pupil day – her first day of being home alone. In fact she arranged to spend the morning with one friend at her house, then the afternoon here with another friend, so she wasn’t really alone at all!

Into the weekend, full of music as ever. Saturday was orchestra rehearsal for the girls, errands and cleaning guinea pigs out for Joe & me, and then a Youth Orchestra concert at our local parish church’s Christmas Fair – so handily close to home. Actually it was really good for the youth orchestra to play for a prolonged time, usually they just get a spot during the main children’s orchestra’s concerts. They sounded great and it was nice to look around the stalls while they were playing. Bought some jam

Today we didn’t do much, everyone is tired, and I’m feeling particularly run down with sore throat etc. Garage is very slow at the moment so this leads to general down-ness in our household too. Still, we all went into town in the afternoon for the kids’ cello/piano teacher’s pupil concert. This is always a laid back affair and it is quite nice to see how all her pupils are progressing, as we’ve known most of them for a few years now. Video is long but varied, not without its mistakes, either, but I like to have video as a record anyway, don’t really care if it’s not perfect!

Anna plays the 2nd movement of Rieding’s Concerto in B minor on the cello, simply not practiced as she wasn’t aware that she was playing it (never mind that it’s one of her Grade 5 pieces which she’s taking on Wednesday, no matter! there will be some serious practice between now and then). That’s followed by Abbie playing a Round Dance by Bartok on the piano – I particularly like the dynamics at the beginning of this piece but then it went a little bit awol – tbh it is a slightly strange piece anyway I think! Josiah plays ‘Minnie Mouse hits town’ by Pam Wedgewood (from Upgrade 0 – 1, quite a nice book if anyone’s at that sort of level), suffering a bit from ‘not my usual piano’ syndrome as I know he can play it perfectly, then Anna finishes up with La Chevaleresque by Burgmuller.

And now it’s almost December, advent calendars at the ready

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