just another morning here

We finally all got better in the week after Easter, but still didn’t do much. ECO hosted an exchange with a couple of choirs from Bad Homburg, our twin town in Germany, so we were busy with that on a few days, although we weren’t actually hosting any guests ourselves this time so not as busy as some other orchestra friends! Good fun anyway, and the concert together was the orchestra’s usual high standard.

Had a pleasant final weekend of the holidays involving the Food Festival in town, geocaching on Dartmoor, and plenty of sunshine

And now back to school which is nice all round I think. Josiah’s happy to get back to friends and routine. Didn’t mention his and Abbie’s school reports which came home at the end of last term, generally glowing and wonderful so that was all good.
Abbie went off to a residential at Grenville House this week, haven’t heard anything so I’m sure that means she’s having a fantastic time.
Anna’s spent most of her first week back rehearsing for tonight’s Performing Arts evening, which was an enjoyable mix of art, drama, creative writing and music. Anna is a total show off but somehow gets away with it by virtue of being blonde and dizzy, as well as fairly entertaining and good at what she does, in the main I’m quite proud of her really, she played a cello solo nicely this evening (cockups probably only noticeable to those who’ve heard the piece every day for the past six weeks ) as well as singing in the choir. And then there was the ensemble. The music teacher put this piece together involving as many people as possible, some of whom are real beginners … clearly building on comedy value here, had Anna running between instruments in the course of the piece … it made us laugh

And tomorrow she’s out of school on a house points reward trip to the zoo so she’s looking forward to that as well

Finally, if anyone is looking for a good film to watch, Steve and I both really enjoyed The Diving Bell and the Butterfly this week. Bit odd, French, serious subject matter, but if you can get past all that, excellent film. I was going to do a ‘week of weird films’ post but we only made it as far as Tuesday so I’ll just recommend the one We have The Karate Kid arriving for the weekend; apparently Joe’s TKD teacher keeps making reference to it and Josiah’s never watched it so we’re planning to remedy that and enjoy some nostalgia at the same time

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