just another morning here

I’ve decided I quite like having birthdays on a Saturday; it means you can stretch celebrations out all weekend really! Luckily for all of us, it was also a free weekend for the boy choristers, so no choir commitments for Josiah (and no taxi driving necessary for us either!).

I went out with work friends on Friday night to start the weekend off – was very restrained though, as we all had to be up early the next morning. Steve and the kids did a bit of tidying up while I was out, which was very nice

On Saturday I had a few things to open in the morning, then we all got up for orchestra as usual. Only it wasn’t quite orchestra as usual, because we had the pleasure of the company of six players from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, tutoring some of our sections, then playing with our children during the main rehearsal. I was on hostess duty, then photographer duty – all very enjoyable. And the orchestra played happy birthday to me (ok, they usually play happy birthday to people, but I got a special rendition). Brilliant to have the BSO tutors there, very inspiring for our players to meet people who do it professionally.

When we got home (much later than usual due to meeting a newspaper reporter as we were leaving orchestra!) we discovered a couple of parcels in the greenhouse – one was some bassoon reeds ordered for Anna after someone dropped a folder on hers (lesson to be learnt here: don’t leave your reed lying around), and some Gellibaff that I’d ordered for kids at school. On opening the latter we discovered that one packet had split in transit and was all over the place, so the children decided they would have to use it up, as a service to mankind, obviously

It is totally disgusting stuff, but they did have a whale of a time for a good half an hour, all 3 squashed into our bath. They are much too big for that kind of activity these days really!

Anyway, after that we got a quick bit of homework done, then it was time to head over to Steve’s parents’ house – they’d laid on a lovely birthday tea and then they looked after the kids while we walked down to the theatre. They also gave me some much needed birthday socks!

We saw ‘The Ministry of Fear‘, which I think was good, although I did struggle to stay awake – darkened, warm room, it’s a killer! Couldn’t even have a coffee in the interval, since I’m still on my self inflicted Lenten caffeine ban!

Home late, but no matter, as this morning we had a long lie-in. The kids got up and made pancake batter, then when I’d put the BSO photos up in various places and kicked a bit of website into shape, I finally joined them.

Delicious pancake brunch (marshmallows included ) then we went out in hunt of a few caches and a self-timer photo. Unfortunately it was a bit windy and we couldn’t find many safe places to prop the camera, so this is all we managed, but it’s better than nothing!

After that we came home to finish off homework and music practice. Made some burnt popcorn and did some arguing which I am obliged to include. Happily we now have some un-burnt popcorn and have settled down with Coraline on Blu-ray.

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