just another morning here

Usually on Friday nights, we have beans on toast for tea. This is because Josiah and I generally get home at about 5.45pm (having left the house around 4ish, for his violin lesson), and Friday Fish (the kids’ club that Joe and Abbie go to) starts at 6pm. So it’s always a bit manic and rushed.

Yesterday was a bit different as I had a particularly interesting day at work, we were going out in the evening, and I decided I just didn’t want to eat beans on toast again! Steve had a voucher for Wagamama so we all went out for dinner before our concert

La Serenissima were very good, but the star of the show, for me, was Pamela Thorby. Her performance of one of Vivaldi’s sopranino recorder concertos was simply stunning. We enjoyed looking at the differences between the baroque instruments and the modern versions, and went to inspect the harpsichord and theorbo (I think! had to google to find out what it was!) at the end.

And now, since I have woken up at stupid o’clock for some bizarre reason, Steve has got up early to go racing, instead of wasting time on the computer for hours until the children wake up, I think I am going to go out and bag a cache. I’ll be back before breakfast!

Every time the Exeter Festival programme comes through the letterbox we find it really hard to choose – we have to limit ourselves to one or two things otherwise the cost just mounts up, but there is always a lot that we’d love to go to.

Anyway this year we’ve opted for La Serenissima as a family, because they’re performing bassoon, violin and recorder concertos in their concert, one instrument for each child, so that suits us rather well. And we like Vivaldi

Steve and I are going to see Martin Taylor but that doesn’t count because the tickets were my birthday present from his parents!

So just deciding whether to add Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra with Julian Lloyd Webber (probably just Anna plus one of us as it’s a weeknight) into the mix – think it has probably got to be done. Steve rather fancied seeing the Pavao Quartet, but I think it was based on something other than their music! And I would have loved to go to one of the choral concerts, but we can’t do everything. Just hope we manage to get some decent seats for the Vivaldi!