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More Grandma time! Grandmas are fantastic.
26 Tuesday Aug 2008
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More Grandma time! Grandmas are fantastic.
22 Friday Aug 2008
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Yet another Co-op shop: should have ordered on-line.
Also took them to the mums and tots group, for a change of scene. Saw some horses on the way, and another on the way back.
22 Friday Aug 2008
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Colours: blue, white, gold
Flowers: yes, lots
Hymns: Hail, Queen of Heaven; Regina Coeli; and there are more I can’t be bothered to think of.
Prayers: a mystery of the rosary (Mary is Crowned in heaven)
21 Thursday Aug 2008
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A great deal of slobbing around and making a mess in the house. Also, cleaning some windows (Sam likes window cleaning), and making a jelly. And an early night for me!
20 Wednesday Aug 2008
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a trip to the library to take Daddy’s book back, and pick new library books. Also, having ordered the veg box meant that there were a few minutes of excitement in unpacking it.
19 Tuesday Aug 2008
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Some more co-op shopping. For some reason yesterday we didn’t buy enough stuff. Lots of rain (boo), so telly and toys (and mess). When I sat on the sofa, I was treated as some kind of toy too. I feel quite squashed.
18 Monday Aug 2008
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A few back from Spode jobs: fetching Mishka from the cattery, and shopping in the Co-op.
Have been getting Sam to do the pages that were not yet done in the books he brought home from school: Hannah gets a photocopy to scribble on, and is very pleased with her ‘homework’. Today it was simple patterns to copy and colour.
Also, they spent a good deal of time playing at cooking with plasticene for the ingredients.
16 Saturday Aug 2008
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An enjoyable week.
The grade 1 orchestra were more amusing than Jeremy Hardy singing (and sounded just like my initial attempts to play the violin).
The first choral rehearsal was hard: I thought ‘help, I’ve forgotten how to sing!’, but the music turned out to be very exciting; except for the Messian, which was a hangover and a headache.
The orchestra was fun, if a little too excited. The first rehearsal, I was hit by a wall of brass and percussion, but I got used to it. We did the Beethoven triple concerto with Steve Galea on violin Angela Galea on cello and Fr Phillip Whitmore on piano. We also tackled a movement of a Brandenburg. I really enjoyed the thunderbirds music, but found the Candide overture a little too tricky. The string sectional was good. I was at the front desk of the seconds, with Rachael, and didn’t manage all the music, but definitely improved over the week.
We scratched the Bartered Bride. I didn’t know the Bartered Bride, apart fromt the bit that gets played at concerts, and thought the story good, although I spotted the surprise ending about the beginning of the second half. And I’ll never get to play in the orchestra pit of the Bartered Bride again, I expect, so I made the most of it.
John delivered a monologue ‘3 ha’pence a foot’, which went down very well. Colin also delivered a monologue, but in Belfast, which was harder for me to understand. Andy Fryer did The Swan on ‘slide cello’, using a tennis ball on one string.
Sophie Bevan’s recital was fantastic. I almost thought I might as well hang up my voice and go home, but nobody expects me to be Sophie, so it doesn’t matter. I am definitely watching her prom when it hits the television
Felix played in all four orchestras and a string quartet, which was very impressive. Sam joined the junior choir. I’m not sure that he did much singing, but he should manage better next year, and Hannah can go too, maybe.
Also, next year I must make sure that John takes his bass guitar, which he has not yet started to learn how to play.
08 Friday Aug 2008
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Time to get ready for Spode. The children enjoyed taking the cat to the cattery, and packing one suitcase each amused them briefly.
08 Friday Aug 2008
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An auspicious day: some people think the number 8 lucky (the Chinese are starting the Olympics today, especially), others unlucky (1588, the Spanish Armada?). Take you pick, and make your own luck.