20 years ago this week we met, and I fell in love, even better, we still are 
Happy 20 years my love xxxx
(For the sake of accuracy, neither of the photos are of that time though. Couldn’t easily find any. Helen is in Canada a few weeks later in the summer. The one of me is apparently in 1989. But I’m not really any different)
i had a much needed lie in today. my head, body and soul were not at all engaged. whilst recovering, i heard sb do piano practice. when i came down, chris and sb had gone through those lovely anholt books around artists. we did some HE – handwriting, french. i have to say that SB’s handwriting is really coming on. She has struggled at writing, but in her own time and on her own terms she is getting there. She likes the getty and dubay, and does lots of practice with cards and notes to people. She also spent a lot of time doing the colour in doggy clothes she got from merry’s girls.
BB also did french and some early numeracy with singapore early bird and literacy from before the code and letterland red books – which i managed to find. BB was very impressed to get some books, its a shame i can’t get sb gagged quickly enough before she says they were hers first!
we did lots of imaginative play altogether today. i am trying to jumpstart my immersion back into these games, as i have sort of gradually faded out of being a pinky ponk, or a doggie or a vet etc etc. so i decided this was ridiculous, so i have been a pinky ponk [or whatever it is!] bought and cared for doggies, played with cuddlies etc etc and made my girls happy.
we also baked carrot cake, watched some how things work, nina and the neurons and magic school bus, picked peas and broad beans from the garden.
aargh how did it get to be this late?? bedtime!
even if it isn’t all written by him, it is great!As usual, yes, i have played in the orchestra – university of london – and sung in the choir – leeds festival chorus. And most noticeably written an exam paper to the dies irae in my head, and had to pause with the choir rests [evolutionary psychobiology].
dies irae one of my fav bits in any requiem tbh, and this no different, but it is all beautiful.introitus and kyrie, confutatis and lacrimosa, tuba mirum,
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looking at manor born photo of marlow church really, set me down the path of thinking of all the concerts through the years i have played there. it really seems like hardly any time at all ago, but it is over 20 years! how can that be?? two red boots orchestra photos also fed into the mood.
i am getting old!
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i have been working this weekend, and i hate losing the weekend!! i miss the relaxation with family and chance to unwind. never mind!
have done tidying up, maths, violin practice, playing games, makebelieve and today popped to a friend and colleagues house so we could go to their village picnic in the park. didn’t see the deependers there though. i was working at the time of the duckrace, and it rained, so we made it a bit later.
v much enjoing battlestar galactica, though the mood and tone of it has altered entirely with the 4 ‘new’ cylons!
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oh dear basically!!! a spork!!!
| You Are a Spork |
 You are creative. You see the world in bold colors. You are a dabbler. You love to experiment. |
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i didn’t have wed off, but had to work – with migraine. so missed on what seems to have been a fab visit to a firestation, and also meeting friends to talk to grrrr.
instead i had a suprise day off today – a surprise as i was going to a conference far side of london, but, due to raging migraine and out of migraine meds, that just wasn’t practical. retired to bed with cold compress and gp appt booked. so i now have meds again and at least spent half the day compos mentis with the girls. [well sort of] what struck me was that having got out of the pistols at dawn to dusk for a bout 3 days, they have returned to that pattern. aargh to the levels of bickerdom. it isn’t all bb, the split is prob sb:bb 40:60. just that bb is noticeably more unmanageably horrid. mind you the wailing was also stratospheric today, so i might have been better at that conference in london.
in between bickers and wails and time outs [for me] we did have a lovely time! SB and bB had done some beautiful hama when i came too, and we ironed them b4 they were scattered on the floor – so result! SB then finished singapore maths 2b part 1 [at last - we have been being quite slack on the formal ed front] and bB and i did earlybird 1a -which is v easy for her, as it is predom counting to 10, which she can do in french or english quite happily. actually in english she gets to 20, then starts going up in 10′s. the more/less, most/least is quite easy too. so a romp really, but she likes having done hers whilst sb is doing hers.
after that we did some french – farm and wild animals. much taken by the fact that lots of the african ones had the same names, but with an accent. and we read SOTW on australian aborgininal beginnings – sort of! we looked at aboriginal art, read some dreamtime stories, and thought about doing some painting. but sb and bb had a fight over this, so the offer was withdrawn in a fit of pique [and regretted afterwards - must keep mouth shut!]
girls went out to play, i had a time out by hoeing – i have to say we have done the best so far with the veg and fruit beds. earlier this week chris harvested 3 1/2 lb strawbs!! we are harvesting peas, broad beans too, and the pots are prob ready to have an exploration!!
i then brought out some books on weather and ponds, and a pond dipping kit from ebay – which turned out fab [never linked to an ebay seller before, but actually the magnified tank is v fab] and this rescued the afternoon. we have quite a lot of pond life in our goldfish pond. unfortunately loads of mosquito larvae in the waterbutt, but we have lots of waterboatman – who eat them, a water spider, and pond skaters. we have a plague of large pond snails [oh dear!] and on one lily pad stem was the empty shell of what was some kind of dragonfly we think. so we all enjoyed this. BB liberated loads of pond snails, and then both girls played unhappily in the paddling pool until riot act read. SB had violin, and BB sitting on step… then BB made a card and SB and i played an alphabet game and then we played shops.
i redressed SB’s foot and put BB to bed. and there we are.
i adore this early vocal music. i love the harmonies, i love the modulations, and the gentleness and soaring qualities. did you get that i love it? here is the miserere – i had allegri’s earlier for a comparison! [which i love more. somethings are better known because they are better!] with leeds festival chorus, i had the marvelous opportunity of singing spem in alium in rippon cathedral – rather magical! A fantastic bit of elizabethan music. lets not forget vaughn williams fantasia either. anyway, have a wander round the tallis on utube!
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