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music and stuff

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Today, my daughter’s godfather and his soon to be wife came over.  They wanted to pick my brain about music for their wedding.  I agreed because any reason to ensure Pachabel’s cannon was no where to be found, was a good one plus I have an extensive collection of music.

As we went through the suggestions and likes and hates, I started thinking about how music does affect you.  Some of the music we were listening to raised my blood pressure as I remembered being a stressed and nervous oboist about to sit exams or made me smile as I remembered something I was doing when I’d heard that song. 

So after much listening, we found a diverse range  of music with featuring songs from favourite movies, songs from favourite music artists and even something randomly heard late one night on the radio.  Granted, it’s not to every one’s taste and it’s no where near traditional, but it’s special and has meaning to both of them.  It’s they’re way of sharing what’s special to them.

Hello Again

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Hi,

We’ve been busy.  Clients booking in, buying vouchers, asking questions.  All good stuff.

Also caught up with good friends yesterday.  Somehow I came home with their home grown, home bottled dill pickles.  I love this type of food.  It makes me home sick.  My godfather used to grown the most amazing tomatoes.  No store tomatoes come close to what these ones were like not just for eating in sandwiches (which I lived on in summer) but also in sauce.  Mmm.  Sadly I have not got green thumbs nor do I have the appropriate space to grow my own food.  The best I can do is a small patch of herbs and some rather surprising geraniums.  So Lynne for the tasty treat and the trip down memory lane, I thank you.

Em.

Phew! It’s over for another year

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

I hear you all wondering how the pudding went.  SUCCESS!!!  It rose and was perfectly juicy. 

So Christmas was wonderful this year.  Little Miss was so excited to be giving presents and opening hers.  It was amazing to see her happy face.  She was spoilt rotten by her grandparents and uncles.

Yesterday we had Christmas number 2 with my family.  There was four generations of family sitting around the table.  The last time this happened was when I was 3.  Little Miss is very lucky to have two great grandmothers (I only had one for a very short time).  Little Miss kept everyone entertained with her singing and dancing and blowing bubbles.  She also fell asleep exhausted.

Today I caught up with some of my school friends.  Lunch was horrible but the conversation was fascinating.  It’s funny how peoples personalities change over time and having kids.  At one stage I wouldn’t have had anything to say to these people but last year I took a chance to catch up with them after 13 years.  Since then, I’ve had fairly regular contact.  Maybe we all just had to grow up and move on.  Well I did anyway.

So I’m in the old country for a little while.

Em.