Monday Morning.

 

I went to the Bluegrass jam at the Alicetown community house yesterday afternoon. There were a nice group of people there. I stayed for about two hours. I didn't get to play the Orange Blossom Special. Bluegrass tunes are generally pretty simple with simple chord progressions. It did get a little bit predictable after a while. Quite a few of the jammers were using chord charts. I can't understand why they needed those - you just listen. Still, it was nice that everyone was friendly. 

I have a bit of schoolwork to do today - charts for the string orchestra at one of my Upper Hutt colleges. Tomorrow I'm off to Wellington College with the orchestra from the other school. There will be a few other schools there and it'll largely be a day of listening, plus our orchestra will play. Should be an interesting day as it's good to hear what other schools are up to musically. 

Robert is back from his travels and gives us advice from a guy called Timothy.

"...live religious and reverant lives in peace and quiet."

Evidently Timothy died from stoning around 97AD. Not exactly a peaceful way to go. I wonder what was said before that bit that Rob quoted?

"Don't play loud music, live religious and reverant lives in peace and quiet."

"Don't get sucked into working in a church shop. That's just about making money. Live religious and reverant lives in peace and quiet."

"I had a bad tummy when I was alive. That made it hard to live a religious and reverant life in peace and quiet."

By the way, Timothy spelt reverent incorrectly. R E V E R E N T, not reverant.

I wonder what else Timothy got wrong? Maybe Tim meant to say, "Live a rigorous and relevant life, sometimes with peace and quiet."

"Tanks for the memory."
What is Robert up to here?

I don't know what Peter will be up to today. Hey, maybe he might take a trailer load to the tip!

Has he still got his trailer?

Maybe he might have to use something like this.

That would fill in the day for him, if he has to push one of these all the way to the tip.

I told you earlier in the post that I'm playing with a school orchestra tomorrow. Some instruments in the orchestra play quite loudly. This made me practise playing my violin near the bridge. Boy! That really gives you more volume. I'll keep working on that. That's for damn sure!

My daughter has been in Ireland, Iceland, France and England. She is due back early next Saturday morning. I will pick her and her cousin up from the airport. Gosh, she turns 41 later this month. It's great having a daughter. It's great having a son too, AND grandsons. 

Okay, okay, I know you want to hear more about my practice schedule. I should really fit in some double bass practice today. Over the weekend I only managed 3 hours of violin practice, so I'll have to step things up a bit today. Don't forget though that there's still that schoolwork to do. I'm doing an arrangement of Nature Boy. They also need an arrangement for God Defend NZ. I'll have to get onto that too.

I'll leave you there for today.

Sii gentile.