Good morning.

 Waitangi Day.

Today we remember the signing of a treaty. A treaty that hopefully has united our people. Let's show respect for everyone and their cultures and let's learn from each other. In the words of our great former prime minister, "Be kind."

In a very touching gesture, my neighbour Jim contacted me this morning. He said, "Hey Richard, please feel free to practise that violin inside your house today." What a touching gesture!

Confession: I only practised for half an hour yesterday. Sorry. I intend to make up time today. It'll be nice to be able to practise inside the house. A treat. 

I didn't get any feedback on the scale information I shared with you in my last post. Actually, I only know of one violinist who reads this blog and I think he might have buggered off to Cricket Town.

Anyway, I'll run through those scales today.

My son and his family are moving shortly. They've bought a townhouse in the Nui. A two minute drive away. It's easier to get carparks near his place than it is in Thorndon. Hey, speaking of Thorndon, Peter wrote a new post yesterday! Yes, I know it is quite hard to believe. It tells us about buying computer chair mats. Interesting. Well, maybe 'interesting' is too strong a word. Peter got stuck with the camouflage mat. 

That's Peter's mat on the left.

It'll be good to have if he ever joins the army. His final bit of information is that he has bought a new computer chair. For some reason he can't write another post until the new chair arrives. For some reason, comments have been a bit slow coming in on his post. I wonder why?

Though, to be fair, sharing valuable information about violin scales doesn't pull in heaps of comments either. 

I guess I'll leave it there for today. I'll go and do some violin practice.

Enjoy your Waitangi Day.

Ciao.