Happy Christmas!

Have been meaning to blog for weeks, but this Christmas has been as crazy as ever. Did my usual run of Christmas galas with John and Cleo at the Stables last week, had a few crazy nights with friends and family, church events, and then there was.... Oh yes, Christmas. Here are a few highspots ( the orange thing is a satsuma nativity , the bit at the bottom is the Loch Ness monster).

It takes two!

Chloe and a friend came home from University at the weekend, and among other things, it was a real pleasure listening to two music undergraduates having such a laugh playing Pauline Halls book of very easy Christmas carol duets!.

It reminded me of what fun piano duets are to play . I have spent many a happy hour crying with laughter playing duets, probably because I'm not very good at playing the piano!

Do you know any of these strange people?

Had a great weekend but mix with the weirdest!

Sweet inspiration

Its strange how the world changes on the Ist Dec. All of a sudden people switch on their Christmas lights, folks wish you a merry Christmas and the radio stations can officially play carols.

I had a little magic moment myself. I went in a shop in town that I have not been in before ( that sounds like the first line of an Enid Blyton novel). Its an old fashioned sweet shop, and when I walk by, I'm just always amazed its still there.

Well, in I went, and was transported onto a Willy wonker film set. This lovely shop went back yards, and was filled with every sweet you can imagine! from sherbert fountains to liquorish pipes, and there were hundreds of jars of all the old favourites. I would have spent longer in this Aladdins cave , but actually had to do some work (!) but bought a quarter ( yes a quarter) of winter mix. I was transported back to my childhood. Yes , they did taste like disinfectant, but they helped me while away my walk home.

I wonder if the shop will be there tomorrow?

Sweet inspiration

Dots from Wots

I have been very aware lately about my lack of blog posts, which is rather disappointing as when I log onto blogs I like to read and they STILL haven't written anything, I get very cross.

The general reason I haven't written is because I have been waiting for something profound to pop into my head that I can blog about, something interesting.

As that hasn't happened I thought maybe I could tell you about my dull day, and just make it SOUND interesting, and then blog with abandon about the mundane.

Well actually apart from throwing boiling hot tea down my trousers in my ice cold room teaching today and losing all my cleverly crafted reports on the computer, theres nothing much to report.

One exciting thing is that I have finished my "warm up" book which is the first in the "Red Hot Dots song library". There are six books in total all of which should be out by the middle of next year ( hell, that is exciting!).

I also bought the tackiest most wonderful 3D advent calender for 50p yesterday ( Rake if you are reading this don't get too excited, but I am going to buy you one!) It features ( on rather second rate paper) Santa AND angels playing ( rather predictable) instruments, What I want to know, is why don't you see angels playing bassoons and tuba's.

What's the temperature?

I am just working on a set of resource song books. I was pondering on the title of such a series. Should it come under the "Red hot" banner, or the "Cool"?. It occured to me that those two temperatures would be quite acceptable, where as "luke warm" certainly wouldn't..... funny that?.