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Monday, September 21, 2009

Check out this great vid by our amazing bandmate Amanda:

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so what

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Things of joy and beauty:

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one sunday morning the warm sun came up

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Twitter and Facebook are slowly eating my blog but I'm just popping back to say that my lovely Becca is exactly five and a half today, that today she has been at school for exactly six months, and that I can't quite believe either of those things. Also tonight marked her first school concert which I attended and dutifully recorded bits of. Room Five's staging of The Very Hungry Caterpillar was a conceptual triumph. And it turns out that Becca can play both recorder and ukulele, which I sort of already knew but seeing her proudly strumming and tooting away up on the stage (pausing to catch my eye, beam and wave, and make sure I was getting it all on film) made me realise just how far she's come in the past six months.

What else is new? Erm...

• I'm still at the Parliamentary Library. It's been well over a year now and am enjoying it, even though I rarely if ever get to shush people.


• am back in the band after a brief sanity hiatus when I was feeling, as I believe Bilbo put it, like butter scraped over too much bread (or something like). We've been gigging like mad: five in August alone, and gigs aplenty over summer. Further bulletins as events warrant...


• We're realising that as the kids get bigger the house is getting a little small, and are trying to figure out what to do about this: further bulletins &c...


• Two weeks ago Jack's sister Charlotte had a baby called Lucy, who is tiny and perfect. (My word, you forget how tiny they are when they first emerge.) Becca is besotted; Maggie suspicious, presumably because her position as youngest grandchild on J's side has been usurped.


• Off to Auckland to visit the distaff side in a couple of weeks. Becca has already started planning the itinerary, which involves elephants and dinosaurs skeletons.

That's about all I can think of for now. Wow, it's odd having more than 140 characters at one's disposal: does encourage one rather to ramble on... which incidentally is the next song to learn for the next gig, a bat mitzvah. It's by Led Zeppelin, apparently...

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