This and That
Looks like we already have a solution to the respite care problem :) A mum who lives a couple of streets away (two of her boys are at the same school as S) has stepped forward. She already knows T well having helped us on an informal basis a couple of summers ago so I know she will look after him really well. She’s been working full time for the past year but is about to finish, so the timing is working out just right.
Saxophone: progress is slow and squeaky. I can now churn out a basic scale and a few tunes, but it’s going to take a lot of practice to start producing a nice sound. I think being already proficient at another wind instrument is turning out to be a disadvantage. The fingering is so similar to the recorder that I’m finding myself wanting to try music that is far too advanced for me, simply because I know where to put my fingers. I’m going on a weekend residential with a whole gang of women from my church in a couple of weeks. Those of us who play instruments are planning to take them and there’s going to be at least one other sax. Citizens of East Lancashire, you have been warned!
Work are sending me on a development programme with a difference - Matrix . We’re just over half way through. I could probably spend a week rattling on about some of the fascinating places I’ve been to and the people I’ve met. But yesterday was something special, as we spent the whole day in a mosque in Burnley. At the end of the day when we’d finished our activities, we were given a tour of the mosque and attended the teatime prayer session. We were explicity invited to pray according to our own religion if we wished. So I did.
Finally, here are some photos of the Knitting family’s Easter trip to Barley. Still can’t believe we were happily paddling before the trees had even come into leaf.
