thats a first!

As some readers of these ramblings may know, I love music. Jazz, music hall, swing, real old school stuff mostly, but I love pretty much any kind of tune. I've made a long suffering woman out of my old flute teacher, with unlearned scales and improvised melodies in exams, and my new piano teacher looks like shes going the same way too, but Ive never had a singing lesson. It always was the one instrument I've wanted to be able to play and play well, but something’s always held me back.

a canadian affair

Well, I must start this post with an apology- Ive been in one of the most amazing places EVER for the past 3 weeks- Canada! Had such a relaxing time and met some lovely people there- will definitely be making a return visit!

Along with some highly embarrassing and disturbing events which occurred in the land of maple syrup, I did manage to pick up a thought from a Canadian newspaper. Usually when I take in the daily news stories from the broadsheet, I tend to just skim read my horoscope for a lark- I don’t believe a word of it. Ever since the stars told me I was going to find myself amongst substantial wealth about 2 years ago Ive given up with them. Maybe The Fates have are waiting for the best exchange rate for my owed money, but until I land in a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow I wont be seriously digesting the horoscopes.

However there was, in this specific one, quite an enterprising thought and a rather adhesive notion that seems to have taken root in my mind and refuses to be unstuck until I have thunk it over and taken it on board somehow. This particular prediction seemed,at the time I read it, to really mean something and it was not a hard task to relate it to my own personal situation.

Let me explain.

too good to be true

You know, there are times in life when everything is sorting itself out without contribution from the subject on whom certain incidents and entanglements occur. It’s the night before the dawn, or words to that effect, which people so often talk about. At  times, it seems that without doing anything, you get everything! Or, at least a lot more than you bargained for.  Friends of mine are getting auditions, creativity has struck me like lightening, (see here!) and I found £2.50 down the back of the sofa.