jai ho!
Aug. 30th, 2026 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wychwoodAfter a couple of busy days stringing together series of errands, I have had a lovely peaceful time today. And I have a fridge full of food, several nice breads, extra keys for my new door lock, nice shiny teeth, etc etc. I also managed to acquire and deliver my dad's birthday card and present - I was too late realising it was coming up to get it posted, so I had to take it in person. However, that worked out quite well; Mum had a possibly-bad-news scan a couple of days ago (might still be fine, going for a follow-up scan of a different kind in the next few weeks) so I combined the trip with picking up some flowers for her from my siblings and me, and then spent the afternoon with them before heading to church.
While I was there Mum also handed me a folder of random documents - they had a box with family stuff in that got turned upside down years ago so that everything got mixed up, and she finally sorted through it while looking for something and decided that it was time that we had our own school reports, etc, rather than her keeping them! I had a flick through; lots of school reports, my first lost tooth in a little envelope I'd addressed to the tooth fairy, the ed psych report from when I was six... the reports were funny, there's a throughline from infant school right to sixth form of "physical stuff: yes, she's very bad at it, but does try fairly hard" and also any number of comments along the lines of "brings her impressive general knowledge to bear on [subject]". Clearly my ability to introduce random facts into any conversation is one that goes back to my earliest years. Although I did like the one that said I needed more encouragement to participate in group discussions, which is definitely not something anyone has said about me in the last twenty years.
And it's a long weekend, so I still get tomorrow off! I'm going for lunch with a friend, then have two more of the public pop-up choir-and-orchestra concerts, which will inevitably cumulatively vanish most of the day, but that'll be fun. We added in a last-minute Dolly Parton tribute, so we're also singing 9-to-5, not that anyone will hear us over the orchestra.
The music choices this year aren't quite as successful, I think - normally they start with the 20th Century Fox fanfare and the Star Wars opening theme, which sounds absolutely amazing and is audible right from down on the platform never mind in the station concourse, but this year they went for Gershwin's "Strike Up the Band" which just does not cut through in the same way, although it's quite fun from up close. And two of the pieces we're in have quiet bits that I could barely hear from the back of the chorus clump, never mind from halfway down the concourse. Still, all the stuff I could hear sounded great. Hopefully the audiences enjoy it.
The temperatures have gone down to much more reasonable levels, and we're actually getting rain regularly, which is nice! (I spent yesterday morning wearing my raincoat, radical) But there's been a startling number of thunderstorms, lots of really huge thunderclaps and rumbling around - it reminds me of going on family holiday in the Dordogne, lightning storms every couple of days. At least now things are wet enough that it shouldn't go starting more fires. The grass outside my bedroom window is springing green already, so resilient.
While I was there Mum also handed me a folder of random documents - they had a box with family stuff in that got turned upside down years ago so that everything got mixed up, and she finally sorted through it while looking for something and decided that it was time that we had our own school reports, etc, rather than her keeping them! I had a flick through; lots of school reports, my first lost tooth in a little envelope I'd addressed to the tooth fairy, the ed psych report from when I was six... the reports were funny, there's a throughline from infant school right to sixth form of "physical stuff: yes, she's very bad at it, but does try fairly hard" and also any number of comments along the lines of "brings her impressive general knowledge to bear on [subject]". Clearly my ability to introduce random facts into any conversation is one that goes back to my earliest years. Although I did like the one that said I needed more encouragement to participate in group discussions, which is definitely not something anyone has said about me in the last twenty years.
And it's a long weekend, so I still get tomorrow off! I'm going for lunch with a friend, then have two more of the public pop-up choir-and-orchestra concerts, which will inevitably cumulatively vanish most of the day, but that'll be fun. We added in a last-minute Dolly Parton tribute, so we're also singing 9-to-5, not that anyone will hear us over the orchestra.
The music choices this year aren't quite as successful, I think - normally they start with the 20th Century Fox fanfare and the Star Wars opening theme, which sounds absolutely amazing and is audible right from down on the platform never mind in the station concourse, but this year they went for Gershwin's "Strike Up the Band" which just does not cut through in the same way, although it's quite fun from up close. And two of the pieces we're in have quiet bits that I could barely hear from the back of the chorus clump, never mind from halfway down the concourse. Still, all the stuff I could hear sounded great. Hopefully the audiences enjoy it.
The temperatures have gone down to much more reasonable levels, and we're actually getting rain regularly, which is nice! (I spent yesterday morning wearing my raincoat, radical) But there's been a startling number of thunderstorms, lots of really huge thunderclaps and rumbling around - it reminds me of going on family holiday in the Dordogne, lightning storms every couple of days. At least now things are wet enough that it shouldn't go starting more fires. The grass outside my bedroom window is springing green already, so resilient.
