Back to School Week

It has been "Back to School Week" for many of the school children around here. Tom started a few days earlier than Mollie. To the non involved person it is more than obvious that the chidren are back at school. You only have to look at the sudden increase in traffic between 7.30 - 9.00 to know that the schools are open again!

The Aire valley becomes clogged with parents and children hurtling lemming like, towards their respective schools. A journey which took minutes suddenly seems to take hours! Impatient motorists hurtle around the area like maniacs.

With the start of school comes the return to the normal everday events in my life. Monday saw the re start of practices for Eldwick & Gilstead Male Voice Choir, Tuesday I was "back in school" playing the piano for singing, Wednesday I would normally have been up at the TIC, but other events got priority, Thursday church choir practices resumed, and fortunately Friday was reltively quiet.

In and amongst all this I had a funeral to play for on Thursday, and another funeral to play for on Friday, as well as two weddings to play for today.

The highlight of the week was a viewing of Hannah and Ben's "Official Wedding Photographs" - some 500+ of them. Matt & his assistant Sarah had done a superb job, and making a choice from 500+ is going to be very difficult. I don't think they produce Wedding Albums large enough to hold 500 photographs!

Three weeks today we should be on the Isle of Arran, staying at our usual Studio Flat in Lamlash, then the week after we should be in Waren Mill, just north of Bamburgh, again staying at Cove Cottage. I must say that the holidays can not come fast enough. I seem to have spent more time at church this last year than I have ever done. (There will have been seven weddings this month and I will have played for about 44 by the end of the year!)