Badly Drawn Boys and Girls

 The Shining may be the only song in the world written and recorded specifically with the cello and euphonium. However, it was difficult to find a video version of that song for my last post with the eupho (hipster for euphonium) and cello actually playing on it.  Maybe eupho players don't like live gigs.

There is a small window of time where two of mine still play those big boys.

 However I did find this rather lovely bunch of primary schoolers singing their version. It was a timely reminder of how good teaching CAN make you feel.

Dare you not to get a little something in your chest....

Away with ye

Time to get out of Dodge! With Brisbania sweltering around the mid-thirties, we headed for the hills to visit the 'Woomba Bartletts. Even the sky was bleached out in the heat dotted with tiny gasps of cloud that promise no relief at all.

The further we got into the country the more I felt the tightness around my heart unclench and some relaxation seep in. I grew up on the Darling Downs so it makes sense.

There were dear friends to catch up on, a dog to smother with affection,

cooking to be done,

Note the Bartlett thumbs

the highest levels of hygiene to be maintained.

 It was a lovely couple of days. There should be more photos of Anna painting, me gessoing my skirt, swimming in their school pool, talking till 2 a.m.... However I was too relaxed to take photos and the phone was being used by Lala to take rather a lot of obsessive photos of Maybe, the dog. 

Driving home in the dark with sleeping offspring to the melancholic strains of Badly Drawn Boy was kind of delicious in itself. 

 You know I do like me a bit of euphonium and cello!