Friday, November 28, 2008
Little Notes for Little Folks.
I have spent the day being an aunty - though maybe there were many who looked at me and thought I was a grandmother.
Well, I am a grandma - but not to Felix and Otto.
I went to Horsham with Ruth for Felix's music club called Little Notes.
http://www.littlenotesforlittlefolks.co.uk/
This website also has a link to the local paper report about the good work that is done there.
On a horrid rainy morning we were quite early; it was too wet for a stroll in the park. So we went for a drink in the Christian Bookshop cafe.
Little Notes has a sweet young woman leading the toddlers; she is a professional musician and exceedingly capable.
My job was to keep Otto amused whilst Felix and Ruth joined the other mothers and little ones. Otto half had his eyes open for a while and seemed to be listening, but actually slept for much of it and needed no attention.
After lunch I chatted with Jamie on Skype. He is feeling very cross about the demonstrators who have taken over Bangkok airports.
They are costing the country a lot of money.
And despite the word Democracy in their name they are not working towards a democracy for the country. As far as they are concerned the economic problems are due to the poor people and less well educated people having the right to vote - and damn them they seem to want to vote for a party who promises to make them a bit better off.
Once he got that off his chest, he told us the family news. They have bought a second car.
It sounds extravagant, but I do go along with Mam that Jamie riding a motor bike to work every day (40Km round trip) is potentially quite worrying.
I remember one of my parents saying many, many years ago that a young man wants a motor bike and keeps it until his first accident - and some accidents of course prove to be fatal.
Conversation with Ashley today has been through facebook.
There was a big disappointment today. A while back Ecky won a competition to design a mouse mat at school and these would be made up and sold at the Christmas Fair.
Unfortunately the powers that be didn't do this and had other designs on mouse mats for sale.
I was going to be very proud to use my grand daughter's prize winning mouse mat.
Later we went to buy food for the week.
And then we went over to see Ruth again.
We had bought things for her in Ikea and it was easiest for us to take them over to her.
So we went more time with the children.
We watched Thomas Tank Engine videos and I fed Otto.
And we ate toffee apple crumble made by a friend of Ruth's who was also there.
And that said Grandma, is that.
Well, I am a grandma - but not to Felix and Otto.
I went to Horsham with Ruth for Felix's music club called Little Notes.
http://www.littlenotesforlittlefolks.co.uk/
This website also has a link to the local paper report about the good work that is done there.
On a horrid rainy morning we were quite early; it was too wet for a stroll in the park. So we went for a drink in the Christian Bookshop cafe.
Little Notes has a sweet young woman leading the toddlers; she is a professional musician and exceedingly capable.
My job was to keep Otto amused whilst Felix and Ruth joined the other mothers and little ones. Otto half had his eyes open for a while and seemed to be listening, but actually slept for much of it and needed no attention.
After lunch I chatted with Jamie on Skype. He is feeling very cross about the demonstrators who have taken over Bangkok airports.
They are costing the country a lot of money.
And despite the word Democracy in their name they are not working towards a democracy for the country. As far as they are concerned the economic problems are due to the poor people and less well educated people having the right to vote - and damn them they seem to want to vote for a party who promises to make them a bit better off.
Once he got that off his chest, he told us the family news. They have bought a second car.
It sounds extravagant, but I do go along with Mam that Jamie riding a motor bike to work every day (40Km round trip) is potentially quite worrying.
I remember one of my parents saying many, many years ago that a young man wants a motor bike and keeps it until his first accident - and some accidents of course prove to be fatal.
Conversation with Ashley today has been through facebook.
There was a big disappointment today. A while back Ecky won a competition to design a mouse mat at school and these would be made up and sold at the Christmas Fair.
Unfortunately the powers that be didn't do this and had other designs on mouse mats for sale.
I was going to be very proud to use my grand daughter's prize winning mouse mat.
Later we went to buy food for the week.
And then we went over to see Ruth again.
We had bought things for her in Ikea and it was easiest for us to take them over to her.
So we went more time with the children.
We watched Thomas Tank Engine videos and I fed Otto.
And we ate toffee apple crumble made by a friend of Ruth's who was also there.
And that said Grandma, is that.
