Diary summary week ending 12thMay 2024

[radstockjeff]

Yesterday I spent a very pleasant afternoon in the Somerset village of Rode, near Frome. It was the occasion of a musical Garden Party in the grounds of the local Methodist Chapel and the small Brass group to which I belong, Bath Vintage Brass ,(the name will give you a clue!) had been booked to play for the last hour. This was the first time I had met up with the Band members since last September, when Jane's condition had started to deteriorate. What a lovely welcome they all gave me- I was not playing, but enjoying their "musical" contribution to the proceedings, including, much to my joy, an arrangement which I had recenty done for them of Ride the Chariot, an old negro spiritual.
This will be another step along the road to some form of normalisation and I think I will soon be ready to start playing again with them.

[louisa maud]

It did you good Jeff, as you said another step forward doing something you enjoy , when I was a child I would walk through London alongside a band with my father, even now if I hear a regimental band I have to check my emotions after all these years.

LM

[Rena]

That's heartwarming news Jeff.  There's a lot of "first steps" after a blow and you've just taken one of them, and from the welcome given to you I imagine your friends are only too willing to help with the next one.

Best wishes,
Rena

[Biggles50]

IT’S GROUNDHOG DAY.

Again

I have been laid up for a few weeks after an Operation, nothing serious.  I just am on crutches for a while.  Also I cannot presently drive nor get in a car easily so I am practically housebound.

So the routine of one day is exactly the same as next.

A biggie in the plus department is that it has enabled me to spend a lit of time on Genealogy without feeling guilty on not doing the dozens of jobs around the house and garden that I would normally be doing.

Finally the real bonus is that I have found a close relative who did respond to my contact attempt and they have agreed to take a DNA test, the result of which will breakdown a brickwall that I have been plagued with for years.

[louisa maud]

Just take it steadily Biggleswade. LM

[Viktoria]

Well it is never wasted time doing what you enjoy rather than what you feel you ought to be doing when you are incapacitated !
It sounds as if you need to take things easy anyway.

We get hidebound by routine sometimes and miss out in so much in life if we are not careful.
A routine can be rather freeing, what needs to be done is done,
 but it can also be restricting if we are not careful,balance is the keyword.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery ,and rest and pleasant occupations play a big part.
Listen to your Granny!
Viktoria.

[louisa maud]

So true Viktoria.
Off to the next diary

LM