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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Band, Spiders, Bedroom rules and James Craig

Another busy week in Sydney with lots of activities for children and parents.


James is in the Balgowlah Heights Primary School Band.  He has been playing the Euphonium now for about 2 months.  Last weekend the Band had their first performance.  All the kids in the band are 8 or 9 years old and have all only been playing for 2 months.  Expectations were low.....

BUT, they did amazingly well and played three short songs for the watching parents.  James was very good on this instrument (better than the kid beside him who did not seem to play a single note).


The video link above is Mary Had A Little Lamb.

Continuing with James, he has again added to our list of Worlds Deadliest Animals Encounters.  On Monday at school he saw a large spider on the step to the classroom.  When the spider reared up and threatened him James thought "It's a Sydney Funnel Web" (very deadly).  He carefully stepped round it and went to his teacher.  I am sure his teacher thought "Oh yes, another deadly spider story" - but when the teacher went to look she confirmed it was indeed the worlds most deadly spider and quickly got the janitor to deal with it in the traditional manner (I suspect a shovel to the head).

The cricket season came to a wet end for James yesterday.  Mid way throught the second innings the rain got really heavy (why they had been playing for an hour in drizzle I do not know) and the game was abandoned.  As the boys were wet we headed to our friends the Peaches for a BBQ and the boys all enjoyed the jacuzi.



It was a little wintery here today - it dropped to 18 degrees (OK - wintery by our standards). So we had to find a hat to keep Jack warm.

Last night James and his Scout troop spent the night on The James Craig. An 1874 cargo ship - picture below.  A great time was had and I am told the 40 boys on board got some sleep - between midnight and 5 am.

And what of Olivia. I can share with you here new "Rules", or "Ruls" that apply if you want to go into her bedroom.

I did tell her that one day she might like boys, to which she replied "That may be the case Daddy, but at the moment I do not like boys."

More soon.

Ken

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