A circus performance, a concert and more.

Yesterday I had an 'afternoon off' to go to the pre-concert singing workshop with our visiting Norwegian choir and their fantastic choir master, which was really good fun.  While I was there K, M & A were busy being circus performers.  This is something that has been planned, practised and prepared for over the last few days and by all accounts it went very well.

Ted & Alice, the clowns.

Ted, bare-back riding.

Alice, bare-back riding.

K as a human canonball.

M as a human canonball.

Christopher, the trapeze artist.

A as a mime artist.

And my favourite, Jolly the tightrope walker.

 In the evening I was performing in the concert, which I think went really well and K & M came along somewhat reluctantly with A to watch.  All three of them really enjoyed it though fortunately!

Today we had a look through the album of A and my honeymoon, including some photos and postcards of Newgrange that we'd read about in the Prehistoric Britain book.  K in particular as said she'd like to go at dawn on the winter solstice, although I'm not sure we'll manage the timing, we'd be happy to revisit some of the places we went.

And finally this afternoon we went for a family bike ride along the Trent.  M was somewhat reluctant to put it mildly, partly because she wanted to go to the BMX track at the local country park (we'd have to load up the bikes into/onto the car, so it takes quite a lot more time and planning and A had jobs to do in the garden, so it wasn't an option today) and partly because she says she is scared that one of us will fall into the river.  I tried to reassure her that the path is plenty wide enough and actually not right next to the river and it is *highly* unlikely that any of us will do so.  Once we got going it was fine, with just a bit of grumping, although she still says she doesn't like riding by the river.  Ho hum.  We will try to find some alternatives, but most would involve at least some busier roads or a trip in the car, so it's tricky as far as spontaneous cycle rides are concerned.