cottage

Rosewood flute I bought at Hobgoblin Music in the UK
several years ago when Urban Tapestry performed at Didgeri-Douze.


Looks like power and phone lines are fine, hence this cottage Blathering.

Quiet day. Napped, played my rosewood flute, did some reading (Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card), worked on my novel (added over 1000 words without ViaVoice, yay), sauna and lake dip. There were FOUR spiders in the outhouse this morning, though none as big as last time.

I've been sadly neglecting my wooden flute. Even pre-tendinitis, I wasn't playing it nearly enough. Must find some Urban Tapestry songs to use it for. At present I play the songs in my Irish pennywhistle book as well as just noodling improvised tunes. It has a different sound from my metal flute...somewhat more melancholy, and I like how the upper range sounds better on my rosewood than the metal. Since there are no levers and I haven't yet mastered accidentals with half-holing technique properly yet, I can only play in D or related keys, but that covers a lot of Celtic music. :-)

Playing it reminded me of the wonderful time I had in England, the friends I made and got to see again, the great music. Made me all nostalgic and wanting to go back someday, hopefully sooner than later. Have to ramp up my freelance income again first.

Was amused by all the cat and WonderDebbie comments, by the way.

Going back to reading now. Please don't send me big files; we only have a dial-up here, thanks. I'm also staying offline most of this weekend, so will be holding off on most e-mail until next week.



Cloudy cottage morning.

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