In At The Deep End

First ever trip to the cinema for the children (unless you count J coming in with us aged 4 months, fast asleep in a sling, but nevertheless asked to leave when they realised he was there because the film was a 12 – since it was only about 10 minutes from the end we persuaded them to let us stay and agreed to sneak out through a back exit) found us watching March of the Penguins as part of National Schools Film Week We had expected to meet with the Beans, but they got held up in nasty traffic and didn’t make it with the result that L spent a fair bit of the morning asking where SB was; I think there’s a bit of heroine-worship going on
The film was great and the children really enjoyed it, although L ran out of patience and stillness about 3/4 of the way through and had to go out for a little break. K sat on Bob’s lap and then on mine and did a bit of weeping at various points, with a few whispered conversations about food chains, sad mummy and daddy penguins and so on, but J was just enthralled the whole way through
After the film Bob dropped us off in the city centre and we went to Bouncearound for the first time in ages, which was great. We really must rearrange our week a little so that we can go more often! Also found out that there was a curry and childcare evening the next day, so signed up for that
Mid-afternoon we met up with Bob again and went to Jesus to talk about the choir. It soudns very full-on and tbh I’m not really sure, but J is more determined than ever that it is something he wants to do, so I guess we’ll have to give it a go. It will mean a lot of work to prepare for the auditions in March and then there are likely to be at least 2 applicants for each place, many of them from musical families and with private tuition etc behind them… The audition will involve reading, writing, singing back random notes and longer tunes, clapping back rhythms, identifying chords, how many notes are being played etc. Assuming he gets through all that we’ll be given lots of work for him to do over the summer ready to start in earnest in September and there will then be two evening rehearsals a week, as well as a Sunday morning and the actual performance stuff on Saturday afternoons – what on earth are we letting ourselves in for?!

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