Music and Nature

Monday morning and back to music school. Children behaving badly. Lots of "No" going on. Lots of running around. Eloise included.

"Must be a full moon" I said, to exasperated looks.

Nicole was in bed for the day after having worked a night. We tip-toed around with lots of "Shhh"-ing going on.

In the afternoon we went out to Samford Forest and walked around the big circuit, taking a detour to the very top of the highest hill we could find. Matilda was rooting around under logs. Eloise was making little progress... until she discovered the trick of attaching the business end of Tiny's lead onto the pocket of my shorts. Whereupon we would run away giggling and I would have to keep up. After a few metres the lead would come off and we would have to stop for the lead to be re-attached and the ritual re-started. We covered several hundred metres in the fashion.

Time was pressing though, as Nicole was to be woken at five o'clock. We had been out in the woods for two hours and needed to be back soon so into the sack went Eloise and we stomped back down the steep hill a toute vitesse singing Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. What fun!

Nicole claimed that she was just waking up when we got back at 5.30. Hmmm.....
... and it's a full moon...