April in Melbourne is what I call I call a half and half month.
While March often still has lingering warm sunny days and May usually heralds early winter with cool rainy days – the thought for April (the middle month of Autumn) is ‘will it bring sunshine or will it bring rain’?.
Thinking about all those little changes that seem to happen at this time of the year we’re halfway through the month and what has happened?
The clocks changed – it’s become cooler – we’ve had some much needed rain – daylight is just under 50/50 (11hrs) but it’s dark now at 6pm so I want my dinner earlier.
Focusing on health (healthy body – healthy (happy) mind as I ‘told myself’ at the beginning of the year) has continued although Easter and the school holidays cut into the end/beginning of last and this month meaning I avoided the pool but that just meant our bundle of resistance bands here at home were used more regularly than had been happening.
The ‘happy mind’ was evident when Christmas present time turned up again. Tickets to Riverdance from our girls – don’t you love people who received the memo about giving experiences rather than gifts. And managed to get matinee seats so us oldies didn’t have to be out and about after dark😊.
As is normal these days no photography allowed during performances- the screens of anyone trying would have very obvious in the darkened Margaret Court Arena so this was just to show the girls the view we had. Three rows back, raised up from floor level – no worries of anyone’s big head spoiling the view. I did take a couple of the arena as it filled but won’t publish (faces looking my way)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverdance
Oh and don’t you love it when Melbourne transport whisks all those ‘happy’ theatre goers into town by train and then down to the tennis centre (Melbourne Park) by tram. No hassles at all – smiling faces all round
No choir during school holidays but my happy mind will be raring to go on Wednesday. We’ll be gearing up for concerts at aged care homes……age requirements mean residents must be over 65…..which is certainly not ‘old’ – in fact it be any one of us in the choir……so the ‘music/songs’ performed is slowly changing.
And even though (latest figures I found say that) ‘58% of people living in permanent residential aged care were aged over 85’ we think they would appreciate modern standards – musicals – even Elvis and The Beatles.
I’ve been told these two are on the running sheet for the first rehearsal:-
Dream a Little Dream of Me – 1931.
(Mamas and Papas 1968)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_a_Little_Dream_of_Me.
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Blue Skies – 1926.
(Frank Sinatra 1946)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Skies_(Irving_Berlin_song)
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So far so good
Temperature tonight 8c/45f so the warm and cosy sheets will go on soon
I know it will get dark earlier and light later
let’s just hope it doesn’t get too cold and too wet
To accept this seasonal change I need be able to enjoy the falling leaves
Monday Musings – a time to think and ponder
What are you thinking about this Monday morning?
Still Waters 