Sunday, May 14, 2017

Time

Gosh, it's been a busy couple of weeks. My two choirs had their concerts on consecutive Saturdays, so one week I was frantically polishing up the hard bits of Mozart's "Coronation Mass" (which is in four parts and relatively short) and the following week I was even more frantically making sure I knew the fiendish parts of Handel's "Israel in Egypt", which is in eight parts and quite long and tricky. They're both wonderful to sing but the Handel particularly is fairly exhausting.




On Tuesday we went up to see Son and DIL and the Unbloggable Baby, who is such a cutie, with huge blue eyes. She's nine months old now, and crawling. She has an fixed ambition to chew their cats.



We had lunch at Dundee Botanic Gardens, which are pleasant but not as impressive as the Edinburgh ones (which are, moreover, free to visit, unlike Dundee's). The weather was lovely. Indeed, the weather has been unfeasibly lovely for weeks: Edinburgh was the driest part of Britain in April, which has meant practically not a drop of rain. The garden is parched (or, as parched as a Scottish garden gets).





Sweet feet. I miss them.



Grandson was ill all week with a fever and sore ears. He didn't eat much; and since his usual physique is like a piece of string, he became alarmingly skeletal, with every rib visible and his spine all knobbly. We spent quite a bit of time helping to entertain him, but thankfully he's much better now.

Then today was Mr Life's birthday. He's now in his 70th year. How on earth did that happen? (and me only 35, too...). How many more good years do we have, I wonder?

Daughter 2 is expecting a baby in October. She's had problems in the past so we're all hoping that things go smoothly for her this time. Then we'll have four grandchildren, though alas only two in Edinburgh and thus available for intensive grannying. When this one is 15, we'll be 82 and 84 if we're still here at all. A sobering thought... .

7 comments:

  1. 35,eh? A very big age difference. :) I think about the quickly passing time too, and that I don't have grandchildren yet. (at 60) I would like time to enjoy them!

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  2. Of course you'll be here!!

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  3. You'll definitely still be here -- enjoying those babies and taking them to the botanics! I laughed when I read "unbloggable baby" -- you're so funny. She looks like she's growing like a weed though -- just like ours {sigh}. Like you, I worry a bit about the future generations. If our grandchildren wait as long as our children have waited to have babies, those babies will hardly know their grandparents. And when I see the lovely adventures you have with your grandchildren, that thought makes me very sad for the future generations. ;-(

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  4. My youngest grandchild is finishing kindergarten and I doubt I will have any more. But they all live nearby and that's a blessing. May all go well for your daughter number 2! That's lovely news.

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  5. So pleased for daughter2, do hope all goes well. Happy Birthday, Mr Life. Our Granddaughter starts full-time school in September so we shall see less of her even though they live close. Time does fly, doesn't it.

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  6. Hoping all goes well for Daughter2 and the pregnancy xx

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  7. Hi just come across your blog thru Sians. 'Israel in Egypt' I dont think is performed very often. Amazed, will look again. Monteverdi is my fave choral composer. markmusicsummer.blogspot.com has recently gone out. Toodles, Mark.

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