The Brass Band played at a local School Fete on Saturday, with a couple of helpers from other local bands. I think we put on a reasonable performance, but we do still have to rely too heavily on the solo cornets, without a regular solo horn or solo euphonium the cornets have to carry the band a lot of the time. On the personal front, I think I am slowly improving as a conductor, but there is still a lot of scope for more improvement. I look forward to not worrying about my technical performance and thinking more of making music.
The school we were playing at is a Roman Catholic Church school, there were a lot of people there including the Local Bishop who had a few nice words for us.
On Sunday we watched the British Grand Prix, I didn't have high hopes for the British drivers, but both did very well. I was particularly impressed by Jenson Button, finishing 4th after starting down in 14th. Even if he doesn't win the Championship this year I think he has shown that last year was not just a lucky blip. Drives like this weekend show that he is a worthy champion, indeed I think he would have been on the podium if he hadn't been running low on fuel.
A little more work in our garden has it almost straight, however I found a major ants nest in one of the new raised beds I put in earlier this year. I'm not sure if they are effecting the courgettes we are growing in the bed.
The picture is of some lillies we have already out. We grow lillies in pots since planting in the ground they only seem to flower for one or two years, and then just rot. Growing in pots we get year after year of colour where ever we want it. I am pretty pleased with the garden this year we have already started cropping from our little veg patch with lots more to come.
This is a picture of our seating area made from reclaimed timber lintels. Although this is meant to be a seating area we tend to fill it with pots. I am particularly pleased with the hydrangea (a cutting from Fowey) alongside the pink busy lizzie. Not so pleased with the quality of the picture, my old digital camera seams to have developed a few problems, and compared with my daughters new one (see lillies above) the overall quality is not there either. I think I need to spend some money and buy a new one, it's just that I hate spending money unless it's on tubas or plants.
I agree with what you say about Jenson. I enjoyed the race and was happy with the result. I wanted the Brits to win but I'm happy that mark did after the rotten stunt his team pulled on him with the front wing. Your lillies look very nice.
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