Hands up who used to love searching for conkers when they were little?
I certainly did!
I always feel sad that, for many of my children, they have never had that pleasure of searching for a pocket full of shining, brown conkers.
A couple of years ago, I gathered some conquers on my way home from work and talked to the children about searching for conkers. I then told them I would hide them round the playground and they could search for them. They loved it.
As I returned home from the station yesterday, I decided that it would be fun to do that again so I gathered a few. This time, I thought it would be fun to add a little message to the conkers. It was quite hard to write on the curved surface
Hope you are well.
I had a lovely Friday and Saturday. I performed a recital with my flute trio on Friday (lovely, enlightened Senior Leadership team gave me leave to perform) and after the performance, I went round to my old work colleague's house (she lives in the same town) for a cup of tea in her garden. It was so nice to see her. Saturday, I travelled to Islington to take part in a playday with the City of London Symphonic Winds which my Gamelan friend D asked me to do. It was so nice to play in a windband again AND a windband where there was only 2 to a part, not 6!
I hope all is well with you.
xx