What a weekend!

Actually that post title makes it sound like it all went wrong!  It didn't- I just couldn't think of a post title!

I've had an interesting weekend which has been enjoyable!

Friday night:


The Gamelan concert went really well on the whole!  Short ride in a fast machine by John Adams was the main piece I was playing in (hence the music stands- you don't usually use music stands for gamelan as it is learnt by ear and played from memory!  It went fairly well although my hand totally seized up about 2 pages into it and I was worried I wouldn't be able to continue- it was going so fast (140 beats a minute!).

I adore my friend's necklace!  She got it made at Tatty Devine! Isn't it the best!

CBC and I enjoyed a lovely Malaysian meal afterwards- a great Singapore Laksa with even too much for me to finish!


Saturday morning we went swimming which was a good idea as I was in SUCH a grump, I was tired and headachy!  Poor CBC!


Saturday afternoon we visited a lovely French patisserie we hope will make our wedding cake to moon over cake pictures and to eat goats-cheese baguettes and exquisite chocolate mousses (micce??)

In the evening we headed to the coast for a leaving do for a work colleague of CBC's.
Anticipating the cold but wanting to still try and be a little glam (but covered up!) I wore a black velvet skater dress (from local Boutique Kush) with an Edwardian-style high-necked wool jumper underneath with tights and Hush puppies!  It was just right as it was not warm in the venue!




There was lots of delicious food (Katie, there was a house-sized strawberry mille-feuille!!!!! Why oh why I didn't take a photo!) a great band comprising of teachers and we had a nice time analysing the lazer-light patterns on the walls!






Sunday, I am ashamed that I woke up late so I missed the Palm Sunday parade from the clock tower in my 'town?' and had to chase it down the street to church.  SUCH an interesting sermon and approach to the service.  We didn't have communion, because on Palm Sunday Jesus had not instituted Holy Communion and we symbolically ripped pieces of cloth from the cross to represent our ripping apart Jesus with all the ways we have done hurtful, sinful and wrong actions against him which we then bound to the cross to represent being healed- like sheets were ripped up and used to bind and stem wounds in World War 1.




The afternoon has been most jolly spent dancing around the house to Django Reinhardt!!!!

How has your weekend been?

xx



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