Three Things (stolen from Bev- as usual!)

Bev always posts great tag ideas. Things, when you're not inspired to post, that you can post about.  After all, it's easy to talk about yourself isn't it!

Three things I liked about February:
1.  Northumbrian half-term:
I hadn't been to Hexham since last Easter and though the weather was egregious, it was SO delightful to return to this wonderful country.  We had a great few days of delicious food, rest and relaxation with CBC's mum.  We ate some gorgeous food at the Beaumont hotel, Bouchon, at home & my dear friends J&K, who moved to Hexham last year came round for dinner.  It was so nice to see them and I really enjoyed quite a restful holiday.
2.  My Flautista flute recital at Chelmsford Cathedral:
We had SUCH a good audience!!! At least 200 possibly, though I'm not so good at numbers!  We performed well, we performed the premiere of my flute trio, Flautistic, which was exciting. I've not had a non-school-based composition performed for a while. I was supported by lots of friends and family and even a blogging friend, which was honestly such a delight when I received a text from Hazel who told me she was on a train on her way to Chelmsford!!!
3.  Teaching the Pentasong in all its myriad permeatations! Honestly, it is one of my favourite lessons to teach and it is SUCH  a versatile, simple song with so many teaching points:  Through this one simple song, you can teach such concepts and techniques such as:  Unison (monophony), polyphony, rounds, 2 part, 4 part, octaves, transposition, pentatonic, intervals, major/minor/tonality, effective melody-writing and obviously, pentatonic music.

Three things I'm looking forward to in March:
1.  Performing Shostakovitch's epic 11th symphony with Kensington Symphony Orchestra on Saturday. It's bloomin' hard and relentless, loud, difficult and turbulent but it's such a treat to play Shostakovitch esp with such a wonderful orchestra.  Also looking forward to having two BBC symphony orchestra players performing concertos with orchestras I'm playing with this month!
2. A day off on Sunday!!!
3.  I WAS looking forward to the biennual Royal Albert Hall choral festival with my school choir but that was last week! So instead..I was also looking forward to eating Malaysian food at Warisan Café near Paddington on Saturday but that's also happened too!

Three vegetables I eat the most:
1.  Courgettes:  they are my go-to vegetable. I cook them with everything. Funny to think I didn't like them as a child.
2. Tomatoes (I know they are a fruit but anyway...)- they also feature in everything.
3.  Peppers:  These are my third most prolific vegetable purchase.  I think I buy these three the most because they are the most likely not to be in plastic.

Three groceries I buy every week:
1.  Milk: delivered in glass by Milk and More.
2.  Apple Juice- also delivered by the milkman
3.  Bread of some sort. Ideally loose.

Three things we go through like crazy in our house:
1.  Tea (that said, my Mum bought us SUCH a big bag of loose leaf tea (both Earl Grey and English breakfast) that they are lasting absolutely yonks and I foresee no running out in the near-distant future!
2.  Cheese.  I barely ate cheese before I met CBC. He is an absolute cheese-hog and I have also increased my cheese-consumption drastically in the decade we've been together. As a little aside... CBC was sacked for eating too much cheese once!
3.  Crackers: to go with aforementioned cheese. Or tomatoes.

Three things I always have time for:
1.  Reading:  I commute for at least 10 hours a week. There is MUCH reading time!
2.  Moaning about annoying children (need to stop this!)
3.  Sitting down with a cup of tea.

Three things I never have time for:
1.  Urgh, housework!
2.  Going to bed early! What is wrong with me!??!!
3.  Tidying up the massive pile of mess beside my bed! Relates to point 1.

Do let me know if you answer these!
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