What a busy day! At 9:30, I was singing madrigals to accompany the St Luke's coffee morning. It was actually really fun - six of us ploughing through our old favourites and some new ones, and then bashing out some jazz standards. They weren't quite so successful - although my sight reading isn't bad, it does sometimes rely on the fact that I know what it is supposed to sound like. That way, I can take a good guess, and know if I'm right pretty quickly just due to whether it sounds right or not. But when we are singing fruity jazz chords, and I don't know how the song goes anyway, I've got no idea whether the modulation that has been effected by my bluesy notes was intentional or not!
Then Ian and met in town for the fearsome task of shopping. We couldn't go home until I had posh shoes that could be not only worn for a wedding, but also ceilidh-ed in, and we both had suitable fancy dress for Roo's Buffy the Vampire Slayer party. Shoes were dispensed with pretty quickly (thank goodness!), but fancy dress took rather longer. It didn't help that every time we had an idea, we had to retreat to Borders to look up the character in a book to check that we hadn't missed a vital detail.
We literally gulped down some pasta and pesto at home and then drove to Emma and Neil's. They are making a crazy move to Luton (our friends have all the best taste in towns!), since Neil has got a new job in Watford. They are off on Monday, so there was just time to say goodbye and have our 3 monthly Ethan viewing! He's almost 1 now, and is actually like a real person.
Several games of cow racing on the Wii later, we dashed home, into fancy dress and out to Mikey and Roos. Ian wowed the general public with his interpretation of Buffy, and I was scared by how at home in a dog collar Jim looked! We all sang the musical episode really loudly (and at times tunelessly), and a good time was had by all. We didn't have time for any kitten poker - maybe next time.....
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