Thursday 15th May - Priez pour paix

The Main Event

I find having a bath quite tiring these days, and I think the days of relaxing wallows in a tub of hot water maybe nearing their end. Now I keep thinking about all the walk-in showers and wet rooms I have used in hotels and holiday houses... but I'd miss the bath...

Then BB cut my hair! The first time we did this (it feels like a joint effort!) we were both rather nervous,  but it was okay. Fine, even. This must be the third or fourth time now. We get my wet hair combed smoothly back from my face and he cuts a straight line (he's got a good eye) across between my shoulder blades.

I appear to have drawn the 'slim version' of me... positive thinking...

My hair is not exactly 'styled', but I'm very happy with the results. My mother, who was very fussy about her appearance and extremely fussy about haircuts, would be horrified! 

Anyway, that, and a long friendly chatty zoom piano lesson took up the whole morning. 

Music

Praying for peace has been on my mind today, so this choice was inevitable. 

Priez pour paix

The music is by Poulenc, the words by Charles, duc d'Orsay, written around 1407.

The singers are Cantabile, otherwise known as The London Quartet. I was given their CD  'Lullabies and Goodnights' about 15 years ago by a 'piano family'; I accompanied the girls through their violin and cello exams, and coached them through their aural tests.  That CD has helped me through many an anxious night since then. 

 I have since bought two more of their CDs, one of Christmas carols and this one, Songs of Love and War, which is where this beautiful prayer for peace comes from.

The words are below the video.