Tuesday 13th May - After the storm

 That was unexpected. At least the storm announced itself with a couple of loud thunder rolls before the heavens opened and the rain came pouring down. I stood by the open door to listen to the gutters overflowing and the water chuckling along the soakaway. 

And the it was over, as suddenly as it began.

 I've been moving my plants down drom the bedroom windmills where they've been all winter, and they all looked rather taken aback

The bench is too weak to sit on now; it's one of the pair we had under the apple tree for several years. I've bought new benches and the old ones have become useful plant stands. This one does a good job of 'beautifying' the side of the shed.

BB distracted himself from his tooth extraction yesterday by getting my little solar fountain going - actually this is a replacement, the old one having given up.

The sun came out after the storm, and it's working well. BB cleaned out the basin too

 The daisies are doing extravagantly well this year. I always think of them as Cornish daisies' because of the way they grow everywhere down there.

Music

Doing 'a storm' was one of my favourite lessons with the younger children. It was the culmination of several weeks working on loud, soft, gradually changing from one to the other (piano crescendo forte diminiendo piano) and following a conductor, until we made our very own rain storm! 

With older children I do more or less the same lesson but adding in instruments as well.

Sometimes, rarely, the lesson might coincide with a Real Storm outside, which had the children awestruck at the power of music...

Here's an adult choir creating a storm.