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Date: 16 September 2004 11:42:56
My singing lesson was last night. In many ways this is the highlight of my week - a huge self-indulgence on every level (particularly financial) I always wanted to learn when I was a kid, but could never afford it so when I moved to south london and found there was a singing teacher living opposite me i really couldn't resist. Every wednesday night I wander over there in my slippers and spend an hour learning really cool pieces of opera as well as breathing exercises and singing.
it really is better than therapy. I come home thoroughly cheered up and with my lungs well exercised - and having made the most astonishing amount of noise. At the moment I'm learning Un Bel Di Vedremo by Puccini, which is hilariously over the top and very, very high. It's brilliant being a complete prima donna for just an hour a week - although as I am supposed to practice every day I feel rather sorry for the people who live upstairs from me.
It was really sad leaving my old church in Battersea, which had a fantastic choir which I could sing in, so this feels like a wonderful recompense for that. We do have music in our church and i do sometimes sing, but it's not quite the same, somehow - although there are other compensations. Singing lessons are definitely the way forward.
This morning I finished the church newsletter - taking out the bit about living in Chris. My husband suggested I changed the Alpha course to the Arthur course and continued the whole first names thing, but I didn't quite dare. Instead I indulged in my usual cheering practice of making the photo of the church leader put on two stone by stretching it massively (i did change it back, but I find it marvellously calming to do this when I can't get the text boxes to work), and used a picture of Optimus Prime to illustrate a course called Transformed Lives. Probably no-one else will find this amusing, but it pleased me (thank you Google Images).Simple things please simple minds, I guess