Monday 30 November 2009

Autumn Term

This term has flown by and I almost risk it ending without making an entry to my blog. Most of my time has been spent taking photographs and putting them on the web. The best of them are illustrated by the links below:


Slideshows or collections

Lower Sixth Induction

1st XV v Kirkham Grammar and Bishop Wordsworth’s on Photobox

Girls' U18 County hockey tournament

Blackrock College Rugby Festival

1st XV v Millfield

Grimm's Tales

1st XV v Blackrock College

Webpages

(Warning these links take you to Colston's web site and you get thrown from this blog - so still working on this !)

Year 7 Integration Morning

New facilities

Open Morning

Sixth Form Open Evening

Charter Day

Colston Day

We haven't been to see much. Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick at St George's Brandon Hill was enjoyed more by Wendy than me and two early evening concerts at The Church of St Salvator in Prague (Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Mozart's Requiem) is about all we have managed.
Our short half term trip to Prague was fabulous: we were very pleased with the hotel which was well appointed, comfortable and really suited us in every way.

We loved the transport system and all the sightseeing. The restaurants were not too expensive and the food was okay but, because we tried the Czech cuisine, a litle dull. We also tried a few local beers which were great and even the local wine wasn't too bad.


Images of Prague

I have not practised my saxophone as much as I should have done but managed to pass my Grade 1 examination in November.

I have enjoyed listening to Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man (Review of The Armed Man http://www.adiemus.f2s.com/armedmanrev.htm) which I discovered thanks to the iPhone App Shazam. Because I can now read a note or two I am encouraged and have decided to have a go at Colston's Choral Society (but wonder if I have overstretched myself after the first rehearsal!).