The Christmas Pudding Carol

Note the apologies to everyone

Had a fun choir practice learning carols for our Christmas concert at Borrowdale Brook and old age homes. We have some lovely numbers, including John Rutter's Shepherd's Pipe Carol and the fun Christmas Pudding. I thought they said we were doing Christmas Pudding and Shepherd's Pie! Some of the alto part is quite hard although in the Holly and the Ivy we somehow end up singing higher than the sopranos at one point - unheard of.

It has been stiflingly warm today and there wasn't time to go for a swim in a friend in Monvale's pool, like I did yesterday and Saturday. I may opt to do personal training in the pool tomorrow, although I'm sure it will be hard work and not just floating round doing aquacize on a pool noodle (as much as I would love that). Will probably be crawl sprints and medleys. But at least it will be cool.

A person I house sat for last year has very kindly offered to pay me with 20L of petrol. Best gift ever! We sat in a hot car for 3 hours yesterday but succeeded in getting a full tank. It is not fun fuel queueing in this weather. Tomorrow is supposed to be the hottest and then hopefully it cools down a little and maybe, just maybe we might get some rain.

Have resumed Zoom lessons with my Chinese now seven year old (I missed his birthday, oops). Had to help him with his school English homework. He was very chatty which was nice. I now teach a grade two, a boy at the French school and do NILD with a student from school as well, so am pretty busy. Have had people wanting extra lessons for Cambridge maths but I think I have enough. The extra teaching does help me keep afloat financially with inflation as it is. Just the cost of petrol alone is frightening.