All the cool kids...

Are making records. Well, that's what we've been doing, anyway. On Friday night, our good friend Matt drove up from Peterborough with a 24 track hard disk recording unit. We brought in a whole bunch of other equipment from various sources, and some duvets, and built us a studio in the basement of the house on Talbot Mount (see picture). We managed to get down 9 tracks in one day, which was pretty impressive. There's still the vocals to record, and then we have to master it all, but things are going well. Keep an eye on our website to find out more, and to check out when you can get to one of our shows...

Back in the real world, I've got it easy at school today. Rather than teaching, which I was doing some of last week, today I'm back to observing. It's a reasonably easy task that basically requires watching the teacher, making notes on what they do, and then helping out a bit in the class for the lesson. Even I can manage that. One little gem from this morning though: The children were learning how to make notes on a text. They were given three paragraphs, which they had to shorten to something that made sense and contained all the major information. One girl, I noted, had written that the mercury from batteries can poison the soil. However, a slight mis-spelling on her part led the sentence to actually read 'the mercury from batteries can poison the soul'. Brilliant, and probably true.

Went for another run tonight, but couldn't take the pace that Rob kept with his mighty legs. Cut it short. Still felt pretty good afterwards though. I then cooked a tasty treat for everyone, and Butch went off to meet his girl. More about her at a later date, no doubt. The evening was rounded off with a lovely cup of chai tea, brewed by yours truly. I'll post in the next couple of days about how I did it, and how you can do the same. Until then...