Music Exploration 15 – last night of the proms
Damn that headache after a work conference in a boiling hot room yesterday. Hence this Music Exploration post is a day late…maybe I should just change my day to the 16th each month?! Anyway, there’s...
View ArticleRediscovering retro musical toys
You can’t beat retro toys, and as we were clearing out my mum’s house to sell, we gradually found more and more old toys that she’d squirrelled away in the roof on our behalf. Well, not really my...
View ArticleMusic Exploration 16: Festivals at home
This month’s been a quiet one for music. Our plan to go to Cornbury didn’t happen because N had his non-birthday party the same weekend, so we’ve been limited to talking and listening to music on the...
View ArticleMusic Exploration 17 – golden oldies
It feels like ages since I’ve done a Music Exploration post. Or in fact, anything about music, but looking back at my notes, we’ve been listening to quite a lot. Informally as usual, but I’m loving...
View ArticleBaking with Bake to Black recipe book
I love cake. It’s one of my downfalls, with chocolate, pastries, biscuits…oh just food in general. But cake is something that the whole of our house like. Unlike other foods which the OH will faff...
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A Cushion Concert introduction to the trombone
I’ve been meaning to take N back to another Cushion Concert for ages but it’s never happened. But the I was determined to get there a second time. The Cushion Concerts are held in Oxford at the...
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My Sunday Photo – Paddington
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Paddington’s First Concert with City of London Sinfonia
I love to go to the theatre and concerts but haven’t been to many since having N. I’ve been aiming to get him to appreciate and enjoy music (other than AC DC which still seems to be his first love,...
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Music Exploration month 18 – drumming
We’ve been a bit rubbish recently listening to music. After the Paddington Concert last month, N’s still just been obsessed with rock music, although there’s been some other music floating round....
View ArticleTake one cardboard tube and teach vibration
N is obsessed with boxes as you may have seen from various photos on this blog over time. But he’s got quite partial to junk modelling as well. I don’t get many drawings home from school, but I get...
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Music Exploration 19 – the likes and loathing of film music
This month’s Music Exploration covers what feels like a broad spectrum of time, given we’ve got Christmas in there as well as the more normal new year. So it’s a real mix of, mostly accidental, music....
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My Sunday Photo – mini music
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Music Exploration – west coast swing and the national anthem
I can’t believe we’re a month on already, and I’m thinking I need to get back to playing N music in a specific sit down appreciation session…or at least playing music a lot more at home so he’s more...
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Music Exploration Classic FM Hall of Fame and tv music
Last month I decided not to write up a music exploration post because we’d not been doing much music, but this time I’m on it, although it’s largely been music by accident. But with music always on...
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Top 10 driving songs – my new car playlist
If you follow me on social media, you may have heard about the fun of getting my new car. From ‘interesting’ experiences with salesmen to picking up the car and being unable to pay for fuel thanks to...
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Music Exploration 23 – Young musician of the year
And, again I’m late with our Music Exploration post this month. Maybe I should change the date?! Or not. Anyway, this month has been an interesting mish mash music wise, but largely it’s been...
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The psychology of music while driving with kids
Music plays a big part in my life (when younger through playing musical instruments in wind bands, music school, orchestras and swing bands), now mostly through continuing my love a dance. But there’s...
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How to introduce kids to musical instruments with pBuzz
N loves music. He’s getting to the stage though, where he wants to make more of it and do it his own way. Whether that be blasting rock out through the tv or CD player, or tinkering on the piano. More...
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Music streaming through your tv with Electric Jukebox
We love music in our house. We might not agree all the time on what to play, but all of us enjoy listening to it. The OH and N love to rock (loudly and in the dark) while watching bands like Foo...
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My cracking top 10 Christmas songs
I love a good Christmas song, although Christmas carols are up there as well. I seem to have passed on my love of Christmas songs and music to N who discovered my Christmas compilation* album and has...
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