TENOR HORN, PIANO, BALLET AND PEALLA

30/MARCH/2020

Covid Diary

TENOR HORN, PIANO, BALLET AND PEALLA

Sorting out literacy work for my daughter, my phone beeps; I haven’t filled out the form for my daughter’s ballet practice on Sunday yet. On zoom (zoom, zoom, zoom are we going on the moon?) The tone is gentle but rather than hectoring while I ponder the origins of the word hectoring. “The Hector; firm but fair Trojan Soldier give his name to the term?” Was he consulted when people started using the term?

11:30 am, a technical hitch about my son’s Tenor Horn practice; he can’t hear the instructor at all. So that it is rescheduled while I mix up a paella: left over roast chicken, turmeric that I could source from the off license with a craftiness of a war time house-wife and some vegetables.

Tenor horn is back on the zoom, all technical hitches fixed yet my son puffs up his cheeks.  “We have been practicing on him not puffing his cheeks!” I lie a little unconvincingly. He play jingle bells after a few more hitches.  

Husband takes over helpfully getting the kids to listen to David Walliams audio book.

It is 1:30, a quick numeracy session with my daughter- counting her pocket money.  Then piano on zoom. Zoom Zoom Zoom, are we going on the moon?