The past two years have been pretty bad years for flu epidemics and viral infections. Everyone I know caught this awful coughing virus over the xmas period and many were still feeling the effects of it into February, one friend’s son has had a total of three weeks off school since January due to it. My son, who never even gets a sniffle, even caught it. I blame the severe cold weather of late, the central heating in the shops (I hate central heating…) and the lack of sunshine. We are all affected by lack of warmth and sunshine.

So it was lovely to see the sun come out last week and today and I hope it gets more common. I have felt the effects of no sun like never before – I got out the outdoor patio furniture and laid in the sun this afternoon and it was bliss I tell you…bliss. To feel warmth on your skin after so many months of freezing weather…roll on summer.

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I was just counting yesterday that among my circle of friends there is a total of seven babies due to be born within the next three months – seven! is that a baby boo or what? three of my friends are at-home mums already, four are going on maternity leave as late as possible and some are betting on whose baby is going to be born on the same day as the royal baby due to William and Kate.

Well, I know at least one firm definite because she has a due date in July so it will be a matter of handing out the Avo cigars on a massive scale in the summer. Interestingly too, only half of the mums want to know the sex of their baby beforehand, the others are going to ‘be surprised’….quite a shift in what became the thing-to-do for all parents in recent times.

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I forget their name but there’s a girl band who play classical instruments in a totally modern and sexy style…’Bond’, that’s their name. Remembering who they are though is neither here nor there for me because I don’t like their music. I am a traditionalist I’m afraid when it comes to orchestral instruments. I like violins, cellos and violas to look the way they always looked and sound normal, not all wired up and screechy.

I have seen the electronic violins in the local music shop, and the electric cello at wwbw, but they don’t appeal to me even though they are painted in a range of bright pastel colour – a blue violin…now that’s going too far in my opinion. I wonder what Menuhin would say?

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