http://fuguestate.co.uk/2009/11/04/finally/ Bachariffic Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:01:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fuguestate.co.uk/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-27 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:29:15 +0000 http://fuguestate2.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-27 Ive been really busy with mum baby activities (baby massage, mum baby pilates, coffee dates with local mums) that cello has not featured hugely quite yet. I did go to an orchestra rehearsal to show off Elliot and it was good to see everyone and think about music again. Fighting the negative feeling is hard – Im not sure how were going to manage cello lessons on maternity pay, so it might be a while before I get back to proper tuition, and thats a bit depressing, but there you are. Ive got awhile to go before I get to where I was before even!

]]> http://fuguestate.co.uk/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-26 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:35:55 +0000 http://fuguestate2.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-26 How’s it going this week? I’m going to have quite an absence myself, and having gone through 2 (6 month+) previous away periods, I really don’t look forward to it. It’s not that my playing will suffer so much: it usually improves when I pick back up, but rather how hard I will have to fight to not get negative. I may well have to read my own damn blog.

]]> http://fuguestate.co.uk/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-25 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:26:15 +0000 http://fuguestate2.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-25 Yes, I can imagine naps are high on the agenda. And remember a cello is forever, and babies grow up incredibly quickly. Enjoy them both.
Rock on
Geoff

]]> http://fuguestate.co.uk/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-24 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:40:32 +0000 http://fuguestate2.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-24 Thanks everyone. Good way to look at it Elaine, its an early musical education isnt it! And yes Geoff, I should really send Christopher out with Elliot for an hour or something, but to be honest the first thing on my agenda would be a nap…

]]> http://fuguestate.co.uk/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-23 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:16:03 +0000 http://fuguestate2.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-23 Send the two men in your life out for half an hour’s walk each day and just play. It’ll do everyone good.
Rock on
Geoff

]]> http://fuguestate.co.uk/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-22 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:33 +0000 http://fuguestate2.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-22 I’m so glad you’re back in the cello saddle. Motherhood certainly changes your motivations, doesn’t it? Getting 20 minutes a day to yourself and your cello with an infant is an amazing amount of time. And the time you spend with your cello isn’t “taking away” from your time with Elliot: it is something that you are sharing with him. How many babies get to listen to Bach (or even scales, which are wonderfully predictable things for a baby’s ears to follow) played by their very own mother on a huge cello every day? What a lucky kid. What a lucky mom.

]]> http://fuguestate.co.uk/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-21 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:52:02 +0000 http://fuguestate2.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/finally/#comment-21 Hurrah! Hurrah! I’m so glad it went well.

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