The last few months have been full on with work, in fact, for our little business year 5 has been our busiest to date (not that we're complaining!).
The lovely ladies choir that I belong to finally put on their concert back in April after 9 months of busy rehearsal. We raised around £1600 in total half of which went to Short Cross Methodist Church and the other half toward research into Lupus. Since then we've taken the concert out to a couple of other venues and we'll be performing again on Saturday night but this time in aid of Birmingham St Mary's Hospice who do invaluable work offering help and support to people with terminal illness. This should then be our last performance of 'Film Fantasia' and then we'll have a short break before starting up again later in the Summer.
The school choir will be performing their Summer concert next Tuesday after rehearsing since January. During the last few weeks we've taken a small group from the choir to sing at the Salvation Army's Birmingham Citadel and also at the 'Time Out' group's Jubilee Party. We were made to feel very welcome on both occasions and children sang their hearts out. They're more than ready now to perform their final concert and I think we're all a little sick of the songs if I'm completely honest!
My running has recently come to a bit of a standstill unfortunately due to some health worries. Everything now looks to be clear so I'm hoping to get out for a run at the weekend. This will be my first in 2 months so as you can imagine I think I'll struggle to get to the end of the street rather than manage the 7 miles level I'd finally reached. It's a bit disappointing really as I felt I was doing so well, but I'm determined to get back to it and build it up gradually again as I did before.
The family are all well. The school year seems to have whizzed by so fast, can't believe 'A' is nearly at the end of her first year of high school. It doesn't seem 5 minutes since we were stressing about how she'd settle in. 'S' has had a good first year of study for his GCSE's and has done some marvellous things in Music in particular.
'P' celebrated his birthday at the start of the month so thought it was about time he booked in his birthday present from LAST year.....White Water Rafting. See my next post for all the fun and photos! He's still running and his performance has come on no end since he's been regularly running with the club. He has another race tomorrow in Blakedown and during March managed to win 1st place in the competition on RunBritain for most improved running handicap..
Arnold celebrated his 2nd birthday on Tuesday. Hard to believe he's been part of our family now for 2 years. I can still remember when he first came home with us, I had to wear my knee length boots around the house in the peak of Summer to fend off his feisty puppy needle teeth! Well worth the pain though, we wouldn't be without him :).
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