Gardening, baking and soaking

1. Another 20 minutes or so clearing weeds in the back garden. This time I pulled a few bramble roots and a couple of nettles, but I'm guessing it won't take long for them to grow back... It's the furthest I've reached yet though.

2. He made his first loaf of bread - very nice! (With a hint of rosemary worked through for extra flavour)

3. A bath to relax at the end of the day.

Clearing out and making something new

1. It was light and (just) warm enough when I got home to do a little more gardening. Only half an hour or so, but it all helps.

2. A relaxed evening meal before a week (month?) of busyness.

3. Trying out a new knitting technique. It felt very clumsy at first, but I'm beginning to get the hang of it now. I'm not making anything fancy, so it doesn't matter that the tension's quite random.

A wee bit of a stretch

I enjoyed playing bass in the band this morning. It stretched my skills a bit too (as well as my left hand)...

I'm usually ok with the faster rockier songs, where I just need to keep a steady, quick beat going and follow the guitar chords, but the slower ones need a bit more interest & I've not learnt how to stray far from playing the tonic notes yet. Today, I worked out a very simple little riff to get away from playing a line of D followed by a line of G (over and over again) and it seemed to work. I had quite a stretch in my left hand to get from D to F# smoothly but it sounded ok most of the time.

It felt good to develop a little from where I've been for so long.