For a couple of weeks I am recording from Wellington, New Zealand. Summer. Warm. Wild gardens. Good food. Cooking. Family. Eating. Adjusting. All good stuff.
In the absence of a desk I have set up my laptop and recording equipment on the piano in the little sleepout by the pear tree. Which has made me smile. When I was a child we had a baby grand in the front room - it had been my grandmothers. My grandmother had achieved her LTCL before she married and made a little money teaching piano and playing concerts (probably playing for Mass too) before her husband went away to war and she opened a wee shop and sold pies. We were told she was a concert pianist but family folk lore may have exaggerated that a bit. Playing the piano and selling pies do not sound like the same life. In those days the money she earned was called her ‘pin money’ - a woman could have money of her own this way.
Without a bank account of her own the money must have stayed in cash unable to save it. How tough it must have been for women when the men went to war after having set up an entire society designed to keep women dependent.
Anyway! I digress!
Alexander Alan Milne was inspired to write Winnie the Pooh for his son Christopher Robin Milne who had a bear named Winnie the Pooh (though he was originally called Edward Bear).
For a few minutes let’s take some time out from the world and listen to a beloved story, one we know well. One that has nothing whatever to do with the present day. Well, not directly anyway.
Celi
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