Back at school now... as busy as ever! I'm feeling a bit 'fragile' at the moment, so struggling to stay focussed and positive on things at work. I'm spending around 12 hours a day here at the moment... and 60 hour working weeks aren't much fun, especially when the majority is spent either alone or with 18 ten year olds! :(

We went for a couple of lovely walks at the weekend... one down the canal in our town and another round a beautiful village about 10 minutes away by car. It was nice to get out... although the original plan had been to go and fly my kite... until we realised we'd left it in our other house 200 miles south of here!

We're hoping to head down south at some point to pick up my keyboard/synth and stand, which is currently the only piece of furniture (bar a toy box) in the spare room in our old house. I miss my keyboard... I'm accompanying my violin group at the Spring Strings concert on Thursday and I wish I had it up here so I could practise! I must find some time tomorrow to play it through a few more times.

I'm also playing my violin in the concert, in the 'teachers' ensemble' with the 2 violin and cello teachers... should be interesting! Hopefully I haven't lost the ability to play... I haven't played regularly (bar in my Thursday violin group) for a three years now, since I started my PGCE.

This week marks 22 years since I started playing the violin - how time flies!