Sherborne Summer School Of Music 2012 - Day 3 31/07/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 3 - Tuesday 31/07/2012

My alarm went off early to go swimming with mum before breakfast, another half a mile done!  

The sessions today went well, we seem to be making good progress.  However, there are a couple of pieces we haven't looked at yet!!

More rehearsal time with Mike as well for Saturday mornings cabaret, piece coming on well!! 

Rather than going to dinner with everyone else and the Piano recital Tim came up after work and we went  to the Kebab shop for dinner before going ringing to the Abbey Practice night. 

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Sherborne Summer School of Music 2012 - Day 1 29/07/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 1 - Sunday 29/07/2012

The year seems to have gone very quickly - but once again I am in Sherborne for 'Band Camp' as my friends call it!!! 

I met mum on the way and we arrived at lunch time.  We got our welcome information and room keys and then unpacked the cars.  We found some others we knew from previous years and went and had some lunch.  At 16.30 we met for our first session to meet the group and have an introduction to some of the music.  As in previous years we are rehearsing and performing in the Powell Theatre.

After dinner I had a quiet evening to get ready for the week ahead!!!

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Sherborne Summer School of Music 2012 - Day 2 30/07/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 2 - Monday 30/07/2012

My alarm went off early as I had agreed with mum to go swimming before breakfast (It seemed a good idea last night!!).  Half a mile later it was breakfast time!!

The first session was a sectional rehearsal.  Tim Uglow took the men to Cheep Street Church to have a look at their music while Sue went through ours.  We seemed to make good progress - hopefully we won't forget it all for later!!  The next session Tim Uglow was rehearsing for his recital so we went through some of the unaccompanied pieces.

Just before Lunch we went along to hear Tim Uglow's recital on the organ in the Abbey.

Sherborne Abbey Organ

By the end of the last session for today we had had a look at most of the pieces of music that we are doing this week.  A lot to work on but should be a nice and varied program.  After dinner I met with Mike to have a play through some clarinet music for our cabaret on Saturday morning.  I have decided to play Scarborough Fair from The Emma Johnson Collection.

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Ringing - Quarter Peal Day in Somerset

Quarter Peal Day - Somerset

Winsham

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Thorncombe

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Ilminster

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Family - Martha's visit

Martha's Visit

23.07.2012

Martha came down yesterday.  Vicky collected her from the station and we all met at the Sir Walter Tyrrell Pub in the New Forest.  We then brought martha back to Wimborne.  Tim came over after work and we went out to the Lambs Green for dinner.

24.07.2012
I arrived at mum's in the morning and took Martha over to Hamworthy, we made a picnic and headed off to the beach for a walk.  It was beautiful sunshine.

After getting rather overheated on the beach we went to the Lifeboat College to have a drink in the shade.

Later on mum came and collected Martha as I was on a night shift.

25.07.2012
Mum took Martha to see Jon, Vicky and Isobel in Southampton.  She then got a train home to Nottingham.

It was really nice to see Martha again and to catch up.  A couple of years has flown by since we last saw each other.

Baking - REX Players Cake - Day 2

Baking - REX Players Cake

Day 2

This afternoon Elliott came over to help finish making the cake.  We iced the rings...

Linked them together and put them on the cake!

Put ribbons around the cake and board...

Cut out the lettering...

Put them on the board...

Finished cake ready to go!

The inside of the rings!!!

Baking - REX Players Cake - Day 1

Baking - REX Players Cake

Day 1

Elliott came over and we made good progress.  Made all the cakes and cut the rings!!!

First two rings made and cut :o)

Next rings ready for cutting

All five rings cut and ready for icing

Ringing - Quarter Peal

Quarter Peal

Wareham

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Caving - Hilliers & Fairy Cave

Caving - Hilliers Cave & Fairy Cave

Tim and I arrived at the car park just gone 10 and met Rob - This was Rob's first visit to the caves of Fairy Quarry. Once in the cave we took a right turn to pass into a grovelly gravelly crawl to get into the system. There were broken formations littering the floor in the initial passages - this was down to old quarry blasting. There were also some rather dodgy looking rockfalls on the floor!  We then reached Tar Hall which is a chamber covered in tar which had dripped down from the quarry.  

Stal formations

Me and Rob (who had just farted!)

A bit further on we passed the connection to Fairy Cave where we would come back to later.  We continued through various passages to the Upper Grotto, Cambridge Grotto and on past Brenda's Chamber.  Occasional stops on the way for Tim to take photos.

Formations on the way to Upper Grotto

Me and Rob in the Upper Grotto

Formations

Just on from Brenda's Chamber we stopped for a short while to explain the next section to Rob - The passage that leads into the Red Room is called Suicide! - The reason being that the boulder choke you have to navigate through doesn't look all that stable, though there have not been any reports of rock movement! We made it to the Red Room and it is immediately obvious how it got it's name!

Me and Rob

The Red Room

The Red Room

We then retraced our route back to the Fairy Cave connection. It starts with a traverse across to the bridge connection and then a crawl along some mud banks. Eventually you come to the puddle!! there had been a fair bit of rain and the puddle was quite full. We decided it would be best done with helmets off to allow more breathing room!!!

Rob coming through the duck

Rob emerging from the duck!

After the duck it's about 20 minutes if crawling and walking passage to the Fairy Cave entrance.

Formations in Fairy Cave

Four hours after entering Hilliers Cave we emerged from the entrance to Fairy Cave.

Me emerging from Fairy Cave

Rob emerging from Fairy Cave

A great trip enjoyed by everyone :o)

Route taken on today's trip

Clapper Chaos Handbell Group - Blandford Corn Exchange Concert

Clapper Chaos Handbell Group

Blandford Corn Exchange Concert

Clapper Chaos were asked to perform in a concert to raise money for the Gurkha Welfare Trust.  Other performers included  the Wimborne and Ferndown Singers that my mother sings with - as shown in the photo below.

Sarah was unable to join us tonight so the players were myself, Tim and Elliott.  The pieces we played were - Kingsfold, Popeye, Pie Jesu and Theme from Jurassic Park.  The audience seemed to enjoy Popeye as it caused a chuckles in a few places.  Hopefully they have raised a good amount considering the foul weather tonight.

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Caving - Singing River Mine

Caving - Singing River Mine

Tim and I arrived at Shipham Green at 18:45 - Richard and two others were already down the cave so we headed on in.  We descended the entrance shaft and made our way to Singing River chamber, we took the passage on the left and found Richard on their way out!!  We left our SRT kits and continued on to explore the West Series and the Stream Galleries first.  Back to collect our kit and have a play at SRT - Tim rigged the pitch above the "Stinking Gulf" and I had a play with my new chest harness and with Richard's Pantin.  We then took a diversion to the other side of the Gulf and made our way to the Great Hall.  The water level was very high so we did not go into the Great Hall - we climbed up on to a higher level  and had a good view of the watery chamber!  We exited the cave about 21:30 and set off to find Richard at Blagdon club to return his kit.

Singing River Mine Survey and Route we took

Playing Abseiling

Playing SRT

Playing SRT

Raining in the Great Hall!

The Entrance

SRT out the entrance shaft

Ringing - Quarter Peal

Quarter Peal

Kingston

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