Dear Monday, I know it’s been some time since our last correspondence. Apologies. I hope you have been keeping well. Me? Why thank you for asking. I’ve been quite fine. I just have a tiny request. If you could manage it I’d really appreciate it if when I check my stars on my iPhone app […]

Dear Monday, I know it’s been some time since our last correspondence. Apologies. I hope you have been keeping well. Me? Why thank you for asking. I’ve been quite fine. I just have a tiny request. If you could manage it I’d really appreciate it if when I check my stars on my iPhone app […]

It’s always amazing when you have a breakthrough moment with a student. This happened for me yesterday afternoon while giving a piano lesson to my newest student – an adult who recently completed her Grade 8 practical exam. We were working through some theory when she asked what seemed like a very basic question. How […]

For a while there in the last weeks of winter I was starting wonder if I would ever get out of bed at a decent hour again. Even though my alarm would go off at 6:30 most days I would still be snuggled under the doona at 7:30….even 7:45 on a bad day. Then I […]

It’s been a little while since my last post (she writes as she hangs her head in shame). I’d like to say I’d been on a lovely, relaxing holiday travelling here, there and everywhere without a care in the world. Not so, my friends, not so. I’ve been finishing off the teaching term here at […]

It’s been a little while since my last post (she writes as she hangs her head in shame). I’d like to say I’d been on a lovely, relaxing holiday travelling here, there and everywhere without a care in the world. Not so, my friends, not so. I’ve been finishing off the teaching term here at […]

On Monday evening I sat down to watch Mrs Carey’s Concert, the documentary by Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond. It followed the “trials and tribulations’ of Mrs Carey – music teacher at a Sydney girls’ school – over two years as she prepared her school’s musicians for a concert at the Opera House. Yes, that’s […]

Yesterday afternoon I made my 15 minute journey to Innes Park as usual to do an afternoon of piano teaching. The five sisters and their good friend were all delightful as always. This week I was treated to the sight of a broken toenail…and then as a follow up…I got to see the large piece […]

My parents and my sister have left town for a week for a little holiday. Before they left they gave me the contents of their fridge (lamingtons,shallots, a leek, pumpkin, tomatoes, capscium, spinach, a single potato, cherry tomatoes, avocado) as well as my sister’s fighting fish and my mother’s maidenhair fern to look after. The […]

One might imagine that an afternoon of piano teaching would be about teaching the piano. One would be mistaken. It’s that of course but lots lots more. For instance, take today. It was the usual Wednesday afternoon line up. We began with a brother and sister team who have their lessons one after the other […]