As the weather was so good for my birthday (21ºC and wall to wall sunshine) I awarded myself the day off work.  Fiddled around for the morning (just a few work calls to deal with ) and prepped my bike. Tyres blown up, brakes work etc. - necessary as not been out on it for a while.

In the corner of our garden - the bit that used to belong to Joe - was a derelict outbuilding. 

pealing.com is now using SSL - just like your internet banking does.

This means that your information can't be sniffed between the server and your computer.

This is recommended in modern times for all websites, but as we all have passwords we enter for pealing.com, then quite important.

Yes it is latin,  a language as dead as dead can be, it killed the ancient Romans and now it's killing me.

However I cannot change the title of this peice which I had not heard and did not know anything about until it became part of my homework.  It occured to me that Nicky might be familiar with it.  It is a eucharistic hymn used in RC churches.  I recorded it in Greenfield Baptist Church using my Nexus 5 and an app called Recforge 2

John Coltrane, a revolutionary jazz saxophonist wrote a ballad for his wife. His version last  5 mins and has a long improvisation in it.  I have not learnt how to improvise around the chord changes so here is my version of  the start  and the end.

Here is a link to my current party piece.  Moonglow from Jazzing About by Pam Wedgewood..

Here is a link to my latest recording,  It is a madrigal written for lute in 1604 by Thomas Greaves who was a musician in the employ of Sir Henry Pierrepoint who was the MP for Nottingham.

I am not very happy with the tone I accheived in this but the main object was to learn to play in time with he backing track.

What is beauty but a Breath 

Whilst clearing out my office recently, to make it suitable for Dot to sleep in, I came accross a pait of ear rings (see picture)

Anyone want to claim them?

D & J

Douglas and I had a great three days in Naseby (look on Google Maps) at the South Island Orienteering Champs.

It came as a bit of a shock to us. The difficulty was several steps up from what we'ld been doing. We were out of our depth a bit, but had great fun and learned loads.