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For my summer holiday this year I have come to Keele University for the summer school of Sing for Pleasure. Three years ago I came and did the foundation conductor's course, so this time I am taking the next level up; intermediate one.

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Today I completed the ring around my local town. This was a shorter stage and so didn't take as long.

I did see; a solar farm I didn't know we had,
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I know I said the previous leg was the longest, but I think this one actually was. It took the longest time to walk, but that might also be because of the number of times I needed to get the map out to check the route.

Anyway, yesterday I saw; the local stud stables,
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The previous evening, the Canadian Guides had invited me to join them at the changing of the guard, so after a very quiet breakfast (the Americans had departed at something like 5 am for Paris), I packed up my bags and left them in storage before heading to the tube station ( Read more... )

Today was service project day. We split into two groups; one went to Hampstead Heath to do weeding or something, I went with the group to a boat at Angel..

The coach that took us relied on gps and so went a very funny way to get there. Eventually, we were greeted at the narrowboat by the volunteer that look after it for a charity. We did some ( Read more... )

We got up and made our packed lunches as normal,then after flag break, we walked down to the station to get the underground. Our first stop was the Tower of London.

We went straight for the Crown Jewels, which was a good choice as later the queue was much longer. The crowns and things are very sparkly. The groups split up then and we could spend as ( Read more... )