A Britcellist's World

Going into October was dreadful with Hurricane Ian destroying Florida and further north. It will take years to rebuild so many areas.  Chapel Hill and most of the area around the middle of North Carolina were spared. Getting back to normality at home was not easy - leaving England, getting back to both schools, making up lessons that had been missed. Not many students understood why I went away for a week. The younger ones of course, didn't know about the Queen of England. I wrote a separate blog of the Queen's Funeral, if anyone not on the list of the blog and wants to read it, email me and I will give you the address.   I was glad to have been in good shape for the 12 hours of walking at night and other times around London.  Our hike leader Rodney, knows most of the trails in Chapel Hill, Durham and further away, so we have plenty of trails to keep walking. At this time of the year, the trails in Fall show striking colors all through the woods. In the spring we loo...

My thoughts and sharing the experience of a unique event, never to be seen again.  Thursday, September 8th , the announcement was sent out that Queen Elizabeth  had passed away in her Balmoral home. It wasn't a great surprise as she had declined a lot since her husband, Prince Philip, passed away. It didn't take long for me to decide that I would go to London and pay my respects. 70 years ago, when I was living in Porthleven in Cornwall with my mother, and getting very excited to see the coronation of the Queen, and all children were being given a special mug, a gold-like miniature coach and a block of chocolate. Unfortunately when jumping with a friend, I fell off the couch and bit my tongue. I had to go to hospital and was given penicillin, which I am allergic to, so that was an extra 3 days of missing the excitement of the coronation and I didn't get the goodies.  Thursday, September 15th , After visiting my family cousins near Salisbury, I went to stay with Louise, wh...

This September will be in two sections - my regular monthly blog, and a special blog to commemorate the Funeral of Queen Elizabeth 11. There will most likely more photos/items to add for both blogs, there's so much! At the beginning of the month Zoe was getting ready to start High School this year, wow! The family went home early from the beach to get settled in, so we didn't have their anniversary dinner just before Labor Day, as we often had. 😞 For me, too, I was getting in stride for teaching private cello lessons and classes, both at Trinity and the Chapel Hill School of Music Arts.  Thursday, September 8th , the announcement was sent out that Queen Elizabeth  had passed away in her Balmoral home. It wasn't a great surprise as she had declined a lot since her husband, Prince Philip, passed away. It didn't take long for me to decide that I wanted to go to London and pay my respects. 70 years ago, when I was living in Porthleven in Cornwall with my mother, and getti...