Drumming Up A Storm

I got the chance to work from home today hoping for a nice change of pace...but it turned out to be an amazingly busy day in the end...

Started by getting up and watching a bit of the cricket. Nice start to the day with North's century and also Johnson's nice knock. Then off to Naomi's school in time to arrive home to watch a bit more cricket...before taking Fiona to her school. It was then that I noticed the HUGE oil pool underneath my car. I think that Greenpeace will have to come in to supervise the cleanup effort. So...we dropped the car off at the garage to get it sorted out. I then had to run to a doctor's appointment to see about getting a cyst removed from my back...nothing serious and I will spare any readers from any further details.

I then found time to get some work done, which occupied the rest of the afternoon...with the cricket on the TV in the background, of course. A great day's play for Australia and we will see if we can press home the advantage tomorrow. I then got the bad news about the car. A leak that had previously been quite slow was now quite extensive and to get at it, they would have to remove the transmission, turning this into a $2000 problem. So I now need to get another car, hopefully can take care of this relatively quickly.

The day finished by attending a "drumming circle" at the yoga place where Mindy teaches belly dancing. We took the chance to use our drums from Africa and along with the other percussion on offer, there was a lot to choose from. The kids had a great time, messing with the instruments and adding their own interpretive dance routines as well. They were able to handle about an hour of this before it was clear they were running out of steam. Of course, this coincided with the end to the drumming and the beginning of the chanting, so I was quite keen to get the hell out of there as well! There were about 15 people there including us and were exactly the sort of crowd I was expecting. A hippie-ish group who really enjoyed the experience. All except for one bloke who acted like he was dragged there by someone...but was there by himself! I have to say it was more fun than I had expected it to be and the kids had a blast so we may well be back for another one of these.