I’ve chosen birds as the picture that ends each post this week; every day as I have loaded the car with instruments for the day (a ukulele, descant and treble recorders, a repinque drum and whistle for samba, and a djembe), the birds have been singing and singing and singing to greet the Spring.

This week I have been meditating, singing the can-can, and wrestling (metaphorically speaking!) with djembe classes…