Christmas already for some people but still so mild!

This week I saw a decorated Christmas tree on a table in a front room in my street. And then on Friday another one on a desk in the offices behind work. And Santas and lights in the window of a house in the High Road. Usually the early birds round here start on the last full weekend of November - so mid-November is early!

I am still getting a small handful of autumn raspberries twice a week. The white Cosmos is in full flower. The rosemary in the front garden is in flower.

Some nights this week, even through in all evening I didn't have any heating.

Building community with ukeleles

At our team away day last week we did the usual team away day things but finished with a fun session when someone came in to teach us to play the ukulele.

We've decided to have ukulele sessions on Tuesday lunchtimes. Four from our team, plus Leslie from another team who has a baritone uke, had a first go on Tuesday.

I got my ukulele from Argos today and hope to get to Hobgoblin tomorrow to get a tuner.

A colleague, normally working near Birmingham, says at his local pub 10 years ago some people who had acquired ukuleles got together to learn how to play them. Sessions twice a month over a few years they got really good. Now twice a year they have a big event at the pub and the place is packed.

I am hoping that once I get to a basic standard (which might take some time!) I can find a local group.