Charlotte's Blog

If the World was organised like an orchestra...

2005-08-14T20:51:00.000+01:00

Yesterday evening I sang with the Royal Choral Society at Kenwood House with Christine Bunning, soprano and Peter Auty, tenor, together with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at a Classic FM Live - Opera Gala. It was a lovely evening, despite the rain, with a large audience. If you don't know the setting, it is absolutely beautiful. It is on the grounds of Kenwood House. The stage is on one side of a lake and the audience on the other, it is hard to describe but take a look by clicking on the title.

I had a thought after the concert, just think if the world was organised like an orchestra. With that I mean, everyone has their own instrument to play (their self-worth, what they are talented at), they play in harmony with the other orchestra members (without trying to butt in or play louder than they should) and, of course, the Conductor will be God (or whatever you want to call him, her, it) who has the special knowledge where the orchestra is going with the piece. With harmony and clarity foremost in his mind. Wouldn't that be a lovely world to live in?

My holiday in Sweden

2005-08-14T20:40:00.000+01:00

I have been visiting my sister Eva's cottage in Stillingson, which is on Sweden's third largest island called Orust, this summer together with my mother, and my two other sisters Kerstin and Carin. We had a lovely time as it is in a beautiful and tranquil setting on top of a hill, in the middle of the woods with only 5 minutes from the beach. It was very interesting as it was the first time us four sisters and mother were together for a whole week since we were small. It was nice and warm and we went swimming nearly every day. My sister rents her cottage out and if anyone is interested in renting it, click on the title and you will see it.

Angels...

2005-06-16T20:51:00.000+01:00

I have just realised that I believe in Angels! This is what happened. My daughter and son bought me a lovely necklace that had my birthstone in it for Christmas. I have been wearing it nearly every day since then. One morning as I was rushing around getting ready for work the necklace had a knot in it and I was trying to untie it without success. It was getting later and later so I thought I'd put it in one of my outer pockets in my rucksack so that I could unknot it on the train. I had this awful feeling that it wouldn't be safe there but I was too much in a rush to put it somewhere else. I got on my bike and cycled to the train station. On the train I noticed it wasn't in my bag. This was very upsetting for me as it was a gift from my daughter and son. When I came to work I turned the bag literally inside out - no necklace. I thought I might have left it at home in my rush so when I got home I searched high and low - no necklace. Retraced my steps - no necklace. I had to resign myself to having lost it, I thought maybe it had fallen out of the bag as I cycled. This was a week ago. Today, as I put the bike back into the garage I suddenly looked on the ground outside the gate and, there it was! Lying there on the ground! I am sure you can imagine my delight at finding it! Angels...

The other thing that happened today was that I had run out of ink in my printer at work yesterday. So I asked the IT manager if I could have some. This morning the printer was fine so I sent a thank you e-mail to the IT manager. She replied back and said that she hadn't replaced it and was it working now? She had also thought that I was having her on and it was my way of reminding her. Angels...

Welcome to my Blog!

2005-06-06T04:31:00.000+01:00