2026 Week 25

Alicia was in China this week and it gave me a chance to spend a lot more time with the boys. The week was exhausting but it was a real delight to have so much time with them. From meals in the garden, to watching the late one evening, to finding ourselves asleep on the floor after a chaotic Saturday. We had fun. Oscar spent time working on his narrative for a class ‘show and tell’ session. He took in the Pocket Operator KO and had grand plans for how he was going to make a rhythm using sounds recorded in the classroom. I was mighty impressed with how he structured the narrative but during his practice run I might have been a little bit too well behaved and compliant with recording sounds I knew he wanted. When he gave the talk in the classroom, people either wanted to make the same sounds as everyone else, or they refused to stay silent while others were recording. He got two experience two things that have become all to familiar for me; a talk that didn’t go to plan, and live demo…