Not fit for purpose

Another day of catching up on lots of jobs; performing another round of ant warfare, updating software, making an 80th birthday card for a friend and updating an online family tree. This latter was for two of my cousins, who are coming to visit on Thursday so that I can share with them all the information I’ve gleaned over the years. 

I did, however, make time for a spot of piano practice on my father’s old keyboard – which I’ve worked out is nearly half as old as me! Most of the time I’m following the SimplyPiano app on my iPad, but I bought this book to help with some of the theory. 

It may be an excellent book, but why on earth is it perfect bound? (There speaks a printer's wife, using the technical description, meaning all the sections are glued together at the back.) Why isn’t the spiral bound version available in this country, as it is in the US? I have to clip both the open pages to the stand with strong bag clips, which doesn’t look very pretty and isn’t terribly effective.

Smithers deserves a special mention today for making a batch of granola and then cooking a pasta supper, thus freeing me up to plonk away on the piano to my heart's content after the other jobs were done.