En Route to Recorder

It was early up and out Wednesday again with my recorder lesson on the calendar at 9 o'clock.  I walked down through the Estate with the sun coming up and liked the look of these skeletal trees in Low Park before I reached the main road and dodged through the rush hour traffic.  Then it was down through Myrtle to the train station and on one stop to Saltaire.  We had a change from Handel today with three pieces from an ensemble book, including the oddly named Cowboys Sat on a Cactus!  Good to have a go at something new and I was praised for my sight reading!

After my lesson it was back to the train station to meet up with Tony coming through from Bingley for an excursion into Leeds.  I think my crook knee is not being helped by walking boots which are past their best so we headed to Cotswolds and I tried on the same Scarpa pair as Tony bought a few weeks' back. All of our walking socks are old, thin and starting with holes so I picked a pair off the shelf of the make we like - £24!!! No chance of two pairs then.  That was a second mortgage trip what with boots and socks, but hopefully they will last awhile.

From there we called in at Waterstones where I got a free cuppa in the cafe for buying their book of the month 'The Warm Hands of Ghosts' (and had a Tunnocks teacake with it!). Then it was back to the train station.  We had decided to lunch in Bingley but there was no getting a table in three cafes without a thirty minute wait for food, so it was on the bus and sausage rolls from Yorkshire Treats.