Hello and welcome back to the blog.
A new season is here and I am pretty excited about it. Mornings and evenings are already so much lighter, and winter is far off in the future. Happy days.
I thought I’d take this opportunity to update you on what’s being going on here in York since my last blog post – all the way back in January!
Tim and I have been sprucing up the house a little bit more, we now have two lovely sofas to relax on. The tiles on the front and the back of the house have been replaced with UPVC cladding (in grey, of course) and we’ve had to invest in a new fridge freezer as well.
I’ve started teaching privately at home, on both the harp and the piano – I’m so excited to get my private teaching up and running here in York. If you are in the area and would like harp lessons or piano lessons, do use my contact form to get in touch, or email me angelinawarburton@gmail.com.
I also have started teaching a couple of online harp students, which is a fantastic option for those who live far away or perhaps aren’t able to travel to a teacher. This is a new area of teaching for me and presents its own challenges, but technology makes it so much easier.
In terms of gigs during the first quarter of this year, I’ve been working mostly in Yorkshire, which is absolutely fantastic and shows that moving here was a good decision. I’ve recorded some beautiful music by Jonathan Dove, I’ve met Andrew Carter and taken part in a performance of his Benedicite. I’ve received a fine for driving in a bus lane trying to find a concert venue, and my car has been locked up for the weekend after I failed to realise the car park locked its doors from 6pm on Saturday til 8am on Monday. Oops.
My quartet – CLOUDS – is busy with planning our tour in May as well as the release of a new CD, to be announced very soon.
In other news, I’ve taken part in a Yoga Teacher Training Taster Day here in York, and am going to another one in Manchester soon. I’m not sure which YTT I’m going to do, but I plan to start this year. This is massively exciting, yoga is a huge help to me in my life, both for helping my body stay vital and healthy, but helping my mind become less anxious and calmer in general. I don’t chat on here too much about yoga because I try to keep things separate, but if you’d like to follow my yoga journey you can do so on my instagram page Acomb Yoga.
So it’s all go, and I’m doing my best to stay on top of everything and not become overwhelmed with the amount of things there are to do, with owning a house and running my business, but also wanting to spend quality time with Tim and our families and friends, and sometimes I even want to chill out and do absolutely nothing, imagine that.
That’s probably enough from me for this post, thanks for reading, keep in touch, I’ll be back soon.
A x