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Ben Clapton

Holidays Over... Kinda

January 22, 2006 at 1:58 PM

Well, I'm back from my Holiday. Here's a couple of pics to tempt you all.

The view of Albany from across the harbour at the old whaling station.

The view of the amazing coastline from the Windfarm.

But as for me now, it's back to work (kinda). I start practicing again (yay!) - working up slowly, starting with slow open strings, and then moving on to scales and technical stuff (slowly but surely), and then eventually onto pieces. Once i'm up to pieces, hopefully I'll be able to get a lesson with my teacher and get fingerings and stuff for my new pieces so I can start learning them. I'm looking forward to that.

I'm also going to start studying for Music History. I pulled out last year, and decided to overload and do History 2 and 3 this year so I can finish in the same amount of time. So I'm going to work hard all through the year, and hopefully not just pass, but get an extreemly good result.

That's it for the time being. Hope everyone is well, and is salivating over the beautiful locations that I have just down the road from me (about a 4.5 hour drive, a similar distance from between Boston and Philadelphia)

From Wanda Jenkins
Posted on January 22, 2006 at 4:57 PM
Breathtaking! Thanks for sharing a peek into your beautiful world! Reading Bill Bryson's "In a Sunburned Country" piqued an interest in that area. You just made the desire to tramp around SW Australia even stronger. (And I've yet to step foot out of N. America...)
From Pauline Lerner
Posted on January 22, 2006 at 6:29 PM
Gorgeous photos! How do you ever stay away from that place?
From Evil Linda
Posted on January 22, 2006 at 7:19 PM
New York tis lovely, eh?
From alicelizard s.
Posted on January 23, 2006 at 1:04 AM
Those are absolutely stunning! Have fun starting to practice again. :-)

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