Music

Sunday was about the music.

In the morning Mulan had her usual recorder lesson.

We followed this up with a very enjoyable two-hour concert at the beautiful St Matthew-In-The-City church, listening to the St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra.

Miya's clarinet teacher, Brendan Dalton, plays clarinet in the orchestra, and suggested we come along.  It was definitely worth it!

In the evening, Mulan recorded herself playing one of her latest recorder pieces.  Last week we learnt that her school is having a soloist competition, and video audition submissions were due by end-of-day Sunday.

Climbing and athletics

Yesterday morning, Miya and I did our usual climbing session at Northern Rocks.  Here's Miya completing another yellow:

Then in the evening we attended the Takapuna Athletics Club end-of-year prizegiving.  Miya, Mulan and I were all called up to receive awards.

Mulan got the Grade 14 girls cup, while I got the Veteran Men's cup.  Mulan was recognised for getting the women's under 16 triple jump club record, while I was recognised for getting six men's 45-49 club records (200m, 400m, 1500m, high jump, discus and javelin).

Holiday climbing

Mulan's back at school today after two weeks of school holidays.

After a week isolating with Covid, the second week of the holidays was about easing slowly back into the exercise.

A couple of sessions of rock climbing was a good bit of variety (the last time Mulan climbed was back in December), and she did pretty well on the new climbs, getting eight new purples over the two days.

Here's Mulan on a pink:

Meanwhile, at our climbing session today Miya did a review of her current best climbs, completing two yellows and 12 greens.