Saturday 12 May 2007

Home alone

Matt returns today. He's been away for four nights on his bike with Duncan driving down the Portuguese coast to Cape St. Vincent, Eurpoe's most south-westerly point, and coming back through Spain via Salamanca. He took the camera with him, and I've been bereft without it - I'm looking forward to its return. And of course it'll be good to see Matt when he gets back (with my camera).

While he's been away I found a music shop in a town down the valley and bought him a guitar stand - the guitar previously had its very own place on the sofa - and found someone to give him lessons. Hopefully he'll be pleased with this early birthday surprise. We were about to give up on finding a teacher, needing one that spoke some English didn't make it easy. Matt's been learning the guitar for six months now, and while he's fairly adept at playing 'House of the Rising Sun', 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'Redemption Song' we'd both like him to be able to play something different!

2 comments:

Melody said...

Oh yes, it would be nice for him to be able to play something different. Lyndon has a guitar too (though stuffed away in a cupboard.) I couldn't stand him playing it (this is years ago now) because, well... he couldn't actually play anything bar a few chords of a Nirvana song. Hmph.

Unknown said...

Matt's was in a similar situation to Lyndon - he had his guitar for years and could just about play something by Oasis, badly. Since his uncle, who plays extremely well, visited last September he has started to practice every day and now sounds much better. He could still benefit from proper lessons tho'.