I have just embarked on the scary process of domain transfer. It feels like i'm in a black hole, a no-man's land between registrars. At some undermined point my hope is that it will have occurred without hitch when I can again tell the world where my sites are hosted. I think the process would be more reassuring if instead of having to cancel in one place and order in another (the very thing that is creating this anxiety and post) they changed it to order in new place and ask old place to send requester a release code. I'm sure it will be ok but to me it is like selling your house and having to wait a few days before moving into the new one, tbh I would be far happier with that scenario but I think you get the gist.

I have depreciated my older blogs, and will try and just use this one from now. As you can see I only have one life so am trying to empty all the boxes into one place and then see what needs to be kept and what needs to go. I hope my decompartmentalisation does not cause you too much distress, but I think it should be better in the long run. Thankfully Bloggers export and import routine works quite well and seems to have preserved image links.

You may think this is a fundamental thing I have missed but I found out last night that the rod I use for cleaning is also used to aid tuning. I think things like this, missing some of the basic building blocks, are a side effect of self learning. I am sort of looking forward to practicing this evening as after last nights practice I tuned it and it did seem a bit easier to play.
This may be a bit of a tangent but my friend Chris and I where talking about The Church and mission as we are looking closely at some videos of Victor Choudhry and are about to look in more death at a book by Alan Hirsch (the forgotten ways handbook). At this juncture I am cautious but, and here the tangent does a u-turn. I do like the idea that we should learn mission through activity and not academy.  I likened it to my thinking which says: In my mind, I can hear the great melodious tunes I can play with my flute; then I discover the truth when I actually pick it up. It is so easy for the intellect to say I can do this but in reality it is the practice that should develop a clearer and real truth (currently this is that I am hardly beyond the first few faltering steps and need more practice).

So now I am a few months in and the momentum slowed, for one reason or another I have not been able or inclined to practice (I will so not make perfect like this). I am still not at the give up stage yet, I think that targets would help maybe. I picked my flute up again a couple of nights ago and was still able to make, what I loosely call notes, some sound out of it (so that's a plus). I have a few tunes that I can almost follow the music and almost make the notes, the lower ones at the moment being more difficult. I would say I can play the lower part of F major (not sure if I have this right but from the lowest F on the treble clef staff to the one on the top line) with it not sounding too awful, my daughter may disagree with this I will ask her when she comes back from camp. Hopefully the next update will be a little sooner.