Way back in April Rachel wrote about our fun with kitchen percussion led by Andreas lepper. Since then we have expanded this theme to the elasticity of enormous dough-like lengths of material and rolling pins, sticky oven gloves and trays, and cupcakes galore. Even managed to stir in a bit of tango. Some interesting prop making for me in this mix. I do love the 'how' and the 'what if'.

The Crows are certainly a multi talented lot and we were ready for some lightness and humour. Although if you popped your head into practise sessions there is always a lot of laughter, what with nana balancing, the twists and turns of tango and the ever present challenges our age brings, when our minds go blank even though we totally new the steps just last week. The high tea coming up will of course be real cupcakes, not the felt and material variety.