I completely forgot to mention that I taught a puppetry workshop yesterday. Three hours and 64 students. It was a marathon, but they were darn good kids. It was a group of gifted and talented eighth graders and they were a blast to work with. Disciplined, creative, and excited to be there.

By the end of it though, I was wrung out. I’m going back on the 21st, which I expect that to be more exhausting. I’m going to watch their rehearsals. There are twenty groups, each with a two minute piece and I have three hours to watch and give notes to all of them.

Yoicks. The bonus is that the school is in Newport and the teacher who arranged this has offered to let Rob and me use her beach house for the weekend. Our anniversary is on the 17th.

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• Working with live musicians
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• Steve & Idi, Teddy, Peter and Katherine
• Rehearsing with the Peter puppet
• Practise session