Wider Opportunities

Wider Opportunities

Wider Opportunities was basically an event repeated on two days, where primary school children from Bath and North East Somerset have a day of playing the instruments that they have been learning for about 10 months. I helped with some friends of mine on both of the days and to be honest, for the most part it we just sat and talked before getting up and playing Match of the Day with the children playing brass instruments! 

On the Wednesday there were 600 kids and on Thursday there were 500, one of them including my younger brother, playing instruments from the likes of a Ukulele or a Recorder, to a Djembe drum or a Violin!

It was madness...!

We had some hilarious times though, including making friends with a duck that likes to eat Mini Cheddars:-

Louise named the duck Franny Cheddar...don't ask!

Me and that duck got very attached to each other! 

Warming up for the big finale of "I am the music man"

My brother as we sat on the sidelines

   

The lovely view we had as we ate lunch, and also where we met Franny the next day!

Overall, the two days were full of hilarious moments, sneaky trips to Nero's and little kid's getting excited by the fact that us 'older kids' were playing and singing along with them!

From the beginning

Now then let's start with yesterday, Sunday 17th June.

Yesterday was the most eventful day that I can remember! The muscles in my legs are hardly working right now because of it!

We begin in the morning, when I ran the Race for Life! It was a 5k run, which might seem short for most runners, but for me it was quite a big deal that I managed jogged the whole way and rarely stopped. I was always the kid at school who was one of the last to finish in long distance races because of the fact I have asthma. I ran with my sister and we finished the whole thing in 35 minutes, and I raised £100 too!

Compared to my sister ( that's her on the left, the right is me), who collapsed and stayed sat on the sofa for the rest of the day, I was like a Duracell Battery Bunny after the race, inspired and full of energy! 

I went down to the Widcome Rising for the first time. Walking around so much really wasn't a good way to go after the run, but the Widcome Rising was awesome!

As I'd never been before, I had no idea what to expect. They had closed off the whole of the road and there was a big Ferris wheel in the middle, along with a load of stalls and music stages.

My two favourite stalls had to be the Pimm's stall and the Candyfloss stall, by far - childhood and adulthood AT THE SAME TIME!

Low angle + head thrown back = double chin!

This has got to be one of the most unattractive photos of me ever, but hey! We've all got to poke fun at ourselves once in a while or how would we manage?! All I've got to say is this picture definitely portrays my excitement at the candy-floss and alcohol situation, even though that isn't Pimms :(


After all that excitement and awesome music, (we even wandered into a random car park rave for a bit!) my quest for lift home was denied and I had to walk up the hill. I can safely say, now, because of that, my legs won't work now!

 Totally worth it, and a pretty good way to start SUMMER!!

(left) We watched these crazy chappy's whilst eating the best chips in the world from the Manhattan. (right) My lovely friend Cat as we stood and watched a guy eat swords and hang rocks clipped to his eyelids!

(above) The Ferris Wheel! (below) Me with the Candy-floss! 

Hello All!

Hello all!

I would like to welcome you to my brand new blog - Flying with the Hummingbirds! I was inspired to create this blog when my friend showed me the blog she had just recently created - http://www.browntonabbey.blogspot.co.uk/

The concept for her blog is something that I've always tried to achieve through the various blogs that I have created over the years, but all have failed to keep my attention and were forgotten about.

I decided to make this blog as a colourful documentation of my shenanigans over the long summer combined with all manner of different things that I love in life.

A few of my loves that I will definitely post about will be things like photography (film especially), my cooking expeditions, all things arty and of course anything vintage! 

I hope you enjoy!

Hatti