Teaching the World to Sing / June 27 2007
It is such a joy to live only a few yards from the local infants’ school.
I take great delight in seeing the children jumping and hopping around, shouting and laughing. Audrey loves it too as the kids usually make a big fuss of her. Many of them know her by name and I often overhear one or two of them saying things like ‘I know that dog, I do,’ or ‘That’s my favourite dog.’ I feel so proud!
And then one of the teachers rings the morning bell, killing dead the boisterous noises of the children, who, in turn, begin to quietly trundle off into the various classrooms to begin their lessons full of poster paints and paper-glue.
But my favourite part is the singing.
At around ten o’clock, you can hear them inside, warbling their little hearts out to a piano accompaniment.
Yesterday, in a special assembly, they sang a particular song for one of their friends who died in a tragic accident only a few weeks ago.
It stopped Audrey and me in our tracks. We were not the only people either, standing there on a rainy Tuesday morning listening with tears in our eyes to a loving tribute paid by a handful of small children who sang as if their lives depended on the intensity of their performance.
I think it is about time I produced some offspring. Finding a suitable woman should be easy – Audrey and I make a great catch. I just hope that I am up to it when the time comes to perform the necessary bedroom deeds that will be required of me.
I should be: I do tend to practice a lot when I am alone.
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One comment on “Teaching the World to Sing”
Jo Beaufoix / June 27th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
What a lovely image…
The kids, not the practising.
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