I huffed...

My wife bought me a sax back in 2008, and as is often the case with these things, it sat in its case for years and did nothing.

But then we noticed the local adult education centre was hosting a day-long "play the sax from scratch" workshop. It was full, but I managed to get on the third or fourth iteration in May 2014. These workshops are run by Ian Hill, a man of great charm and patience. So if you live in the Rugby area and always fancied blowing one of these things, I'd recommend you try one of his workshops.

Anyway - that got me kick started and I've carried on with it over the last year or so with a bit of help from 3 or 4 extra workshops that Ian does for people who started in this way. I can see that this is a bit of a middle-aged-bloke thing, but it's a lot safer than getting a motorbike. More than that, I'm hoping that it'll prove mind-expanding (in a good way) by pushing my mind into areas quite different to the "ordinary" intellectual activity of my education and work life. A kind of talisman against dementia, or so I hope.

 So. My aim with this blog is just to have somewhere I can gather all this musical stuff and try to make sense of it.