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December update - Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Our first Christmas in our new home and what a difference a year makes!!! This time last year my husband and I both had Covid and were in...

November saw me doing what I love the most...teaching and inspiring others. One example was having the great pleasure of visiting Exeter...

October brought some family time, getting up to Scotland to visit my mum for a little break. Some more exciting news about a student of...

September has turned out to be one of the busiest months I have had in a while which is a great feeling as we move forward to things...

Thirty years ago I was Principal Horn of the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland as a young 17 year old. A slightly older version of...

Time for a rest! Happy summer everyone, I hope you all have a lovely time whatever you do :-)

The sun has arrived and it's time to enjoy it and all it's glory! I have had a lovely half term with the family and once again lots of...

May has been a quiet month with lots of teaching at school and also my private students who are making excellent progress. It's nice...

We have ducklings in our garden!!! What a gorgeous evening watching these little ones see the world for the first time :-) Musically I...

Great news, we managed to get back to school this month, all be it with full timemasks! It has been so nice to see all my friends and of...

We have finally moved into our dream home and it is just beautiful. I now have my own office for the first time and have been busy online...

Happy New Year!!! It has been an eventful few weeks in our house with both of us catching Covid over Christmas and not being very well at...

We did a very exciting thing at school this month and took our Ceremony of Carols to a whole new level…a Drive In Ceremony of Carols due...

This month I have been busy doing some work with the NYBBGB and the Marines in their Andromeda project which I have no doubt is going to...

October has been full of lovely horn projects again. I had an interesting masterclass in USA where I found myself delivering it at 4am my...

September has brought a sense of normality (kind of, if you can ignore all the masks, spray and one way systems), we are back in school...

August is always one of my favourite months as it’s my Birthday month. Not the usual celebrations with family and friends this year, but...

Summer is finally here and even though it won’t be the usual few months of concerts and summer schools I am so ready for a break! I can’t...

If you had told me 3 months ago I would be comfortable delivering workshops, lessons and masterclasses via Zoom I would have laughed in...

I have been working hard launching my YouTube Channel this month which has been an exciting project I have done in collaboration with my...