Add to the picture perfect backdrop the amazing weather we’ve had over the last few days, and there is no excuse to not get out and about and enjoy it while it lasts.
Many events held recently have also benefited from the clear skies and sunny days.
The lovely weather is set to continue, with a top of 24ºC today - although it will come with possible showers.
Tops of about 20ºC and mostly sunny days are forecasted for the weekend and start of next week.
But it won’t take long before the cold sets in, so get those winter woolies ready.
Mini Musicians
South West Music is excited to announce its Mini Musicians Program.
This program is designed for children aged zero to five years.
Feed your baby’s brain with music, rhythm, songs and movement.
Musical activities are crucial for young children’s development, and it is a great way to connect and have fun together as well. Mums, dads, grannies, granddads and carers are all welcome.
This program has been developed by Loretta Walker - who will be delivering the program - and SWM’s own Tomoko Niwa.
Sessions will be held weekly for 45 minutes in smalls groups, sitting in a circle with your child.
Loretta will use a variety of instruments and sing songs encouraging you to sing along, clap, use rhythm instruments, interact and have fun with your child.
This will help your child start developing a sense of rhythm, start connecting music with movement, practice their motor skills, get familiar with common nursery and children’s songs, listen to and vocalise along with the songs and have fun with you.
These activities foster children’s brain and social development, as well as getting them used to making music themselves and maybe interested in learning an instrument later.
The skills contribute to building pre-literacy skills, which will help your child have a better start in school.
The cost is only $5 per child, per session. Sessions run each Wednesday during the school term.
For enquiries and bookings, contact SWM at admin@swmusic.org.au or phone 5881 4736.
Dame Edna’s tribute to Barry
This piece in the Daily Telegraph newspaper caught our eye this week.
It’s a tribute to Barry Humphries, written by his alter ego Dame Edna Everage.
Humphries was born on February 17, 1934 and died on April 22, 2023.
And as you will see from the following, he had his humour until the end.
Dame Edna writes:
Humphries was an unknown aspiring actor and would-be comedian when I first met him in the early 1950s.
It is true that he put me on stage for the first time in December 1955, but it was in order to belittle me and get cheap laughs at my expense and ridicule the great Australian way of life.
How the tables have turned! I became the star and he merely a footnote to my spectacular career.
His tragedy was his desire to be an artist and we know what happens to failed artists - Hitler, for example - they either become interior decorators or mass murderers. Barry was spared this fate. He became rich due to my efforts and signed me up to a contract that bound me for life.
He had a lovely family and my heart goes out to them as well as to his unfortunate wives and numerous stage-struck research assistants.
If these words seem uncharitable in the context of an obituary. I am fortunate that the Daily Telegraph, unsurprisingly, was eager to publish them.
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