Why don’t you read the instructions! Jeffrey always says that to me when I complain that things don’t work. So here I am again trying to work out how to do this blog without having worked out the basics. “I’m going to watch a video tutorial,” I told him as he left for his singing lesson. I have an hour an a half before I have to go for my guitar lesson. At least I started to take lessons from the beginning with that rather than trying to teach myself from a book.

I have taught myself so many things from books. My mother tried hard to teach me to crochet. Eventually I taught myself from a book in the Pattern department of Coupes haberdashery shop where I worked as a saturday girl in my teens.The first thing I made was a suit. That’s the problem. I decide I want to do something so I start to do it without learning the basic skills before I begin.

I did start to watch the video tutorials but got bored when they told me stuff I had already done and didn’t tell me the stuff I wanted to know.

“I know a man who can” the advert says. So that’s the answer. I will have to email Arike and ask her to give me a lesson next monday.

That gives me an excuse to get back to my emails. That’s always a good source of distraction for an hour or so. My Blackberry tells me there is a writing competition for non- fiction. I could follow that up. I could also sort out some of the talks I will be doing for Wateraid. School Governor duty is coming to an end so there are less emails about that. The Governors  have been put on the Liverpool Care Pathway without the kindness that should accompany it.

That’s a story for a different day.