Welcome to my updates from Royal Clarence. What a dramatic few days we had here!

hi guys welcome to the tail teleclub what a week we have had here in the united kingdom i tell you there is misery all around and i'm fighting against the misery now we've been offline for a few days due to an advent calendar it all started with an advent calendar and um and then the systems crashed and things all went wrong and we had to change our hosting website um people and we had to do this and we had to do that and it was all very upsetting and consequently i've done no recording not because i didn't have anywhere to record because we're not totally dependent on the one website we have lots of um you know people who host our these wonderful wonderful podcasts that i do with you but i was completely and utterly ahead in a computer for days trying to repair the damage that had been done and set the site up again so there was no time for anything all the wonderful practical things that we do so i have had no music for days and i can really feel it and i've been thinking about music therapy a lot and how music therapy is going to get us through these in these coming weeks and months music therapy for me i was a therapist for a while and you you never it never really leaves you you're always um analyzing things and trying to improve things and it struck me actually because of this you know isolation because i've been working so very hard in a computer one-to-one nobody to talk to just you know i haven't been able to sleep or anything and be more to the point because i haven't been playing i felt uh like an alien actually that i'm not connected to the earth now when i teach cello and piano i insist that everyone puts their feet on the ground and this is part of a grounding process that i believe is truly helpful for all of us to connect with the earth and to feel the earth's gravitational pull and and that security of the pull on underfoot the grounding it goes such a long way to making you feel connected that i feel it's a really important thing to have i mean look as a cellist and a pianist if you've just got tiptoes or you're you know fiddling around too much with your feet are you going to make mistakes of course with a piano you need the pedal um so it's a little bit different but not when you first start and and you know when you're doing things like scales and things like that i just think feet on the ground darlings feet on the on the ground um anyway i was thinking about how isolated i've been because it's dark because my website crashed for three days because um i'm you know isolated i live in a very isolated part of um the marina it's it's you know it's there's nobody here in winter it's dead people don't sail in winter um there's no hard-bore activity plus i live in a town that's very very difficult to get out of and i was due to go to london last week and that was cancelled because of the weather and and this is what happens when you're isolated things easily isolate you even more do you see what i mean so the more isolated you are the more isolating life becomes um it's an upward risk very very much so you know if you live in certain places where you're you know you're in a community a a spirited community a loving caring spirited community of people you would find that you would struggle to be isolated do you see what i'm saying so i was thinking about all of these things i was thinking about how i haven't been able to broadcast for a few days and they haven't been doing the christmas podcasts and you know how people can be so um dependent on just listening to somebody chat to them and me you know for me to talk to you and how important it is to to keep that going and that's why i love podcasting actually and the fact that i haven't played my cello and piano for three four five days or something ridiculous um has really struck me but it also brought home to me how you know therapeutic music is and i think we should...