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It was really good to get back to singing today, after a break of several weeks.

With The Bloth impending, we took the opportunity to rehearse a little. Most items were practised and then revisited, and we also arrayed ourselves as we would for an audience.

We opened with the classic Jubilate Deo - as usual, starting in unison and then splitting into five parts.

As is currently tradition, we opened the practice with a few decent rounds of Jubilate Deo.

Another fantastic crowd of nine at singing today!

Another impressive week this week, with nine people in attendance!

This afternoon Christine took us through some breathing techniques using imagery as a refresher from when she first took us through these, and Katherina Weyssin drew some diagrams for us showing how the lungs and diaphragm interact when we breathe - there's also quite a lot of good videos on YouTube, using a variety of methods, for those that want to explore this further; searching for "diaphragm singing" and "diaphramatic breathing" gets some good results .

Today Katherina led us, with Anna, William de Cameron, Caterine, and Fina singing.

Today's singing was run by Katherina Weyssin, and attended by herself, Caterine de Vantier, Anna de Wilde, and William de Cameron.

We mostly focused on singing some of the simpler stuff from our repertoire this week.