In the last couple of years I've started, very tentatively, playing in slower sessions. I'm quite proud of the way I'm developing the ability to pick up a tune I've never heard before and play along, but I have a feeling that if I do start practising scales and arpeggios it's going to become easier.

My daughter (Grade 1 flute) has lent me her flute book with scales and arpegs in the back so I started on them this morning. My son (Grade 5 oboe) is also keen to explain the whys and wherefores of basic theory, so I'm advancing.

When I am a good and accomplished player, it will be due to the whole of the folk 'family'!

Love Lynne