Ukes and Cherubs
Aug. 9th, 2016 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearLast night, Dave and I went to the Ukulele Hootenanny at the Queen of Hoxton pub and had a very good time. There were many flights of stairs to the Rooftop area where food was being served, but the falafel, salad and sweet potato wedges were well worth the climb. Then we schlepped all the way back down to the ground floor for the main event. Initially, it didn't look like a good time was to be had by all, since it was difficult to tell who was in charge, and everyone was just milling around. Things didn't actually get going until nearly an hour after the advertised start time, and it turned out there was no actual tuition available - we were just given a book of songs and expected to join in as and when we could. However, it's quite easy to pick up a few simple chords on the ukulele and I found it was quite fun just to play what I could and sing along. There was a good range of songs, and they were repetitive enough that I was managing some of the harder chord changes by the end of some of them. Dave was particularly keen and now plans to get his own ukulele so we can practise at home together and go back another day once we've mastered a few more chords!
This morning, I finished listening to Divine Madness, the next in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. In this instalment, James and his sister Lauren went undercover with one of their fellow agents, Dana, as members of a religious cult with ties to environmental terrorism. Since they were the only three agents on the mission, the other characters I particularly liked from the previous books were barely in it, which was a shame. Still, the details of the mission were interesting, and the way it played out was quite exciting. The set-up of the cult was well-drawn, and the way the agents eventually got split up and had to survive very dangerous situations with little support made the denouement quite nail-biting. There was also the introduction of a new character, Rat, who I think will likely feature in later books, and possibly take over from James as the main protagonist, once James gets too old to be an agent any more. I still wish the audiobooks were a bit longer, but this series remains highly enjoyable.
This morning, I finished listening to Divine Madness, the next in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. In this instalment, James and his sister Lauren went undercover with one of their fellow agents, Dana, as members of a religious cult with ties to environmental terrorism. Since they were the only three agents on the mission, the other characters I particularly liked from the previous books were barely in it, which was a shame. Still, the details of the mission were interesting, and the way it played out was quite exciting. The set-up of the cult was well-drawn, and the way the agents eventually got split up and had to survive very dangerous situations with little support made the denouement quite nail-biting. There was also the introduction of a new character, Rat, who I think will likely feature in later books, and possibly take over from James as the main protagonist, once James gets too old to be an agent any more. I still wish the audiobooks were a bit longer, but this series remains highly enjoyable.
