Life is calming down a little - although the spring festival is here and I did not even have time yet to visit Duillond or the giant maze near Bree. But maybe that is why life is calming down. Actually, that is not entirely true. Events are not hunting themselves anymore as it was a few weeks ago, but even the few ones were anything else than relaxing for me - because of the two song premiers. At Miss Daysi's burrow warming, we played the Shrew song for the first time. Miss Daysi has a big Shrew statue in her garden, so this was the perfect place for it.
And the hobbits liked it and squeaked along with it!!! I am so happy about that. Even now, a few days later, when meeting one of the other hobbits it can happen that instead of saying hullo they squeak at you. How lovely!
But back to that lovely burrow warming. The food was amazing! Miss Daysi must have baked and cooked for days! I am glad I had the chance to try that blueberry pie before Miss Sevelda turned up. And the burrow was most beautifully decorated, in Daysi colours, white and green. I loved it and even thought of re-furbishing my burrow again for a moment. Until I met Master Bracegirdle the very next day, that is.
And Master Simbo composed one of his most beautiful poems for the occasion: Dancing in the Daisies. Master Simbo was the one who made me think of writing a song about ore. I was humming some tunes, mentioning skarn, and he made me think further about it. And then I had this lovely melody in my ears I had heard being played around the Shire and in Bree, so I sat down and wrote. I tried to write about skarn, about the shining and reflecting quality of a new skarn deposit - but then this grinning face turned up in my head. Master Jiro! Trying to get even the skarn I was only thinking about! And then the new song was developing completely on its own. Miss Chryssie, Miss Tibba and our Shirriff joint me to play it last Friday in the Dragon, and the audience seemed to like it. My! They asked for an encore, so we had to play the very same song once again! They did like it! Including Master Jiro, who was dancing and holding up pieces of ore - of course you can count on him to have always some in his pockets.
(picture borrowed from Miss Lina's burrow)
Happy as I am about the success of these new songs, I might finally take the time to wander off to the spring festival grounds. I will pass at the Dragon first. On Friday somebody mentioned something about hobbits so far away from the Shire that they even wear boots! I have to ask Barmy what that was all about.
