Where do I start on this exceptionally hot day when my brain isn't joined to body? Is there anything else I can do to keep that sense of rootedness to core? The heat is playing havoc with my breath control... that possibly links then to maintaining line... Despite heat, I had a good lesson yesterday but it took two months to feel I was moving forwards again after a kidney infection... that's only partly mental blockage - again the problem was breath - not able to expand (because I was still remarkably tender, even after two courses of antibiotics?) - so how to recover after injury?? Not sure that this is clear......

Maintaining connection through my whole body - if I’m connected high notes are fine Don’t push, don’t strain - struggle when tired or in rehearsal when conductor repeatedly wants very high passages at full volume over and over…

From Cambridge UK (currently very hot) looking forward to a Saturday I’m not singing - but don’t worry twice on Sunday, once liturgically, and a choral concert - soloist in Mozart Spatzenmass and Buxtehude Magnificat