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Big thanks to Harry Connick Jr for making Abu Dhabi SWING at ADNEC on Sunday evening last! I had a wonderful time, especially swinging to that authentic New Orleans jazz. Harry entertained us on piano, vocals and also played trumpet for a time!

It was a full house in the audience - since it was his first time in UAE, he said himself that he wasn't sure how many people would turn up? But, he needn't have worried, there wasn't a spare seat in the house! Great band too.........Roger Ingram on trumpet, Jerry Weldon on tenor saxophone, Lucien Barbarin on trombone and Ben Wolfe on double bass..........The band clearly had a fabulous time, dancing up and down the stage at times.........

Classically trained on piano myself, many moons ago, I'm also teaching myself jazz piano and my goodness it is hard! Those timings really stretch your brain like nothing else! Then, you have your two hands doing completely different things at the same time - in rhythm and notes. It's quite mind-bending. It only goes to cement my admiration for jazz pianists such as Harry.......and Bill Evans..........and Oscar Peterson.........

I vote for  MORE JAZZ in Abu Dhabi!!

Anyway, it's really hotting up here in Abu Dhabi now. We're into the low 40 degrees!! But it's the humidity that really hits hard, creeping up each day. Making you sweat (or pant) the moment you exit your house. Nothing like sweat dripping down your legs as a new experience.....hmmmm......nice image 

Once you reach town and get that hot, it's kind of like walking around in a steam bath. Or; you know when you open a hot oven and get it full in the face?.......it's just like that! You kind of get used to it, once your in that kind of heat. Or, really; you just get used to sweating profusely.

Nice excuse to buy more summer sandals though! Bought a lovely sparkly pair today. Sometimes there's nothing nicer than sparkly shoes! Although I'm not the kind of person who has wardrobes full of shoes, I am beginning to see the fascination......... they just brighten your whole day.........

Sadly, those kind of sparkles don't last long - before you find them all around the house. I had a dress with sequins like that. Somehow, they seem to end up sticking to my husband! Sometimes I count how many he has stuck to him. He can't work out how they keep ending up on him. I think he thinks I stick them on him in the night. Sometimes I find two, sometimes I find many more. Where will the trail of sequins end.............................?

Just finished a lovely local portrait commission. And Bonnie our 'desert dog' (mut) has invented a new 'tent' game. She drags/lifts the 'throw' from our sofa, dives underneath, then scrabbles around inside. Ideally, she likes to lay a favourite toy on the outside surface - so that when she dives in, she kind of hunts for it, in her dog-made tent in a frantic manner, until she gets the feel of it. It's very entertaining to watch. I'm trying to get a video of it for youtube. But, since my phone makes a loud beep everytime I start videoing - she stops and looks up when I begin. I expect I can turn the beep off somehow........but it would take me too long to find the beep-stopper.

www.moorethanart.com and contact me at questions@moorethanart.com if you require a portrait or modern art in your style/colours for your house. I work in traditional and contemporary styles........

Here's my 'Deep Blue' contemporary painting. Very large oil on canvas. Any colour/size to suit.

How many littles fishes can you count?