Four more things I saw on the road to/from Iskandarkul

A homemade water wheel with plastic buckets, alternately red and light bue
A blacksmith's gates adorned with wrought iron images of an anvil, hammer and other tools
We had to stop for a car-wash as you get fined for having a dirty car in the centre of town
Donkeys laden with colourful bundles

(I've not finished with my Tajik/Kazakh trip and I have another looming, so I'd better just get these bits out there, in no particular order ...)

What it's all about.

Liverpool schoolchildren who are taking part in an innovative music education project have become the youngest performers at this year's BBC Proms.

Pupils as young as nine from Faith Primary School played alongside members of the Liverpool Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Sunday.
The school is one of six in England taking part in the In Harmony scheme.
All pupils and staff learn instruments, in a programme inspired by Venezuela's pioneering Sistema project.

 See more here.

Monarch of the Garden