On Saturday the 20th June I wrote my Grade 6 Music Theory exam. I had to wait 6 weeks before the full results were published, though I received my initial results after a month from my teacher, Dr Roger Hansford.

I liked the paper, I thought the questions were fair, no tricky ones. I used the full time allowed, including an extra hour, given to me because I suffer from dyslexia. I would have been lost without that extra hour! I started reading through the whole paper panicking after I noticed twenty minutes had past and I hadn’t written anything yet!  I soon regained my composure, realising I had been thinking as I read, but was it all sinking in, into the deep sinkhole in my nether reaches, it seemed, or was I slowly making sense of it?

After four hours, on my way back to the car, I waited for the two invigilators to pack their things, chatting to them all the while. I found talking to them served as a good wind-down because I would be returning home to spent the rest of the day relaxing on my own.

I introduced my book to them. Both were interested in reading it, so I left them a couple of bookmarks showing my website address and how to obtain Soft-back or e-Book copies.

I drove home, a little elated, knowing that the long wait to sit this exam was over, but also realising a new exam soon lay ahead of me.