CLEM spent too much time accommodating her family’s hobbies to ever have one of her own. But after being transported by the breezy melodies of a ukulele player outside the supermarket Clem decided, with uncustomary certainty, to take up the uke herself. Following considerable research, she purchased a curvaceous beauty and self-consciously began learning chords and strumming techniques. How quickly it took her out of herself! How giddy a successful chord progression made her! Though startled by her sudden passion and annoyed by her reduced availability, Clem’s family agreed things could have been worse. It could have been a recorder.