It’s nice to be revisiting our Purcell disc after such a long time away from it – if I say so myself it’s sounding rather good. It’s so diverse that I’ve still no idea about a running order: I’m just listening to it on shuffle. Alison and I are going to sit down and listen through properly on Sunday to see what we think.

There’s a US classical music magazine that when you put an album out, reviews it, and before publication offers you the chance to become its cover star when the review appears by buying lots of advertising. This is fair enough really: the concept of advertorial isn’t exactly scandalous. But the review that we were just sent for our Hume disc includes the unfortunate phrase ‘Walker’s excellent emission’. It’s almost worth paying $3000 just to see that in print.

If you’re in Scotland and haven’t decided to vote Yes yet, please read this.

Here’s the view of Loch Lomond at the end of an after-dinner bike ride on Monday night. 19 miles to the loch along canal, old railway line and river, then just time to hop on the train at Balloch and be back for an early bedtime.