Some concert possibilities have opened up in the last week or so for February and September next year. So the CD release schedule is starting to look like: A red red rose this summer, Kellie next February, and SADN II (or whatever it ends up being called) probably not until September 2005. I've only just starting listening to the road tapes from March, and very entertaining they are too: our first unrehearsed run-through Remember me my deir just after Mhairi got off the plane was unexpectedly moving, and there are some characteristic pieces of conversation between takes - me: 'I've just had a really great idea!' Katherine: 'oh dear'. 

The Friends of the Russell Collection (actually the society has a longer name than that but I'd rather type this endless parenthesis than state it in full) have printed a two-page interview with me in Soundboard magazine. Their website's not up and running yet, but one day when you click on www.russellcollectionfriends.org something enlightening will happen.

My inbox was full this morning with mp3s from Suzie leBlanc, of field recordings of Acadian folk songs. And while searching for a harmonium on eBay a few weeks ago, I couldn't help but buy a bag of harmonium stop knobs, now separated from their original home above the keys. For some reason as a teenager, I craved exactly such articles, to make into badges, or ornamental drawer knobs or something. And now I have some. I won't attempt to offer any explanation or comment on this, as I find it quite perplexing.

Anyway, I have the next three weeks to learn quite a lot of music, so it's about time I did some practice.