A long-awaited day off at the end of four weeks of being a professional musician. Our Kellie CD got a brief but very nice review in the Times on Friday.

Yesterday was quite a full day. It wasn't until I was walking on stage at the second half of the afternoon concert that I realised that if I were going to choose an environment in which to play the Bach E major violin and harpsichord sonata for the first time (it's the most difficult of the six, the only one I haven't been playing for years, and the first time I've played any of them with Ruth), then the afternoon after four nights of concerts, to a Queen's Hall Sunday afternoon audience with lots of SCO musicians in it, would be one of the more stressful choices available. But playing in the Queen's Hall has its good sides too: I couldn't find the harpsichord stick, and asked stage manager Shug if he'd seen it around anywhere. 'It got left in Aberdeen about three years ago I think'. After a brief experimentation with a drumstick, he came back a few minutes later with a perfectly fashioned stick that he'd just made out of a bit of dowelling. And Giovanni Antonini's recorder playing was wonderful of course. We'd just about worked out when to follow him, and when to lay down a groove for him to float on top of.

I just made it back to Glasgow in time to hear Christophe Coin and his friends from EBL playing Haydn duets and trios with baryton in St Andrews in the Square to a small but entranced audience. What an astonishing noise. You can hear it on Radio 3 on 15 November.

But now I'm going to do gentle battle with the piles and piles of paper on my desk, while listening to this: any album that features reggae melodica, and Oliver Hardy singing 'Fresh fish' from the beginning of Towed in a Hole is likely to get an enthusiastic response at this end.