Very sad to have missed Sushil's onstage popcorn making with Lol Coxhill and co last week. 

Over the weekend, in amongst a visit to a country park and consuming some very fine fritters on the seafront at Largs, I got the Estey back in tune in preparation for its going on tour with Chris this week. The 4 foot was way off, so apologies to anyone at the Sage who was offended by the tuning last week - I should have done it before but I didn't have time. 

Saturday become unexpectedly complicated after a phone call from Alison in the morning: 'You know that Geminiani concert we've got on the 11 June?' 'Yup.' 'Well, it's actually this Saturday.' 'Oh.' By some miracle everyone is free. Eligio and I both had other concerts cancelled on that day, except that I had stupidly cancelled the flights for mine so I had to buy them all over again at vastly increased prices. Oh well. So now I have Geminiani and his ilk to prepare this week as well as all of Chris's tunes.

December 3rd's gig is coming together nicely, with a slightly expanded band, and it's looking good for our first choice of players to be able to make it.  

Just been alerted to a nice review for the Kellie in the Telegraph.