I’ve just had the Estey reed organ out of the cellar to prepare it for active service with Adrianne Greenbaum in a couple of weeks. I’ll be playing the Dundee, Glasgow, Ayr and Giffnock (!) gigs of this tour (despite not being even slightly Jewish, as far as I know). And hooray, some ConCal gigs are coming up in a few weeks, and next summer, so I’m getting myself into music planning mode, which I’d pretty much forgotten how to do. I’m hoping that the Stodart square piano will be ready for its first outing by October 3: fingers crossed.

Given the political news this week, perhaps it’s time for the Yes campaign to start its own Project Fear. Fear of living in a country where Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are taken seriously as agents of change. Fear of the UK opting out of European human rights legislation, or even of Europe altogether. Fear of further restrictions on civil liberties and on justice as a result of a faraway terrorist threat. That’s all pretty scary. And that’s before we even start on the NHS, inequality, restrictions on immigration, or any of the rest. A Yes vote would make another future possible.

Oh, and we have CD copies of Spring Any Day Now (click on ‘next’) back in stock. It’s quite good, you know …