Yesterday's news, after jamming with Barnaby in the kitchen: Sardinian triple pipes go really well with organ, Scottish smallpipes with harmonium.

Today I've been preparing my RSAMD lecture for tomorrow morning, and then I started doing the homework for a London concert that's happening in a few weeks' time. Catherine Bott's asked me to accompany her at the Purcell Room in some of Dolly Collins's inspired song arrangements, as heard on the album Snapshots which I enthused about here back in September 2006. Shirley Collins will be on stage with us too. I don't think my writing about this is conveying just how excited I am. Anyway, taking advantage of the house being empty, I set the fake organ up in the kitchen again.

insert joke of your choice about flat notes here