More last-minute preparation today: Marie and I met first thing this morning, mostly about the logistics of moving everyone around next week, then I trudged through what was left of the snow over to have a shot on Paul Moore and Janice Forsyth's rather wonderful harmonium, which they even agreed to lend me next week for the recordings - hooray.  Bliss was truly unconfined when I walked past the local chip shop on the way home to notice that it was selling fritters.  Scottish cuisine of the last 40 years is really all about finding creative ways of killing yourself: it's as well I'd just had a bracing walk.

Time to actually look at the Kellie music for half an hour or so, fit in a couple of phone calls to Linn Records and David G, and then I made photocopies of all the music for next week, so that our producer/engineers will have at least some idea of what on earth we're trying to do.

This snippet of conversation was reported from within yesterday's rehearsal of a very well-known British period instrument orchestra, from one of its more celebrated players (no names): 'now I remember why I don't like baroque music'.