I'm having a long-awaited afternoon back at my desk, after avoiding any notions of productivity for a week and more. There's still four-week-old mail to be opened and dealt with too. A package of mailing cartons for 7" vinyl arrived this morning, which I hope will prove useful when we finally get around to telling people that our new record is out. 

Sunday's post wasn't quite true in that I've been picking up a guitar occasionally and can now almost play the solo from side 4 of Mike Oldfield's Incantations (except that only having 22 frets, I can't sign off on the high F sharp), something I've been meaning to learn since I was about 14. 

Meanwhile outside my window a posse of local kids are having a yard sale (it's for charidee, people) in the front garden, which makes for good entertainment. There's a steady stream of customers (most of whom we know) as I type.

Today I started reading Lucy Green's Music, Gender, Education - I haven't got very far yet, but her definitions of intrinsic and delineated musical meaning in the introduction are very useful.