Well, I would have hoped that by now I'd have recorded all my contributions to Chris's new album, but it didn't work out that way. I've recorded nothing. On Sunday night my PC refused to play the backing tracks without the very occasional and tiny skip - just enough to make syncing the thing up afterwards a complete nightmare - so the piano parts are now postponed until I can do them on a real piano in Nova Scotia next month (if the studio there is free). And then last night I showed up at my local studio to record the harmonium and melodica, and the receptionist had used the wrong colour pen and booked me into the rehearsal room by mistake. So no joy there either. At least I've learnt the music now. But I was left with Paul Moore's harmonium in the back of the car and no easy way to get it out ... . Add to that a fruitless 20 minutes spent on the phone to various people at Caledonian Macbrayne trying to find out what they do when tickets get lost in the post (so far, nothing!) and it wasn't the most productive of days. On top of this, mid-afternoon my phone did that Nokia trick of losing the signal for no apparent reason for half an hour, and then my Psion diary mysteriously started to run very slowly indeed. Chaos breeds chaos I think, technologically speaking. Entropy gathers entropy or something.

But I did manage some Geminiani practice, and two successful wrapping-up/evaluation meetings: one with Ben Twist about our March tour, and one with our genial contact from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, Eugene Magill. Maybe today will work out better.