Katherine's tunes will get an airing on Radio 3 tomorrow morning. Hooray.

Nye Parry was in Glasgow being an external examiner at the RSAMD this week, so on Tuesday night we headed for Tchai-Ovna (where I bought the wonderful picture of a banana by Ailsa Lang that was on the wall) before playing floodlit swingball in the garden, and playing incomprehensible nonsense on guitar and bass in the study. Excellent pastimes all. Then today I dropped in on Greg Lawson to look at an arrangement he's writing for Karen Matheson and Donald Shaw, and we ended up comparing the finer points of mandolin plectrums.

Apparently the Lion CD now exists, albeit on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and the results of my afternoon's recording with the Tiger Lillies a few weeks ago will be released on CD on August 25.