From Robert Fripp's diary, 11 April:
Turn a seeming disadvantage to your advantage.
The greater the seeming disadvantage, the greater the possible advantage.
Fripp's aphorisms can be very useful. In the last week for different reasons we've lost two members of the band from our July gig in Fife, but DG's being free has meant that we can convene as an expanded 'Vortex 3' instead, which probably fits the occasion better anyway. All still to be decided.

I've been reading Kath Campbell's excellent book The Fiddle in Scottish Culture, in the comfortable company of the new CD Sylvain sent me of him playing the Balcarres lute book. I don't think I've ever seen him quite so clean-shaven as he is in the booklet photos.