This will have to be a quick one this morning as Jen and I are off to visit Rach and the wee one. Suffice to say last night's concert was really good. We arrived to be ushered into a room with a complicated coffee machine by some extremely efficient and friendly NLS workers. One told us that they had some rare Burns manuscripts in the 'ball room'... not sure whether his comment was a threat or an invitation to nick them and share the proceeds. Or indeed just a fascinating piece of information of course.
We warmed up in the performance room and were massively impressed with the acoustic. Although it meant that we couldn't change tempo easily, it made it a beautiful listening experience (hopefully!) for the audience and great fun for us. So we went out to perform with a sick sort of feeling in our stomachs. Actually I can only speak for myself but I'm not sure I have been as nervous as that since the senior music competition at school. Well as it goes, it sounded really rather good. When Ol returned to his place out front as chief, conductor and leader of men, his face was smiling in relief. All downhill from there folks and our two new Gaelic ones were even passable in spite of dodgy lyrics. Peter 1, had you been standing next to me and been dead you would have turned in your grave.
All in all a jolly evening and I even got back in time for a run to beautiful Newhaven harbour. It was also lovely to see some happy smiling faces we knew and particularly nice to see Alison. Great to see you up and about lady. We miss you very much so come back...soon!
Enjoy the day one and all
CSW
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