Tuesday 2 July 2002

The weather is still unremittingly awful (see 14 June) - this stopped being funny some time ago.  When I was in the Wighton Collection a few weeks ago there was a mid-19th century poster on the wall from a Dundee solicitor, advertising free passage to Canada for those who bought a few acres of land.  I looked out the window at the Tay Road Bridge in the pouring rain and realised that the prospect must have seemed very attractive.  Our lawn is fast becoming a meadow as there hasn't been a dry day to mow it for as long as I can remember. Still, I just checked the Bruichladdich distillery webcam and it's sunny there, so perhaps things will improve.  Normally at this time of year I try to spend as much time outdoors as possible, but now I've given up.

This week: grant applications (thinking of trips to Canada), refining of Zappa arrangements, writing of blurb for future concerts, melodica practice, and revisiting Earl of Kelly CD ideas and the budgets thereof.