Tuesday 11 January 2005

Whew. I've delivered the final set of edit notes and booklet blurb for the Kellie disc at last. John Purser's notes are as entertaining and as wittily written as you would expect, and the sound of it is very good indeed. I nearly lost my bottle at the last minute about the running order, but it's staying the way it is, with all the orchestral stuff at the beginning, a string quartet and a slightly wild trio sonata near the middle of the disc, and then the strathspey and reel and some wonderful flute playing from Katy B in Kellie Castle to finish. I'd celebrate with a fine whisky (though it should be claret in deference to Kellie's taste) but I'm feeling lousy, trying to shake off a flu-y virus while sheltering from the storm force winds outside.