Saturday 3 September 2005

Proposed research is still taking up lots of my energy: I had lunch with our chairman Noel O'Regan in his garden in Edinburgh today; this after a chance meeting in the street with Peter Nelson, the head of the Music Department at Edinburgh University this morning, and a picnic lunch with John Butt (who's going to guest with us on December 3 playing the organ obbligato in Bach's cantata 170) on Thursday in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens. I was at the RSAMD on Wednesday. The proposal is gradually coming along.

I saw this sign on the way to the station this morning. Expected to find an enormous puddle underneath, for you to leave a scientifically impossible impression of your vehicle in.

I've been listening to Alan Emslie's new album while typing away in an academic fashion, and have since had to put up with his email ridicule at my being a fan of Steve Morse. Alan was playing even less notes than I was in the Webern last week.