Monday 20 April 2009

This week I have to distil some of my reading from the last few months into a coherent and comprehensible argument for a paper I'm to give next weekend, and later today Greg and Alison are going to drop in to record the music examples. This means that I also have to resist the temptation to spend the day in the garden, as I spent the weekend. A bad workman may blame his tools, but a bad garden workman like me is definitely much improved by the addition of some good tools, and my new toy of a seriously enormous hedge trimmer went from being slightly terrifying to rather addictive very quickly.

Ongoing diary planning continues. I made the mistake last night of booking flights directly on Air Canada's website to save a few quid: as has happened with me before, this ended in a phone call to the web support team to painstakingly replicate the site crashing, before doing all the business over the phone anyway ...