Saturday 23 January 2010

It was very sociable at the farmers market this morning, where I bumped into various neighbours, Alison (fresh back from working in London) and Maeve (visiting Glasgow for Celtic Connections) dropped by, and we had time for a cup of tea and some hot buttery pancakes.

It's been a busy week, mostly still dealing with the details of the year's projects, and getting them nearer to a place where we can hit the 'GO' button and say that they're definite. On Thursday I went over to the RSAMD to hear Bill Taylor and Margaret Stewart experimenting with Gaelic bardic song: Kenna Campbell and Margaret Bennett were also there, so there was an almost tangible wealth of experience in the room. Afterwards, sitting around in the RSAMD foyer over some soup allowed for useful meetings with Alison, Bill, Barnaby, Greg and quite a few other people who just happened to be around. It's wonderful to have a place where students and musicians can hang out, but I guess it's also very easy suddenly to discover that once you've spoken to everyone, there's no time left to do any actual work. So I finally finished off my script for Monday's palace visits yesterday.