Oh God, what a day.

Yesterday, was rotten. We did an outdoor concert and it poured with bloody rain non-stop. The roof was leaking right onto me, and my trousers are coming apart, luckily in a place that's not visible when I sit down.

It baffles me why 2500-3000 people will turn up and sit on the ground in the pouring rain for about £25 a go, when if you build them a concert hall, with proper walls and a roof, comfy seats and give them a well rehearsed concert that doesn't involve queuing for 45 minutes to get out of the car park at about £18 a go, they won't come.

Basically, I think British people don't like comfort or convenience. We like the idea that we are eccentric, and will put up with things that others wouldn't, but we don't have to, we just want to so we have something to moan about.

New conductor's first day.

It's Kiril Karabits' first day as our principal conductor and he seemed a bit shy and nervous until he started conducting, and then he was just great.
Unlike Marin, he can describe how he wants something to sound, and then conduct it too. We're doing Shostakovich's 11th symphony and I can imagine how it could really be a very boring first movement if it wasn't done right, but this is going to sound really good.
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Really not what I was expecting.

This one made me honk with laughter, as it was the opposite of what I was expecting to happen. Hahahahahaha!

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I took this picture in the front garden, when we had come back from trying to catch tiddlers in the stream. I've got a new camera, and am busily taking pictures of everything I see!

I went crabbing with Freddie today, at Poole Quay. We had a pair of stinky squid to use as bait, and I had no idea how easy it would be to catch them. We just plonked ourselves on a concrete spur, and dangled our lines in the water. Crab after crab grabbed hold, and in the end we had about 20 or so. None of them were big enough to eat though.