This weekend’s ceilidh featured an Actual Barn with Hay In It And Everything, some home-brewed cider, and a cat.
The cat came to see us while we sitting, waiting to play, and consuming the home-brewed cider. Marie, who plays accordion, says that cats make her sneeze. All cats appear to sense this, and thus approach her [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Music'
Pre-ceilidh
August 19th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music
Ceilidhs for people’s weddings almost always run late. Usually by about an hour. Sometimes, in the correct environment, this can be very pleasant, such as this weekend when we spent about an hour sitting in a gazebo next to the river at the bottom of someone’s garden (where they were having a ceilidh in a [...]
Trouting and Further Exercises
August 14th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music
On Monday we had our first rehearsal for the Trout Quintet, which we’re playing in November. The rehearsal was, for some reason, at 10am, which is not a time when I am usually attempting to do anything more complicated than chewing muesli. Additionally I’d been drinking some wine with the cellist until about 1am the [...]
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