View from the Potting Shed

It’s going to be weird not being in Edinburgh for the Festival this year. And not having our house overrun with friends and lodgers for four weeks. I’m sure Jane is secretly relieved, as in previous years I’d say things like,
Oh yeah, I meant to say, we have seven people sleeping over tomorrow […]

Things are slowly returning to normal at Potting Shed HQ. Today we got our dining room back (left) … albeit that it is now harbouring Mum’s PC while it undergoes a full reinstallation of Windows.
James has been upgraded from a futon mattress on the dining room floor to a double bed in the guest […]

Tonight’s concert was fun, despite not being able to get into St Mary’s Cathedral when we were supposed to, due to the Dunedin Consort’s Sir Michael Tippett Centenary Concert living up to its name and lasting almost exactly 100 years!! (I wonder if Tippett lives in Brigadoon.)
We retreated to Walpole Hall. “I look […]

Well, since blogging last I’ve been to Steve’s show three further times, including last night’s final show of the run.
Jane came along to Sunday night’s gig (*****) — that was my review score of the evening, not some random expletive! — and was especially moved by “For Eric” a track that Steve wrote for his […]

Score: ****
Last night Eddie and I went to Steve Lawson’s gig in town. (You can read Steve’s opinion of last night on his blog.)
I’d never seen Steve play before — other than twiddling on my acoustic guitars here at Potting Shed HQ (Festival Accommodation Dept.) — so it was a real treat to not […]