One too many mornings

Life is all so cosy at the minute, that seems a strange thing to say when we are in the middle of house hunting and going to our lives turned upside down by the arrival of our first child. I think that both Michelle and myself are just kinda content and perhaps are just a little bit smug married. I hope not but recently both of us have started new hobbies, well not so much new but hobbies we have not done in a while. Michelle has started knitting and joined a pub knitting circle, and I have started modeling. Not on a catwalk just making airfix kits. I’ve just finished an Italian bomber used by Franco in the Spanish civil war, a subject I’ve been reading about recently. I’ll maybe take a few pictures of it and post them here, or write a few modeling pages. It was kinda of cool to get back into it, although I’ve got very critical of the kits, they always seemed perfect when I was kid. Let’s hope I don’t turn into a rivet counter

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The Edinburgh festival has started, and last night Michelle and I went along to the opening concert. It was held at St.Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh. Unfortunately there are two St.Mary’s Cathedrals in Edinburgh. One at either end of Princes St. We picked the wrong one. Fortunately we arrived 15 minutes late, just as the soloist was about to start Vivaldi’s Spring concerto. He looked up and patiently waited till we took our seats then launched into his virutoso performance. I’ve never heard classical music played live, but was really blown away by the musicanship, but also the humour in such a constricting art form. Perhaps because it is so constricting you notice the nuances of the performance. There were some bum notes played but it is live and the music must be horrendous to play. I really enjoyed it and the sound in the church was fantastic. They finished with Pachelbel’s Canon in D. Looking forward to some more base entertainment in the coming weeks but that was a great way to kick off the festival