First things first: followup to last time.

• New team at work is going reasonably well. However, I’ve been having to learn the data model used in the scripting layer of this PIM package largely by trial and error. Mostly error. The documentation is, at best, incomplete, and in many cases simply wrong.
• The conducting course was excellent. I might be attending another weekend in February, and then I hope to be allowed to go to the 9-day Summer School on the Intermediate level, which should mean some meatier repertoire to work with.
• Spamalot was fab – Tim Curry was excellent as King Arthur. There was a large John Lewis contingent in the audience so when it was announced that “We are now no longer the Knights Who Say ‘Ni’. We are now the Knights Who Say ‘Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zoo-owli-zhiv-Never-Knowingly-Undersold’…” it brought the house down and half the actors corpsed.

So, what else have I been doing? Lots!

Two weekends ago: gave a piano recital for some family and friends, as a practice run for my DipABRSM exam which is now less than 3 weeks away. Argh! Gave the same recital at work a few days later; seemed to be well-received.

Last weekend: went to Saf’s masked ball. It was wonderful. Good food, wine and company, a ceilidh (yay! spelt it right first time) of much joy, and general merriment going on till about 3am. The following day I saw Julia and Robin and played a card game called Wizard which was fun, though it turned out about halfway through I’d had an unfair advantage due to playing whilst unaware of an important rule. It hadn’t prevented me from doing pretty badly up till that point, though!

Yesterday: went to a friend’s housewarming party in Woking, and caught up with a number of school friends whom I had not seen for over a year. Generally very jolly indeed.

Today: Went to see the CULES pantos in dress rehearsal, as I can’t make it up for the proper performances next weekend. They were Of Joy, for many reasons that I won’t detail here. Suffice to say that they are both very much worth seeing.

Time for me to sleep.

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