A little Trip

Well, I have just got back from a little trip, my Daughter is away for a few days at Soul Survivor, so my wife and I thought we would have a little trip of our own.

Just a couple of days and the one night away, we spent the night at Chichester, a charming and friendly little Cathedral City on the South Coast of Sussex. On Saturday morning we went and had a look around the Cathedral and were rather surprised to find a flag stone commemorating Gustav Holst. Now Holst is one of my favorite composers so I was rather surprised that there was no more information about the man, or the commemorative stone on display, especially when there was a lot of "bumf" on other "notables" whose achievements seemed to me to be of a much lesser status. I think I would have expected something on the great man's compositions and his connections with the City and Cathedral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst gives a good little potted history Holst's life and career, but again nothing really on his connections with Chichister, so any info on this please let me know.

Interestingly - for me anyway - the blogger spell check does not recognise Chichester, but suggests Rochester as an alternative. Since Rochester and Chichester cathedrals are quite similar in Character does this suggest that those nice programmers at blogger are fans of ecclesiastical architecture? Anyway we have Chichester on the right and Rochester below.

In the mean time I am anxious to get back to my new toy and get on with learning CC fingerings. Ironically my next outing with a tuba will be next Sunday with Croydon Brass Band, playing BBb at Canbury Gardens in Kingston upon Thames, so once again it will be me and Mrs T. Of the Orchestral playing I have booked at the moment it is all on Trombone until May so that should give me plenty of time to find my way all around the new toy!