Battersea

Yesterday was a day of simple old fashioned hard slog. Adopting the Biblical principle of six day you shall labour and on the seventh rest, I often work Saturday mornings. Yesterday I proved Murphy's law and every thing that could go wrong did go wrong, I ended up working from about 10:30 in the morning through to 7:30 at night.

The worst thing is that none of it was fun, cutting grass cleaning paving and then cutting down some conifers, it just all took longer than expected, and I had trouble getting a new, and much needed, chain for my chain saw. Today I shall order a couple of spares of e-bay.

Managed to watch Doctor Who and collapse.

This afternoon I will be playing with All Saints Concert Band at Battersea Park, I am quite looking forward to this since in all my years playing I have never done a bandstand concert in Battersea Park. This park was a major park of the Festival of Britain, and still has some of the show gardens, the lake with wild fowl, a Pagoda and other features put in for the Festival, the picture is of the "Old English Garden" very formal, but also very peacefull in the middle of town.

Not looking forward quite so much to playing since I am covering Euphonium, although one of my favorite instruments I am not a Euphonium player, it is just a bit too small for me, but we shall see how I, and the rest of the band get on.