OK, so I got home OK after my suicide-induced delays last week. In the end I got back about 3 hours late - good job I had parked my car at Doncaster. If I had needed to get the train all the way home I would have been stuck at Doncaster.
That was last week, and now here I am in Cardiff, South Wales, the only consultant in the village! LOL. This time I have taken the car all the way here - I'm not going to let delays keep me from getting home this time. Lisa is quite poorly at the moment so I need to make sure I'm back at a deent time.
My journey here was surprisingly quick and easy - I had expected a 5-hour trip at least, but it turned out to be a little over 4 hours door to door, which was great. And there was no traffic to contend with either. I'm staying at the Quality Hotel which is a fairly decent hotel, although the shower has just nearly blasted me out of the bathroom! It's either a trickle or a blast it seems. Looks like I'll not have any trouble waking up.
I had some excellent news this week - The Phil are going to be doing Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in October. This stands alongside JCS as one of my all-time-must-sing works. I simply love this, and if you've never heard it, get hold of a copy - it's one of the most exciting pieces of music you'll ever hear. In fact, I'm sure you will have heard the opening number countless times - "O Fortuna" is always being used in TV and films. It was the music that the judges walked out to at the start of the X Factor shows, for instance.
So I'm hoping to be able to manage my schedule to allow me to take part. It's a fabulous work to hear, but it would be just amazing to take part.
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