Had a really busy day , First we delivered the pet food as normal then the publisher phoned to say that Dave's new book was ready so we went and collected that. We then had to nip to Asda and got back to the farm to find that someone had been to the farm and opened all the gates and let the sheep out . Finally after catching all the sheep we had Dinner . Dave has spent the evening trying to figure out Twitter I now believe I have a twitter account but I am not sure just how to use it yet so please bear with us If you want to follow my "Tweets" then add me Fiona Katie Roberts @HarpsFKRoberts Thats all for today back to recording tomorrow and Dave is back on with his marketing drive for new venues and bookings

It is finished! THE BOOK OF CARIS by David John widdop The illustration you see is of Caris drawn by our friend, Dennis Oates of Oxenhope. The book is being printed tomorrow. My husband, Dave, started writing this book by hand over two years ago but over the last couple of months we have been transferring it to print and doing the corrections ... I mention this, not because he is such a bad speller or even bad at grammar, no, we picked up a nasty virus which messed up everything we tried to type! The more we corrected the line endings, the more went wrong! Trouble was, it only showed up when we turned on the computer again, everytime we left it - things were perfect. It was a nightmare! We nearly lost it and worked through till 3 or 4 am every morning to try and get it right. I think we re-typed the whole book 4 times! Now you know why I haven't been near the blog. Dave has to live in and amongst 32 harps (and of course me). You've heard of 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'? Well I think Dave did just that. The book starts with a beautiful harp and not only that, he wrote me a whole book full of tunes. Each event in the book, or character, has a tune so we are on with the recording right now. I have played these tunes in concert a few times now and he can write some lovely melodies - brought some to tears they did! More soon!