Dave has a new hobby. The superb weather has brought about a spate of chinese lanterns. We can sit at the kitchen table and watch them appear over the horizon and float up the valley and can work out where they might crash land. Dave then sends me out to rescue them and tapes another night-light in and sends them off again!
Had a fun gig at Cobbles and Clay in Haworth last night. It is so nice to play near home! I used to be terrified of playing infront of friends or family but this crowd was a blast, or was it the wine? It is quite an experience to hear a crowd of people joining in singing Italian Neapolitan at the top of their voices!
Had to repair Mystic-Al this morning. A screw had popped out with all the pressure on the soundboard so stuck a few more in. Eventually it will have wooden trim over the top of the screws but it is one of the last jobs. We are repairing a harp that was left in the sun (apparantly Dad had cut a tree down in the garden and they didn't notice that the harp wasn't in shade anymore). The whole soundboard has popped off all the way up. Luckily a clean break so have taken all the strings off, then: re-glue, re-string and tune up again ...
Dave at present working on downloading a new video taken at Limetree - The Weasal Dance - its good!
Showing posts with label The Square Chapel Friday 17th September. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Square Chapel Friday 17th September. Show all posts
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Thursday, 2 September 2010
stonehenge
Our neighbour next door is having a new garage built ... Whilst digging the foundations the builders have hit rocks - loads of them - so many in fact that they were desperate to get rid of them. Luckily they bumped into Dave ...
The first dumper-full arrived two nights ago and my son, Albert, Dave and friend all strained with crow bars and scaffold pole to move them. They came up with quite a nice 'feature' of rocks interspersed with all the hedging bushes I planted last year (most of which died in the drought but are still there stuck up like little bare twigs cos I haven't the heart to pull them out - and they 'MIGHT' come back to life, mightn't they?) Then the builders saw it and said it would look much better if it was a solid wall of rocks. This time we arrived back from shopping to find a huge pile. If grassed over it would have actually made quite a good ski slope.
This time help was not forthcoming - just Albert and Dave. They came up with quite a good system of dragging them off with the tractor and tow strap from the other side of the fence. Now the 'car park' (don't think posh) is surrounded with a solid wall of rocks, sadly not rounded and artistic but nonetheless quite impressive.
On the harp front - Mystic-Al got through the night without breaking a string and stayed almost at concert pitch. This is like the feeling of waking up after a good nights sleep and finding your newborn baby has slept through as well - fantastic! Dave is absolutely amazed at the hours of work that has gone into tuning it already - and it will be another 6 months before it will be steady and start to 'sing'.
Thanks for the message re concerts - much appreciated. Tomorrow night at Cobbles and Clay, Haworth with Baritone, James Hutton. Think they may still be able to squeeze a couple more in. The Square Chapel Concert is on Friday 17th. More to come so hopefully will be able to see you there!
The first dumper-full arrived two nights ago and my son, Albert, Dave and friend all strained with crow bars and scaffold pole to move them. They came up with quite a nice 'feature' of rocks interspersed with all the hedging bushes I planted last year (most of which died in the drought but are still there stuck up like little bare twigs cos I haven't the heart to pull them out - and they 'MIGHT' come back to life, mightn't they?) Then the builders saw it and said it would look much better if it was a solid wall of rocks. This time we arrived back from shopping to find a huge pile. If grassed over it would have actually made quite a good ski slope.
This time help was not forthcoming - just Albert and Dave. They came up with quite a good system of dragging them off with the tractor and tow strap from the other side of the fence. Now the 'car park' (don't think posh) is surrounded with a solid wall of rocks, sadly not rounded and artistic but nonetheless quite impressive.
On the harp front - Mystic-Al got through the night without breaking a string and stayed almost at concert pitch. This is like the feeling of waking up after a good nights sleep and finding your newborn baby has slept through as well - fantastic! Dave is absolutely amazed at the hours of work that has gone into tuning it already - and it will be another 6 months before it will be steady and start to 'sing'.
Thanks for the message re concerts - much appreciated. Tomorrow night at Cobbles and Clay, Haworth with Baritone, James Hutton. Think they may still be able to squeeze a couple more in. The Square Chapel Concert is on Friday 17th. More to come so hopefully will be able to see you there!
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