Advent Calendar VIII

The inside Christmas tree 

Today was very nearly another failure! After what ended up as a rather hectic morning I had to rush up to the City to arrive at St. Giles Cripplegate the best part of an hour late for the rehearsal for this evening's concert. Fortunately I have managed to be at all of the other rehearsals, but I hate being late, no matter how often I am. On this occasion I plead that it was not my fault! We have an interesting programme this evening, starting with the Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espanol, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and Rachmaninov's first symphony. This rarely played so is quite a treat, and unusually for me I am in every piece and every movement of the symphony.

I am sat just in front of the Christmas tree, during last Sunday's rehearsal every now and then we would hear a small thud as one of the decorations would fall off. By the end of the evening there was a little huddle of baubles at the bottom of the tree, I was quite released to see that they have removed all of the balls before this evening's concert.

Today is the second Sunday of Advent so we are lighting our second candle, a bit like 2024 the last week seems to have flown past! I know I have been busy, but then so has 2024, so I am trying to tell myself that it's not just my age!

I have been out every evening since last Tuesday, while it's all be fun I am now seriously looking forward to an evening at home, indeed come Tuesday I may just stay in bed all day!

I have written this in the break between the rehearsal and the concert using my tablet, I mostly use it just as a kindle but it is useful, and reminds me how much I prefer using the laptop.

The outside Christmas tree