Merry Christmas!

Many thanks to you all for your patience over the last few weeks whilst I took a break and made use of the time by having my computer repaired. (Many thanks Pete!!)
I hope that you have enjoyed looking back over the archives in my absence.

December has been a particularly busy time for Robin, and consequently for me, and he spent the grand total of 18 hours at home during the entire month.
He has been to 15 countries and performed 6 concerts, all of which went extremely well.

Robin should have been home for a whole day, but there was an unfortunate, and worrying situation on his flight from Philadelphia.
Mid Atlantic the plane developed a problem and had to return to the US.
After an anxious time, and much delay circling Philadelphia to burn off and dump surplus fuel, the plane, thankfully, landed safely, all the passengers were transferred to another aircraft, and they set off once again. Later in the flight Robin, who is a veteran of 100s and 100s of flights, asked one of the stewardesses how common this kind of procedure was in her experience. She replied that she had been a stewardess for 26 years and had never ever had to turn back during a flight before.

For most of this time away Robin has been in the Caribbean, so he has returned today with a rather pleasant suntan.

However, home he is, and back just in time to celebrate with the family over the festive period.
As you can imagine we are all delighted.
Whether Robin will be quite so happy about 5 o'clock tomorrow morning when we are woken by two hyper excited children, and he has to drag himself out of a jet lagged sleep, remains to be seen....

But for now, we all hope that you have a wonderful Christmas, wherever you are.

Post Rodrigo's 'Adagio'.

I finally got news of the performance the other night of Rodrigo's Adagio, with the soprano Izzy Cooper, and by all accounts it went very well.
Here are the artists after the concert, a slightly blurred image, but there were many photos being taken at the time, and much autograph writing, which is always a good sign!



I'm sure they will work together again as the performance was so well received.
It was just one extra piece for Robin, albeit and eventful one, and his second 'official' concert is actually tomorrow.

Today though, the QE2 is due to spend a few hours in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
As it is a particularly cold, damp, and grey day here in the UK, the sort that you just don't seem to be able to get warm, I'm not at all envious that Robin will be enjoying some Caribbean sunshine....