Stephen in Plymouth

I forgot to tell you about our Magic Flute event in Plymouth. Blame Christmas.

Stephen collected me from the station and we went off to find the venue, Lipson College. It was found and booked for us by Ruth Ballantyne who is a leading flute teacher in the area. It was good, a nice sized theatre. Everyone arrived and we started work – a warm up, Papageno’s Song, Queen of the Night and Magic Bells. It went really well. It was lovely to see some old faces again and some new ones.

Stephen had been offered seats for both of us for the Glyndebourne opera in the evening, but he wasn’t convinced we should go. I think this could have been Stephen’s first opera as a member of the audience. I was happy either way, so we did what you always do in such a situation – we tossed a coin and the coin said ‘go’, so we did.  We saw Jenufa by Janácek. It was brilliant, I really enjoyed it.

Then we needed to eat. Stephne had just got his new iPhone and was thrilled that he could find loads of places to eat nearby. Of course we ended up having a curry. It was almost as good as the opera, but at the end of us, James from Glyndebourne who was with us, had a bit of a reaction to something he had eaten. I felt fine, but after I’d been asleep for about an hour I woke up with a really streaming nose – and it kept running all night. I thought I had a cold, but there were no other symptoms and it passed the next morning. Very odd.

My journey back was incredibly on time and stress free.

One more event to go this year…