With Paul Willet on Tuesday night at Banbury Symphony Orchestra rehearsal - Sinfonietta “A Christmas Carol” coming along nicely.

What a thrill to hear it live for the first time. Thank you to Paul and the orchestra for making it work so well. Mr Scrooge sounded great! Good luck for Saturday.

Thank you also to Cathy and Simon Stace , our friends from college days, for letting us stay with them. They also introduced the score to Paul for me last year.

An added bonus was meeting Catherine Mellor from Halifax at the rehearsal ……. a lovely blast from the past!