Two days without practising, but I'm just having a potato top pie with plum sauce.

 Yes, I know, that's two pies in two days. As Rob's friend Chesterton might say, "That's the same free will that'll get you into hell." And as Gloria (my mum) would have said, "It'll either cure it or make it worth having."

For those of you who don't read Rob's posts, here's what this guy Chesterton (I have no idea who he is or was) is supposed to have said, "hell is God's great compliment to the freedom of human choice". It wasn't my idea to start the quote without a capital letter. 

That's an interesting one. It's sort of like a twist - "Okay, you can have freedom of choice, but with that comes hell." God evidently said.

I think that God was 'havin' a laugh'.

Anyway, back to my practice. I haven't done a lot of double bass practice this year - that's something that I need to put right. It's just that I have no gigs on the horizon. Though, what I should be doing is recording my numerous original bass pieces. 

I have done quite a lot of violin practice, but I'd like to do more - there's still that Caprice 24 to get completely sorted. I still have about 75 hours to go there.

There's a little bluegrass jam happening in Petone on Sunday. If I can, I'll pop in for that. I have two pieces that I wouldn't mind trying out - Blue Moon of Kentucky and the Orange Blossom Special. Though, at jams like this, you don't necessarily get to play the tunes you have practised, but that's okay.

Well, I'll leave you there for today.

Ciao tutti.