Puivert

I went to play a solo concert in Puivert in the Aude yesterday. Puivert is a small medieval town surrounded by a huge empty landscape of green hills, with the Pyrenees looming large in the background. This is Cathar country, close to Monségur, the scene of the grand finale of Kate Mosse's Labyrinth. I was playing in the Musée du Quercorb as part of the Journées du Patrimoine, in a room where they had an exhibition about the making of a baroque guitar. I was playing on baroque guitar, lute and theorbo. Not easy practising three instruments at the same time, I realised, but the concert went well and I was pleased with it.

Today is my birthday and I am the proud owner of a new dartboard, which we have installed down in the cellar.