Irish music night!

Djeli took me over the Severn to The Boat pub for their Irish music night – every Thursday all sorts of people turn up with their instruments and just play folk music. Deeply, deeply awesome. Last night we had 3 fiddles, 2 banjos, 2 mandolins, a guitar, 2 sets of uilleann pipes, 4 assorted accordions, ranging from a tiny squeezebox through to a full piano accordion, a bodhran and even a pair of bones (played like the spoons). We were given a lesson in bone-playing, and Djeli picked it up quite well but obviously I’m too much of a control freak.

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Visited Attingham Park

A very fine house run by the National Trust, near Shrewsbury. As usual, all very well done by the Trust, but it brought to the fore even more than usual the difficulty with “restoring” a house that has seen numerous styles and renovations – which one do you pick to restore to??!

Unfortunately no photos allowed of the inside of the house, so there’s only a couple of the grounds, which I’ll post here once they’ve been through Photoshop…

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