What a great night last night was! Apart from the usual Beech 'alarms, excursions and diversions' that is (these are aspects of the establishment which don't appear to have gone away and which we're going to have to learn to live with. Your assertiveness in the face of the curious and unprovoked 'anti-war' tirade from a certain quarter was admirable, Les).

As a singer it almost pains me to say that the quality of musicianship was really excellent. But the singing was pretty good as well. As far as I could tell eight month old Jack seemed to enjoy the proceedings as much as I did (perhaps in years to come he'll hear a melodeon and wonder why it reminds him of something).

The fall of snow outside the window just added to the atmosphere.