Bookending...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight
Dar Williams - Promised Land
K D Lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel

Another day of distinct parts...

Up super-early and to the back room with Meg the Black Cat to rework the lyrics for the new song...

Then, once the time was reasonable, singing them quickly over yesterday's music...

Previously they were too upbeat, now they are perhaps too downbeat - though the tune itself remains the same...

At 10, sister-in-law Jane arrived and took us down to our neighbour's restaurant for a charity coffee and cupcake morning...





Raffle tickets were purchased along with various other bits and bobs...

Funds are being raised for the Neuro-Oncology unit at The Western, where Pam was until a week ago...

This particular fund for the overall charity (there are many efforts going on simultaneously) has been set up in the memory of a young girl who turned out to have just 11 weeks to live when her tumour was diagnosed...

http://www.justgiving.com/Rachel-Appolinari

Pam's plight was also mentioned at the end of the event...

In the afternoon, Anne drove us over to brother-in-law Keith's to pick him up as we made our way out to Fairmilehead to visit Pam...

Today she was "ok" - asleep when we arrived but woke up and took her usual tome to really come to...



As always, it was so hard to take that she will never be able to speak again...

I can't really describe just how terrible all this has become...

After an hour and a half, during which I didn't manage to capture any of the smiles or laughs which Pam managed, we said our farewells and drove over to Anne's mum's for tea...

Here, the mood was more upbeat, raised of course by the kids...



Olly worked on a drawing just before they left...



The result...



..and off they went...



Back home, some quick work on the new song before and after "Garrow's Law"...

Two versions will now bookend matters and the CD track count rises to 12...

To bed...

Highlight of the Day : Making the new song better...