day out piano moment skylarks

took a coach to see josiah & grace, coach travel, cheaper, more boring than train travel, well, maybe not strictly true but longer that's for sure,

@ some point had a magical - oh look that's what we were looking for, just in the nick of time - moment with the cooperative bank, wandering through the town...

had some lovely time with grace, some lovely time with her mum, was a cold day and i spent a little too much time outside but that was the deal. the first of many visits...

just briefly, the piano.

when i got there josiah was not around, it took her awhile to get to me, i was right by a church so i went in, out of the cold.

i put down my bags near the door and explored, there was a woman cleaning, i went to go & talk to her but i saw someone else resting in a pew & thought better of it for some reason.

after awhile i found the piano, found two pianos actually, but sat @ the grand, an ofenbach, kind of plinky if thats a word but i got into it, nice really.

i played through the skryabin piece as far as i've got, not very well, i haven't really got the last bit yet, that's what i wanted to do, practise, but i was conscious of the bags near the door, so i got up from the piano, walked through the central altary bit, setting of brief alarms as i went, got the bags and brought them back to the piano, this time i set off an alarm as i sat @ the piano...

the church warden i guess came and spoke to me, out of the depths of the backstage of the church, very much not into me playing the piano, property, i tried to persuade her of how beautiful it would be but she wasn't having it, edge tonight as i was telling the story pointed out how it was my fear of my bags being stolen that made me move and set off the alarms that they set up to stop people stealing from them, had i trusted in the christian nature of the inhabitants of that church i could have just played that piano to my hearts content,

part of the joy of today was josiahs joy @ finding things in her new town, @ some point we were watching skylarks, thousands of them, rearranging themselves into more & more complex patterns, such precise edges, josiah likening it to a movement grace used to do with her hand...

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