Had a bit of a hectic weekend with band related stuff. As I’m the contest secretary for Watford Band I thought I’d get the new registrations and transfers sorted out for the upcoming contests. I hadn’t realised that there’s a 4 week delay in making a transfer effective and this pushes right up to the Milton Keynes contest on Feb 8th! Added to that I was still missing a couple of completed registration cards and transfer forms.

I also had my first practice of 2004, not surprisingly it wasn’t very good. Going to have to sort out a proper practice routine this year. My tone was awful and anything above a high G was not happening. This could be a real problem since Martyn, our MD, has asked me to do Buster Strikes Back this year which has 4 or 5 high Cs in it. Oh well, I’ll have another, more methodical practice tonight and then see how it goes at the rehearsal tomorrow.