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It's very late, I know, but I couldn't get LJ to work earlier on this evening...

A colleague of mine got a tick today.  Thankfully he got the tick, before the tick got him, but it made the rest of us feel unclean and horrible.  As I write this journal entry, I appear to be tick-free.  Touch wood...

I arrived home this evening to find a lot of packages awaiting.  I had 42 lobelia plants from a mail order plant catalogue.  I had 42 petunia plants - all shades of purple and white, very showy.  So the lengthy process of potting on had to begin...

The other package was my Sibelius CD.  I'd had a bad dream over the weekend.  I dreamt that I got the CD, and found that the Karelia Suite wasn't on it.  I remember being traumatised.  So traumatised that when I woke up, I pondered the matter, and concluded that perhaps the Karelia Suite wouldn't actually be on it.  It was the complete collection of symphonies and tone poems - Karelia is technically an orchestral suite...

Thankfully, my dream self was leading me up the garden path.  Karelia was there.  But, because I was going out tonight, I didn't get a chance to hear it.  But I did manage to listen to En Saga.  I haven't heard it for twenty years of more - today, it haunted my thoughts constantly, a persistent and rather classy earworm that just refused to go away.  It was just as marvellous as I remembered. 

If you like Sibelius, and you've never heard En Saga, please check it out.  You will not be disappointed.  As for this CD, well.  It looks like it's going to be a real cracker.
 
And tomorrow, I will be listening to the 2nd Symphony...  Ah, bliss...


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