Halle

My dad will be jealous that we got to listen to the Halle orchestra play Jupiter from holzt's planet suite. Too late at night to tell him now. 19,240 of us were in Heaton Park - the number of British soldiers killed on the first day of the battle of the Somme 100 years ago. Tho I suspect some tonight didn't show, put off by the rain.

I would normally decline a thin plastic rain poncho on environmental grounds, even a free one. And so I did, tho quickly regretted that so requested one elsewhere, and was very glad of it. A good consequence of rain is clouds and there were some spectacular ones on the way home.