Today’s guest picture comes from my Somerset correspondent, Venetia and suggests that her recent holiday may have taken her well away from home.

We went well away from home today (though not so far as Venetia) and had to get up very early for us at quarter past five to be ready to catch the bus with the rest of the choir from Carlisle to Manchester at 7a.m.  Although all the organisation went very smoothly, the length of the bus trips down and back (five hours between them) and the number of choirs competing made for a good deal of sitting and standing around.  We got home at 10 o’clock.

The event took place in the Royal Northern College of Music.

It has an unassuming front door but the concert hall inside where we sang was very modern and had good acoustics.

The singing went as well as we…