Tuesday 25 February
After having a relaxing long weekend, the School of Music Band, and Police Band
faced a two hour rehearsal, over at the Portsmouth band room, for a concert
at the Guildhall on Saturday.
Personally I didn't get off to a great start as I turned up late for the rehearsal.
Anyway the time passed fairly quickly.
Wednesday 26 February
The best day of the week, why? In the afternoon we have Recreational Training.
Every Wednesday me and my good friend Musn Sol Fenne go rock-climbing at Fort
Purbrook. What a life. All you people thinking of joining, this is probably
one of the best jobs around.
Thursday 27 February
Early start with the PTIs for a hard workout in the gym, just the thing everyone
needs to wake us all up. Now wide awake we face the rest of the day which brings
a prof lesson and a physio appointment which went really well. After tea we
had an evening rehearsal for Concert Band.
Friday 28 February
Parade Band starts off the day. It was really, really cold, and we all couldn't
wait to get into the warm. Drum Major was happy with our efforts, which makes
it all worth while. The rest of the day was pretty normal and everyone looked
forward to the weekend.
Saturday 1 March
The big day arrived for our joint concert with the Police Band. We had to be
at the Guildhall in Portsmouth for 0900 to set up the stage and rehearsals started
at 1030. Everything went well so we had a few hours off in the afternoon to
relax and have tea before the concert started at 1930. It went very well, I
thought the playing was superb.