Hannover

So, in the hotel, and preparing for a busy weekend. We have a different conductor tonight, so we´ll all be keeping alert as it´s bound to be a little different. I´m reading The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox. It´s an ideal book for me as it just brings together all the stuff one has picked up about ancient Greece and Rome and fleshes it out and gives it a chronology. I´m just reading now about Cicero and Julius Caeser. It´s quite remarkable how modern some of it feels!
I´m also plugging on with my Czech. It´s so difficult. It just takes an incredibly long time to learn if you´re going to do it properly, but it´s becoming easier. I now have covered all the cases (all SEVEN which seems frankly unnecessary to me!) and past and future, so in theory I should be able to say a lot, however, as all of the vocabulary is so blooming different I still feel as though I can barely say my own name. The worst thing is that the verbs all have two aspects, perfective and imperfective and that you effectively have to learn two completely different verbs for each action and then remember which is which.
I also need to learn 3 arias for an audition on Monday, but have noone to play through them for me.
We´ll be in the Herrenhausen tonight, which has a glorious baroque garden. That has been one of the most delightful things about this whole project, the historical theatres and venues have just been a joy to discover.
Last week at home was lovely, as the winks were on top form. We had a farewell party for one of Spouse´s colleagues, and I got out the homemade rhubarb schnapps, which is always a good sign.
Next week to Wales and can´t wait!