Doing the concert "au naturel"

So there we are on Alderney (see previous post) without our suitcases or our concert gear. In the end, we decided to give the concert "au naturel". It's certainly a very different feel to give a concert in civvies. Particularly weird for the girls as they were singing arias in jeans, rather than in a dress, and apparently the movements felt very strange.

We added a bonus number especially for the islanders from our latest show, Love, Lust and a Damn Good Chardonnay, about a transvestite serial killer in New York. Went down well. Back to the digs (the superb hosting of John and Kate) and up at 6.15, to discover that all the flights had been cancelled. So we spent all day on 15-minute scramble alert in case the fog lifted briefly. Don't let anyone kid you on this one, it's incredibly tiring being on standby for so long. Well, the Jersey workshop and then the concert had to be cancelled. So the day came and went, and we were back this morning to find another cancelled flight and no hope of getting off the island by air.

Fortunately (?) one of the small boat owners offered to ferry us across to Guernsey that morning. The girls declined (the boat was the size and shape of a large pick-up truck) but the guys got on. The baritone and I stayed out on deck - wet and cold but sort of fun. Not a bad journey (only a force 5 gale), but not one I would care to repeat! So we are now in Guernsey (the girls are still on Alderney) waiting for a ferry to Weymouth (no flights out today).

Hopefully we will be home by tomorrow morning. I'm looking on it as an adventure. More later.

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