A day out with the ladies!

A few weeks ago, Said the Maiden were gigging at an event in the Handel & Hendrix house in London, and Jess fell down the stairs and put her elbow through the back of her dulcimer. On Tuesday, we drove out to Ely - Jess, Nome, Grace, me and said dulcimer - to a luthier she'd found on the web. Dulcimer duly delivered (he can fix it for a sensible sum, but not for a few weeks), we drove into the little city.

Ely ( The Isle of Eels, so why not Eely?) is the strangest, smallest city I've ever seen. It has the cathedral, of course, magnificent from the outside but rather austere within, and it has Oliver Cromwell's house, a museum and the River Great Ouse. And several other ancient buildings.

Apart from that, it's shops. And, on Tuesday, rain. Quite a lot of it. We got rather wet. But it was a good day, nonetheless. Naomi and Jess did the local Treasure Trail, and we all toured the cathedral, ate in the nearby Almonry Restaurant, and strolled down to the river.

It was a great day out, needless to say!