This weekend has been one where the Saunders-Priem family has not done that much! This is mostly because Fiona was quite ill last week with a bad cold and has not felt like walking this weekend. I got out with the lads for a walk around Durham on Saturday which was just a quick brisk one to get some miles underneath our feet. I am still surprised at how little birdlife was around for this time of the year. They must all be sitting on their nests! There were very few students around either in fact the whole of Durham City Centre was very quiet. Nice! Yesterday, Fiona was still not well and my mother did not feel so good so we had an in day because Miles had had a good thrash around RKade Skatepark in Redcar during the morning . I spent the afternoon listening to chromatic harmonica players from around the world via YouTube. It amazed me how good a couple of them were but also how odd and limited most of them are. There seems to be an almost global phenomenon of copying jazz and rock licks and then just performing them without any thought to making them original again. It is interesting but I guess that it is one thing to want to play jazz and blues just because you want to "perform" and another thing to play jazz and blues because you want to perform in the way that the original people did that is in an original and distinctive manner. What I've just said in my view applies to a lot guitar players as well I know it is a fine distinction but I always try to create something different in my solos every time not just to grab the audiences attention but mostly to satisfy myself! I played at the Butterknowle Open Mike night last night which was very nice and it was a very good night. Good people . The people who go there, go there to enjoy themselves and that is the best thing of all! A subdued but actually quite pleasant weekend. The Saunders-Priem family has no problem rolling with the punches!