To spend the time until then, I went into the National Film Board, which has a remarkable collection of sponsored Canadian movies dating back to the fifties; they are accessed from a central video-on-demand server which stores all NFB work in digital form.
You simply ask for an hour(free) and they give you a code to log on with. Luxury seats with touch-screen controls.
And unfortunately creepy 'volunteers' who try to throw their status and mediocrity around, but these are avoidable.
Love it or hate it, as a source of amusement and for cultural forensics it is unbeatable anywhere in the world.
Anyway, QSW beckoned, and we took in dinner at the Rex while watching the Richard Whitely Trio; thence to the even better Cameron House(note our insect overlords) where I was enchanted by Colonel Tom and the Swinging Doors.
Congratulations to Tom Parker and his new wife, Alex (nee Pangman); she is moving from Jazz to Bluegrass in this, her husband's new band.
Had I the time I would go back again and again for these cheerful, talented and uplifting performers.
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