Spoke to James on Saturday morning. He only just made it in time. She was born less than 10 minutes after he got there. They stayed in the recovery ward til about midnight and he got home about 1am. Both doing well. Amy still has slightly high blood pressure but is on meds and its going down. She's been walking around. Visiting hours are limited because of covid so he's going back in between 11 and 3. I went to the Down At The Abbey festival in the afternoon. Quite a few people there from different groups, Rob n Anj, Kevin, Adrienne, Penno and Matt and Stuart, Clare and Mandy. I liked Bess Atwell, she had a lovely voice, played acoustic guitar  ,good tunes with some nice electric guitar accompaniment creating a really nice sound that just wafted over everyone. Next up were Mush from Leeds. I went up for them. They were quite punky and a bit discordant but it had enough going on to make it hang together. Sinead O'Brian is a poet with a band behind her. It could have worked but didn't really do it for me. I did have a fantastic Fat Tabby burger whe she was on though from. Similar with Do Nothing, they reminded me a bit of Simple Minds but didn't have the tunes. Then saw Noon Garden, a one man band guy who sang and played to backung tracks with probably a bit of looping thrown in. Very clever but didn't really like the material. Then things started to improve with Gwenifer Raymond. She's a brilliant acoustic guitarist last seen at Double Dot Bash a couple of years ago. Her style is mainly all right hand, not much fast finger work with the left but her tunes are captivating for me. She doesn't have a lot off though and plays barefoot which is part of her charm. Caught a bit of Flamingods who I've seen before but headed back to the second stage for Utopia Strong featuring Steve Davis the ex-snooker player on synth. Probably the most photographed band. Here's Steve sound checking.I guess you'd call it ambient, improvised, physcodelic music. I dont think it would get much attention if it wasn't for Steve. Difficult to work out what he was doing though. Finished off with Snapped Ankles, a sort of dancy rock band who I really liked in spite if the fact they had no guitars. They were angling for an encore but I left to beat the rush. It was a good event but the music could have been better. At some point I got this from James which made my day. Mother and daughter back home.On the way back I passed all the bars down Minster Street. Just like old times all full and long queues to get in. Not much going on in the way of covid precaution. We did a variation of our Sulham walk on Sunday but were scuppered slightly by a blocked footpath and a busy road. Spoke to James and Amy later. They had a pretty good first day with Madeline and a midwife visit. We've arranged to go up on 29th September for a week staying in an apartment nearby.