This afternoon I attended a concert at St Mary’s church, Ickworth. Hexacordia early music ensemble were performing Music for a Golden Queen. The music was wonderful, interspersed with an outline of Queen Elizabeth I’s life that drew on poetry and letters of the time Hexacordia had a range of gorgeous Renaissance instruments and a lovely soloist. Listening to the concert while sitting in a medieval church and watching the light fall onto the mellow old stone and woodwork definitely added a frisson to the experience. And best of all I thought to take an inflatable cushion, so I was able to focus on the music and the ambience without being…