Well done Graham
Reminds me..... A middle aged guitarist has been learning to play from scratch at our session over the past months. One night recently, at the end of a set of three tunes that we play fairly regularly, I happened to comment out loud, that he looked very relaxed, oozed confidence and seemed well within his comfort zone whilst playing that set. He looked very embarrassed and smiled politely!
However, at the end of the night, he came up to me beaming and said "Thanks for your vote of confidence earlier, it boosted me no end, I felt great!"
He felt good and so did I