Pleased as Punch

The fan says I'm doing really well, sounding fluent, putting on a spurt of speed. I must be pleased, he says. But I can only think of all the other times when he has said nice things, or I've felt I've improved, and yet here I still am, with a long long list of things I want to do better. Better gracing, better bellows control, better switching between chanters, faster learning of tunes, bigger repertoire. I don't feel very pleased at all, really.