if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

The Highly Significant Birthday is approaching. I have booked the week before and after off. In case I get some uncontrollable emotions, or ...

I would have published this then, but the pollen knocked me flat on Easter Monday

I have an earlier post about the Longford river, and here's what a bit of it looks like between the DPD depot and the culvert across ...

Towards the end of last year I read two histories of music: Burkholder et al A History of Western Music , and Sadie and Latham's Cambrid...

Richard Wagner wrote thirteen operas, of which there are no recordings I’ve seen of the first three, Rienzi is regarded as an apprentice-pi...

When I first got sober, the task itself was a challenge and a source of excitement and discovery. After a good few years, when I had regular...

  Lunchtime dessert: apple pie, vanilla ice cream, beach outside the window. Zandvoort.