25 Good Things
Great music, played with passion and flair. Really good cheese. A sunny place with flowers and trees and birds and …
Tale of grim
I was feeling grim. In fact, if you’ve got a moment (and with due gratitude and apologies to Richard Curtis, …
The Power of Memory
It came out of the blue. A normal journey, radio on. Pick of the Week. Victor Hugo’s adulterous shenanigans, Queen …
Brahms and list
I am naturally competitive. Desperate to win. (The few people doubting the veracity of this statement should have been in …
Music to die for
Few words this week, but much music. The other day, prompted by I don’t really know what, I asked the …
Spring Fever
One of my favourite things about the onset of spring is the— wait sorry heard a goldcrest back in a …
This is not about politics
I don’t do politics. I do them internally, quite a lot of the time, reading as much as I can …
Having a moment
I had a bit of a moment this week. Three, in fact. I’d been to Barnes to look for a …
Cry Me A River
The week has passed tearily. I blame the Ashes. There’s nothing like a lethal cocktail of sleep deprivation and impotent …
Bit of a messy ‘un
Olivier Messiaen would have been 109 today. In part to commemorate his birthday, and in part because it seems Why …