Monday, 16 February 2026

Music and the moors

 Quick trip up north. First to Bradford staying at the antiquated but charming Midland hotel and to Pudsey Civic Hall for Grimethorpe Coliery band concert. Pie and peas in the interval.




Detour on Sunday morning via Howarth in the Yorkshire Moors . 
But back down to Burton upon Trent for 2pm in time for a brilliant concert at the Town Hall by Fodens.


Stopped outside Lichfield cathedral on the way down to Leamington Spa en route back to London.


Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Mystery and serendipity on a misty morning

 By Terry Cowan - New Notes from A Commonplace Book

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Saturday, 24 December 2022

Friday, 23 December 2022

Thursday, 22 December 2022

Snow Storm - Anton Mauve


 

Wednesday, 21 December 2022

Riders In The Snow - Anton Mauve


 

Tuesday, 20 December 2022

Monday, 19 December 2022

Sunday, 18 December 2022

Reading and watching

  • Foot by Foot to Santiago de Compostela/Judy Foot
  • The Testament of Mary with Fiona Shaw at the Barbican
  • The Testament of Mary/Colm Toibin
  • Schwanengesang/Schubert - Tony Spence
  • Journals/Robert Falcon Scott
  • Fugitive Pieces/Ann Michaels
  • Unless/Carol Shields
  • Faust/Royal Opera House
  • The Art of Travel/Alain de Botton
  • Mad Men Series 6
  • A Week at The Airport/Alain de Botton
  • The Railway Man/Eric Lomax
  • Bright Lights, Big City/Jay McInerney
  • Stones of Venice/John Ruskin
  • The Sea, the Sea/Iris Murdoch
  • Childe Harold/Lord Byron
  • All The Pretty Horses/Cormac McCarthy
  • Extreme Rambling/Mark Thomas
  • Story of my Life/Jay McInerney
  • Venice Observed/Mary McCarthy