Matters musical – 2
Following on from my ‘Matters Musical – 1‘ posting a couple of weeks back… herewith the second and concluding part. I mentioned in the aforesaid posting that Anam Danu had been featured on no less…
Long live the king
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;…
Old Stock
To the Belfry Theatre the weekend just passed to catch “Old Stock”, the last production of the current theatrical season there. You may recall – should you be a continuing consumer of this random reportage…
Matters musical – 1
I am moved – every once in a while – to furnish the gentle readers of these digital digressions with an update on the progress that The Chanteuse and I are making on our musical…
Mind the gap
“Every time I go to the dentist they say, ‘You really need to fix that gap of yours’. I’m like, ‘My gap is paying your dentist bills.’” Lara Stone I grew up in the UK…
Nature! What’s that all about?
Time for some photos of plants growing in our garden. I know that I do this every year, but the garden is not the same from one year to the next so I don’t suppose…
In between
“Reality is not always dark or positive. It is somewhere in-between”. Antara Mali It is Easter weekend and here on the west coast of Canada we are once again caught in between. Winter has tarried…
Failing better
“Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett A handful of posts back I gently mourned the lack of a decent (IMHO!) Sunday Paper here in western Canada and…
Wow!
I posted – back in February – a really quite excited missive celebrating a Scottish Rugby triumph over the auld enemy on the opening weekend of this year’s Six Nations tournament – at Twickenham! Those…
Stuff happening
Last Friday The Girl and I had a telephone consultation with the Travel Medicine and Vaccination Centre here in Victoria. Our purpose was to establish that which would be required for our forthcoming trip to…