The uninvited guest
“Pain: An uninvited guest that comes into our lives that demands our fullest attention before it can even think about leaving us.” Unknown Bah!!! Well – I guess it was inevitable… When The Girl and…
Missing in Action
Regular visitors to these pages – and indeed those who are subscribed to this long-running assemblage of trivia – may have detected something of a stony silence around these parts of late. There has been…
Peter Brook
Peter Brook 1925 – 2022 RIP There is little that I could write about the towering figure of post-war British theatre that was Peter Brook that could not – and will not – be far…
Canada and stuff
“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff”. Britney Spears Last Friday was Canada Day. I have mentioned this event several times…
A promissory note
“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January”. Hal Borland As gleefully explained in my last post –…
Summer Solstice
Whoo-hoo! Today – the very day after the summer solstice – the weather in Victoria BC has finally turned summery! What is more – rumour has it that the hot spell may stretch through the…
Playing it cool
I gather that the UK is currently experiencing something of a heatwave. Lucky you, say I to those that reside there. Of course, excessive heat – brought about by climate change – is not a…
Horticultural heroics!
Not so many posts ago I was grumbling about the weather here in BC and mourning the loss of a number of shrubs and other erstwhile growing things in our garden. I have a feeling…
Jubilee
It would be remiss of me not to take this opportunity to congratulate Her Majesty, the Queen, on the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee. Whatever one’s opinions on the merits (or otherwise) of the monarchy…
Alan White – Vangelis
Alan White 1949 – 2022 Vangelis Papathanassiou 1943 – 2022 RIP It is with great sadness that I find myself reflecting on the passing of two giants of the musical scene – drummer Alan White…