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To the altar in Malta

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

So that’s it then, Dan & Kei are married at the Xara Palace in Mdina, Malta. And seeing this boat, the Padre Ignazio, Valletta brought back memories of another trip so here it is as a keepsake.

It’s a small world – a few weeks ago I went to see Porn The Musical at the Latchmere in Battersea. It won an award at the Edinburgh Festival and rightly so. The music was so good, I kept looking over to watch the musicians, keyboard player and composer Kris Spiteri in particular.

The band at Dan & Kei’s reception here in Malta were brilliant, and the keyboard player had that kind of touch and inventiveness that makes you turn your head. And when I did, I realised it was none other than Kris Spiteri. I was in awe and very proud of the photo I got to prove it all really happened.

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London calling

Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Picture of telephone boxes opposite the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

Telephone boxes in Covent Garden

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Ducklings in Battersea Park

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

And some plants, a Barbara Hepworth and a pagoda.

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The Tooting heron

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Heron in Tooting

This wonderful heron visits our end of Tooting now and again. It’s a wonderful sight. The only one I’d ever seen before moving here was a concrete one in the back garden of our house in Dorset. Funnily enough, I’m going to Heron Quays just now…

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Swimming, horses & Our Lady

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

An old one this, but still one of my favourite photographs – from Malta, November 2008.

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Man Holding Ram is 22

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Man Holding Ram (1988) by Mark Folds

I’ve passed this statue hundreds of times in the 20-ish years I’ve lived in Tooting, without ever knowing what it was, or who made it. I’ve watched it decay, and fall to pieces, and now achieve a kind of dignified weather-wornness that’s almost more interesting than how it was when it was new. And finally, I found out what it is: it’s called Man Holding Ram (well, thanks to woodworm, he’s dropped it now) and was done by Mark Folds in 1988. Apparently, it’s made from timber that had fallen in the hurricanes of 1987. So now we know.

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Home sweet home

Monday, September 21st, 2009
The Kabuki-za theatre in Ginza, Tokyo

The Kabuki-za theatre in Ginza, Tokyo

Home again at last, after a week in which I spent 36 hours in the air (Singapore-London-Tokyo-London). I was giving a seminar for ballet pianists at the remarkable Showa University in Tokyo, one of the highlights being the young star violinist who’d agreed to play for the bit of the seminar where I wanted someone to illustrate the effect of violin accompaniment for ballet, just like mother made it.

On Sunday night, on the recommendation of a colleague in Tokyo, I went to the Kabuki-za theatre (ably assisted by my translator Fumiko),  to catch a performance before the theatre closes for renovation (rebuilding) next May.  Extraordinary stuff.

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