Stir-up Sunday
It’s stir-up Sunday, and so for the first time ever, I did what you’re supposed to do and made my Christmas cake. Ironic, really, considering that I have no intention…
Jonathan’s Swimathon
I’ve been considering doing the Swimathon again for years (I last did it in 1992), and since the 2007 event has just been launched, I thought I’d sign myself up…
Dance accompaniment in the news!
Keys to the ballet: Ramona Pansegrau takes her seat as music director of the Kansas City Ballet. Heartening to see an article devoted to the joys, skills and triumphs of…
Hello & Goodbye to Berlin
To Berlin for the day with Chris to go and see my dear friend and colleague Marita Mirsalimova play the pianist in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert with Staatsballett Berlin at…
How to create dummy text in Word
There’s a nifty little trick in Microsoft Word which enables you to generate paragraphs of dummy text using the sentence ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. In…