My first online crossword
My new toy – a crossword creator that can create do-it-online crosswords as well as the paper stuff. Go on, make my day, play with my first attempt at an…
Italian ballets
That old party game ‘name five famous Belgians’ is a little unfair on the Belgians. A more difficult game is ‘name five Italian ballets’, I’ve discovered. Until, that is, I…
Skip, change of step
I often feel extraordinarily privileged to have such illustrious friends in the ballet world, particularly when I want an answer to a simple question, and can just pick up the…
The joy of libraries and my Czech mate Czerny
It’s not often that I get goosebumps sitting in a library, but I came pretty near to it yesterday on a trip to the University of London Library. I have…
Search me!
Looking through the activity log of this weblog, I see a number of people searching for things about music and dance. The best place to find this is on the…
A home for Blandine
Some of you may know about Blandine’s Wonderful World of Ballet, a site that was second to none in many ways. Sadly, Blandine passed away two years ago, and it…