I name this pot…
… Catherine, after the lovely Catherine Smith, who, determined to make me pay more than I intended for a flower pot, spotted these delightful things on special offer at Homebase…
4’33” – isn’t it time we shut up about it?
At great expense to you and me, BBC4 have broadcast Cage’s 4’33” ‘played’ by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. As you will know from a previous entry, Cage made a lot…
JS New Years Honours List
Here, in no particular order, is my line up: 1. Robin Cook For moral courage, logic and rhetoric. His resignation speech in March 2003 was one of the most moving…
Memories of the Sava
Every so often I find myself drifting off into places like Friends Reunited and entering old school and college friends’ names into Google to see where everyone went. My old…
Fee ‘Seminars’
According to the BBC, “Education Secretary Charles Clarke and Higher Education Minister Alan Johnson will hold six ‘seminars’ to explain why they back the controversial proposals” . What’s the point…
Farewell Drinks
So that’s it for a while – on Wednesday we did the last performance (for the foreseeable future, at least) of Mark Morris’s Drink to me only with thine eyes…