Measuring out my life with coffee-spoons
I’ve always liked the line ‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons’ from Prufrock, even though I’ve not a clue what it means. I think it’s probably not…
Sometimes it snows in April
…so the Prince song goes. And he’s right. It did today, and how (well, by London standards anyway). Here’s some pics of Tooting Common in the snow.
Rhythm and ‘rhythm’
Funny how you can be blinded by your own prejudices. I’m afraid I probably am the kind of person who says “I don’t use that button”, pointing to the drum…
TFL cycle maps
I’ve recently become a fan of the TFL cycle routes page, where you just put in a couple of postcodes or locations, and let the website draw your route for…
Book launch
To Pushkin House in Bloomsbury Square to hear Marina Frolova-Walker’s lecture at the launch of her book on Russian Music & Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin, which I’ve already plugged…
Diana Payne-Myers 80th Birthday Party pics
Updated in 2020: How things have changed. Only in 2008 I thought it was fine to upload a gallery of a dear friend’s 80th Birthday Party. The gallery app that…