The attentional commons and Leicester Square tube station
Nothing to do with music, except that I have to go to Leicester Square several times a week on my way to piano playing jobs, so when something changes about…
Evenings on Žofin
One of the most complicated music references I’ve ever had to research was for a piece that I found on an album called Little Pearls of Czech Classics. The piece…
Greetings from Prague – and from Radio Silence
At the excellent advice of someone whose excellent advice has never failed me yet, I’m taking a one week vacation from Facebook and Twitter and a couple of other social…
30 days without supermarkets #26: defeat in Prague and glory of kitchen departments
Much as I feared, I had to abandon the challenge today as the prospect of quickly finding a suitable independent food retailer in central Prague was as likely as finding…
Hvala for the honey cake, Pauline
Pauline’s Cookbook is a wonderful blog maintained by Tonya Shuster. As she describes it, it’s a “memoir of sorts about my grandmother’s life, woven around the gift of a handmade…
Sod’s lore
I have a longstanding interest in folklore & folk music, particularly of Eastern Europe, so I got all excited when I discovered that there was a Folklore gathering in the…