Friday’s gig at Wakefield Jazz was two hours of solo piano impro, Laura Cole (Leeds) followed by Alexander Hawkins (Oxford) – a treat for myself, a respectable audience of just under 40 – some of the regulars stayed away, others Continue reading Solo piano culture
Back to work at NSCD playing piano for ballet classes, back to work at CVYT (youth theatre in Leeds), singing songs about Dr Martens (my shockingly faulty vegan DMs, split within months) and ravenous dragons, back to work with intermittent Continue reading Working it all out.
Definitely heading into autumn this week, with oodles of rain most days. Currently recovering from an unexpectedly strenuous cycle ride with Mr Peter H, out to St Aidan’s Nature Reserve and Fairburn Ings, back via Castleford – we were promised Continue reading Early October
(Written on Monday 30th Sept) The sun was shining only a minute or two ago, brightening the front yard, a few apples still hanging from the tree, nasturtiums hanging on and one or two roses still imminent. Wind and rain Continue reading Mists and mellow fruitfulness?
The new blog, direct to the website. It’s very wet and grey and miserable in Wakefield this morning.
Some relaxing reading, as I enter another intensive books phase. I thought reading about humans who want to be machines (and immortal), and humans who want to make machines more human, would prove sufficiently distracting for a long journey. It Continue reading Some books
