Of late I find myself crying at the slightest thing. A couple of weeks ago there was a rendition of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on the telly as part of the BBC Proms season. I recorded it at the time and watched it last night. I cried, as the chorus got into their stride, tears came … Continue reading Tears of a Crown
Sunrise today at my current location was at 06.53, and at 07.36 the sun appeared over the trees and rooftops from my viewpoint. Sunrise is getting earlier by about 2 minutes per day at the moment and sunset is also correspondingly getting later resulting in almost 4 minutes more daylight each day. There is still … Continue reading Another sunrise, another day…
A bit of a rambling journey this and it starts with the subjectivity of musical appreciation. I was listening to the wireless this morning when without introduction, three notes played, the introduction to a song I have known and loved for many years. Music can be such a wonderful thing, three notes play and immediately … Continue reading Child in Time
It's New Year's Day 2019, I'm sitting here listening to Radio Caroline and they just played the track "Catalan" from the Greenslade album "Time And Tide" and it immediately took me to two very different places, happy and sad. Happy because back in 1975 when the album was released I remember only too well my … Continue reading Time And Tide
I posted on Facebook; "Think I’ve reached a musical Event Horizon... New music doesn’t excite me, I take refuge in old music, more and more I return to old albums, old friends..." I'll try to qualify that. Let me start by saying that I like music, I like many different types and genres of music, … Continue reading Musical Event Horizon
I almost went to Poland a month ago, almost... I was going to Łódź to see a band called "Beyond The Event Horizon", I'd just taken delivery of their latest, indeed their first album and was delighted to find out that as part of the tour promoting the album they were playing at Łódzki Dom … Continue reading The Vagaries of International Travel, a lone tree and a Cornish Pasty.
About 35 km from the city of Katowice and 50 km from Kraków in the south west of Poland is a town called Oświęcim (think Osh-vyen-tchim). I went there last year (2016) and looking out from the windows of the mini-bus I was in it looks very much like any other part of small-town Poland. … Continue reading It’s another bright summer day in Kraków
I work in an office where hardly anyone stops to take a proper tea or coffee break; sure, tea and coffee are available any time we like and people avail themselves of it but when it comes to taking the tea/coffee break that we are entitled to, I seem to be the only person. Maybe … Continue reading Getting your work/life balance right
Further to my piece about things that you have to be in the right place at the right time to see...Yesterday as I was walking to work through the cemetery I stopped and looked behind me to look at the Sun. Not directly, never look directly at the Sun and now I've turned into a … Continue reading Set the controls for the heart of the Sun
I had a “moment” earlier… I was listening to Misplaced Childhood by Marillion, it got to the bit: My childhood, a misplaced childhood Give it back to me, give it back to me A childhood, that childhood Oh please give it back to me. I was looking at this model locomotive that had belonged to … Continue reading I had a “moment”
A Point of Views, A Polish Odyssey and Other Stories. 