A Quick Rant

Well, not really a rant, more a huff.  The Times falls over itself to make as many cliches about libraries as possible and thus fails to cover the issue about how appallingly library services and librarians are treated by local authorities.  My wife’s library has been threatened with closure recently – yes, there is a [...]

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Haunted Swindon

I’ve just finished reading Dave Wood and Nicky Sewell’s Haunted Swindon book.  It’s terribly well researched and each of the so-called haunting cases is approached with scientific rigour.   I didn’t know that the Wyvern Theatre had so many hauntings attached to it – although I’m not suprised.  I have to say in all my years [...]

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The Sorcerer

Our Gilbert & Sullivan group reconviened last night, and started rehearsing for The Sorcerer, which we will perform next March.  It was a tough vocal work-out after a lazy singing free summer.  Throat is sore. Still it will get better with time.

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Large Hadron Collider

To be honest I won’t know what a large hadron looked like, let alone be filled with the desire to collide them into one another, yet today our understanding of the universe will advance a tiny step forward by doing just that.  BBC reports the switch on and has a whole day of programmes devoted [...]

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You Are What You Hear

The BBC reports on research by Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University into the link between music tastes and personality.  people have done this sort of thing before, but what makes this research different is the scale with many thousands taking the online questionnaire.  You’ll see on the BBC website that a number of musical genres are [...]

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Hiatus

There’s been a bit of a hiatus since I last posted, it’s true. I can’t promis there won’t be another one before the next one. Anyhow, with the end of school and various other things going on it’s been a bit tight timewise.  Here’s a quick list of what I’ve done since the last post:

Appeared [...]

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Keep it Clean

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Mixing It

It’s been gone a few weeks now, but it was sad to see that BBC Radio 3 has axed Mixing It. Mark Russell’s response can be read here. It’s sister show Late Junction has been put back an hour too. The words ‘thin’, ‘end’, and ‘wedge’ immediately spring to mind.

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