Every so often I go to this WordPress website and read flattering messages from people who say they can give me a virus. That is to say, they think my blog could go viral easy, excoriating the worldwide web with my witticisms (I added that bit). “Your very good,” (sic) reads one. “You can get monetize easy for small investment.” “Very admiring of your postings which go viral easy with good back links,” says another….
Were you one of the music lovers who came to hear our choir, Tapestry, sing at Lift Gallery on Sunday, but couldn’t get in? Better book next time, eh! One of the pieces we sang was Allegri’s ‘Miserere’, a 17th century piece of sacred music, which, apart from its degree of difficulty (in gymnastic terms a 9.8), comprises 20 verses in Latin. Half the battle was to phonate the Latin words, more so the parts…
Let’s just imagine going for a bush walk in a national park, say five or ten years from now. As you set off on foot with your smart phone, selfie stick and water bottle, a tribe of kids and adults whiz past on mountain bikes. In the distance, you can hear the throaty buzz of trail bikes traversing the circuit reserved for them on the other side of the mountain. A kilometre or so down…
A long time ago in a faraway land… So there’s me and 20 other foreign travellers, sitting around a bonfire on a farm in the south of France. We are there for the vendange – the grape harvest. It is well-paid, hard work − dawn till dusk − and only rarely can we find the energy to stay up late socialising. Sitting around a campfire under a sickle moon singing, as you do, the Romanian…