A post on my Facebook page this week linked to this page on the DGM Live website. It reports that Keith Tippett is recovering from a heart attack and pneumonia and will be unable to work for the foreseeable future. Some of Keith's friends in the music business are doing what they can to help…Read more Green and Orange Night Park
Month: April 2018
Manic Moonlight
On Friday Crotchety Man took his camera to the Crich Tramway Village in picturesque Derbyshire. He spent several hours the following day sifting through the photos, cropping them, straightening them and adjusting them for exposure and contrast. A selection was then published as an album on the photo hosting website, flickr. In doing so the photographer…Read more Manic Moonlight
A Humdrum Star
For as long as the human race has existed we have tried to understand our place in the universe. It's a question that goes beyond "where are we?" to the deeper mystery of "who are we?". And scientists have given us some of the answers. We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a…Read more A Humdrum Star
A Clutch of Collectives
collective adjective Done by people acting as a group. "a collective protest" noun A cooperative enterprise. "the anarchist collective and bookshop" What's the collective noun for 'collective'? Wiktionary defines a 'catch' of 'collective nouns' but is silent on 'collective' itself. I need to know because this week I want to bring to your attention two…Read more A Clutch of Collectives
A Thousand Shards of Heaven
The English word 'lunatic' comes from the Latin 'lunaticus', which means someone who is afflicted by one of the diseases of the mind caused by the moon. These days it is generally taken to mean a person who is endearingly foolish and unpredictable rather than actually mad and can be a term of affection. Perhaps…Read more A Thousand Shards of Heaven
Days of Pearly Spencer
Sometimes I feel I'm losing the will to live. It's usually when I'm ironing - shirts are so darn fiddly, aren't they? So I do my ironing weekday afternoons between 1 and 4 pm so that I can listen to the Radcliffe and Maconie show on the radio. They play some good music and they…Read more Days of Pearly Spencer
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