Blog. I promise you are not becoming solely a repository for my warblings. But as my Audacity stuff is now a weekly thing, I like to log it here. My singing teacher suggested I try recording a Simon and Garfunkel song for yesterday’s lesson.  I’d … Continue reading The Sound of Silence

Blog, three days ago I turned 60, as the Americans would say. I uploaded a post here 6 years ago (at the tender age of 54) in which I noted, and lamented, the lightning speed at which Father Time travels. This is strange because you … Continue reading Hallelujah

Blog.  As you’ve been sadly lacking in festive posts this year, here’s another carol, recorded for my singing teacher yet again.  My lovely, gracious, and kind singing teacher (who has a Jane Austen fetish, but don’t all of us who hanker after a long-ago romantic … Continue reading Another Christmas Carol

Some months ago, My Haven achieved a 5-star island rating. Imagine, therefore, my surprise and, indeed, alarm upon recently consulting Isabelle to find that I’d been demoted to 4 stars!  My island hadn’t changed at all since my last consultation, but Isabelle informed me that … Continue reading Animal Crossing New Horizons Update

Blog. I commit unto thee my recording of O come, O come Emmanuel, one of my favourite haunting churchy tunes, in an effort to get with the festive spirit. Continuing on with my weekly singing lesson homework, I transferred a lovely soundtrack for this carol … Continue reading A Christmas Carol

Blog.  I can’t remember which sporadic Audacity recording this will be, so won’t bother numbering it.  I began my singing lessons again a few months ago, after The Virus brought them to a halt. I’d been too scared to do anything in the immediate onslaught … Continue reading All is Found – Frozen 2

Blog, I’d wanted to see this at the cinema last year but, as usual, just never got around to it.  As a Brit of a certain age, I’d grown up with kiddie TV the likes of:  Watch with Mother, Mary, Mungo and Midge, Play School, … Continue reading A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

(in which I go off on an imitative flight of fancy) When a full moon rose in the one and only eastern bedroom, I went to the great dining roomENTRY FOR THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE FIFTH MONTH IN THE YEAR THE VIRUS CAME INTO … Continue reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

July 23rd, 2020 In the time of The Virus Hampshire Dear Ms Paver I hope you never go near the Goodreads website, for there you will find readers reviewing the Daughters of Eden trilogy thus: ‘characters weren’t too deep,’  ‘an easy read,’  ‘rambling boring tale,’  … Continue reading To Michelle Paver

Blog.  The Covid diaries are no more.  After all, lockdown is easing (not for me it isn’t, no chance, I’m staying in until The Virus has buggered off) and I can’t forever name every post a Covid post. Son no.2’s birthday came and went during … Continue reading Animal Crossing Adventures cont.