Martha wanted to have an e-Book Reader for her birthday. She carefully chose the model she liked the best, having considered type of screen (and preferring an e-ink screen, not a normal LED-based one), page-turning interface (wanted to be able to ...
Wonderful short poem from Kester, that starts: If you can keep your place when all around you Are losing theirs and blaming it on viruses, If you can be trusted to be taken to the beach And have sand and ice cream thrown at you And still be dusted...
Two weeks ago I described the 'Painted Quartet' auction at the Music Festival. I was very taken with this violin by Rhys Cowe, but the bidding started rather beyond what I could afford. It landed up going for 250, and between them the other instr...
Here's a good idea ... a way to keep part of the Cheltenham Music Festival. Last year the Festival Director commissioned various artists to take a violin or cello and paint it; the 'Painted Quartet' results adorned some of the covers of the festiv...
"I hope it's not like Dibley", said at least one vicar's wife. "Dibley" did appear, but only as a term of abuse to greet Adam, a vicar moving to an inner city London parish. Rev is a new series on BBC2 that started this week, starring Tom Hollande...
It's hard to find 2-player games. So when we saw Phil and Rachel last time, we got their recommendations, which included Hive. We've not player it much yet, but it's good so far ...
We did better at this year's Jazz Festival, I think. We started with Kit Downes' piano trio, one of the new-to-us groups we like to try each festival. They'd appealed because Downes is said to have some of the same mixed jazz and classical sensibi...