… Christmas and New Year always feels just a bit unreal. For most people (excepting DS who wil be hard at it tomorrow again) there’s no work of the paid variety, and when Christmas is past, we’re on holiday on the domestic front too, unless you count opening the fridge and choosing between ham, cheese or turkey, any … Continue reading The time between
Since WordPress recently added a ‘poll’ feature to its blogging software, I briefly considered rerunning the vote for last night’s Strictly semifinal here, thereby discounting the Beeb’s mealy mouthed decision to keep in the admittedly delicious but off-form Tom Chambers. However, to try the thing out, I’m doing a different one (if I can get it to work). … Continue reading Strictly – let bloggers decide!
Despite last week’s bad mood, I thoroughly enjoyed an hour or two of glitz and glamour (if not actual stardom) when the East Bristol Chorus took to the stage for our Christmas Concert. As far as I know it didn’t even make the local press, so here’s an impressionistic view of the proceedings at Emersons Green Village Hall as we … Continue reading Last choir standing
Hello everyone and sorry it’s been a while. The sad truth is that I have been caught up in a job interview situation which has completely messed with my writing head and taken up all mental space for a good couple of weeks. Having fallen at the final hurdle it now seems like a so … Continue reading Not so light relief
Best mate and I recently joined a choir – strictly for fun – and fun it thas been, though now that the night of our first ever concert is approaching and I still haven’t really grasped the alto line of Bohemian Rhapsody (!), I am starting to get butterflies. Now a bad throat has also … Continue reading Musical Interlude
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