Often the target is bed, or lunchtime. Bed, if I arrive home late from Heathrow and don’t even bother to do anything downstairs, but simply keep walking, through the door…

The rain pattered onto our rucksacks as we tramped around the fields that day. We walked through wet woods and along splashy paths. It wasn’t oppressive weather, but gloomy; gloomy…

     For football fans who love or hate Man United. Which is all of them. The Crash of '79. Or was it a crush? It was certainly crushing, and as…

(BTS article 2023.) Dan Jenkins takes a light-hearted look at the role of Second Trombone.      In June 2021, the excellent Radio 3 programme The Listening Service did a show…

Majdanek, pronounced Mydanek, is the concentration camp on the very outskirts of Lublin, in east Poland. The fact that it’s so near a city makes it unique, all the other…

     This is a self-explanation, a discovery I’ve made in the last few years, and so is, there’s no getting away from it, of little general concern. It has its…

A Aerobics.  Chocolate pens. Arcadia.  Idyllic area of slot machines. Alistair.  Someone on the A-list. Aggregate.  Farming scandal. Andante.  Wife of the poet. Anagram.  Like a strippergram but just a…

Or rather not just from the stage, but a view of the whole day, as a performer involved from the rehearsal in the morning right through to Auld Lang Syne. …

A few carols, Xmas 2020.                              By March 2020, Covid had well and truly reached Britain and figures were shooting up to a frightening degree every single day.…

Letter following a Times review of a Philharmonia concert, Bolero was part of the programme. Oh dear, yet another music reviewer who thinks that the conductor is responsible for the…