Ceilidhs for people’s weddings almost always run late. Usually by about an hour. Sometimes, in the correct environment, this can be very pleasant, such as this weekend when we spent about an hour sitting in a gazebo next to the river at the bottom of someone’s garden (where they were having a ceilidh in a [...]
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Trouting and Further Exercises
August 14th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music
On Monday we had our first rehearsal for the Trout Quintet, which we’re playing in November. The rehearsal was, for some reason, at 10am, which is not a time when I am usually attempting to do anything more complicated than chewing muesli. Additionally I’d been drinking some wine with the cellist until about 1am the [...]
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A Concert
July 15th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music
Once I got off the train from which I wrote the previous entry, things rather improved on the audio front. I met Tom at King’s Cross and we took the Tube to Leicester Square. We popped into a Sam Smith’s pub for a while before going to see the Academy of St Martin in the [...]
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