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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Rant Time!
October 11th, 2009 · Lifeblog
There was a news article today here about a woman who was not allowed to buy a bottle of wine at a supermarket (Morrisons) because her 17 year old daughter was with her and, according to the cashier ’she might drink it’. Despite lots of people and papers and MPs and things telling them this [...]
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