It’s the end of term here today. Time for a Christmas sing-song. To be honest, it’s the first time we’ve graduated to attending a concert, rather than a nativity. It feels appropriate to mark it somehow. I keep writing about A Formal Feeling as one of my Christmas reads. One of the elements I like …
Category archives: Music and sound
A Christmas Carol: Christmas music
Sooner or later, you see, it draws you in. You may fight it – you may even choose to write about it, and take three different attempts to express it. Sooner or later, the Christmas music goes on. You find yourself hovering over the iPod, the CD rack, whatever your musical set-up. All of a …
A Christmas Carol: buying presents
When it comes to Christmas present buying, I seem to have lost my mojo. It wasn’t always so. I don’t want to adopt the Scrooge approach. I read a bit today about Saint Nicholas, and his frequent and anonymous gift giving. That seemed like a good thing. At the same time, I seem to have …
10 Oct: I often forget…
…that I’ve already told you a story. Or a joke. Or an anecdote. So. Sorry about that. But have you heard the one about picking brambles? Raking leaves? Buying more food than you need and struggling to fit it into the kitchen? Oh. You have. I know, because I seem to have written about each …
R is for rustling
Not that kind of rustling, pardner. The sound. It’s the wind in the trees and the leaves under my feet. It’s the sound of autumn. The rushing in the leaves and branches as the not-yet-gales try out the trees for size. The snap and crunch of leaves around the benches at school where I wait …