No, it wasn’t ours (or even Eric’s) – the award goes to Dan’s five-year-old cousin B. We managed our big Frydman family gathering just before coming back up to Edinburgh after a few days in London. B is fond of the 13-year-old Lil’ Chris (or is it Kris?) and his parents had managed to survive …
Category archives: Music and sound
Out on the tiles
Today we had friends round for the first time in ages. We had lunch, walked by the sea and then came back and played Mahjong. Or at least they showed us the basics. It seems to be a very deep game – like a cross between chess and dominoes but with lots of nuances. All …
Playing with worms
For the squeamish, no, it’s not that bad. It really means playing with words. Any excuse for a pun. We all know that we grow up thinking that everyone lives like our family does. At some point or other, we realise that not everyone does, which can be a bit of a surprise. In my …
Bird song at dawn
It’s not really worth a mention on its own in a newsletter of the year that has to fit on two sides of paper. But a blog seems a good place for it to have its own little write up. Around Easter time, a lot was going round my mind, and I had a few …
The bells, the bells…
Yes, I will stop writing titles that repeat the same words, but this one was hard to ignore. This year I was able to go to the Altenberg induction course for Germany, held at a former monastery complex near Cologne. The cathedral is visited by lots of people, and it’s a popular retreat centre for youth …