Over the Bank Holiday Weekend, Classic FM presented their annual ‘Hall of Fame’. This is described as the largest poll of the world’s favourite classical music as voted […]
Parking in Leicester
Last weekend I was in the Midlands. My primary objective whilst there was to play the organ for a weekend of services at the Cathedral, […]
Paraskevidekatriaphobia
On Friday 13 November 1868, the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini died from pneumonia at his country house in Passy. Possibly an unremarkable event if, like […]
The best thing in life is… A Poached egg!
Given the chance, I like to go out for a nice breakfast. Fortunately, around Corsham, there are lots of good quality farm shops which will serve […]
The serious business of tea and cake
The traditional time for afternoon tea is 4 O’Clock in the afternoon. At the Pump Rooms in Bath, this fact is reflected in the table […]
Going Back to School
This week I went back to school. After a gap of nearly 27 years, at 7.30am on Monday morning, I found myself back in the Chapel […]
Have a lie in, or join a Choir?
A quick Google search suggests the amount of sleep required by most adults is somewhere between 6 and 8 hours in every 24. Most of the […]
A weekend in the Hope Valley
Last weekend I was up in the Hope Valley to record the Tideswell Male Voice choir. Ironically a few months earlier my sound engineer and […]
Sound, pictures and a bit of acting
For most of this week I have been recording location sound for a film / drama shoot in Bath along with Robert Durrant. I […]
Producing an accompanying CD
For the last few weeks I have been working on a project to produce an accompanying CD for a series of books aimed at helping […]