Easter Sunday 2026…
‘Mercy for me, justice for them…’ This is the rhetoric of some people today who claim to be Christian. I think it’s […]
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This space gathers fragments of performance, thought, and experience — reflections that move between stage, song, and scholarship. Each piece is part of an ongoing conversation about creativity, connection, and the ways art helps us make sense of the world.
Here you’ll find writing that questions, remembers, and reimagines — from behind the curtain, between rehearsals, and within the quiet spaces where ideas begin to take shape.
Read, listen, and join the dialogue.
A long overdue blog, perhaps… but there’s so much going on!
As I write I’ve just discovered that friends have been ‘stuck’ in Tokyo for two months while war rages in the Middle […]
The relevance of film in a fragmented world… blog for March 8th
We recently went to see a couple of films at the cinema, one Oscar nominated and billed as a comedy. We hated […]
Blog for 1st March
We were in the car with our daughter and her partner, insulated from world news on a lovely weekend away, when he […]
Blog for 20th February…
It’s the year of the fire horse – so Gong Xi Fa Cai to all friends who are celebrating! The fire horse […]
Blog for 13/14th February… what’s love got to do with anything?
It’s St Valentine’s Day – well, maybe 20 minutes left of it… so what is it all about, er, love, actually…? Human […]
February 7th – spies, lies and high finance…
The world is the grip of Epstein fever. In the UK tho, you’d think his criminal activity was exclusive to England. Last […]
Blog for 30th January…
Well – I’m late. Again. So much for deadlines!! (See last week’s post…) 🙂 I’m going to take a different tack from […]
Blog for January 24th January…
I missed my deadline yesterday… oh dear. This reminds me of Douglas Adams’ famous words, ‘I love deadlines. I love the whooshing […]
Blog for January 16th…
In under the wire – it’s one minute to midnight! Today (and a little bit of tomorrow) I’m going to write about […]
Blog for January 9th, 2026
Whenever I think of the shooting of Becca Good, I hear Samuel Barber’s heartrending Adagio for Strings. There are so many tragedies […]
Blog 4! The first of 2026…
How are you? Very well I hope, if a bit fatter, and thinking about the new year? May you be happy and […]