Edited by Pete Collier, Monday, 13 Jan 2014, 13:58
…to Dvořák no doubt, meantime, all else has resumed...
Friends have been visited: I drove Mum and Dad to see Mum’s friend Christine in Aston Abbots on Wednesday 8th and myself to Luton to see (hi fi) Richard on Sunday 12th - on his ‘home turf’ instead of at work! We had a good lunch at the Pizza Express (PE) in Town - opposite St. Mary’s Church - and, as always, it was good and tasty, even if a somewhat different overall flavour from the PE’s we’ve visited in London over the past six months… Rees (Richard’s son) also came for the pizza - he is now studying Journalism at the local campus of the University of Bedfordshire.
Trumpet playing continues, as ever, but not many Church services will be played at - probably until Easter - although I've recently played for the Advent, Christmas and Epiphany services...
I’m back into the MU123 module (after a bit of a break) but a little nervous about M140 that starts soon. It will be somewhat hard for me to keep my previous pace with the maths whilst also getting up-to speed with Statistics - even if these are ‘only’ level one (introductory) modules. My next social science module (DD206) will have to be done ‘stand-alone’ so as to get the most from it
Music listening has taken a slight detour this month but still remains firmly in the Dvořák territory. With symphonic pieces by Leoš Janáček (1854 - 1928), Joseph Suk (1874 - 1935) and most recently the first two symphonies of Zdeněk Fibich (1850 - 1900) as my listening material. All good stuff, and with the availability of the many recordings in the Naxos Music Library to choose from - - I have purchased some good recordings of Janáček’s Idyll (1878), Suk’s Fantastic Scherzo (1903) and all three of the Fibich Symphonies.
Oh yeah (Yello anyone ?)... I’ve just been to my favourite Tesco store in Perivale for food shopping! As this is done twice a week, It’s not particularly ‘blog-worthy’ I suppose, but some may say that about other things hereabouts. Mostly though, these blogs are about the 'breaks' from the regular daily/weekly routines of ‘being with’ Mum and Dad, doing housework and, of course, the aforementioned shopping...
I'll be back...
…to Dvořák no doubt, meantime, all else has resumed...
Friends have been visited: I drove Mum and Dad to see Mum’s friend Christine in Aston Abbots on Wednesday 8th and myself to Luton to see (hi fi) Richard on Sunday 12th - on his ‘home turf’ instead of at work! We had a good lunch at the Pizza Express (PE) in Town - opposite St. Mary’s Church - and, as always, it was good and tasty, even if a somewhat different overall flavour from the PE’s we’ve visited in London over the past six months…
Rees (Richard’s son) also came for the pizza - he is now studying Journalism at the local campus of the University of Bedfordshire.
Trumpet playing continues, as ever, but not many Church services will be played at - probably until Easter - although I've recently played for the Advent, Christmas and Epiphany services...
I’m back into the MU123 module (after a bit of a break) but a little nervous about M140 that starts soon. It will be somewhat hard for me to keep my previous pace with the maths whilst also getting up-to speed with Statistics - even if these are ‘only’ level one (introductory) modules. My next social science module (DD206) will have to be done ‘stand-alone’ so as to get the most from it
Music listening has taken a slight detour this month but still remains firmly in the Dvořák territory. With symphonic pieces by Leoš Janáček (1854 - 1928), Joseph Suk (1874 - 1935) and most recently the first two symphonies of Zdeněk Fibich (1850 - 1900) as my listening material. All good stuff, and with the availability of the many recordings in the Naxos Music Library to choose from -
- I have purchased some good recordings of Janáček’s Idyll (1878), Suk’s Fantastic Scherzo (1903) and all three of the Fibich Symphonies.
Oh yeah (Yello anyone ?)... I’ve just been to my favourite Tesco store in Perivale for food shopping!
As this is done twice a week, It’s not particularly ‘blog-worthy’ I suppose, but some may say that about other things hereabouts.
Mostly though, these blogs are about the 'breaks' from the regular daily/weekly routines of ‘being with’ Mum and Dad, doing housework and, of course, the aforementioned shopping...