I am reading Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal — her first novel. It is much more listenable than The Luminaries. in other news, I am doing a big archiving project that is taking much of my time. I am digitising my whole childhood of reading from Cassettes. It was a very English childhood of reading with some American [...]
Got a little crazy with thefreeddove tonight. Was taking “selfies of myself” — well duh, of course a selfie is of oneself. See, it was my birthday on Monday and I got a selfie stick from my dad. Dad thinks the stick is very cool as you can bluetooth it to a smartphone and take photos. Hence [...]
Well I had an eventful day yesterday — an eventful week really. On Tuesday my trusty old MacBook pro died. Spent a lot of time on the phone with Apple trying to fix it but it was dead. So now I have a new computer — a MacBook air, so much faster than my old pro, just a better [...]
Hello to all on tumblr-That’s a sign I really have nothing to say when I start with that. For isn’t a blog s’posed to be a column? A column doesn’t have hellos in it, does it? I am rather busy teaching piano and . training to get better. Interestingly this month, June 2014, is audio Month [...]
I have some great news!I have 5 piano students and all are progressing okay. This month of June is AudioMo over on audio boo — a bunch of people posting audioblogs for month every day. I decided to do it this year and am in a day late. In other news Di Brown, my friend from up [...]
Well you will all notice I have been doing a lot on tumblr the past few days dressing it differently and adding new things. It has been hard work doing this as the site is not fully accessible. I have needed some eyes on occasion. I notice I haven’t told you anything about what I [...]
Well it seems a long time since I wrote a blog post — a very long time. I have been busy teaching music and a million other things I don’t know where to start. I have begun writing a story. It’ been a long time since I put pen to paper to write a story. I don’t [...]
Music of Poulenc pounds around me as I write this blog this morning. Poulenc is weirdly beautiful. I am in the process of applying to be a Simply Music teacher more on that later. The method was developed in Australia and has students playing great sounding pieces from there first lessons. Have been thinking of [...]
A wee while ago Noelle McCarthy, an Irish broadcaster and columnist for the Herald here in New Zealand, published a 200 words of nothingness in the newspaper. So now it’s my turn. Not much is happening right now.. Seven more sleeps before I get to California! I am very much looking forward to my trip [...]
Dear Readers,You may ask where I have been. Here’s a small sample. Reading The Man who Broke in to Auschwitz Peaches for Monsuier La Curate: Chocolat Book III A Land mMore Kind Than Home Uni Writing portfolio for co-op and study for exam on November 2. Listeng to Bryn Terfel — The Vagabond and Other Songs of [...]