A Letter from Home

the month begins on a Monday. I get a real sense of 'fresh start', 'new week' and new energy.  (Don't worry, it won'...

Well, that was a pleasant surprise - studying a Schubert Impromptu (Aflat, op 109); Notes written on a copy of the first page to send to the...

 The tomatoes in my garden are ripening fast now. But they have fairly tough skins and sharp pointy ends which tend to overshadow the pleasu...

  If I'd have taken this photograph a few seconds later, I could have included a bemused cat. And then another photograph of the cat hav...

A kind friend gave me 250g of gooseberries from her garden. Well, it was slightly less than that by the time I had 'tested' a couple...

 ... in the song 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun', although the lyrics are showing their age. We are just moving f...