This afternoon I saw a FAMILY of KILLER WHALES!(Or a POD of ORCA, to give them their botanically correct name). No, I’m not joking. Nor did I end up in Orlando instead of Orkney. There they were, no more than 100 yards off the coast, surfacing every 30 seconds or so, and moving north at [...]

I have decided given that my cab arrives in 2 hours it’s not worth going to bed. I’m figuring out what work to take with me. Unfortunately the horn has to come as I have the Mendelssohn Nocturne as well as possibly a 1st horn audition in Spain coming up, so have removed all sharp [...]

Tomorrow (in about 7 hours in fact) I’m off to Orkney, which is where I was born. It’s been 12 years since I was there last, and I’m really excited. I’m slightly less excited about forking out 45 quid for a taxi to get to Heathrow for 6.30 am on a bank holiday, but there [...]

I first tried to teach myself HTML during a comfortable but dull Christmas holiday at my parents’ house about 6 years ago. I was captivated by the underlying simplicity of it all, but painfully aware my skills were limited compared to the burgeoning array of clever design that was appearing on the Web in those [...]

Blimey! It works! After a few days of unbelivable headaches trying to fathom the depths of domain name registration, reseller hosting services and FTP clients, I seem to have finally joined the blogosphere. I must at this point give thanks to me old mate Andy Hume (www.thedredge.org) who has (without realising it, actually) opened my [...]

I’m a freelance horn player and teacher based in South East London. I’m also attempting to develop a parallel career as a web designer, and as such I’m in the middle of an Open University course which I hope to finish at the end of 2006. This blog is a repository for all thoughts, ideas, [...]