Apologies to regular readers (do I have any of those yet?) for my lack of postings of late. Also for lack of Barcelona photos, which didn’t come out. (Note to self: mobile phone cameras are no good in sunny climes because you can’t read LCD screens in broad daylight.)
I thought I’d take a moment (at […]

I’m in Barcelona.
I wasn’t quite prepared for going to Barcelona. I applied for a job at the Liceu (the opera house here) weeks and weeks ago, and having heard nothing back assumed I hadn’t been invited. But I came back from a gig on Friday night to find the invitation on the doormat. It only […]

Having spent most of the day trying to get a niggly little JavaScript to work for my OU coursework, I must here give thanks to the truly wonderful Mozilla Firefox, without which I would now be a gibbering wreck.
For the un-initiated among you, Firefox is an Internet browser, like Internet Explorer, but better, for so […]

Can you hear me? ENO war of words
English National Opera, whose founding principle since 1931 has been singing opera in English, has announced plans to display the text of its operas above the stage..
Paul Daniel, outgoing music director of ENO, was unavailable for comment, but has said: “Surtitles make audiences passive and castrated. You cannot […]

I’m returning to London tomorrow, having not spotted the killer whales again.
Bizarrely, there’s still a 30 minute check-in at the airport (this is Kirkwall airport, where you only have to walk 30 yards from the check-in desk to the plane), so I’m going to be up early.
It’s been absolutely brilliant, if any of you have […]