Oh dear! Tomorrow I face a stern test. It will be the first meeting of this season of the regional Italian Circle. The bad news is that I am Il Presidente! Several months have passed since I had to apply myself to actually use my (fairly basic) Italian, and in my worst moments I fear … Read more
I was pottering in the garden this afternoon when, quite suddenly, it seemed important that I listened again to Joan Baez. (Don’t ask me why.) So, while a prepared dinner I rooted out one of my old LPs which I bought back in about 1963. I think that originally I borrowed a copy from the … Read more
While cooking dinner tonight I decided to dig out one of my old Joan Baez CDs. This was the more recent stuff, not the English folk song material she sang back in the sixties.* I was grabbed by the throat quite suddenly by her rendering of Diamonds and Rust. I believe that this is her … Read more
It has been ailing for some time, but I reckon that our CD player is certainly on its last legs. Last night I became so fed up with the problems we have been having in making it play that I powered up my old Hi-fi and dug out some of my old LPs. It worked … Read more