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June 30, 2004

Get off my computer!

Haven't had a cat picture for some time!

Rudyard Lake

Last Thursday's walk was around Rudyard Lake weather threatening - what does that website mean!!, very quiet as there was a football match on that evening..sailing club very peaceful. Finished at the Knot Inn at Rushton Spencer

June 17, 2004

Piano Grade 8

Decisions as to what to play, lists A and B are pretty clear, Shostakovich D Maj Prelude and Fugue, Schubert D 664 1st movement - though that beginning is so exposed. But list C, there's Scriabin Etude Op2 No 1 emotionally tense and by a 15yr old!, the Copland all vast spaces, the Schönberg Op19 - frighten the examiner...

Socket to me!

Socket A motherboards and Duron -aargh! Well I 'm sure they're OK really I'm just having a fraught time with one at the moment. Advice, testing anyone....?

In C

Performed a very cut down version of Terry Riley's In C to go with Dot Graham's birthday - audience participation...

June 15, 2004

Io non ho paura - I'm not afraid

Went to see this film at Manchester Cornerhouse last night - strongly recommended!
Web site, powerful, scary but maybe at times a little sugar coated.

I found it difficult to view, as echoes of the Belgian Detroux case kept intruding but a very powerful study of coming of age. Strong moral questioning and some almost theological imagery!

June 11, 2004

Congratulations!

Dot Graham is 60 today - congratulations!

Rainow

Thursday walk around Rainow last night.
`Ingersley Vale Mill (1809) was almost famous for having the second largest water wheel in the country with a diameter of 56 feet and buckets 10 feet and 6 inches wide' (almost famous....!)

June 09, 2004

Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey By Kurt VonnegutWe are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Manchester honours Alan Turing

Blue plaque in Wilmslow