30 Dec, 2019 | Journal, My 12 Days
So it’s six geese a-laying and we have eaten goose for Christmas but it would seem that most people in the UK eat turkey on Christmas Day so here are six turkeys, utter fails that happened during the year. My rogues’ gallery includes the Ziip (2nd one, as...
29 Dec, 2019 | Journal, Music, My 12 Days
Five gold rings makes me think of music, let the bells ring out for Christmas. This year I’ve learnt to sing five choral works from scratch to sing with five choirs in two countries: Symphony No 9 (Choral) Beethoven St Mark Passion JS Bach A Sea Symphony Vaughan...
28 Dec, 2019 | Journal, My 12 Days
Let us first deal with the controversy of whether it should be “calling birds” or “colly birds.” One predates the other by about 100 years but apparently no-one really knows or cares about the difference so, for my purposes, and because it fits...
28 Dec, 2019 | China, Places
28th December 2019 I’ve always found Macau intriguing. Like Hong Kong it was a colonial possession (handed back by Portugal to China in 1999) but its path to the 21st century seems to have contradicted the unrelenting businesslike shininess and efficiency of the...
