John Andrews

Likewise. And yet…

No - that was where I was expecting to find it. It's not like I wear it with any other ensemble....

Weaponised incompetence perhaps, but I clearly can't keep hold of black bow ties - where on earth do they go?

I had no issue with bloods until I volunteered for an NHS study recently and the (trainee??) phlebotomist inflicted more pain then I can remember ever experiencing before.

I long ago stopped following her because her posts overwhelmingly suggest that she is highly sympathetic to them.

Unless you have a *really* bold payoff up your sleeve.

As the grandparent of a corn-snake (he theoretically belongs to my eldest) I have a *lot* of stories.....

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As in, the totality of it?

In this shot she was looking at the most enormous pigeon, which was hanging upside down basically taunting her with the avian equivalent of ‘come on of you think you’re hard enough”….

It is really really hard to bring off pieces written for rooms seating the low hundreds in that space….

I know it's twice my size, but I can definitely take it....

And finally finished for the summer.

Presumably a hugely complicated relationship given the power they were trusted with - but one we’re unlikely to have a record of for the same reasons…

Yes - fair enough! I was half thinking of the Vindolanda tablet where the scribe has written most of it but the Mistress has added a personal greeting.

There is something quite special about handwriting from the past. Not even a printer or scribe standing between us and the voice from another world.

He certainly wouldn’t have agreed with you in that, but at 30 years distance you may have a point.

Oh really?! They never tell me….

Not to be confused with a Poutain…

Insofar as I could make it out, I read it as implying that it was plainchant with instructions/guidance for polyphonic/heterophonic embellishment. Bit that may be the over-interpreting!

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Buckland Abbey monk music to be played after almost 500-year gap The music was discovered by a University of Exeter historian inside a 15th Century book.

#EarlyMusic is in the news this morning! But here’s a better article than the one that’s making the rounds, with more context, and input from a musicologist. The rediscovered music is #plainchant - which was the musical foundation of religious life at the time.

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Prof is different though - like Rev. I think their style guide is ludicrous but there we are…

It’s not like Grieve was even on the left of the party…

The BBC has a policy of only using the courtesy title of PhDs in the “hard sciences”….

Recently-discovered archaeological evidence of some young conductor in…I think…1997

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150 years of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, overlooked icon of Black classical music The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even during his lifetime.

I'm so excited to share my new piece for @npr.org about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the intricacies of his legacy - today is his actual 150th birthday!

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