‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’
It’s funny how the first flowers of the year – crocuses, daffodils, aconites -seem especially vivid in colour. Are they really brighter than other flowers, or do they just strike us that way because our eyes have gradually adapted to the long drabness of winter? I found these gorgeous things in the park up the road.
I've returned from London, where I recorded an album for Hyperion of piano music by some of the women featured in my book. I had a...
I have been proofreading my book about Nocturnes, which has reached the stage of being typeset. This is the point at which it starts...
News of the death of the wonderful comic actress Prunella Scales at the age of 93 has reminded me of a little anecdote in my first...
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