Children collecting tadpoles in our local park this week. The things frogs have to put up with!
I looked up ‘tadpole’ in the dictionary. ‘Tade’ is the Old English word for toad. ‘Poll’ means head. Toadhead: a rather graceless image, I find. Somehow the tadpoles’ tails have always seemed more characteristic!
Today's blog post is on quite a niche subject. When I was writing a short biography of pianist Sophie Menter (1846-1912) for Women...
I have been proofreading my book about Nocturnes, which has reached the stage of being typeset. This is the point at which it starts...
When I was playing in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago, I had an interesting conversation with a student there. (Birmingham...
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