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Category Archives: Music
February 2025 Ringtone
It’s been a heckin’ year but at last here’s a new ringtone. One for all you slug blasters out there 😉
Suffusing the catacomb
In my last post I mentioned the pleasure the WiiM Mini streamer had brought me as I ride the chemotherapy train. A small and cheap device that allows me to listen to a world of music and words through my also cheap but excellent bookshelf speakers. So how does it work? The streamer itself connectsContinue reading “Suffusing the catacomb”
Stars stole the night away
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June 2023 Ringtone
Delayed due to inclement weather but here’s June’s ringtone.
February comes early
Stuck at home with pleurisy I found myself writing the February ringtone early 🙂
Hoy! Hoy!
A ringtone for January
…sway the forest like a troubled sea
Book of the month The nights draw in and the mind turns to that which lurks in the dark… Music of the month Nostalgia makes my teeth itch but this is something special. Visuals of the month The Helen Saunders exhibition at The Courtauld is fascinating. The lives and work of women in 20th centuryContinue reading “…sway the forest like a troubled sea”
Sometimes I want to murder time
October ends in fire. Book of the month I have been rereading “The Further Inventions of Daedalus” by David E. H. Jones. I loved reading these when they were a column in the New Scientist and his ability to come up with plausible sounding yet impossible ideas. Very useful experience for listening to pitches fromContinue reading “Sometimes I want to murder time”
The crosses of old grey churches
And it’s September and we are back. Book of the month I have mainly been reading comfort fiction to quiet the Stone Monkey but catching up with Backlisted.fm I listened to the excellent episode on Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers and so I paused the podcast and reread the book. It’s well described asContinue reading “The crosses of old grey churches”
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