Arvo Part – Passio – music to help the procrastinator
As a newcomer to Estonian classical composer Arvo Part I’m just finding my feet in his huge canon of work. But I have made a discovery over the last few days – you can have the four tracks of Passio running on a more or less continuous loop and it creates an ethereal atmosphere of [...]
Forget formatting – just write it!
I find Microsoft Word to be a spectacularly procrastination-laden way of writing text. I may be deluding myself, but like to think it’s because I’m a perfectionist. As I write I need the finished article to emanate from my fingertips – fit for consumption by my eager audience. But of course writing’s not like that [...]
Then aren’t you in the position of a lifelong vegetarian giving us your recipe for steak and kidney pie?
Watching an episode of Rumpole of the Bailey on DVD last night there was a great quote – Rumpole lays into his head of chambers who is a batchelor and is giving advice about marital affairs: “Then aren’t you in the position of a lifelong vegetarian giving us your recipe for steak and kidney pie?” [...]
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