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Category Archives: Wales
Giving It Away: Classical Music in Lockdown and other fairytales
On sale today: The Book of the Blog Continue reading
Posted in acting, Art, Books, Cars, Cinema, Coronavirus, Cricket, Football, Hire Car Top Trumps, Mathematics, Motoring, Music, Opera, physics, Politics, Religion, Science, Science Fiction, singing, Sport, Theatre, Time travel, Travel, Uncategorized, University Challenge, Wagner, Wales, What they don't teach you at music college
Tagged amazon, audiobooks, Books, christmas present, classical music, gifts, kindle, music, opera, opera singing, paperback, singing, writing
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Hire Car Top Trumps: Vauxhall Mokka
Rating the world’s most mediocre motors. Continue reading
Posted in Cars, Hire Car Top Trumps, Motoring, Travel, Wales
Tagged avengers, car rental, Cars, driving, hire cars, Motoring, top gear, top trumps, Travel, vauxhall
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Wagner: Don’t bump into the furniture
er-Z-o-G- ich euch -K-ühn, -Z-um -K-ampfe -Z-u -Z-ieh’n, -SCH-u-F- ich die -H-e-R–Z-en euch -H-a-R–T- und -SCH-a-R–F-, dass ihr -W-ilde-N- -N-u-N- -W-ei-N-T u-N-D- -GR-ei-N-T, we-NN- -M-ei-N- -GR-i-MM- eine -TR-eulose s-TR-af-T-? Continue reading
Posted in acting, Music, Opera, singing, Theatre, Wagner, Wales, What they don't teach you at music college
Tagged classical music, music, opera, singing, Wagner, wotan
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Words and Ears and Brains
“Panic: I knew my ears and my brain couldn’t possibly keep up with this.” Continue reading
Save Rhiwbina Library
Let’s learn to love and value all libraries, from the biggest to the smallest. Continue reading
Inarticulacy of a Football Fan
A lot of people have written about the death of Gary Speed over the last few days, and most of them far more eloquently and with greater personal knowledge than I ever could. I grew up watching Gary Speed playing … Continue reading
Posted in Football, Sport, Wales
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Ranitidine & Tonic 