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Toughening up

April 20, 2018

It has been a tough week with a little dab of soul-searching tucked away there right in the middle.  It …

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A good run

April 13, 2018

I managed to get the bare bones of the Agnus of the new Mass finished yesterday, a harmony that builds …

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Tipping

April 12, 2018

I have written before that there is a tipping point in each piece, a moment when the disparate fragments of …

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Stick at it

April 11, 2018

I have been reading Other Minds recently, a book about octopuses (so the book says) or octopodes (as I say), …

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From the same well

April 10, 2018

Back to the writing we go after a slightly calmer week just gone, although I did manage to prang the …

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Progress and steps

March 27, 2018

A busy couple of days, made just slightly more edgy by the loss of an hour on Sunday morning and …

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Liquid

March 24, 2018

Next week is a combination of appointments and calm, the rigours of Holy Week coinciding with the end of my …

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Snags

March 21, 2018

Yesterday was a day that included one of my least favourite things in the world – a workman in the …

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Spring forwards

March 20, 2018

The weather forecasters were a little bit off on Sunday evening, the promised snow materialising only briefly in the evening, …

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Lucky number seven

March 18, 2018

I had a great session with my saxophonist colleague yesterday, tweaking a couple of elements here and there, developing material, …

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