And they don't play enough first-class cricket in warm conditions because the summer months have been reserved for whackit and sloggit. (View Post)

I was taught in school that langue d'oc literally means 'the language whose speakers say Oc instead of Oui'. I wonder if they still do. Or maybe nowadays they say okay. (View Post)

The Emirates A380 from Birmingham has just flown over, on its way to Dubai. Never thought I'd be so pleased to see (or hear) it. (View Post)

Twelve-bar blues are even more repetitive. Woke up this morning, Donald Trump was on my mind. (View Post)

A limited number of sequences and harmonies are pleasing to the western ear. A hundred years ago composers realised they had a stark choice between repeating each other endlessly or writing new stuff… (View Post)