Ralph Vaughan Williams

Last night's ceramics class:

A reminder of the shape of the building.

Last week glazed the walls pink!

Last night, the first thing I did was to draw around the inside edges of all the windows so that I have a template to take home with me and thus can think through how I am going to make the window frames.

Then, I painted the 4 pink walls (except for the inside edges of the windows) with a gloss glaze. This is a thick white coloured liquid which when fired will impart a glossy finish to the building.

Bucket of glaze and fan brush for application.

Starting to cover the pink with the white glaze.

Left the inside edges of the windows unglazed.

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Last night's dinner:

Artichokes and boiled rice

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Stereophonics update:

That performance on Monday night whose understated presentation I perceived as suaveness and self-confidence and an antidote to unnecessary and off-putting razzmatazz was badly reviewed in both of Scotland's main newspapers. Where I saw admirable understatement both reviewers perceived apathy, staleness and a mere going through of the motions.

Not sure the crowd saw it their way!

When I phoned my Welsh cousin from South Wales to tell him I'd seen the Stereophonics, he was utterly unimpressed and said he'd never seen them.

Apparently, Kelly Jones was a successful boxer at youth level.

But then so, it is said,  was Terence Trent d'Arby.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams:

Was listening to the tail-end of an orchestral piece on Radio 3 today, trying to guess the composer: Alban Berg? Szymanowski? Schnittke?

No. Unbelievably it was Vaughan Williams' 6th Symphony. I've clearly got a false impression of his output. This was spare and abstract; much more than pastoral. A real revelation.

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Peep Show

In the last few episodes of Peep Show there have been references to: Hot Chip, Venetian Snares and Aphex Twin. Not many shows would be comfortable doing that.