The Plashing Vole

I took a break from being splenetic and incandescent with rage this weekend. No, really. Even someone as permanently grouchy and curmudgeonl...

Ah, Monday. It seems like only a couple of days since Friday and my office chair is still warm. That said - excellent weekend. Very cultura...

…and feeling as weary as Bruce Willis in Die Hard (pick your own number). The concert at Symphony Hall was wonderful, though it was punctu...

I'm teaching 6-8 this evening. I usually stay in the office all day, but I've decided to take the afternoon off this time: there...

Morning. Chained to your workstations again? I'm feeling rather sunnily-disposed today. Saturday saw me, neatly attired in a decent su...

I've just received Tove Jansson's novel for adults (not an 'adult novel'), The True Deceiver , and my ticket for The Dream o...

Today's an all-Mozart, all-CD affair. The latter because S-Z in rock and all my classical vinyl are inaccessible due to the 1m x 1m x 1m...

The Map Twats went indoors yesterday, for a performance by the National Youth Orchestra at Birmingham Symphony Hall. Before that, we went to...

New year's resolution: actually do more cultural stuff than buying Crumb CDs and listening to them in my room. As a good start, the Map ...