ADAM AT HOME UK

If you'd like to listen to the spoken version of this post, you'd better click   HERE Oh dear... I see it's well over two weeks since my last entry... Well, I suppose I've been frightfully, frightfully  busy doing huge amounts of Notalot , which is always very tiring. In reality, it was something of a dissappointment that the mannequin I'd thrown myself into with such vigour turned out to be  somewhat  more svelte than he should have been. My general reaction to such things is to put them aside for a while; trouble being, that I do not want to get started on the Banyan Project till I have a viable mannequin. Time has not in fact been standing still, in that I have made myself two pairs of 'experimental' boxer shorts - very loosely based on C18th braies - with another one in the pipeline. Then I have been making myself several hats, starting with a calico mock-up out of which has come a sort of skullcap and a couple of pork pies, plus a pork pie for a go...

As usual, if you would like to listen to this blog rather than read it, please press   HERE I was going to write a little pre-amble to all this, but felt it would spoil the flow.  So it’s been stuck at the end as a… post-ramble… I suppose. Anyway, to business:- Music has always played a big part in my life, both as performer and listener - more the latter as I get older.  My very earliest memories, going back to when I was very  young indeed, were of Danny Kaye singing 'Tubby the Tuba', played from a '45' (remember them?!) on my parents' portable record player.  This was quickly followed by a Vivaldi concerto for two trumpets, which was generally played as 'getting-up' music of a Sunday morning… In the late '60s my brother gave me a wonderful LP: Tanzmusik der Paetorius-zeit - an Archiv production - which opened my eyes (and ears) to the joys of early music.  At around the same time we had a ground-breaking recording of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, ...

In the current circumstances, I don't feel inclined to work up a proper, written blogpost, so I am afraid you will just have to make do with an off-the-cuff ramble, by clicking   HERE Azerbaijan family Andong prawn crackers As usual, feel free to comment, subscribe, whatever... [:-)