The Sandstone Blog
Piano music
Music is here to heal us. Perhaps it really is just a slave to the selfish gene, but I suspect it emerged with the Big Bang along with gravity, comets…
Mitsuko Uchida: post-perfomance addendum
Mitsuko, of course, was wonderful. She appeared in wide black trousers and black sleeveless vest (very Japanese) topped by a blue, semi-transparent chiffon number (very European) that played with the…
Mitsuko Uchida
Have you heard this joke? The theatre manager is called to the stalls where a patron is reported to be making a nuisance of himself. When he arrives he finds…
Tower Ridge by guest blogger Craig Weldon
Craig Weldon tells us how his book ‘The Weekend Fix’ was named. The following is extracted from the web site http://www.loveofscotland.com with thanks.
You’re probably not that interested in…
Hitler’s victory
One of Saul Bellow’s best jokes, so good he uses it more than once, runs like this. Q: What is the difference between ignorance and indifference? A: I don’t know…
Love songs for men
Setting out early for Glasgow and the launch of Craig Weldon’s The Weekend Fix I was glad not to have to drive. Rain was beating down and the wind picking…
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