What's New?

I got my Friedman music in the post. That's Ignaz Friedman, and if you don't know who that is I don't know if I want to tell you - you should!

Was yesterday such a long time ago? Did all the truths we learnt then suddenly fade away? So why does it feel a bit strange to be getting Friedman in the post?

And I didn't tell you what I need it for!

Fashion is not all it's cracked up to be. You can buy the latest car, and you will have...a car. It is a vehicle for getting you somewhere. Once a car was called by its longer name - a carriage - and it had a horse or horses in front. It did the same job.

And the old faces that passed by mirrors now stained, broken or lost, are they suddenly useless?

But he who loveliness within

Hath found, all outward loathes,

For he who color loves, and skin,

Loves but their oldest clothes.

John Donne (1572-1631)