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Festive Flutes

A Christmas Cracker it was indeed. I was lucky enough to be invited to a concert given by four beautiful Flautists. The skill and ingenuity of their music was of the highest standard. The variety of their repertoire was refreshing and the spirit and fortitude in freezing conditions was admirable. Musically very sophisticated it nevertheless […]

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Juliet’s Lantern

The kids were clever; they found a lantern which, when lit, rises up with air currents and wind giving a poignant symbolic focus to someone moving on. In the true spirit of Juliet it was of course light-hearted, shrieks of giggles and laughter, as it spun in every conceivable direction, gathering speed and eventually height, […]

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Crosshaven to Portland

A friend asked me to help him crew his yacht back from Ireland. Wow it turned out to be a trip “above expectations”! Crosshaven was a delightful place and the Cronin pub was, well it deserves a post of it’s own……to follow! So the wind was just right force 4 SW. Sea state wonderful for […]

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Two years in the making

“The Music Lesson” Daphnis, the boy, is teaching Chloe to play the pan pipes. Daphnis, being very shy about showing too much affection in case he is rejected, snatches the pipe back to kiss them where her lips have been. She pinches him above the hip (as in the Laocoon) her fingers pressing into his […]

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