Friday Playlist: musical travels

Since my last post on this blog, I have taken two short trips: the first for work to Belfast; the second to stay with my family in south west England. I have a love/hate relationship with flying. I hate all the waiting around, the endless corridors, the sense of helplessness. But I especially love short…

Horses for courses?

Picture the scene: it's a grey, cold, blustery, rainy Edinburgh morning. We've had a night of 60mph winds and torrential downpours; there are weather warnings all over the UK. I step out onto the tarmac at Edinburgh airport ready to board the craft which will whisk me down to London, only to find that it…