Bagpipes. There. I've said it. I've put it out there. I've gone for it. I love the sound of bagpipes. Just as well, living as we do in Scotland's capital city. I cannot imagine what better sound there could be to accompany an army into battle than the magnificent skirl of a pipe band. Here…
‘You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft’*
As I was listening to Jack Johnson's album To The Sea (2010), I was struck by a strange need to don a straw hat and dungarees, and start reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The music is laid-back and easy-going in a modern-folk-soft-rock kinda-way. And I'm sure it would feel extremely constrained by any sniff of…
“Quiet descended on her, calm, content”*
In 2005, London's fabulous Victoria and Albert Museum held a wonderful exhibition about the Arts and Crafts Movement. Oh, how sublime it was to waft, Mrs Dalloway-style, through room after room of the most gorgeous jewellery, furniture, textiles and all sorts of other emphemera - why not take a wander through this beautiful online gallery…
Leaping Tracks 