Recent Tweets

• 00:36 Fave opera singers poll. Full results and analysis on blog . I reveal who is the most popular opera singer in the world bit.ly/1ZPzvP
• 12:59 RT @jessicaduchen: The 'Beast from the East' is a music-lover! Why does this seem weird? standpointmag.co.uk/node/2393
• 13:00 In case you're wondering who the 'Beat from the East' is, he's 'Goliath' in tonight's David v Goliath boxing match
• 13:17 RT @thoroughlygood: I think Andrew Marr should *not* do impressions if he is to retain his hero status.
• 14:15 Today is the birthday of both Joan Sutherland and Gwyneth Jones. 83 and 73.
• 15:07 Going to spend the rest of the afternoon planning and organising my life!
• 16:06 Spellcheck weirdness: Pavlovian = Moldovian; Ghiaurov = Chiaroscuro; Pavarotti = Garotted
• 16:48 Wondering whether to book for 10 mins of Angela Gheorghiu + 20m of AG w/ unknown tenor; plus encores of Granada & Musica. £32 -£85 says no!
• 17:06 My bike brakes are worn out. We can't see a way to fix them ourselves. Are we stupid? In the old days new brake pads was a 2 min. DIY job
• 17:08 Angela Gheorghiu is a 'no'. I've already got Turn of the Screw and Bryn Terfel this week. I might even go to BLP meeting (yeah, right!)
• 17:24 Any saddo with a partner who works NYE fancy an overpriced Raymond Gubbay Viennese Gala at the Barbican - as an alternative to crap NYE TV?
• 17:26 I can even offer a spare room to those who have difficulty travelling out of London (obviously that's only for ppl I actually, ykno, know!)
• 17:51 Looking at @wigmore_hall calendar. I'd like to see C Sampson but date's wrong; for I Davies date right, programme not my cup of tea. Sigh.
• 18:13 Are all next year's Schumann events going to be twinned with Chopin? I love Schumann, CBA with Chopin!
• 18:15 Oh great, one offer of a spare room to *friends* and I'm followed by something about letting out spare rooms for money. SPAM!
• 19:12 Trying to log in at site which tells me there is no a/c at that email addy. When I try to register anew, it says email addy already has a/c!
• 19:21 So, I re-register blah de blah only to find they've stopped taking Maestro, so one has to phone - apparently the bank have told them to!
• 19:22 So, hello accessibility where you can book online with credit card or over phone with debit card - at greater cost. Cos EVERYONE has cc?
• 19:23 I know, I shd have a credit card. I've been pre-approved by bank, only need to sign form. But I OBJECT to being forced to have one.
• 19:24 It's all very well for people who can manage their personal finances, but that doesn't cover accountants, who, as a breed, are hopeless.
• 19:26 And, what's the logic - is it an anti-fraud thing, because of the rash of debit card - as opposed to credit card - fraud? Makes no sense.
• 19:35 Then we get another venue which not only accepts Maestro & does so w/o the 'verified by Visa' dialogue but doesn't even request 3-digit CVS
• 20:33 Managed to get Stalls seat for Satyagraha for £40 (bulk buying reduced from £50). Highly recommended, especially at that price!!! (@E_N_O )
• 20:34 And so endeth an expensive afternoon. All I need to book is some Verdi opera in July with some new baritone.
• 20:35 Also, I took the chance when booking opened that Tsarina's Slippers would become available for cheap offers. Bloody sold out, innit!
• 20:38 That's £500 I've spent, planning my life this afternoon. Plus £4.49 for the dodgy bottle of wine which is, inexplicably, in the fridge.
• 20:51 Does anybody recommend the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - which I assume is 'gig in Brixton' my friend has invited me to. Worth cancelling Messiah for?
• 21:10 Engineer who replaced my Sky box connected it to TV, by-passing DVD. It's so we have to watch Sky if we don't know how to connect DVD.
• 21:11 I think it's a effing disgrace. I know how to do it, contradicting the WRONG instructions that Sky give. But it's done my back no good.
• 22:50 Watching Cyrano de B DVD. Quite forgotten that Screeching Foghorn Radvanovsky sings Roxanna. Wdve been better to DVD Paris not Valencia. IMO
• 23:29 So, David beat Goliath, then. Listening to Mozartt & Chopin prolly isn't best preparation for a big fighting match. Know wotImean, innit.

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