The Cathedral Choir

Well well, how did that happen!  I was sure I was still in my twenties!

Greetings to you all.

Happy Christmas!

It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day again, me hearties!  Yarrrrr!

I haven't been posting much here for a while and the last thing I wrote was in relation to singing at the funeral of friend and fellow c...

I'll be singing at the funeral of my friend Alistair Fulton today, in the choir of St Mary's Cathedral where he also sang (standing ...

It occurs to me that I didn't post a review of 2011 a year ago. Perhaps at the time I was suffering from the trauma of my approaching 50...

Thanks to Ruth for bringing the following to my attention just before Christmas last year with the suggestion that I might add it to my Blog...

Well the trip up here to Torridon on Saturday went well, taking around 5 hours, and when we arrived we enjoyed lovely chilli made by Al at h...

It's early in the morning, but I'm awake and typing this Blog entry, just a quick one, in advance of heading to a part of the UK I r...

At 7.30pm on Friday 2nd November in New Kilpatrick Parish Church , Bearsden, Glasgow, and again at 7.30pm on Saturday 3rd November in Old ...

Arr, another year be over, and it be Talk Like a Pirate day again.  Arrrr!

In July the cathedral choir decamped south to sing the services in Beverley Minster for the weekend, and to my surprise and delight one of t...

It's been a while since I posted here, real life is once again getting in the way of virtual life. Every so often I check the Feedjit ...

Shauna is a good friend of mine, who I've known for almost 30 years.  Last year she and some friends raised money for Clic Sargent by c...

I celebrated a significant birthday recently, one with a zero, as regular readers may have noticed, and my work colleagues very generously...

At the start of Holy Week, at 7pm on Saturday 31st March 2012 in St Bride's Church in Hyndland, Glasgow, and again at 4pm on Sunday 1...

What follows has been sitting as a draft for a couple of years, and I titled it: sad self indulgent post . I've updated it though, and ...

A long time ago I was interested in photography.  I had a (cheap) SLR camera, and a selection of half-decent lenses and equipment to use wit...

Happy Christmas to everyone who reads my occasional musings, particularly the small band of regular readers.  May all that you wish for come...

OK, I know it's an advert, but every so often the advertising agencies come up with a good one, and I happen to like this!

After a year and a half of it being off the road due to a slipping clutch I couldn't justify spending money on to replace, last Friday I...

  The 2011-2012 season for Glasgow Chamber Choir is about to kick off  with a concert in St Bride’s Church in Hyndland and in Canongat...

At 5.45pm on Saturday 5th November 2011 RSCM Scottish Voices will be taking part in Choral Mass in St Aloysius' RC Church , 25 Rose...

In the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th October 2011 Glasgow Chamber Choir will be joining the BBC Scottish Symphony...

Well, another year be over me hearties, and it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day again.  Yarr! Thanks to Icanhascheezburger for th...

Below is a word cloud giving prominence to words that appear more frequently in this Blog, created using Wordle .  I'm not sure exactly ...

This Legal Disclaimer is really for use in relation to printed media, not Websites,  and I first used it in one of the editions of the fair...