Posts about events and places i’ve been to
Following on from my last post with it's nature-inspired musical compositions, I thought i'd follow up with the blissful day we spent meandering through Parque de El Retiro in central Madrid last weekend. A short distance from Museo Nacional del Prado and the Madrid Puerta de Atocha railway station, the park is 125 hectares of beautiful … Continue reading Parque de El Retiro
It's a distant, painful memory now but I completed the #London2Cambridge 100km Ultra Challenge over the weekend of Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th August. I'm fully recovered now so it's time I wrote it up on the blog, though I did post elsewhere on social media at the time. I finished 431 out of 433 … Continue reading London2Cambridge 100km Ultra Challenge
If i'm honest, I hadn’t to date seen enough of James McAvoy’s work to fully appreciate his range as an actor. I loved him in X-Men: First Class - but then the X-Men movies haven’t disappointed yet - and as the Mr Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. … Continue reading The Ruling Class – James McAvoy
We were lucky enough to have been invited by one of our lovely friends to attend the Royal College of Music this evening to watch the Students’ Union Film Orchestra perform a selection of cinematic classics. Conducted by Richard Miller, SFO Principal Conductor, the performance began with Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s suite from Kings Row (1942); … Continue reading RCM Students’ Union Film Orchestra
