JB & I have been out to the Southern Opera production of 'The Magic Flute'. Absolutely wonderful, excellent cast and amazingly innovative sets and direction. All around brilliant, in fact ( Read more... )

This video was posted on rose_soup (lovely community). It has just become JB's favourite song in the whole world.

It's pretty high on my list, too. Even if it is, technically, an ad. (But it's for Discovery Channel, so that's all right then.)

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A bellbird seems to have taken up residence in the wee reserve behind our house, and just favoured us with a good quarter-hour of music. Yay! And I have to say, it's a vast improvement on the usual Sunday-afternoon lawnmower chorus.

It sounds a bit like this, but more tuneful ... And without the odd raspberry sounds.

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At the tail end of the ( Read more... )

This morning I was making muffins (JB-safe apple spice) & called JB in to butter the muffin tins for me (a recent addition to his skills.) Good kid -- he left his 'puter game with hardly a grumble, and came into the kitchen singing to himself ( Read more... )