Just waiting to see how the show on the other side of the Atlantic pans out. I obvs. hope that Tr*mp is out of office by the end of this. Being a Latin-American I don't harbour many illusions about how good or beneficial any president of the USA may be to our countries, but if Biden would be a continuation of all that came before, with much evil ( Read more... )

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The schools I teach at are now covered in posters indicating the procedure to follow in case an infection with coronavirus is confirmed -or suspected. The Guildhall School of Music is closed for several weeks now as one case there was confirmed. I'm still not at all sure about all this. The virus exists, it is a problem but it wouldn't seem to be ( Read more... )

Oh, how I hate the changing of the clocks. Have been in this island for over 30 years and still don't get used to it. Neither do my Sunday morning pupils, by the look on their faces when I showed up at the usual time. Wish I could find a different time for that lesson, it kind of ruins my Saturday nights ( Read more... )

A couple of birthdays, many lessons cancelled (need to get more pupils..) a club at which I stayed less than two hours.... and a little walk across Central London with at least a million people. Not sure anything will come out of that but, hey, it had to be done.


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Two interesting, if long (and alarming) articles posted by friends on FB, on the nature of the developments we’re seeing in the world stage ( Read more... )

I haven't got a lot of faith in petitions in general or in particular in ones that are asking these politicians trapped in a web of their own making to backtrack in a way that most likely seems impossible and undesirable to them, but nonetheless, one has to try ( Read more... )

General elections in Venezuela today. Really dodgy ones, where the authoritarian streak of the current lot in office begins to approach a real dictatorship (although polls give Maduro 37% against 32 of his main rival but this may not reflect in vote and the main opposition are calling for abstention). Maduro blames the US and big corporations for ( Read more... )

The flu, or whatever it was, lasted only four days. Or rather, the shaking, fever and constant coughing plus extreme tiredness did. I'm still coughing and I'm still tired all the time, two weeks on. Not looking forward to the beginning of term next week ( Read more... )

Life continues, the summer comes to an end, Infest came and went (and was a fantastic gathering, as always), the schools I teach at send me the usual letter welcoming the staff for the new school year, I have a mostly pleasant week-end with the usual -a goth club, a friend's birthday at a local rock bar, my rather challenging Sunday morning lesson ( Read more... )