Category Archives: David Jackson

Storm clouds brewing…what a pit(y).

“TOLL CHARGE! Awwww, why do things cost things? I hope you’ve got money, cos I spent all mine on chocolate cigars!” This is the happy refrain that greets and warns me whenever I put a new destination into my Sat-Nav these days. No, it’s … Continue reading

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Perdu…in translation.

The more astute amongst you will note that I have made scant comment in my periodical postcards of the other opera which is being performed here in Aix. Mozart, I hear, was quite a clever chap. He knew how to … Continue reading

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Game, set and match….Langrée.

Bless Maxine Kwok-Adams! For those of you who are not aware, Maxine is our resident fashionista of the 1st violin section. If column inches on a well known social networking site were the only measure of a person’s popularity then … Continue reading

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