I think I must be getting old. I've gone all standard-repertoire on myself. We went to Paris and I brought home... Mendelssohn. Last week there were a bunch of new music concerts on here and I didn't feel like going to any of them. Now I'm actually considering buying the complete string quartets of Beethoven on CD in the HMV sale. Factor in that I actually enjoyed a Mahler concert the other week and I think those of you who know me will probably be pretty seriously concerned.

But fear not, I think I'm actually coming out of a hole in the ground - I feel like I'm waking up after a year-and-a-half-long coma (a year and a half being the time since I last actually wrote anything at all). I'm loving my new stereo and have been revelling, not only in Mendelssohn but in tons of Vaughan Williams (the boy's sister gave me 2 RVW CDs for Christmas, both of which are wonderful) and the piano concertos of a chap called Pitfield of whom I had never heard but I think is a bit of a find - kind of RVW meets Poulenc and Ravel, so very much my sort of thing.

New Year was wonderful - we spent it in Paris and while we completely failed at most of the traditional sightseeingy things, we did get in a LOT of walking, used my new monopod, experienced a proper snowfall and, of course, ate ourselves silly. And spent New Year's Eve on the Champs Elysées.

Now the boy has started his new job and travels to Swindon every week. I got him back for the weekend, but it was very hard to send him off this morning. At least I've got a bear to keep me company now, but it's not quite the same. Oh well, another reason to look forward to weekends :-)

# posted by minim @ 7:15 PM 0 Comments