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Mrs Specs and I have just enjoyed a fortnight’s holiday in the beautiful Engadine region of Switzerland. Our base was Zuoz, a village along...

Regular readers of the Specs blog (thank you, darlings, thank you) will know by now how much I love London’s Wigmore Hall. While I always f...

I’m convinced that Trembling Bells are one of the best bands currently active, and possibly of all time. This post aims to convince you too...

Following on from the last one more swiftly than usual, here's another photo post. Earlier this month, I shared some portraits I'd t...

I was struck by how two of the operas I've seen most recently both set out to disturb or frighten me. One of these - especially if you...

When I posted some of my photography back in February , I mentioned that next I might start on some kind of larger-scale project - mainly be...

As I type, I'm still in a kind of euphoric recovery mode from 'A Poet's Love'. This was a tour de force by a brilliant gathe...