Henry Gough-Cooper
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Henry Gough-Cooper
@henrywgc.bsky.social
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Semi-retired farmer. Early career medievalist (annalistic chronicles of Britain and Ireland). Lapsed trombonist. Occasional dogwalker.
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Which Prokofiev 4? Op. 47 or Op. 112?
I’ve often suspected this to be the case. Dumfries & Galloway was once the see of a Northumbrian bishop.
‘Lives of the Welsh Saints’?
Wish I could have heard this! I hope Nia will publish.
Found a few chanterelles in the beech wood this afternoon, but I’m either too early or too late!
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“T’was mirk, mirk night and nae stern light,
They rade through red blude to the knee;
For a’ the blude that’s shed on earth
Rins through the springs o’ that countrie . . . “

(Thomas the Rhymer.)
Many parallels with Shostakovich, I think.
Peston was OK as Stephanie Flanders’ apprentice sidekick when she was the BBC News economics editor, but he flounders as a general political commentator.
We have had an unusually prolific and varied crop of mushrooms on our lawns this week; I haven’t checked the woods yet for chanterelles. Last year, we had hardly any.
‘Winterreisse’, no. 24: ‘Der Leiermann’, by Franz Schubert.
Magnificent neumes! Source?
But are they converging on the Presidential Palace? Have they selected the appropriate lampposts?
As the apocryphal saying goes, “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
As the apocryphal saying goes, “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
All substances exhibit some type of magnetism. Custard, for example, except in its gaseous state.
Savoury chocolate soup is peak Aztec.
Often, while initially seen as a time-saving device, resorting to an “old people” latex full head mask leads to suffocation and ultimate decease (see: DEATH).