Interesting, must seek out the book - how was the panel discussion? Wish I had known about it.

thank you... hope to be at Draught on thursday if I can ...

I'm sorry. I don't really do the football thing... never have.
But if you want to know everything about the pastoral idyll ... my favourite Finlay jam jar:
Virgil discovered the evening. /
Rousseau picked the first wild flower
[apologies, bad photos]

When I see a clock with no hands I think of two things: Cézanne's great painting La Pendule Noire 1869-1871 and the Communards putting an end to the time of their rulers, a premonition of Burroughsian Present Time.
Great image: sight over time

Good idea Ian, made me reach for 'Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community' as reprinted in Hal Foster's 'Postmodern Culture' - a book I read a lot 40 years ago, but not much since. Thank you - good way to start Saturday!

Go well, John White (1936-2024)

I should add that as a one time tuba (Eflat) player I had known about Symphony for Organ and Six Tubas, but of course I had never witnessed it - its only previous performance was just before my third birthday in 1965.
I felt so happy listening at last to it tonight - but the whole prog was genius.

Extremely sad to hear this.

This is last year's post for those that didn't see it: greg.org/archive/2024...
Also views of different London and Polish versions of the work by Metzger

Me too. I fear for its future 'renovation' and 'improvements' (inevitable though this is) ... just as I worry about attempts to retain 'character'

Though the details mention a bomb shelter in the garden, there is no image and it doesn't elaborate further. An Anderson shelter?

Thanks Richard -- must take a read of that