Issue 51

Our first regular dentist was the ancient Dr McIntyre, who was on the first floor off Cathedral Square in the then small but undiminished Christchurch. There was a clanking open-frame lift with pantographic doors, but one felt safer taking the wide polished wooden stairs up to the linoleum landings with their doors of frosted glass….

S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M M I K E R U D D B I L L P U T T . C O MM M I K E R U D D B I L…

..linguistic refuge for the poor sermoniser. He, (it was always ‘he’ in those days), might start off with a quotation from the Bible, but then he was on his own, unless he was guilty of plagiarising from the book of 500 Great Sermons – (Guaranteed to Rock your Congregation in the Bosom of Abraham), which,…

The Promoters cont. I’d have to say that our version of I’ll Be Gone and the almost as inevitable couple of blues tunes, absolutely stole the show. Just about everybody told us how touched they were, and then asked if we were still performing (!) etc. In so many ways it was a wonderful couple…

At the moment multiverses and string theory are the ’go to’ explanations of the world as we don’t know it. Intermittently I console myself with the thought that we are a young species with that has only recently confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson so perhaps there is a way to go yet in…

The Promoters cont. I’d have to say that our version of I’ll Be Gone and the almost as inevitable couple of blues tunes, absolutely stole the show. Just about everybody told us how touched they were, and then asked if we were still performing (!) etc. In so many ways it was a wonderful couple…