Wednesday 11 November, 2026

Hi-Jinks This is one of my favourite pictures. We were sitting in a piazza in Venice, drinking tea and watching a pair of acrobats practising their art. They were also being watched by a group of children who were absolutely transfixed by what the pair were able to do. So eventually, they were invited to join in. And this is what started to happen. It was a lovely moment, which I’ll never forget. And I’m so glad that I captured it. Those kids are all in their mid-twenties now. Wonder if they remember it too. Quote of the Day ”This audience reminds me of nothing I have ever seen and of nothing I have read about except the city in the Arabian tale where all the inhabitants have been turned to brass and the traveller finds them after centuries mute, motionless and still retaining the attitudes which they last knew in life.” Mark Twain on being in the Festival Theatre in Bayreuth in 1891. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Leonard Cohen | Hallelujah (Official Live in London…

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