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November 3rd, 2009

Someone left a message yesterday on our answering machine, concerning ‘our’ cat. When wife returned the call, she was told that ‘our’ cat is, actually, someone else’s cat, and that he turned up on this person’s doorstep the day he ‘disappeared’. From this lady’s perspective, he had been missing for seven months.

What is slightly surprising is that the lady who phoned lives barely three hundred yards away from us.

So, altogether now, “I’m going to wash that cat right out of my hair …”

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November 24th, 2008
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Richard Hickox has died. He was a conductor whose recordings have given me (and many others) immense pleasure.

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