The Crooked Path
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The pressure of marking about 170 undergraduate essays has kept me distracted from blogging but aside from work pressures it's been a st...
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A mention in the Guardian
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Good news in a week tarnished by a mountain of essays to mark, and a rather unpleasant stomach bug - Telling the Bees got mention in the Gu...
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International Bagpipe Day
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Tomorrow, Saturday March 10th , will be the first ever International Bagpipe Day . There are events happening up and down the UK, from conce...
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Telling the Bees at Green Note
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We played down at the Green Note cafe in Camden on Sunday night to a packed and enthusiastic house. Here's a video of 'Wood' - ...
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Brythonic gyrations
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I have a new musical hero, the Breton fluter Jean-Michel Veillon who was in London to teach a workshop and was lured to Oxford to do a solo...
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