Footy Tipping
It was looking bad yesterday afternoon but things turned around!
In fact in the Pottsville Tipping Comp, Rosemary tells me, I came in #1!
So I now pluck up courage and ignorance to have a go at Round 13. This time I will share what the Kiwi Expert said AFTER the round is over. Not even looking at this stage.
Windy Wollongong
The day dawned windy and coolish and stayed that way yesterday.
Music and reading
On Facebook in the morning I noted:
I am reading Siya Turabi’s The Last Beekeeper — yes a real book — and I am getting it now. The magic realism takes a while to tune into. Learning much about Pakistan beyond the stereotypes. Using my TV in radio mode I am listening to Bizet on ABC Classic. Outside the wind howls. My hoodie could do with a wash but it is warm.
Access the first three chapters here!
And here is what I was listening to at the time I took that selfie. Watch on YouTube or in the embed below.
I stayed on ABC Classic pretty much for the rest of the day, noting at 3 pm:
Still listening to ABC Classic — a wonderful concert from Hamer Hall at the moment combining the Australian Chamber Orchestra with the British-based Will Gregory Moog Ensemble to perform iconic works for synthesizers and acoustic ensemble including some arranged by Wendy Carlos.
Who? Switched-On Bach was the debut album by American composer Wendy Carlos, originally released under her birth name Walter Carlos in October 1968 by Columbia Records. Classic Live: ACO’s A Clockwork Orange and Beyond.
Program
Franz Waxman: Sinfonietta: I. Lento – Allegro
Vangelis: Blade Runner: Main Title
Wendy Carlos: Tron: Scherzo & Main Theme
Johann Sebastian Bach/Wendy Carlos: ‘Switched on Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048: II. Adagio; III. Allegro
Hans Zimmer: Interstellar: Cornfield Chase
Delia Derbyshire: Blue Veils and Golden Sands
Ron Grainger/Delia Derbyshire: Doctor Who: Theme
Olivier Messiaen: Oraison
Vangelis: Chariots of Fire: Main Titles
John Williams: Images: Reflections & Blood Moon
Johann Sebastian Bach/Wendy Carlos: Switched On Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847
Johann Sebastian Bach/Eduard Artemyev: Solaris: Chorale Prelude “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, BWV 639
Henry Purcell/Gioachino Rossini/Ludwig van Beethoven/Wendy Carlos: A realisation of selections from “A Clockwork Orange”
A treasure and Sunday lunch
That beauty is from the internet. I found it while searching for information about the makers. It is a Duchess “Laburnum” English Bone China Duo Cup and Saucer 1960’s. One eBay price is AU $43.37. Several of them are right here at my place in West Wollongong, along with half a dozen matching cake plates. They were my mother’s. I think they may have been a gift and I think I know from whom, but am not sure about that. I only know my mother treasured them, and some other things, and I took possession of them only after she had moved from Glebe Point Road to the nursing home in Annandale. Then in 1996 she passed away.
I brought them to Wollongong with me in 2010.
I rarely use them. I did yesterday.
Springtime Oolong leaf tea with ginger, that cup and saucer — I have 3 sets and more plates from my mother — plus Woolies fresh chilled chicken Singapore noodles. Tea and taste go well together.
Afternoon light West Wollongong
But look at an hour later!
Neil's Commonplace Book 