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Weird & Wonderful: The Mermaid of Sitges
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Con te Partirò (Francesco Sartori) – Cornet Cover/Flugelhorn Backing & Arrangement
A Classic Breakfast Enjoy the flavors & don’t watch the clock 🙂
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Suddenly Seymour (Alen Menken) – Cornet Cover
Have a Great Day & Keep Having It That Way oh, and don’t mind that “Horrors” bit 🙂
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Structural Dimensions: Viaduc de Millau
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Travelog: Cliffs of Dover
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) – Cornet/Mellophone Cover
Too Early but what the hell, “Let’s Rock!”
Read More My Journey with the Trumpet: Sonatina, Op. 151 No. 1 (Anton Diabelli) – Flugelhorn Cover
Morning Melody So make sure to enjoy your day (no if’s or but’s) 🙂
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Close Encounters: Inji (Polichopus plumipes)
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Sevillanas Del Siglo XVIII (Federico García Lorca) – Flugelhorn Cover & Arrangement
Welcome to Sevilla 🙂 Beware, in summer it can get a bit tricky (people sometimes refer to it as being a bit “sticky”)
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Street Stories: Audition
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Beyond the Sea (Charles Trenet, Albert Lasry) – Cornet Cover & Arrangement
My Ultimate Question of Focus This Summer To Sea or Not To Sea for Me?
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Bird Stories: Eye Contact (Scarlet Ibis/Ibis rouge)
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Architectural Dimension: The 12 Apostles (St. Mark’s Basilica – Venezia)
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Music to Watch Girls By (Sid Ramin) – Cornet Cover
Well, have a great walk around and enjoy your day 🙂
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Close Encounters: Khepri (Rhagium sycophanta/Longhorn Beetles)
Temporary Link Sometimes makes sense to experience the world this way; moments when you don’t notice much difference but just want to have some fun 🙂
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My Journey with the Trumpet: All About That Bass (Meghan Trainor) – Cornet Cover
Just Covering All “Basses” Quite a “bassic” approach really, don’t you think?
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Close Encounters: My “Private” Island (Beautiful demoiselle/Caloptéryx vierge)
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My Journey with the Trumpet: The Pink Panther (Henri Mancini) – Cornet Cover & Arrangement
“Chief” Inspector Clouseau just checking in, but you just have a Great Day anyway!
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Bird Stories: Sherry (House sparrow/Moineau domestique)
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Read More My Journey with the Trumpet: Castle on a Cloud (Claude Michel Schönberg)
Celebrating the life of my wonderful sister Shahira (Sherry) This one’s for you darling…..
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Fascism: The Flashing Red Lights for Europe
Suppression is never the answer nor is turning a blind eye. I won’t pretend to know the answer myself or understand the evolution of this trend in this-day-and-age. What I suspect however is that this trend is more about promoting/subscribing to a distorted reading of history coupled with racist […]
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Environment: Transforming Construction to Deal with Extreme Weather Conditions
A very interesting, important and quite relevant report. I can only add the name of a famous Egyptian architect who pioneered traditional mud construction as opposed to western building designs, material & layouts. You can read about him here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Fathy The driving point is that we need to adapt not only […]
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BREXIT – The Migrant Exchange Program (Part of the Levelling Up Policy?)
Locking out EU migrants and now heading east for migration deals – well now that makes good sense, doesn’t it. The problem as with any other political/economic debates is that people tend to have less knowledge/expertise (myself included in the mix) to make critical decisions particularly when it comes to […]
Read More My Journey with the Trumpet: Ein Madchen oder Weibchen – The Magic Flute (Mozart) – Flugelhorn Cover/Cornet Backing & Arrangement
Mozart – A Musical Magician & His Magic! Have a Great Day 🙂
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Astro: Luna (Moon)
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Read More My Journey with the Trumpet: Dream A Little Dream of Me (Doris Day) – Cornet Cover
Short & Sweet Well, that’s (1) way to look at it anyway….
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Close Encounters: Hyperactive (Snipefly/Mouche Bécassine)
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Bird Stories: Ines (Eurasian Siskin/Tarin)
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My Journey with the Trumpet: GoldenEye – (Bono & The Edge) – Cornet Cover & Arrangement
Oh, Hello again Mr. Bond!
Read More UK Elections: Practicing vs. Preaching Democracy
Practicing Democracy vs. Preaching Democracy: Here we go gain; after the flawed BREXIT referendum of 2016 we seem to be at another political crossroads where politics seems to be at odds with realities. This is the situation where issues/policies are not discussed/debated seriously from the foundation/raw level but rather from […]
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Great Escapes: Capricci
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Oom-Pah-Pah – from ‘Oliver’ (Shani Wallis) – Flugelhorn Cover & Arrangement
“Oom Pah Pah” – No need to look it up in any dictionary let me explain…..
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Game On! When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Gets Going (Tour de Normandie Cycliste)
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My Journey with the Trumpet: My Favourite Things (Sound of Music) – Cornet/Flugelhorn Cover & Arrangement
Music that continues to shape/inspire generations Cutting through the noise of mental borders/boundaries 🙂
Read More Political Pollution: The Story of the Coconut
A simple story about the coconut; thick from the outside but soft/tender from the inside. If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, well you just need to contextualise the comment to get a feel of where I’m going with this! Once you know please tell me cause […]
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Light Touch: Composer Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
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Read More Political Pollution: To Strike or Take Down – A Purely Philosophical Debate….
U.S. (“dim”ocracy) in the state of “commotion”! Now you can either choose to “strike” my statement or “take it down”! FYI: Jokes aside, I still firmly believe in Democracy as the best governance model we currently have – but as I mention repeatedly in my posts and as many are […]
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Street Stories: Way to GO!
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Read More My Journey with the Trumpet: The Hills Are Alive – The Sound of Music (Julie Andrews) – Cornet Cover
Ageless Compositions & Voices that continue to shape/inspire generations
Read More My Journey with the Trumpet: Going On Seventeen (Dashiell Eaves & Sara Zelle) – Flugelhorn/Cornet Cover & Arrangement
Sixteen or Seventeen? Well, I’d take either anytime 🙂
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Bird Stories: Très Jolie Julie! (Chiffchaff/Pouillot Véloce)
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Read More A “La-di-da” BREXIT Indeed
Truly a “La-di-da” BREXIT Indeed; or more accurately as the French would say an “Oh la la” BREXIT. Here’s my layman’s take; BREXIT was sold as mainly an immigration related issue to the majority of the population because that was bate that many would follow or rather the shiny object […]
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (Andrew Lloyd Webber) – Cornet Cover
Nostalgie Tunes that live on in our hearts
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Alicante (Rosy e i Bandiera Gialla) – Cornet Cover
Let’s head to “Alicante” 🙂
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Close Encounters: Ruby (Ruby tiger moth/Écaille cramoisie)
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My Journey with the Trumpet: L’histoire d’un amour (Carlos Almaran & Francis Blanche) – Flugelhorn Cover & Arrangement
Have a Great Day 🙂
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Un Canto A Galicia (Julio Iglesias) – Cornet Cover & Arrangement
< Bienvenido a Galicia 🙂 One of my absolute favourite songs!
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GAZA – Sloppy “Short-Termism”Should be Tossed Out the Window
History in my opinion has always been about one of 2 options we take; Learn/Face up/Resolve Watch/Turn away/Ignore If we are genuinely keen on developing as a global community in an interconnected global landscape we need to have a razor sharp/far reaching vision (as opposed to a blurred one) […]
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My Journey with the Trumpet: Met de Vlam In De Pijp/Ik Moet Nog wat Jaren Mee (James Last) – Cornet/Flugelhorn PlayAlong & some “Tweaks”
A Personal Musical Hero of Mine I don’t particularly understand the dutch title by I hope it’s good 😉
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