WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK?

The Curmudgeon posts you know about, no doubt having pored over them all week.

The Music Curmudgeon will soon be releasing a new post and, no doubt, the other Curmudgeons will be inspired to write as well.

The Old Girl is off to Sydney on Sunday for 10 days and you know what that means? Yes, access to the study and the main computer will be restored. This generally means a flurry of curmudgeonly blogger activity. I know that you can't wait.

So, what's been hapenning on the other guys' blogs?

Richard went all anti-aesthete this week and banned poetry from his blog. The poor old guy (failing memory) immediately forgot this and not only allowed poetic comments but actually published some poems himself - AFTER IMPOSING THE POETRY BAN! Go figure.

What's next? A ban on art, literature and music? Time will tell. His posts, apart from moaning about poetry had some arcane musical references in them. "What's wrong with that?" you might naively ask. Well, read this then:

I restarted working on Variation 9 from the 24th. Caprice yesterday.

 

No, silly! On the violin!

That's the one with the left hand pizzicato. I found a great way to practise it! I won't bore you with the details. They say not to practise left had pizz. for long periods, at first, because it can give you blisters. After years and years of double bass practice my fingers have strong callouses, so no problems there. It's going really well - I might slot this variation into my May concerts, if I'm happy with the way it turns out.

You did ask. You can't unread that now.

The big news about Robert's blog this week is that he changed its name from Robert the apathetic sanctimonious sinner and toilet cleaner to Robert the apathetic sanctimonious sinner, toilet cleaner, and threatener of eternal damnation. Exciting? It's better than the content of his posts though which predictably has him roasting chickens, praying, supporting anti LGBQT lobbyists and confusing everybody about politics and economics.

Oh wait - Robert is also continuing with his daily dipping in a children's paddling pool as some sort of religious ritual associated with an arcane Catholic Church festival. Lent I think - or was that Loaned? I guess we should be thankful he's not an Inca sacrificing children and virgins at the top of the Wainuiomata hills.