Weekend

It will not be long before the weekend, so folks tell you have planned for the coming weekend?


I will probably take time of from all the hectic work i have been doing, lol.

More Corruption Scandal from FIFA

So Seb Blatter decides to resign from FIFA. Guess he knew he would be implicated in the fiasco and the corruption within the beautiful game.

FIFA also bribed the Football Association Of Ireland to stop legal action over Henry's World Cup handball! Full details from the BBC here -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33011692

I suppose now Seb can retire at home counting all his bribes!

Data Mining

Millions of US government workers hit by data breach -

Chinese hackers are suspected of carrying out a "massive breach" affecting the data of millions of US government workers, officials said.

Story here -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33017310

I wonder what happened to their so called state of the art defense against cyber attack. Found wanting!

Rubbra Improvisation.

Here is another piece of lovely music from the overlooked Edmund Rubbra. It is his "Improvisation For Violin And Orchestra".

This version is by The Louisville Orchestra · Robert Whitney · Sidney Harth.

Enjoy.

Florida Suite

Another piece of lovely music from another of my fave English composers -

Frederick Delius - Florida Suite

Recorded by David Lloyd-Jones and the English Northern Philharmonia.



Enjoy.

Today In Sheerness

Well, we had it all today , humid hot heat, thunderstorms , lightning and torrential rain! But mostly is was just sunny , and i managed to get some tanning in near the library in Faversham during the morning.

I visited Sheerness over on the island to do a couple of mystery shops, a pharmacy and a charity shop, and had a int of Abbott Ale in the local Wetherspoons pub there.

I picked a u a cheesecloth shirt sleeve shirt and some books going at twenty five pence each.

Plus a CD by Death In Vegas called "The Contino Sessions".



The books are -




And finally from that CD by Death In Vegas , the track Flying.

Recent Pics

A collection of some of my recent photographs which i did not have time to upload before.

( Photos here )

I will put some more up over the weekend.

Tintagel

I m ending the night with one more track from the four Naxos CD's i picked up cheap this week. This time it is Arnold Bax and his sumptuous Tintagel.

Perhaps the best known of all his orchestral works, Bax's Tintagel is a vivid tonal impression of the castle-crowned cliff of Tintagel in Cornwall. Here the legends of King Arthur and the scenic grandeur of the Atlantic Ocean fired Bax's imagination into producing some of the most vivid sea music ever written.

Bax himself wrote that the music brought, "...thoughts of many passionate and tragic incidents in the tales of King Arthur and King Mark... and that the piece ends as it began, with a picture of the castle still proudly fronting the sea and wind of centuries."

This is a full-throated performance by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones. Celtic music, played by a celtic ensemble. Stirring!