Prom 9 (Susan Elkin reviews)
The evening began with a crisp but warm account of Till Eulenspiegel. There’s something about the acoustic of the Royal Albert Hall and the...
The evening began with a crisp but warm account of Till Eulenspiegel. There’s something about the acoustic of the Royal Albert Hall and the...
Opera Holland Park, July 2019 What an evening! An inspired pairing with sumptuous singing and two fine, if unfamiliar, scores. It really...
He’s coming home. Eventually. The plan is to discharge My Loved One to me now that he’s “stable” and we have, according...
In the bed next to My Loved One, in the peaceful Lewisham Hospital top floor ward overlooking leafy Ladywell Fields, is a...
He was 73 when he went into hospital and now, two weeks on, he is 74. Not a great age by 21st...
Well our life has suddenly changed gear and I have no idea whether it’s temporary, or in any sense, permanent. My Loved...
My Loved One can no longer manage the stairs. In fact trying to climb them, whoever is behind him helping, has become...
When I’m trying to assess – or get my head round – the helter-skelter speed of My Loved One’s decline, few things...