Monday 16 November 2009

One thing I've learnt this year is that if you make a worklist of things to be done on Monday morning, it will probably take you all week to score them all off.

This is a perplexing piece of news: to make the streets safer for visually-impaired people, cars are to be made noisier. Clearly because expecting motorists to have some real consideration for pedestrians or other road users would be ridiculous, and an infringement of their precious freedom to go wherever they want as fast as they like in their comfortable but potentially lethal machines without having to consider any consequences. Some of us were looking forward to our lives not being endlessly accompanied by the rumble and roar of the internal combustion engine. Will cyclists have to start producing fake engine noise too?  It'll have to be bloody loud for pedestrians with iPods to hear it ...

I've just been distracted by just how good Café Zimmermann's recording of the first movement of the Bach A major oboe d'amore concerto is.