Moments Musicaux
Apr. 3rd, 2011 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylSoirée musicale a St Margaret's in Topsham in aid of Shelterbox. The program was a charming mix of pieces for voice and pieces for clarinet — Finzi songs and bagatelles, some Mozart, Fauré and Bizet songs and, to end, Schubert's delightful The Shepherd on the Rock — and a good time was had by all.
After assisting with the washing up of the interval tea things, we adjourned to the Globe Hotel for a couple of hours of amiable conversation, before heading back to Exeter. The journey back took slightly longer than expected after we got lost in a Ballardian nightmare of a housing estate; a sort-of Stepford in the making, where half the roads terminated in unfinished dead-ends while the other half simply seemed to loop back on themselves like giant tarmac Mobius strips. For a moment, I feared we would be condemned to drive the same roads for ever, but, thanks to the superior navigation skills of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doctor_squale we managed to break out of the loop and get back on the (wrong) main road into Exeter.
After assisting with the washing up of the interval tea things, we adjourned to the Globe Hotel for a couple of hours of amiable conversation, before heading back to Exeter. The journey back took slightly longer than expected after we got lost in a Ballardian nightmare of a housing estate; a sort-of Stepford in the making, where half the roads terminated in unfinished dead-ends while the other half simply seemed to loop back on themselves like giant tarmac Mobius strips. For a moment, I feared we would be condemned to drive the same roads for ever, but, thanks to the superior navigation skills of
doctor_squale we managed to break out of the loop and get back on the (wrong) main road into Exeter.
