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  • MedRen 2018 Part 3

    This is the third in a short series of posts about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. Saturday morning was D-day.  Our panel, on musical prints and misprints, put together by the delightful Samantha Arten.  Anne Heminger was unable to be with us in person, so her…

  • MedRen 2018 Part 2

    This is the second in a short series of posts about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. Friday morning dawned slightly overcast, which was a bit of a relief, as it was very warm!  There were fewer things on the schedule that morning that I wanted to…

  • Think_Endangered

    My daughter has been through a lot this year.  In May, she underwent over 10 hours of spinal surgery at Alder Hey Hospital to correct the curves in her spine caused by severe scoliosis.  She missed weeks of school and with that, her friends. She has spent a lot of her recovery time with her…

  • GCSE Congratulations

    I just wanted to write a quick post to congratulate my home-schooled tutoring pupil on her GCSE results.  I taught her for two of her subjects: she got a B for iGCSE history and a 9 for  iGCSE English Language.

  • MedRen 2018 Part 1

    This is the first in a short series of posts about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. The Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, known as MedRen, was a slightly scary undertaking for me. I’ve only been to one music conference before, where I presented a paper on…