Tag: Spotify

  • This week on Spotify

    Most weeks that the blog is published a curated playlist on the streaming platform, Spotify, is created and shared. The items on the playlist reflect the blog entries somehow. Half the fun is finding out what that link could possibly be! To listen to the tracks just click on the player above or head over…

  • Welcome back to the blog

    Hello dear readers, I hope you have all had a good few weeks while the blog has been inactive. It seemed strange not to be writing the weekly words to you all, but the rest has been good and there is plenty to tell! A quick update on the studio. The equipment, as you know,…

  • What’s on Spotify?

    This week’s playlist features: Haneko odori by Tomoe-Ryu Yutadaiko This traditional Japanese taiko drumming piece was recorded in Québec, Canada by the ensemble. The title, taken from the album, is translated as “Bouncing Dance”. Elijah. Op. 70. MWV A25 by Felix Mendelssohn Contralto Clara Serena continues this playlist with a piece from Elijah, the oratorio…

  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    Each week a playlist of audio from Spotify, the streaming platform, is compiled to go along with the blog entries. Every piece has something to do with the blog, although sometimes the connections are not that obvious! To listen, click on the Player above or head over to Spotify and search for “Music to read…

  • Winter knits by Jenny Kee

    A new book of fabulous winter knits by the Australian designer, Jenny Kee, has just been added to the library. Jenny Kee started working in the 1960s in Australia before moving over to London where she worked with Vern Lambert at Chelsea Antique Market. Here she developed an interest in vintage and antique clothing, and…

  • What’s on the playlist

    This week the tracks on the playlist feature…

  • Modern Daily Knitting

    Thanks to a reader who sent in this link about a podcast on the Haptic and Hue channel, if you enjoy knitting this is the website for you!

  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    As usual, this week there is a soundtrack to go with the blog and readers can listen to it by clicking the player above or by searching for the playlist on Spotify. The tracks are related in some way to the entries on the blog, although it might not be obvious what the relationship is.…

  • Visitors to the studio

    As the season turns the flow of visitors to the studio seems to increase. Māwhera Greymouth is at the end of the rail trip from Christchurch Ōtautahi over Arthur’s Pass in the mountains to the West Coast. The train follows the same route as cars and trucks but, instead of going over the mountain it…

  • What is on the playlist

    This week the playlist has been curated with: