My account here was hacked. I've had to restart it empty of content, but with same user name. Composer from small solo pieces to operas & things in between.
Aberchirder, Aberdeenshire
Joined August 2026
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Since I seem to be glacially slow at getting followers back after my account here was hacked and misused by a malignant person with a Swiss email, I may not become very active again here. I have opened a Mastodon account, but I'm unsure what I may or may not do with it.
2 unrelated pics from today. I had a routine eye test in Huntly at midday. Need new specs, but not urgently. Back home, waning gibbous moon rising, from my front door looking NE at 17.26. Still breezy, but SW wind is slowly easing, now gusting to force 7. Not cold: 7ºC.
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Farm workers with horses ready for ploughing, early 20th century. I don't know the name of the farm but the image was captured by an #Invergordon-based photographer. If you recognise it, I would love to know
[source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/7]
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Tonight at 7pm at @Guggenheim NYC, I am honoured to be presenting/moderating @santafeopera’s ‘Works and Process’ event for OF ONE BLOOD. Musical excerpts of the opera + in-depth chat with the work’s creators (mum and dad). Big Apple friends come along!
guggenheim.org/event/works-p…
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What an endless Sunday!
Daylight saving + #StormBoelo 😫
That MWIS symbol feels like a metaphor for my life!
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Sitting in the back garden with Buzz the border collie, having a decaf, listening to the birds, wren, starlings, twites and a warbler the leaves mostly stripped from the trees . A moment of #calm
From my front door at 13.40 - some flooding in field middle distance. I thought this might be as near going out as I'd manage today, but then I ignored my age & went for short walk part way down farm road & struggled back up against W wind gusting to force 11. 7ºC.
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After spending several hours trying to track down the pod of six ORCAS that we'd seen over consecutive days here in Shetland we struck lucky and relocated them off Weisdale. Here's three of them - including the huge male - as they passed us heading south.
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This is next Friday!! @BBCSO
More season announcements! So very excited to debut with @BBCSO early next season in the UK Premiere of Caroline Shaw’s intergalactic oratorio ‘The Listeners’, conducted by @DaliaStasevska — Oct 30 at @BarbicanCentre. Lyatoshinsky and Barber also on prog!
bbc.co.uk/events/ewdhj5
Sparrowhawk on my fence shortly before 09.00 this morning. There for at least 30 mins periodically dive-bombed by crows. Pic 2 from my walk before lunch in calm before storm. Force 11 gusts from W forecast for tomorrow, but reached force 9 this afternoon. Now force 4, 7ºC & wet!
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#StormAusten blowing seaspray over the clifftop path #cliffsofmoher #ireland
not a day to forget waterproof trousers.
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It was so lovely to make my Swedish debut last night singing Schumann with @SCO_Orebro !! Takk så mycket to the whole orchestra and very lovely audience. Hope to be back soon :)
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Residents of the #Aultbea Hotel being driven around the local area, c1910
[HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/06]
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Tonight I am thrilled to be making my Swedish debut with the fabulous @SCO_Orebro, singing Schumann’s beloved “Frauenliebe und -leben” in Sally Beamish’s orchestral arrangement conducted by @brettdeanmusic, plus his arrangement of Schumann’s “Herzeleid”.
orebrokonserthus.com/evenema…
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Piglet felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea.
“Well done, Piglet,” said Christopher Robin.
And at these encouraging words Piglet felt happy again, and decided not to be a Sailor after all. ~A.A.Milne #encouragement
