I used to have a bit of a blind spot with regards to Handel, so it's always a pleasure to see some with the friend who put me on the right track! Ariodante today.

"If music be the food of love, play on..." has been December so far, but now it's time for cakes and ale.

I didn't know that Vicario's first name was Guglielmo. I'll now think of Cosi fan tutte whenever he lets in a goal.

It's that time of year again when I apply what I know about accompanying strophic lieder to Little Donkey.

I think my job is safe from AI at the moment.

No better way of spending some rare time off than at La Rondine with Ermonela Jaho.

Checking the Forest score after exams much better than checking the cricket in the morning!

Rehearsing Mozart temporarily lifted the Ashes gloom.

It would be fun to get candidates to answer the aural tests in the style of ABRSM mark forms. "Something of a monochrome feel to the tonal level"

Playing for auditions in a room where the heating isn't working properly. Someone has brought Frozen, but I don't want to build a snowman.

György and Márta, Olivier and Yvonne, Pavel and Samson.

I'm practising Mozart accompaniments, one for flute and one for violin. You can tell which instrument he doesn't like.

Impossible to continue with admin when the Adagio of K488 is on the radio. Have to stop and listen.

As I left school today a child was impressively practising Feux Follets!

His plaque is behind gates but I managed to find Schopenhauer.

The Makropulos Case at Covent Garden, where the thing I enjoyed looking at most was Paul Smith's Christmas tree.

My phone reminds me of this trip to the RFH to see Duke Bluebeard's Castle and its seven doors.

Tonight's rehearsal of Dead Man Walking at ENO was outstanding. Such a powerful piece.

A great day in Nottingham yesterday, and a beautiful morning today.

Like Colin Calderwood a few years ago on Boxing Day, the manager has gone before I got home. That day from the City Ground, today just walking back from the pub! #NFFC

I don't know if anyone notices, but I always have fun weaving autumn themes into my between items improvisations at Harvest Festival.

Wigmore Hall two nights in a row.

Dashing for a train marked as late is a guaranteed way of making that train miraculously catch up time.

Some children at school today were doing an ancient Greeks workshop and were dressed accordingly. At playtime it was very Monty Python.

I can hear the William Tell overture without thinking of The Lone Ranger, but I can't listen to Atmosphères and not think of 2001.

I've booked for Forest v Porto. The following evening Simon Trpčeski is in Nottingham playing the Grieg and I've booked that too, so I know I'll have at least one good night!

Mooncake for tonight's full moon, which is very impressive if you go outside on this clear evening.

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

I hoped it would he be quieter in the evening and it was. An unhurried chance to get right up close to Picasso.

I was reading earlier about how much Evgeny Kissin practised. Has Ange ever thought of doing the same with defending set pieces?

An entertaining game watching the team where I live playing the team where I was born. Sutton 1 Boston 1.

It's the time of year when card shops decide that people don't really have birthdays between now and Christmas.

A kindly publican has put the Forest game on one screen just for me.

Ange ball going well then.

This Washington band sound like they could give a good rendition of the theme from Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em.

I watched Forest v Arsenal at lunch, then at The Lady from the Sea in the evening the actor playing Finn looked and sounded like Ange. I found Simon Stone's take on Ibsen more Forest than Arsenal.

No Radiohead unlock code. Everything not in its right place.

The alert test worked on the tube.

Raining at The Oval, but on the plus side I made it just in time for 25% off drinks.

I'm seeing Spinal Tap 2 adverts after the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony. This organ goes up to 11!

Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus in what I think will turn out to be my favourite Prom of the season.

Wonderful Janine Jansen after Prokofiev's first concerto.

It's always fun watching people's reactions when they realise they are sitting next to Ian McKellen.

Alberich seizing the Rhinegold.

Well that was a worthwhile trip up the M1!

Great views of London today.

A glorious afternoon at Glyndebourne yesterday.

A "sunny" afternoon.

After concentrating for long periods of time in Bayreuth, I've come to The Hundred.

I've just watched a t'way plane land. It looks like they should be from Yorkshire, not Korea.