AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana
In the last two months I have attended three funerals. This represents the continuation of an upward curve that I have noticed over the last few years. The cliche is true “I ain’t getting any younger” […]
Regular readers will know that I occasionally head over to France and Belgium to show people round the battlefields and commemorative sites of World War I and sometimes II. Last week it was the turn of […]
Since stopping full-time work I’ve been working more hours than I did before. I’m not sure what’s going on really whether it’s something driven by me in order that I don’t get bored or some kind […]
It’s not often you meet your heroes, I very rarely have. Sure I’ve breathed the same air at gigs and what have you but rarely actually met someone I considered a hero. I did meet one […]
Last week I wrote about the brilliance of live music and how a decent gig is a redemptive, communal event that can inspire and uplift in sometimes a profound way. Well, this week, I return to […]
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