werking from home

Home office!
Originally uploaded by tamaranth

it's much nicer here than in the office. (Bach, Cat, decent Coffee, natural light.)
And tidying up seems to have jolted my brain into 'on' mode. Note to self: exercise before werk might be a good idea.

Wtat's the difference between March 30th and July 6th?

Nothing: they are both the RELEASE DATE FOR THIS DAMN'D PROJECT.

As are April 30th, May 4th, May 11th, May 18th, June 1st, and June 22nd.

You don't have to be mad to werk here. But by the time you leave ...

Age of Brass

Listening to Radio 3 this morning, I was intrigued by the following snippet re Nielsen's Helios Overture (which I only caught half of, but have just ordered from Amazon):
[paraphrase] "... featuring the lur, the oldest brass instrument in the world: lurs from the Bronze Age have been found in Danish peat bogs ..."

So they had brass in the Bronze Age then?

Actually I had no idea what a lur was (and could not even recall the actual name, just that it started with 'lu-'): but that is what teh interweb is for.

It is a funny-looking beast. Found all over Scandinavia. And it sounds quite primeval. .. bringing this story to mind.

am not werking very hard but then our shy and elusive deadline has just retreated a little further from us, and is eyeing us coyly from the end of the first week in July.