Banking the Modern Way 2

Ring, Ring
(Yorkshire accent)
“Hi, this is Tracy from Halifax Bank of Scotland calling.    I wanted to see if you are interested in signing up for our Internet Banking Service.”
“Thanks Tracy, but I am already both a personal and business user of HBOS’s  Internet Banking Service.   I have been for some time, and use the service regularly.”
“It does [...]

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Love of Three Oranges – RSAMD – Glasgow

Take Andy Warhol’s soup cans, think of an army of Magritte’s headless men marching towards you, add Salvador Dali’s  giant telephone with a lobster on top, a stained urinal as a public fountain (Marcel Duchamp perhaps) and roll these together with a boisterous fairy-tale about  a prince who won’t laugh, and you have something of the  flavour of an [...]

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Out and About – RSNO – Perth

All last week, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra were ‘Out and About’ in Perth and Kinross.    This is an annual exercise for the RSNO to take their music to parts which they may not normally reach, and this has been the orchestra’s  largest community project ever.
So amongst the events was a brass concert in Crieff, a [...]

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Prince Harry’s Term of Endearment

I am amazed by the fuss over Prince Harry using the work Paki – three years ago in a playful self-shot video of army life.    Sky News last night, in the wonderful way it does,  had ‘Breaking News’ scrolling across the TV in a ridiculously massive red font, as if the world was about to end.
In the [...]

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Banking the Modern Way

I opened a ‘grown-up’ cheque account with the Bank of  Scotland in 1977, graduating from a childhood Deposit Account.    I have held onto this account since then, even through the Halifax disaster which will result in a merger   takeover by Lloyds TSB.   It is such a shame to see a well liked pillar of the establishment [...]

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NYOS – Perth

The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, fresh from their New Year music school, performed their January concert at Perth Concert Hall (and the following night at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall).    Edinburgh’s loss is Perth’s gain – the Usher Hall is still being refurbished, so Perth is getting some relocated concerts.   I hope that a few [...]

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