The expert's talk was superb. His talk included Puccini's principle of simplicity! , political background to Tosca's Rome and an episode of a trampoline instead of a mat. He played the piano passionately; he sang well. Probably the mist pa…

The last half day at the manuscript room today. This kind of short entry seems to survive. The first, second and third Tosca had three considerable paragraghs. This might have been the problem with me.

I have written about Tosca again and again and again. One of them survived, but only the title.

I have lost two entries successively. Where has my Tosca gone? Sometimes the publish button disappears and I lose my entries.

This is new to me in London. They generously and abundantly offered plastic bags at supermarkets and department stores, until when I don't know. Last January it was as it used to be. This year on the first day in London at M&S I was asked …

I watched a new episode of Sherlock on BBC iPlayer. It was broadcast on 1 Jan 2016. The title is the Abominable Bride. Sherlock and John, and others go alternately to the nineteenth century and to the 21st. The transport is triggered by th…