I have republished, edited and updated my memoirs, under a new title:
Happiness Is a Way Of Living: How I Escaped the Straitjacket of Serious Mental Illness, My Story
It is available as a paperback in full colour, printed on premium white paper to allow for the best reproduction of the B&W and Colour photographs. For those who would like to read it on their phones, tablets or computers, they will still be able to enjoy good reproductions,…..
I performed my Grade 3 Clarinet exam on Thursday 13th of November.
I made a bad decision by not listening to Nicola’s advice. She, my clarinet teacher, suggested that I should do my best pieces first, with the purpose of playing myself into the mood as it were, thus giving me confidence for the rest of the exam. Instead I thought I’d first do the parts with which I have difficulty, leaving my favourite ones to the end thinking…..