Gahhh….

……….just installed Mambo on the Oakleaf Circle site, and I’m getting configuration errors! Probably have to go through the install process all over again. What a pain.

But I saw a red kite today! Got a full spread-wing view, and the ‘fishtail’ was unmistakable. Glanced out of the window while I was working and spotted it circling low above the trees on the hill opposite. There had been a group of buzzards flying there earlier – maybe the kite saw them and came along in the hope of grabbing some food from them.
I’ve seen quite a few kites up the road along towards Mossdale, where there’s a feeding station for them. But this is the first one I’ve seen from the house.

Been listening to lots of Beethoven today – BBC R3 are playing everything that Beethoven ever wrote this week, and we’ve had it on all day. Some of it is extraordinary – B and me listened to the Moonlight Sonata this morning, and he explained how Beethoven’s piano compositions were really difficult to play. The chords never go quite where you expect them to go, he said – there were always odd dissonances and jarring notes that somehow don’t sound at all dissonant in the overall melody. As a result of his talk, I’ve been listening to the music really closely – and yes, it often sounds like it’s about to fall apart, But it always hangs magnificently together. It actually has a lot in common with jazz, I realised – that also involves dissonances that meld together to form a unified whole.
Ludwig, baby – you rock!