Got a parking ticket today as I woke up late, so rushed to lectures in the car, parking with my front wheels on the diagonal stripes at a pedestrian crossing. At least it's only £30 - tickets back home are £40. Small consolation. The bastards.
Lecture was very interesting, on the subject of Bernard Herrmann and his early work in radio and melodrams. Everyone says how Herrmann's main influences are the 20th century English traditionalists (Vaughan Williams, Walton, Delius) but I think there's a bit of Wagner and Ravel in there too, judging by the sequences and half diminished chords chucked in for good measure...
Badminton social later. Think I will be indulging in whisky shots for my cold, somehow.
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