A lovely evening with my pal ⁦@BBCSteveR⁩ and his family after his rehearsal for ⁦@LondonPianoFest⁩ and an early impromptu dinner with festival organiser, the brilliant concert pianist @owenpiano . Peaceful moments and fun in an otherwise disturbing world. 🥳🎶🤩

“I knew the Savoy would have suited you well, but the best I could do was the railway hotel…” (Mark Twain)

So anyway a face painter is not the same as a tattoo artist artist and I no longer organise children’s parties.

So, how can we thank 2 of life’s hugely good guys #SiobhanLihoreau @TimLihoreau for setting us free with the joys of community singing? We do this & raise LOADS for @BrainTumourOrg & @PancreaticCanUK & we raise the roof of @WestRoadCH. @Mike_Batt @EricWhitacre @ClassicFM

Conan Gray and his band. (Bassist Hayley Jane Batt - centre,top)

Refreshed video and a new written update are now "up" on my Crowdfunder campaign page, announcing the confirmation of LSO sessions for the symphony. LInk here: https://t.co/vvsByml6a0 🙂🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini. [Don't click the video arrow! It's a screenshot. Click the above link! ] 👍

#PedantsCorner : 1. When people say "quote unquote" and then utter the quote, when they should say "quote..." (utter the quote) then "unquote". 2. When people say "Like I said" when they mean "as I said". "Like" is approximate. "As" is exact - and grammatically correct.

It's dangerous to be America's enemy, it's fatal to be their friend" - Henry Kissinger

I love the way Craig R-H says “char, char, char” (down his nose) and Anton says “Sarmba”!!! Where was they brung up!??? 😂 @bbcstrictly @ClaudiaWinkle #StrictlyComeDancing

Refreshed video and a new written update are now "up" on my Crowdfunder campaign page, announcing the confirmation of LSO sessions for the symphony. LInk here: https://t.co/vvsByml6a0 🙂🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini. [Don't click the video arrow! It's a screenshot. Click the above link! ] 👍

I’m posting this again because Z’s mispronunciation of “assaults” as “arseholes” always cheers me up! 😂😂😂

Filthy Russian savages have targeted an office park in Lviv with missiles. Russia's goal now is to simply destroy all life in Ukraine over years or even decades while continuing to purchase enough of Europe's political class to keep them in a permanent state of paralysis.

Ukraine will win And Russia will be a pariah for 100 years

It’s a strange thing to sit awake at night, watching the clock tick, waiting for missiles you know were launched to arrive. You don’t know where they’ll land, or who they’ll kill. But they will land. And someone will lose this deadly lottery we are forced to play.

ANNOUNCEMENT: News on my "Ukraine" Symphony. Sadly, we can't now travel to Kyiv, but happily, I'm recording it with the LSO in London in November. It would still help us enormously if you could pre-order the album (or donate). I'll be doing a proper update on the Crowdfunder and

First page of my guitar booking list from the seventies! (The numbers are obv no longer applicable).