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Good morning.

Rumi.

It's hard to come down from writing a big opera about Rumi and attending a thrilling premiere with a fab audience. Tactics so far: learning Tamil, meditating, bingeing Colin from Accounts.

What is the point of your music?

Miss you dad. Sorry you couldn’t be there.

South Indian lunch.

Last call. Launch gig for The Point of Distraction Wigmore Hall tomorrow at 1pm. Free. Marvellous playing by Richard Uttley and words/talk by me, Lucy Dallas the referee wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240…

The arrival of Shams. Thanks to Mark Allan for some beautiful pics.

The LPO piano season is the safest thing I’ve ever seen. Come on, guys!

Pants in the park. Last days of summer.

Smoked tofu mushroom and red onion stew purple sprouting broccoli roast squash and carrot and carrot top chimichurri. #vegantillidie

as a huge fan of Enard's Compass, I moved on to Hedayat's #theblindowl : what an extraordinary, horrifying book.

Late summer sun meditation to Patrick Bracone fragrance, Death is not the End.

some exquisite Schumann, the voice such a pure instrument, such beautiful German, the mysterious punch of the last line... youtube.com/watch?v=6mHJrK…

What was the music/composer you cleaved to in lockdown world? For me, it was Schumann songs.

crazy love song youtube.com/watch?v=ExsA6U…

day of emails to promoters, of setting in motion. Of the 20 emails I've sent, there is one reply: from someone hotly tipped for the Nobel prize. Reminds me of the time I cold-wrote to George Saunders and he wrote straight back. Take note, music promoters, there is always time.

Would you rather be wise or sexy?

Dominoes anyone? So tempting