Well, what a way to end the week. As if last week’s musical extravaganza was not enough, we were treated to a new opera production from Iryna Ilnytska’s Exeter Opera Group. This time she produced a wonderful version of Rossini’s opera Cenerentola (the girl in the cinders…). The show erupted in a cascade of …
w/e 15 February
It is with disbelief that I read that 2026 is the National Year of Reading, at a time when local libraries are under threat of closure. The world has gone mad. School libraries have long been an issue with hours cut, staff expected to run the library ‘in their spare time’ or with volunteers. …
Karen Hedges 