This Blog is moving to www.malpope.com

  Thank you for supporting me by reading my blogs on this site. When I first started writing a blog I turned to the free wordpress blog site. It has been easy to use and there are plenty of tutorials online if you ever get stuck. Over the past few weeks I have been working…

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Any plans for today???

There has never been a time like this, similar but not like this.  On ‘snow days’ you know life will be disrupted for maybe a week and there will be a mad rush to stockpile milk and bread, but you know in a couple of days the snow will turn to slush and life will…

Lessons from my 96 year old mum..

Whatever else is happening in the world today let us all remember that tomorrow is Mothering Sunday, a day when we honour and thank our mums for everything they have done and continue to do for us. Of course, the current crisis means that for most of us it’s not going to be the usual…

Sweet release and recovery from a Mamil attack

My new album Butterfly gets released next week.  After months of writing a whole new batch of songs, recording the backing tracks, traveling to Prague to record the orchestra and then weeks of wrangling up to 120 different tracks per song into a stereo mix, it’s out.  Of course, that doesn’t include all the work…

No news is good news?

Anyone who knows me well will know that I have been obsessed with the news.  I could often be found listening to the news bulletins and reading online reports whilst others in the family were watching ‘Love Island’.  For Christmas, my daughter even bought me an annual subscription to the ‘Economist’ so I could read…