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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jul 17

Went to numerous shops today in an attempt to find either a) a long cardigan or b) a normal ish sunhat that fits my daftly small head. Apparently none of these things are currently available in shops and I'll have to look online instead. But why?

Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 29

There are a couple of people in long sleeves and one in a coat (!) though..

Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 29

Off to the theatre for the afternoon. I struggle with freezing in air con. As a result I'm one of few people carrying a cardigan on the tube in a heatwave. The theatre might not even have air con..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 23

Think of all the page turns though..

Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 23

Indeed!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 23

My printer seems to think this is an appropriate size for sheet music..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 17

..I think I had to have a separate bank account to pay the grant into than my usual bank account and just ended up using it as a holding account. I've done it for subsequent projects too, though I've not run a project with such a large budget since so it's not been on the same scale.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 17

I honestly can't remember! It was a few years ago now. The majority of the grant was funding other people (another creator, then lots of paying performers and venues) so there was no way I was counting it all as my own income temporarily!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 16

Oooh! For a similar project, I had a separate bank account that the grant sat in and I then paid everyone from that. I didn't count the grant as my income but made sure invoicing for my portion of it (which was my income, if you see what I mean) balanced across the two years..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 16

My new printer sings to me and I'm very happy about it. When I ask it to print something it plays a chord, then sings an upward scale, finishing on the major 7th and adding a trill!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Jun 4

Currently doing the typical composer procrastination of ignoring the music I need to be writing because I reallyreally want to write the fun piece that just popped into my head..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · May 28

The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music might be over for another year, but you can listen to their LFCCM @ Home series online! On 13th May they shared an @ Home Organ Recital, featuring my Study in Five performed by Martyn Noble: lfccm.com/whatson/even...

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · May 13

Wrote a piece about Avril Coleridge-Taylor, her dad, and the @royalalberthall.bsky.social -- sarahwhitfield.com/2025/05/12/a...

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · May 10

New gardening level unlocked: Dropping of something at someone's house and taking a moment to complement their wisteria!

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Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · May 8

If you're in Southampton at the end of the month, you should go to The Stage Door and hear them sing some of the songs from @firebrigademusical.bsky.social (the musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @helenarney.bsky.social !)

thestagedoor.org.uk/product.php/...

A poster showing a woman singing. It's for an event called 'Showtime', on the 24th of May at the Stage Door in Southampton.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · May 7

Beautiful!

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Graham Palmer @grahampalmer.bsky.social · May 5

In the aftermath of my sell-out talk at Royston Museum, here's more riotous behaviour? @balhnews.bsky.social @thebhp.bsky.social @bho.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @hertshistory.bsky.social @hisjournalha.bsky.social @jennipinnock.com @roystoncrow.bsky.social
grahampalmer.co.uk/revolting-ro...

Revolting Royston (part 2): Royston's Bastille - Graham Palmer

Will there be a riot when the 'Reverend Agitator' FH Maberly calls a mass meeting in 1836 to protest against Royston's new Poor Law Workhouse?

grahampalmer.co.uk

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · May 7

This one is voice and piano! I do love a song cycle with additional forces though..

Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · May 7

Starting the day with a final proof read of the Shifting Seasons score (accompanied by a cup of tea!). Shifting Seasons is a new song cycle of five settings of texts by women writers, supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · May 5

On Sunday 29th June Leading Voices LDN are presenting 22 songs by 22 British and UK-based writers at The Union Theatre, London - and they're including Put Out The Fire from The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade!

See their website for more info: www.leadingvoicesldn.com

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · May 4

Tonight's redrafting mainly involves adding in all the slurs.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · May 4

Happy Star Wars Day! Alas we hadn't any Star Wars sheet music today, so our wind dectet added some ET to the programme instead..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · Apr 29

That sounds excellent! Good luck with putting the workshop together.

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Helen Arney @helenarney.bsky.social · Apr 28

Happy Birthday Hertha Ayrton! Physicist, inventor, science communicator, social activist and founder of the Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade:

youtube.com/watch?v=lkiU...

The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade - Birmingham Hippodrome New Musicals Showcase

YouTube video by Birmingham Hippodrome

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Graham Palmer @grahampalmer.bsky.social · Apr 28

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Today is International Workers' Memorial Day. In the 1870s many lost their lives in the coprolite diggings of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and South Cambridgeshire. There is no memorial to them. #IWMD2025
www.cracked-voices.co.uk/poo-and-pick...

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